Blogging | Posted by Jannie on 1 December 2008 @ 4:20 AM
So, I missed the “Austin Wordpress Meet-up” Tuesday because of a big accident on Mopac and after slogging it out for 45 mins I took the next exit and went home, devouring 6 or 7 of these on the way.
(I like the grape ones best. Boy-Howdy iz dey good!)
Anyway, one of the Meet-Up guys has emailed requesting me as a friend, so that’s encouraging in my Wordpress quest. Or maybe he’s just likes Big-Eyed avatar gals?
Here’s what I need I’d like for my blog.
1. Time and date in comments box.
2. Get fonts corrected and get rid of the default double-spacing every time I hit Enter.
3. Stumble Upon.
4. Figure out why my Wordpress Stats plugin is not working, tho activated. (Maybe Google Analytics can work just as well?)
5. Get that Wordpress SEO plugin that Blogger For Hire Vered mentioned, which will hopefully work when activated.
6. Find out what the heck “Key, Value and Action” are in “Custom Fields” in my “Advanced Options” towards the bottom of the page where I write my posts.
7. See why I’ve been unsuccessful at changing my favicon.
8. Drink a margarita, a really big one.
How ’bout you? Any bugs in your blog? Anything you want to add or get rid of? Any plug-ins on your wish list?
P.S. I mentioned this Wordpress theme, ”Bible Scholar” was designed by a pastor, right? I wonder what he’d think if he came here to read about my bra flinging, ass-kicking, Wedgie Wedding & such. Actually, I wonder what God Himself thinks about my blog, but that’s a whole other post!
On 1 December 2008 at 4:21 am Michael Lee said,
My blog could probably do with more Youtube clips of songs I’ve found on the Internet…no words…I’d like a banner though, something that says me!
Michael Lee’s last blog post..F Troupe
On 1 December 2008 at 7:17 am Lynn said,
Other people that use Blogger.com seem to be able to spread artwork all over the page, me – I just use the template, but wish I knew how they do it.
And I hope God has a sense of humor, or I’m in trouble!
Lynn’s last blog post..Homeward bound, who knew? and she’s baaack
On 1 December 2008 at 7:37 am Lance said,
I think God would particularly like your blog – it’s uniquely you. And that’s a very cool thing! Bra-flinging and all…(that word does come up a lot around here!!)
Good luck working through the Wordpress “issues”. You’ll get there Jannie…
Now go have that margarita (wait, it’s only 8:00 in the morning…)…
Lance’s last blog post..Sunday Thought For The Day
On 1 December 2008 at 9:30 am Glenn Buttkus said,
I use WordPress for my TACOMA FILM CLUB blog, and I am not real happy with the options, including the word processing aspect. I use Eblogger for FFTR, and it seems more user friendly to me–even though I struggle with the notion of uplinks or wordlinks or namelinks.
God talked to me this morning, and He especially created a moment to comment on JANNIE FUNSTER’s incredibley whacky and wonderful blog site. Seems that He is not the stuffed shirt many portray Him as. He has blessed you with a wonderful husband and child and home and mind and wit and humor and musical ability. How can you wonder how He feels about your blog? He adores it. And you can take that to the bank, the church, and the synagogue, or WalMart, whichever comes first.
As to Bra-flinging, I feel that it colors my day just trying to fully imagine those events. I also want you to realize that you have full blog community consent for such elastic conundrums.
Glenn
Glenn Buttkus’s last blog post..The Kung Fu Instructor
On 1 December 2008 at 9:40 am Avani-Mehta said,
Your footer should call “” for wordpress stats to work.
Avani-Mehta’s last blog post..Top 8 Motivation Hacks – #5
On 1 December 2008 at 11:03 am Dot said,
I also gave up on WordPress stats and use Google Analytics. Free and easier to use. Just add the code as the last item in your footer. Good luck with the rest of your updates.
I want to add the plugin that speeds up page loading, and I need to do a backup so I can upgrade to the latest version of WordPress with bug fixes, but otherwise I’m up to date.
Dot’s last blog post..Thoughts on President-Elect Obama
On 1 December 2008 at 12:18 pm csquaredplus3 said,
There are many things I’d like to change on my blog design. I don’t have the time to tinker though. Maybe someday… If I knew ANYTHING about Wordpress, I’d offer to help. No can do.
I want to try those suckers!
csquaredplus3’s last blog post..Detox and Decorate
On 1 December 2008 at 12:30 pm Mama Zen said,
Word Press hates me!
