Maybe you saw my post about my problem to exclude the feed from the search result pages. To avoid duplicate content I wanted to exclude the feeds from the content, so they can not draw any attention from the actual blog post. Finally I found out why Google had denied my request and fixed that problem (I had made a mistake in the robots.txt). But there was an additional problem: what about the comment feeds? » Read the rest of the entry..

If you read my blog via a Feed reader, you might have encountered a strange part at the beginning of each post: [This content belongs to rothemund.org - fingerprint:xxxxxxxxxx]. This is part of the wordpress plugin “Digital Fingerprint“. What is it for? » Read the rest of the entry..

Once your website is running you will be probably be interested in who is visiting your blog, where do the come from, etc. So you need some statistics about your visitors. I can recommend the web metrics package from Google, called Google Analytics. While it is not too complicated to insert the code you will need for using Analytics, I can recommend the Wordpress Plugin Google Analyticator from Cavemonkey50. It inserts the code either to the header or the footer of your blog. I would recommend (as for all external scripts) you should insert the Google Analytics code in the footer by enabling the option “Footer tracking code”, so slow or unavailable Google servers will have almost no influence on your website’s performance.
Timo Aden, responsible for Google Analytics in Northern Europe, is writing (in German) a blog about everything concering Google Analytics (http://www.timoaden.de/ [de]).