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dawn2006
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Posted: April 24 2009 at 10:40pm \| IP Logged

The Blogging 101 post sent me off snooping around Wordpress (for way too long this evening). I loaded up a blogroll and was wondering: how do you follow your blogs in Wordpress? Blogger makes it sooo easy to do so, perhaps I'm too spoiled?? Is there something similar to Google Reader in the Wordpress dashboard?

I did see that you could hover the cursor over each blog's name and it would show a snapshot of the blog. However, I noticed the snapshots weren't necessarily current AND there was a blip sound which I just didn't really care for.

TIA.

Things I like, though, are the sharper look to the blog templates and the ability to easily have a three column blog, or menu bar up top, or publish pages that aren't posts.

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JennGM
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Posted: April 27 2009 at 7:57am \| IP Logged

I love having a two column blog, which is easier in Wordpress.

I don't have a blogroll, I admit that. I use Bloglines or Google Reader. If there is a way, I don't know of it.

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8kids4me
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Posted: April 28 2009 at 6:11am \| IP Logged

I'm actually getting ready to try something else. I have wordpress, and I can't do blogrolls, or pretty much anything other than my own blog list.

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JennGM
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Posted: April 28 2009 at 7:20am \| IP Logged

8kids4me wrote:

I'm actually getting ready to try something else. I have wordpress, and I can't do blogrolls, or pretty much anything other than my own blog list.

That's why it's so nice to have options. Frankly, I dislike blogrolls, mainly because I have a dinosaur computer, runs like a sloth. Any script just slows it down more. I dread clicking on the blogs that are full of lots of scripts and images.

But see, it's a personal choice!

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