Mama Zen’s last blog post..On Becoming A Woman
On 1 December 2008 at 1:36 pm Tammy Warren said,
Well, for me I am a Typepad user and I know I probably should just follow the rest of you. All I hear and read about is Word Press. I guess I will just have to settle for what I have for now. I am out of patience trying to figure it all out. I did manage to get up a new post today. I made a movie, sent it to YouTube and sent it back to my blog. Now, with that being all completed my mind is drained for at least 6 months.
Tammy Warren’s last blog post..A Glance Into a Year of Blogging
On 1 December 2008 at 3:40 pm Caity said,
Haha you are so hilarious. Those pops look so amazing, though. Lets share a bag. I don’t like grape so you can have all of those.
Try google searches. They’re amazing for finding neat things to do with Wordpress.
Caity’s last blog post..I NaBloPoMo’d my face off!
On 1 December 2008 at 4:00 pm Talon said,
I firmly believe God has a terrific sense of humour…I have to or why else would I exist?
I have no blog widget desires…I am pleased if I can post a slideshow. I know nothing of WordPress and I think I might be able to maintain my ignorance…maybe…if my innate curiosity doesn’t get the better of me (I’m working on keeping that curiosity in a box on a shelf to be taken down when time allows).
On 1 December 2008 at 4:54 pm Thomma Lyn said,
I signed up for StumbleUpon, but never did take the time to figure out how to make the best use of it. I used to have bunches of widgets on my blog, but they slowed down the load time so much I took them off!
Thomma Lyn’s last blog post..Late November Woods
On 1 December 2008 at 5:57 pm Georgie B said,
I registered at “reddit.com” and do want to add their button to my comment box, but I’m extremely paranoid about editing my templete in order to make it work.
In any event, I de-cluttered my blog by getting rid of Ad Sense.
On 1 December 2008 at 6:13 pm Miladysa said,
I would like ‘comment luv’ but as I have a custom template on blogspot it’s impossible to add these kind of gadgets unless I adopt their ’standard’ templated :[
Good luck with your quest!
Miladysa’s last blog post..Sky Blue Pink
On 1 December 2008 at 6:21 pm Stephanie said,
I am fairly new to the blogging world, so I just want to be more proficient at everything. I am still in the remedial blogging group.
Stephanie’s last blog post..Austin Skyline
On 1 December 2008 at 6:24 pm Jennifer Susannah Devore said,
Depending the form God takes and assuming he/she/it takes time off from Barnes and Noble to read blogs, he/she/it most likely has a preternatural sense of humour and totally digs bra-flinging.
BTW, no, my chick-Pomeraninan, Onyx, did NOT like the pink beret; but the other one, the male called Ichabod Crane, and lovingly nicknamed Carlton Banks, adored it! Yes, also, I did get the Guccis on eBay, by way of Israel. Love the Bay!
Jennifer Susannah Devore’s last blog post..Happy, Pappy? Confessions of a Happy Media Whore
On 1 December 2008 at 7:32 pm Shay said,
I use Blogger. It no longer lets me add to my links. I can only edit (swap out) existing links. I believe this is because Blogger hates me. Everyone does. May as well go eat worms.
Shay’s last blog post..Morning Glory
On 1 December 2008 at 7:42 pm Jannie said,
M: Something that says you in a banner? Photos of blue eye shadow girl and one of those flavored milks you drink you so favor?
Lynn: You? I trouble with God? As if.
Lance: Yeah, I’ll ge there. Just a bunch of little things really.
Glenn: That sure made me laugh. Thanks.
Avani: You so smart! I’ll try that, or at least explore the possibility. Thanks!
Dot: Hmmn, something to speed up page loading, I did not know about this, then again there is a lot, well MOST stuff I don’t know!
C2+3: What? You don’t have any time? Aren’t you just over there eating bonbons while watching soaps all day?
Mama: Seems you make out just fine with your Blogger gig over there. (Technorati hates me, but that’s another post.)
Tammy: At least you know how to do video, that’s another frontier for me.
Caity: Oh boy, I could have all the grape ones and you can have all the rest. Heaven!
Talon: You crack me up, as usual. God smashed the mold after you came along, that’s for sure.
Georgie: Reddit is another thing I’ve seen but have no clue as to what it is. See – I know nothing, or next to with gadgets.
Miladysa: Boo hoo on your Comment Luv envy. Google doesn’t do much unless it has to. I think. But you have a neat little blog over there. I love your colors. (And new avatar.)
Stephanie: You and me on the remedial route. Or me at least on Learning Lane. But dang, it’s fun!
