Technical
Filing For Bankruptcy (From Email)
Yep. I changed my email address. The one I’ve had for over a decade now. And it feels good. Damn good.
So, the questions here are: why and how?
I mean, is it worth it? Because, after all, it is a lot of work making the change, and it is sure to inconvenience a lot of people I’ve had past contact with. So, let’s cover it.
How To Display Your Feedburner Subscriber Count In Plain Text
You have likely noticed that many bloggers choose to display their RSS subscriber count on their blogs. The most common way to do that is by using the little button graphic which Feedburner provides.
A fancier way to do it is to display it in plain-text format, thereby allowing you to style it in whatever way suits your blog.
When I made some recent design changes to DavidRisley.com, I decided to display the FeedCount using plain text. Below is how I went about it…
How To Secure Content On Amazon S3 With Wordpress
Amazon S3 is a cheap, flexible and powerful way to store files. If you embed movies on your blog, for instance, using S3 makes a lot of sense.
But, there is a problem – anybody who knows what they’re doing can STEAL your content and do what they want with it. This isn’t a problem with S3. The problem is in how you interface with S3.
Amazon S3 Basics
No doubt, I have a lot of readers who don’t use S3 or have no idea what it is all about. So, let me address that first.
Super-Easy Tactic For Increasing Reader Anticipation
One of the things we all want is for our readers to come back to your blog. This is why we like getting visitors onto our lists, follow us on Twitter, or subscribe by RSS.
However, there is another super-easy tactic you can use to increase anticipation: Showing them what’s coming before it is published.
With that in mind, here is some code you can copy/paste into your blog theme in order to easily list out scheduled posts.
How To Do A Custom Login Box With Wishlist Member
Wishlist Member is one of the absolute best ways to quickly and easily set up a membership site with Wordpress. However, as good as it is, it isn’t perfect.
One of the limitations is the lack of ability to customize your login box. Wishlist comes with a widget for a login box which makes it very convenient. The problem is that the code for that login widget is encrypted, so you can’t do anything with it. What’s more, they didn’t bother to add unique CSS identifiers to the fields so you could at least style it yourself.
The solution is simply not to use their built-in login widget and do one yourself.
How To Reorganize Your Blog Categories
If you’re anything like me, your blog’s category structure was evolved over time and got to be a bit of a mess.
You write a new post and think, “Well, this doesn’t seem to fit anywhere, so I’ll just make a new category.” Next thing you know, you’ve got an unwieldy list of categories. Some are too general and are loaded with posts while others have barely anything to them.
The solution is to reorganize. But, how?
How To Create An Events List With Wordpress
When I did the recent design changes to DavidRisley.com, one of the things I wanted to do was add an events list. You can see it off in the right sidebar.
The idea behind it is simply to be able to use the blog as a central platform for all events that I do, including webinars, launches, live events – anything with a particular date assigned to it. Even if I do a call only for my students, I’ll still list it here on the blog.
From a technical perspective, this looks easy. But, it isn’t. It took me some time and testing to figure out what I’m about to show you.
How To Keep Your Wordpress Blog From Being Hacked
Has your blog ever been hacked?
Have you ever had that horrible, sinking feeling when you go to check out your blog, only to find that it isn’t even there anymore?
If you haven’t had it happen yet, there’s a decent chance you will. I have. More than once.
And it sucks.
One moment your blog is humming along [...]
How To Have Random, Rotating Images In Your Blog Header
As part of my new header design for this blog, I am using a series of 12 header images which rotate randomly.
I’ve had a few people comment on that and wonder how I did it. It is actually VERY easy to do.
How To Pause The Aweber Autoresponder
My readers know that I am a big proponent of Aweber for mailing list management. Out of the many things that you can do with Aweber, one of them is an autoresponder.
If you’re not already familiar, an autoresponder is simply a pre-scheduled series of emails that get sent out to a new subscriber on automatic [...]
I'm David Risley. I've been making my living as a blogger for over a decade. Blogging is my business and how I support my family. With this blog, I'm just gettin' REAL and telling you how this business works. 
