See What’s New at Blogging With Success

If you've been lurking in the feed readers, it's time to stop by and see some new-fangled things. So here's the inside scoop. If you're following us on Twitter then you may have heard one or two of  tweets from a little blue birdie.

image by Gret@Lorenz

CommentLuv

I installed the CommentLuv plugin on Apr 15. Mr. I has problems with the CommentLuv concept, but I persuaded him to agree to a test run.  Here's our team tweet announcement (I purposely used his avatar!)

bwsteam BWS blog is now sharing the #commentluv Find your Topic ---- 4 Steps to Success # http://bit.ly/d44GP4

Part of the test is to see if real dialog increases. I'll be watching for spam as usual, but also for those one-liner comments on older posts --- commonly referred to as 'luv-droppings.'  So if you're tempted for that reason alone, don't.  Remember this is a trial run.

New Tips Button to Grab

Also on Apr 15 (tax free day) I proudly displayed our Tips Button. We encourage you to grab our shiny button and let friends in on 'sweet tips.'  Many thanks to @DougDraws , who re-designed the button for us.

Image Map for Button Seekers

My recent tutorial explains using image maps as hotspots. In the article, you learn how to map hot spots onto images for WordPress.org or Blogger.  "Doing this can spice up your design and beef up your blog's navigation. Remember, "a picture is often worth a thousand words"!"

So I put one in the sidebar to guide anyone looking to create an ad, button, scrollbox, etc. There are clickable hot spots that take you to one of seven tutorials. The widget shows only on those pages, using widget logic. You can see it in action on the sidebar of the Scrollbox tutorial.

Yet Another Plugin

Many of our tutorials use Syntax Highlighter Evolved to convert the html to text within the post. Readers can copy and paste into their blogs. Since one of our honored guest writers showed an aversion to the glaring multi-color rendition of the code (hint: he draws... ), I installed yet another plugin.

The plug, aptly named No Curly Quotes turns off the ''curly quotes" that WP insists on adding after you publish. Bet you didn't notice! Those quotes mess up even escaped code when you don't use syntax highlighter.

The new plugin serves as a backup in case the Syntax Highlighter is deactivated as it once was --- all of tutorial code disappeared. Ok if that was all greek to you, then read Helping Html to Escape, if you dare.

FaceBook Announcement

We're now on FaceBook. Check us out and be sure to sign our fan book.

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Your Feedback is welcomed

What do you think? Leave us a comment and don't forget to select one of your latest posts to get some hugs. Let us know if you use CommentLuv and how it's working for your readers. Notice any other changes since your last in-house visit?