Jennifer: I’m told God wrote the book on bra-flinging. And what’s he doing at B&N? Is he the little olde guy in Customer Service?
On 1 December 2008 at 7:44 pm Jannie said,
Shay! Big fat juicy ones? Tiny little skinny ones? Any kind of worms? Want me to go give Google a little upside head whacking for ya?
On 2 December 2008 at 12:32 am Dr. Cason said,
Yes I need to get a new plug in that allows people to rank it on stumble and digg. The last one created a weird clitch. Also I need to get the SEO plug in. Does it really help??
Dr. Cason’s last blog post..Macro Monday with Smiling Boy and Miss Blue Eyes’ Cranberry Hands
On 2 December 2008 at 1:51 am Carla said,
Ahhh…wish I had time to contemplate what I would like blogger to be able to do for me. Hardly have time to post these days.
Carla’s last blog post..Viking Laws
On 2 December 2008 at 2:49 am SnaggleTooth said,
Cherry please!
Wow, have you seen all your bra ads? Today there were 4!
What a laundry list of blog-Doo!
I try not to spice it up too much, because simple loads faster… (I’m still on a modem!)
Good luck with all your solutions.
SnaggleTooth’s last blog post..The 29th
On 2 December 2008 at 6:06 am sheila said,
I don’t care for the look of my blog. But everytime I fool with it, it takes forever because I don’t know what the hell I’m doing. lol. That Key value thing, is a place where you can enter stuff Like “What am I reading now?” value= name of book, etc etc and you can put a code somewhere else into your webpage, like a side bar, so that that info you entered in the custom info will show in the sidebar or whereever, but not in the post.
sheila’s last blog post..24 days to early!
On 2 December 2008 at 9:56 am Турок said,
Тема ну просто пиздец.
Неужели ничего поактуальней не нашлось?
On 2 December 2008 at 11:14 am Heather (How to be a Woman..?) said,
Mmmm…lollipops! I can just see you driving and cursing and sucking on those lollipops and flinging them at the windshield (along with your bra).
Wordpress will drive you nuts! If you’re me. I’ve experimented with quite a few plugins. Here are some ideas.
1. Anything by Andy Bailey. He’s a God.
2. Check out the Mashable list:http://mashable.com/2007/07/24/wordpress-comments/
3. Wordpress Global Translator – When you have this on your blog, people can actually find you by searching Google in other languages! And your nuttiness would translate well. http://www.nothing2hide.net/wp-plugins/wordpress-global-translator-plugin/
4. Vlad Prelovic’s Snazzy Archives – Kewl – http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/snazzy-archives
5. Sociable by Peter Harkins. I didn’t even realize I’d messed this up on my blog until I checked for you! Anyway, it’s good. It lets you choose which social bookmarking icons to use & where to put them, etc. http://yoast.com/wordpress/sociable/
Good luck! I think your blog looks great, though. And don’t you dare change out that massive eyeball.
Heather (How to be a Woman..?)’s last blog post..Women may or may not be embracing their personal energy
On 2 December 2008 at 11:47 am Jannie said,
Dr C: Vered said yes the Wordpress plugin really works. It all adds up I guess. Digg, I have to research more.
Carla: I hear you. I should count my blebssing, eh, that I’ve got a few hours a day to work on these earth-shattering issues such as my SEO.
Snag: Cherry is my second favorite! Have you had this brand? OMG so tasty. Yeah, every time I mention the world B R A my ads go crazy with ads for them. Ah, such is my lot in life as a flinger.
Sheila: Can we sit together and try to work out our site woes with our laptops in some cafe? No, in a bar! I do notice your site takes longer than some to load, maybe from a lot of code on the front page?
Typok!: I am afraid all that you’ve said is Greek to me. Anybody here a translator?
On 2 December 2008 at 1:52 pm Lane Savant said,
Go to “Greatest” links and find “babelfish” it’s a translation device. I’m pretty sure it does Greek.
I’ve got Greatest links linked on my site.
Lane Savant’s last blog post..Let’s have another day
On 2 December 2008 at 2:00 pm Lane Savant said,
O.K. I just did that.
It didn’t work in Greek.
Here’s what I got in Russian (same alphabet)
The theme well it is simple of [pizdets]. Really nothing with [poaktualney] it was located?
And isn’t that the truth?
Lane Savant’s last blog post..Let’s have another day
On 2 December 2008 at 3:47 pm robbi said,
Gee, you are all so tech savvy.Me, I just log on to the blog and start writing whatever comes to mind, normally takes about 10 mins to finish and find a pic to go with the story. I always but always forget to use the spell check as it is in American anyway so would throw out lots of my OZ words plus of course the ones I make up.
