New Addition To The Site
Recently I sat and pondered whether I should update my Wordpress version to the new 2.7. I was sitting at 2.5.2 (I think) and never had the balls to update it. I’ve done some small tweaks here and there and was sure that updating would either delete them or completely mess up the site.
So I decided to buck up and do the update. Luckily my wonderful webhost, Lunarpages, has Fantastico in their CPanel (of which I used to originally install this site). I disabled all of my plugins and updated it with a single click (after testing it on a couple other meaningless sites I have). It worked! I reactivated my plugins and updated them as well. And like that, it was done.
To think I was fretting all this time. The tweaks ended up being in the template code, which was untouched by the updates.
I wasn’t sure about the admin area of the new Wordpress, but it has already grown on me. I like it.
On to the update.
You may have noticed the new link in the primary navigation bar at the top, called Trend Feeds.
I have put together a great set of RSS feeds that I personally use to watch trends and set them up in a nice little aggregator to make for a one-stop page for watching trends.
As of now, I am showing:
Trendhunter
MSN
Reddit
Google
Digg
Newsvine
Yahoo
Twitturly
Small Business Trends
AOL Hot Searches
Trendbird
Trendwatching
Buzzfeed
TechMeme
PSFK
Springwise
Trend Central
Mashable
BoingBoing
EcoGeek
More will be coming soon.
If you can spare a moment, I would appreciate your thoughts on a couple things. Is it too bulky or slow? Is it too long to navigate?
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Hi Scott,
It loads pretty fast on my cable modem — about 2 seconds. Thank you for sharing this useful feature with us other trend domainers
Everything seems to be loading fine