• How to start blogging

  last modified October 22, 2007 by MattBowen

  1. Get a WordPress blog
    1. Get a WordPress account and your blog comes with it
    1. Be sure to ask for a blog, and not just a username
    2. Pick a good title and domain for your blog. Shorter domains are easier to remember
      1. If you're going to blog mostly about Plone, go ahead and put it in your domain and blog name, like the great Sample Plone Blog
      2. Be sure to include your blog in technorati and public searches
    3. Once you're setup, go ahead and pick a nice theme and write a little about your blog and yourself in the about section of your blog (possible through the dashboard). You might even add some other plone bloggers to your blogroll.
  2. Join Technorati and claim your blog
    1. Create your Technorati account
    2. Claim your blog
      1. Enter the url you picked when you setup your blog as the URL of your blog
      2. Use the Quick Claim option, because it's much easier since you're already using wordpress
      3. Describe your blog, and give it some good keywords (e.g., Plone, Python, Web Design, CSS, Open Source)
  3. Get yourself added to the Plone Planet
    1. Create a new ticket in the plone.org tracker
      1. The login it asks for is the same as your login to Plone.org
      2. Give your blog's title and the address of your Plone-related RSS feed in the Full description
        1. Tip: If you're going to blog about more than just Plone, you can give the planet your posts about Plone by giving them all the tag "plone". If you do so, your plone-related posts will have a URL like this one (just substitute your blog name): http://sampleploneblog.wordpress.com/tag/plone/feed/
      3. Categorize your ticket as Planet Plone
  4. Post like crazy!
    1. Honestly, it's good to give yourself a schedule and post regularly. Frequent, short posts are a sure way to go.