Somehow I don’t think I will get any add-ons but perhaps might use Babel-Fish to translate my OZ colloquialisms into American for y’all.
robbi’s last blog was http://robbi-inkmarks.blogspot.com/
On 2 December 2008 at 4:47 pm Erin M said,
I don’t use wordpress but you make me wanna switch just so I know wtf you’re talking about…
For my blog, I want to work up a custom layout. I used to make custom layouts, but then I abandoned my blog for a year, and when I came back they’d upgraded all sorts of things and I don’t know how anymore. I mean, I could figure it out but, ya know…
Erin M’s last blog post..meteor
On 2 December 2008 at 4:56 pm Georgie B said,
Reddit is a site where you can post links for people to read. It helps draw traffic to your blog.
It works for me, as I’ve gotten some good spikes on my sitemeter for my blog.
On 2 December 2008 at 5:09 pm Patricia said,
Jannie, I can’t really help you here…I am totally dependent on my techie…I was invited to be a friend on Twitter – can’t seem to get there…
I am on free lesson #6 on Stumbleupon…still not getting “friends” there but the lessons have assisted me in learning so much…I did not even know I had a dashboard and Traffic Rush has more tutorials…free and excellent – if I could get paypal set up I could have a Traffic Rush affiliate badge on my site…but guess what?…
About God….She’s really big on being yourself and serving the world around you….I think you serve life and I love your humor and word play…Thank you
Patricia’s last blog post..Chug, Chug, Toot, Toot
On 2 December 2008 at 7:31 pm Tammy said,
Hey Jannie-
These blogs always make me laugh somehow. That Texas accent. I can hear it through the things you write. I like it, I am not teasing you about it. I can say I have sorta met a real live Texan now.
And you weren’t wrong about cake-decorating being in my profile. I do like it only when i am not doing it as a job. I used to work for a grocery store making cakes and they were some of the most miserable days of my life.
The management always sux way more than the customers, even if you goof up they were usually nice. It was the management that was never happy. Always pushing and hounding about something.
Oh, and i can totally relate to that wondering what God thinks about your blog deal. I truly wrestle with that. But i have finally give up trying to dress myself up for the rest of the world……….to a point. I have never really met anybody who didn’t have some sorta skeleton in the closet.
I have a motto “pouring perfume on a pig won’t make it a lady.” Does that make sense to you?
On 2 December 2008 at 9:05 pm Vered - MomGrind said,
Do you know Kim Woodbridge? She’s a friend and a Wordpress expert. You should email her.
http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/
On 2 December 2008 at 9:57 pm Jannie said,
Heather: You have so gone above and beyond on this. Thank you! (Your big fan.) And yep, keepin’ teh massive eyeball just for you!
Lane: Lane, Lane: You have gone above and beyond. What, if anything did you glean from the message in Russian? Must I cahnge out all my pidgets??
Erin: Don’t go changing to try and please me, I never wanna work that hard. Whoa, whoa whoa… I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times — I like you just the way you are!
Gerogie: You da girl! You my buddie! Thank you for you.
Patricia: Traffic Rush?! I guess there is always something eh? Thaks for coming over here. I know you are one busy lady. And I appreciate your visits and your kind words about me and God.
Tammy: Texas must be rubbing off on me if you can hear my accent, my Canadian one must now be fully replaced now. It’s always the management, eh? Did you study cake decorating?
Vered: Thanks: I don’t want to bug her (or anyone,) too much of course but maybe just get a little code direction for a couple of things to jump-start my quest. THANKS!!
On 3 December 2008 at 2:25 am Rob Hopcott said,
Hi Jannie, in my devotion to electric cars, I sometimes forget they clog up the roads just as much as fossil fueled ones.
However, I suppose traffic jams would be quieter and less polluting … although the fuming would probably just continue in the cars.
I have a number of Wordpress blogs (as well as the Blogger ones) but had to cut down the number of plugins to just a few because, because as the versions are updated, incompatibilities and problems often arise.
The All in One SEO package because it makes the blog very much more G friendly.
Google XML sitemaps – for the same reason
Akismet – thank goodness for that.
Statcounter plugin.
Template is K2 because it lets me have three columns and a photo header.
I don’t believe in something for nothing (sorry Father Christmas) but I do find the new practice with plugins which directly asking for money after a month rather irritating – however, reasonable the request.
