You spend 3 months watching your WordPress statistics bumbling along the horizontal axis close to zero.
Some traffic dribbles in. The graph accelerates into 10's of hits daily. You feel better. You will persist with this blogging experiment for a little longer.
At this rate, it may soon be time to consider a proper blog using WordPress.org and Adsense to make the millions that eluded me during the dot com boom.
Then those pesky developers from WordPress.com alter the Y-axis dynamically, on the fly without even asking so the statistics now start at 40 and the graph looks just the same.
Life is cruel.
Those busy people at WordPress have opened up a couple of forums for support issues and feedback for users of WordPress.com
This is a brilliant idea as I currently have to use the 'Feedback' form for all my brilliant suggestions and reporting minor glitches which was a little lonely and uni-directional.
WordPress made some changes to the available
themes just before Christmas which I have only just noticed.
I particularly like the changes in
Regulus 2.0 by Ben Gillbanks as you can now customise the theme a little. You can choose to have the calendar displayed (Howard will be pleased), change the 'Blogroll' to use link categories, change the header image and the colour scheme. Also, the irritating 'Message essage' bug is fixed.
There are new, improved blog
statistics available from WordPress.com with more to come.
No additional Javascript needed. Integrated reports from the dashboard. Superb.
As Matt said in a recent interview, these guys are active bloggers themselves so they understand what users want, what is useful, what is not and they also listen to feedback.
The news is out.
Yahoo! will be offering WordPress hosted blogs for small businesses and charging a monthly fee for the service.
I think this is good news for all WordPress users (.com and .org) as it provides a revenue stream for future development.
