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My Blog in 2013

WordPress.com creates an end-of-year report for every WordPress site that runs the Jetpack plugin and has Stats enabled. Mine showed up yesterday evening. Here’s an description: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 8,100 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people. Mostly I just like watching the fireworks :-)

Five WordPress Plugins to Make Your Blogging Year Better

As an avid WordPress user, I have come to rely heavily on some of my plugins. Occasionally I’ll browse the WordPress.org plugins section looking for cool ones to try, but usually I stumble across them trying to solve a problem or make my life easier. I’ve come up with a list of the ones that I find the most useful, or that are cool and worth having anyway. Google Analytics: This plugin is crucial to me, perhaps above any of the others I use.