Computer and Web Articles

Is your blog getting a bit cluttered? Buttons and links and widgets that seem like such great ideas initially can add up and give your blog a bloated, overstuffed feel. Here are a few tips you might wish to consider if uncluttering your blog should (or should be!) on your to-do list:

a) Dump the Popularity Contest plugin. It’s not self-explanatory, and seeing something like “popularity: 8%” beneath a blog post doesn’t mean anything to your readers.

b) Check out your footer. Does it contain a link to the version of WordPress that you’re running? If yes - get rid of it. There’s no reason at all for it to be there; it just takes up space.

c) Drop your “spam blocked” counters. I’m not alone in telling you that I truly, truly do not care how many spam comments your spam blocker has blocked.

d) Chuck those links to the automatic translators. Yes, I know you mean well, but in all honesty those translators don’t even work well enough to be of use. Plus, many of the people who need them know which ones work best for their purposes.

e) Please choose to display either a category cloud OR a category list. They serve the same purpose, so you really don’t need both taking up all that space in your sidebar.