Birthday Blog on Blogging Roundup

September 13th, 2008 · blogging tips & blog updates, roundup · 20 Comments

Today’s my 23rd birthday. Somehow it feels very important, like I’m making a big transition. Looking back over the last year, I can see how much I’ve adjusted to—being married, living in a big city instead of suburbia or the country, working year-round, working a mixed set of jobs, being on my own (our own) financially. 22 was a big year.

I wish I could say that my plans for today are relaxing, but I’m actually booked solid from 6am until after 9pm. The good news is that while the first 8 hours is work, the next few hours are hanging out with my parents and then the rest is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer “best of” marathon. The last was a coincidence, but a very happy one. So I’m anticipating a pretty good birthday.

For you bloggers out there, here are three articles I wrote in the last week for my blog on blogging:

  • 13 Wordpress Admin Themes + 3: Besides the themes which control the blog’s look and feel, Wordpress allows for “admin themes” which control the user-side experience. I’m not a big fan of the default look; I use several admin themes across my blogs (for variety). There aren’t many good ones out there, but I managed to come up with a list of 13, including Wordpress 2.5+ and pre-Wordpress 2.5 ones. Some of the 2.5+ also have earlier versions which you can download. Plus 3 other plugins which make your user-side experience easier.
  • If CommentLuv Doesn’t Recognize Your Feed: CommentLuv is a popular way of rewarding commenters by linking to their last post. Unfortunately, it never recognized my site’s feed and included my latest post. This post is about how I fixed it!
  • How to Change the Name of Your Wordpress Theme: Whether you’ve got a bunch of themes based on the same theme or just want to change the name of the theme you’ve been modifying, here’s how. This post is in response to a search query which was looking for information I wasn’t yet providing. So I decided to write it up. I add some quick info about modifying the accompanying screenshot as well.
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20 responses so far ↓

  • 1 BeThisWay // Sep 13, 2008 at 10:28 am

    Happy Birthday, Mrs. Micah!!!

  • 2 Kacie // Sep 13, 2008 at 10:38 am

    Woo hoo! Happy birthday! I hope your 23rd year is fantastic.

  • 3 Emily // Sep 13, 2008 at 10:38 am

    Happy birthday you spring chicken!

  • 4 Amanda // Sep 13, 2008 at 10:46 am

    Happy birthday, friend!! :D Have Micah give you a hug from us!

  • 5 Funny about Money // Sep 13, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Happy birthday! Hope you had a wonderful day, all day! And that you have a wonderful whole year.

  • 6 Frugal Vet Tech // Sep 13, 2008 at 11:46 am

    Happy birthday! I hope you have a fabulous day!

  • 7 Karen @ Living Well on Less // Sep 13, 2008 at 11:51 am

    Happy birthday! Have a great day!

  • 8 SavingDiva // Sep 13, 2008 at 12:59 pm

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

  • 9 guinness416 // Sep 13, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    Bloody hell, I didn’t realize you were so young. 23 was a GREAT year for me. Happy birthday!

  • 10 Susan // Sep 13, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    Happy Birthday, MM! I hope you have a beautiful day!!! :)

  • 11 Ron@TheWisdomJournal // Sep 13, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    Happy Birthday Mrs M. Hope you have a great one! Back when I was 23, I got my first real job, got engaged, and started building my debt empire…sigh.

  • 12 LAL // Sep 14, 2008 at 12:12 am

    Happy Birthday! Congratulations!

  • 13 Patrick // Sep 14, 2008 at 12:14 am

    Happy birthday! :)

  • 15 SingleGuyMoney // Sep 14, 2008 at 10:18 am

    Happy Birthday Mrs Micah!!

  • 16 mrsmicah // Sep 14, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    Thanks so much, everyone! It was a lovely day.

  • 17 Mary@SimplyForties // Sep 14, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    Happy Birthday!

  • 18 Sally // Sep 14, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    Happy birthday!

    I am exactly one month older than you. ^__^

  • 19 Susan // Sep 16, 2008 at 9:02 pm

    Happy Birthday!

  • 20 mapgirl // Sep 17, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    Happy Belated Birthday!

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