Tag: jargon

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Avatars are our personal mugshots that appear next to our comments; gravatars are “globally recognised” avatars, which means that anywhere you post a comment on the web, including your email address, your avatar will appear, too.

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Here’s a variety of rss feeds addresses that you can offer to surfers who are interested in following the activity of:

- your latest articles in general: http://mon.blog.com/feed/

- your latest comments: http://mon.blog.com/comments/feed/

- the latest comments on an article: http://mon.blog.com/(path to the article)/feed/

- your latest articles in a category: http://mon.blog.com/(category identifier)/feed/

- your talest articles on a tag: http://mon.blog.com/(tag identifier)/feed/

- your latest articles on an author: http://mon.blog.com/author/(author identifier)/feed/

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Permalinks are the solution found by blog systems to find your articles even if you change url type or article title; therefore avoiding the dreaded “error 404″… Read more…

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Trackbacks are articles that you post on YOUR site/blog that answer  an article on another blog via the trackback url. The consequence for that other site is similar to receiving a new comment. This “remote comment’s” advantage is that your readers and the other blog’s will be able to see what you have written.

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Articles are the blog’s “live matter”, the “papers”, the “posts” of your log book. You will save them in categories, tag them using keywords, and they will get comments that will appear in anti-chronological lists… Read more…

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Wordpress lets you put pages online, as in general information pages about the blog. Those are also called static pages, as the information they display only rarely changes. Read more…

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Bloggers have a habit to display in the lateral column a list of external links, generally redirecting to their friends’ blogs…  Read more…

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Widgets appear in the lateral navigation columns of your blog; they can have a multitude of functions…  Read more…

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Every user has a role which determins his/her action possibilities on the blog… Read more…

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Comments are the heart & soul of a blog, because they are the preferred way for readers to answer an article and express an opinion about it, to bring further information and corrections etc. so the information available is as accurate as possible. Read more…