Poliblog Perspective

On the Wardman Wire I’ve just introduced a Wordpress Plugin called “Category Images”. It gives you the ability to “brand” each category (or some of the categories) on your blog automatically with a small image file.

I’m using small images to distinguish the different people writing on the blog, and as a “badge” for their columns. Each article displayed singly carries a double version.

The reason I looked at it is quite amusing.

Mike Rouse wrote a column about “Starting your own TV Show“, and linked to Obama Girl, who came back and left a comment, but thought the article was from me.

Now, I sure that I could bring myself to enjoy the attentions of Obama Girl when I am in the US - but really I need to make it clear who is the author of the article.

Hence this plugin. It took a bit of tweaking, but is now working reasonably well.

And hopefully next time Mike will get the admiration (and perhaps the date) he deserves.

As an aside: that shows it is worth linking to well-known blogs as well as lesser-known ones.

Another way to catch a blogger’s attention is to apply a Technorati Tag of their name to your post if it should be of interest (e.g., matt+wardman). Many bloggers monitor their tag or have a Google alert set up to catch these references.

One caveat: if you use a blogger’s tag inappropriately, they are very unlikely to come back. Do it, but get it right.

Tags: obama girl, mike rouse, garbo, category images, wordpress plugin

[tags]obama girl, mike rouse, garbo, category images, wordpress plugin[/tags]

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