PopupPicker as a standalone product is now being phased out.

The full product, which allowed several types of popups to be added easily to your WordPress blog or regular web pages, is now replaced by a Lite version, available on ActiveBlogging.com

The Lite version, available to ActiveBlogging Platinum Level members, is a WordPress-only plugin, and provides popups only to WordPress webpages.

For more information on the Lite version, check out our PopupPicker product information page.

One of my oldest bits of PHP code is a site counter. In the early days (pre-2000) these little counters were an advertisement about how popular a site was. And despite better data analysis like Google Analytics and server logs, people still get a kick out of the lowly visitor counter.

So, I’ve updated the counter, and turned it into a widget – which makes it much easier to use, and compatible with any widget-enabled theme, so you can place it anywhere your heart designs.

(And I know people want …

Only eight days after 3.2 comes 3.2.1 for WordPress, an addition that addresses some JSON Javascript-related issues for some sites, and a few other fixes. This includes tweaks to the TwentyEleven theme. My gray bar along the theme top is gone, so that’s one good thing!

I’m not including a link here – everyone using WP will get the yellow nag as soon as you log in…

Wordy title, huh? The sad fact of the matter is that the online world is dominated by search engines. And if you want search engine traffic, you have to follow their rules.

And unfortunately, their rules don’t give one whit about quality of writing, or value as prose – they only care about keywords.

What are keywords? They’re the most important words you use when you search on something. When you want to know more about Justin Timberlake, is that all you type? Not likely – the information out there …

WordPress 3.2 is here, and I’ve been trying it out. So far, very nice, although quite a few changes for newer ones to handle. However, I’m especially interested in the accompanying theme, 2011. It’s VERY nice – so nice in fact that I changed over one of my sites already, UtopiaMechanicus.com

Mind you, I wish the theme did a couple of things differently:

The top header is huge. While that’s nice for a visual effect, it keeps the articles low. On my 19 inch monitor, the article title starts almost …