A Successful Guest Post
UPDATE: Due to the unfortunate neglect over at WPDesigner that ensued shortly after I posted this guest article – I am now going to be only listening to questions and requests on this technique on the page where I re-posted it on my own site. Thank you.
Last week I contacted Tung Do, owner of the popular WordPress-centered blog WPDesigner, about allowing me to do a guest post. He obliged after I pitched the idea of a tutorial on how I morphed a standard WordPress install into a successful membership directory over at PghDesigners.com. A few days later I published How to Use WordPress as a Membership Directory. It was an instant success and has since been mentioned by some of the big guys that help power WordPress itself.
In seemed like minutes after it was published, WeblogToolsCollection picked it up. For anyone not familiar with the admin panel of a typical WordPress install, WLTC’s feed is fed into every WP dashboard out there showing what’s happening in the world of WordPress News.
A few days after that, Lloyd Budd of the official WordPress team and the Automattic Publisher Blog made a quick post about how WordPress is much More Than Blogging Software anymore. Forum, Contact List or Social Network anyone?
March 5th, 2008 @ 7:32 pm
It’s L l o y d ;-)
It’s obvious you are doing wonderful work. Send me an email, and I see if I can score you some WP shwag.
March 13th, 2008 @ 6:47 am
@Lloyd – Sorry, I fixed the spelling of your name. Thanks for the awesome compliment!
April 14th, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
Hi Chris – I think your article has a lot more potential than you realize – I believe the reason why more people didn’t pop up with actual implementations based upon your article, and thereby causing a feedback effect whereby more people would seek out your article, is that everyone knew 2.5 would be released pretty soon.
Now that 2.5 has bedded down, and that WordPress have been so insistent that we all upgrade from 2.3 for security reasons, it would be the ideal time for you to do an 2.5-oriented version of your article, perhaps including more detailed steps with regard to stuff like template hierarchies – if you make it easy enough for even relative newbies to get sites based on your work up and running, I’m convinced you will see a snowball effect.
April 15th, 2008 @ 4:52 am
@WordSkill – I agree. The post was bad timing in regards that 2.5 was coming out in a matter of days afterwards. I haven’t yet upgraded pghdesigners.com to WP 2.5, and when I do, I will do a followup post as you suggest. Thanks for the support!