With the promotion of Author Plus I did a fair bit of blogger outreach. I’ll be honest, I’m used to being outreached to, rather than doing the outreach myself. After spending a night looking through blogs using Google Searches and my own network for blogs, I was getting nowhere. Instead I tried something a little [...]
Spotify Play Button For WordPress Released!
I am delighted to announce the launch of Spotify Play Button for WordPress! Recently, Spotify launched their Spotify Play Features, which are lovely, and you can add Spotify music to your site. As a heavy user of Spotify, I’d love to see how it worked for my WordPress-run sites. As such, I knocked together this [...]
Running a Twitter Competition – Part 2: Deciding Winners
This is the second part of the “Running a Twitter Competion” Mini Series. You can read Part 1 here. So after promoting the comptition and raising the profile of the competition, we now move onto deciding the winners when the competition is closed. This used a couple of tools, to help make my job a [...]
Running a Twitter Competition – Part 1: Preparation & Promotion
Last week I announced the winner of a week long twitter comptition to win one of five copies of Author Plus. The plugin is currently undergoing some rennovations and feature additions, so I thought it’d give a few copies away to generate interest in the site and the blog. Furthermore, it’s easy content as I [...]
Passive Aggressive Marketing Using My Blog Guest
Stock Photo Credit – “Where The Wild Things Are” by Sande2 My Blog Guest is awesome. A resource where struggling bloggers can go for content. Bloggers who are looking to promote their blog regularly trawl the site looking for opportunities to blog on other blogs. One of the most common ways to find opportunities to [...]
WP Email Capture 2.1 Released!
Last night I released the latest version of WP Email Capture. For those of you who know anything about me before starting Blogging Dojo, I did used to meddle around with WordPress Plugins before the release of Author Plus. One of my most successful was WP Email Capture, a plugin that allows you to collect [...]
How To: Add A Banner To Your Plugin on WordPress.org
If you spend as much time poking around WordPress.org as I’d do, you’d see some plugins (such as Yoast’s excellent WordPress SEO) have banners. Enviously, I’ve looked on, wanting to know how to add banners to my plugins. Of course, you can Read The Chuffing Manual and find out how to add banners. However, it [...]
The Most Inspiring Blog Post I Read in 2011
It’s that difficult time of the year – the year end whereby like the inevitable march of death you await the new year to start things anew. Also during this week, people like myself cannot be bothered producing epically epic blog posts that we usually produce. Instead, as a great way of generating content, people [...]

