When we're blogging, one of the things we don't tend to think about is the state of our database. As with the oil in our car, as long as it works, we tend to ignore it. Read more...

Recently Habari updated it's administrative code to use a new interface. The new interface relies much more heavily on javascript than the old one did, which allows it to pull off some pretty snifty tricks. One of these is on the entries page, where a list of all the posts you have written is displayed. Read more...

The three plugins I had written - MetaDescription, MetaTitle, and MetaKeywords - are no longer available from this site, nor are they supported. Read more...

I've already updated the MetaTitle plugin. Andy at Digging in a Habari sandpit asked that it have the option of working even if the theme's template doesn't have an html title tag. I added this option to MetaTitle. The theme does still need to have an html head tag, though. To be honest, if it doesn't you really need to … Read more...

I've just released the third leg of a series of SEO optimization plugins for Habari - MetaTitle. Read more...

As with the meta keywords tag, your page's meta description tag doesn't help your search engine rankings much, but it does allow you some control over how the page is described in search engine results. Many search engines (though not Google), will use what you have put in the meta description tag on the search results page. Read more...

If you've been blogging for any length of time, you know that a good part of your visitors will come from searching Google. That is, as long as Google knows about your site. Read more...

If your blog is anything like mine, almost half your readers or more arrive from a search engine. They went to Google, or Yahoo, or MSN, typed in a word or phrase they wanted to learn more about, and were shown a list of pages that related to that word or phrase. They clicked on a page that looked interesting … Read more...

This past weekend the Habari community released Habari 0.4.1.
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One problem I've been having with Habari is that the xml-rpc mechanism relies on mbstring support being compiled in to PHP. Unfortunately, my host, A Small Orange, for some reason didn't have mbstring support in PHP 5, though they do include it in PHP 4. Read more...