Great blog – keep up the good work
Rob Hopcott’s last blog post..Time … But not as we know it … A short story by Rob Hopcott
On 3 December 2008 at 2:34 am Barbara Swafford - Blogging Without A Blog said,
Hi Jannie – I’m looking forward to changing my theme. I’m still teaching myself some CSS and HTML coding. Oh, what fun.
I like your Number 8. I’ll have one, too.
Barbara Swafford – Blogging Without A Blog’s last blog post..The Unseen Benefit of Commenting
On 3 December 2008 at 6:44 am Tammy said,
You are from Canada? Darn! you are a generic Texan, now I am devastated!:) Okay maybe accent is the wrong word. What I meant was some of the wording you use it sounds Texan. I think you probably being funny with some of those one liner slang’s. That what I meant by accent, make sense?
I have all these Yankee blogging friends who tease me about my Southern accent. All in fun though.
Nope I did not study cake decorating. I worked at a grocery store while I was in high school, in the bakery. I watched the cake decorator,and sorta taught myself…….the rest came from on the job training with a professional cake decorator.
On 3 December 2008 at 8:29 am Cath Lawson said,
LMAO Jannie – I’ve wanted a favicon for ages and I couldn’t search on how to do it, as I’d forgotten what they were called.
Definitely get the SEO plugin – it makes life much easier. Did you know that for learning StumbleUpon -there is a course on my website – it’s the green and white banner. And the first half of the course is free, so it’s worth trying it to see if you like it.
The thing I really hate about my own blog is that I didn’t install it in the root directory, as I began with just a website. But I’m worried about moving it, incase I break a lot of the links. I need to find a way round it.
On 3 December 2008 at 8:45 am lewis said,
I doubt God thinks.
On 3 December 2008 at 9:40 am Glenn Buttkus said,
You do come on strong like a Texas gal. My wife, Melva is from below Victoria and Edna, little town called Lolita, near Port Lavacca. She has helped me to see and appreciate Texas. I have never checked out Austin yet though. What part of Canada are you from, the plains, the prairie, the tundra, the mountains, a big city, a farm? I have a student at work that is Greek, and he claims that the Greek and Russian alphabet are very close, although he cannot speak Russian, he can read it.
Glenn
Glenn Buttkus’s last blog post..Greatness
On 3 December 2008 at 1:34 pm Jannie said,
Robb: The all-in-one SEO package, now that I could go for. (About electric cars, I heard that they might start putting speakers under the hood so it sounds like a real car, thus the blind can hear them too.
Barbara: I got 3 books out of the library on CSS and such but soon got so lost. Or maybe it was that second margarita (okay , the 3rd one,) while reading that got me!?
Tammy: I have been described by many to have a pronounced Mid-Western, Texas, New England, Mexican accent with just a hint of Valley Girl thrown in to keep people guessing. (and if ever you come visit, I’ll bake a cake which you can decorate and we’ll hang out in the treehouse until every crumb is gone!)
Cath: Hmmn, that is a bit of a potential quandary about breaking links and such but if anyone can figure it out, you will. Thanks for reinforcing that SEO idea and pointing me to your Stumble Upon banner!
Lewis: Thanks for the reminder. He doesn’t think. He knows.
Glenn: I am from a small town in Eastern Canada, spent my first 26 years there before running off with Jim to Texas. I grew up on a farm by the Bay of Something-Or-Other. I can milk a cow, pitch a hay bale up to the 3rd tier of a wagonload and shoot the nuts off a….. hazel tree from 300 paces.
Do you think that was maybe just spam for the Russians’ version of viagra??
On 3 December 2008 at 2:17 pm Rhett said,
If you were using blogger I would-a given you all solutions. Wordpress is supposed to be real hot and all. Better than blogger. Just look up the HTML at google na. The best thing I do is whenevr I visit a great blog and I wanna steal something. I just go into the source code of the page and to the HTML and paste it at my blog. Have done it a couple-a times. Press Ctrl+U if yu use firefox to view the source code. Anyway, that wont be any help, i was just shooting d bull
))
Rhett’s last blog post..Jane
On 3 December 2008 at 2:23 pm Jannie said,
Rhett: No Way! You can see someone’s source code? My goodness, I’m so glad I’ve gotten out from under my rock and asked for y’alls’ help.
On 3 December 2008 at 11:57 pm Erin M said,
oh viewing the source code is easy! just right click and choose “view source” or goto te top where it says ‘file’ “edit” view”etc… click view then choose “source”
Erin M’s last blog post..meteor
On 19 December 2008 at 10:39 pm Современный said,
Очень заинтерисовался, буду теперь постоянно вас читать