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It doesn’t always mean if you’re not logged in to your Wordpress account, there’s no way to publish new posts for it. You can always do the XML-RPC way.. Here’s a website I’m currently developing.. This post is done through it. The MWMPanel offers this cool feature.. Watch out for its release!

Jump links are those links which are not directly linked to the target. It works by setting the anchor’s target to a page within the website and later redirect it to the original target. This may be a great way of tracking down how many links have been clicked in your website but this comes up with a bad problem. In any way, this is not accepted by Google as a probable back link, therefore, it won’t be recognized by Google bots to be counted as a factor of increasing the website’s Page Rank. Also, if you’re doing paid reviews, some websites allowing bloggers to make money with sponsored reviews do not accept jump links. So, this means, you definitely have to get rid of it in any way you can.

By the way, jump links are features of some blog themes, especially in Blogsome. So, links made by using their default wordpress wysiwyg editor may result in to jumped links, such as the current theme I am using. Try to hover your mouse up in this link » As artists think alike…You will notice that in the status bar of your browser, it shows that the target website is "http://guidetoblogs.blogsome.com/go.php?http://ronaldborla.blogsome.com/". This proves that the website has to proceed first to a page called "go.php" then redirects to the original link. FYI: This anchor was not written to initially target "http://guidetoblogs.blogsome.com/go.php?http://ronaldborla.blogsome.com/" but only "http://ronaldborla.blogsome.com/". Because of the blog theme’s feature, all links done using the default editor will automatically be rewritten as the result above.

Guys, for you to get rid of this feature, all you have to do is to take the clue above. Since this is just the old editor’s fault, you would just have to deactivate the Wysi-WordPress Editor plugin before creating the links and publishing the post. But, this might become too uncomfortable in your part, so I would just have to introduce to you my cool way of fixing it.

A nasty solution would be "fooling the editor". Since the Wysi-WordPress Editor converts links to jump links, then why not add a decoy before every link that you have to create within the post. What I meant is, to add a decoy before every link.

A normal anchor html code would be like this:

<a href="http://ronaldborla.blogsome.com/">As artists think alike…</a>

Adding a decoy would look like this:

<a href="http://ronaldborla.blogsome.com/"></a><a href="http://ronaldborla.blogsome.com/">As artists think alike…</a>

Notice that there is a link having the same target as the next but does not have any anchor text. Quite inexplicable, but believe me, this works! Well, to do this, after you’ve created all the links required for the post, edit its html code by pressing the "HTML" button in one of the tools of the editor. Search out for every anchor within the post, and copy the whole code (from <a> up to </a>). Paste it right before the original anchor then remove the anchor text (text between ">" and "<"). Then finally, the post would be ready to be published.

After doing these steps, you will notice that by hovering your cursor to the link, your browser’s status bar would now directly point out the anchor to the right target. A completed link would look like this » As artists think alike… Try to place your mouse cursor over this link and notice the status bar.

But hey guys, if you think the solution above is a bit too difficult to follow (and too tasky, especially when there are loads of links within the post), then try this VB program I made to do this neat job for you. It doesn’t matter whether there’d be thousands of links in your article. Just copy your whole article’s HTML code to the clipboard, run this VB application, after a message saying "Jumplink Fixed" appears, then the code would automatically be converted fixing the jump links. Finally, just paste back the new code then publish. You can download the program through this link » Fixing Jumplinks and don’t forget to leave your comments. If you have questions on how to use the program, just leave ‘em all here.

Regards,
Ronald Borla 

Ever needed to post some YouTube videos or perhaps an IMEEM playlist in your Blogsome account? The problem is, you just can’t do it, for the reason that Blogsome unintentionally do not allow embedding of objects in your posts. Actually, this problem is not due to Blogsome’s restrictions. It just so happened that the WordPress Editor used as a plugin does not support embedding of objects. Which means, the editor would only allow tags which are recognized by it. In order to eliminate unintentional restrictions, all you have to do is to Deactivate your Blogsome account’s WYSIWYG Editor Plugin. It’s just that, you won’t be able to type your post the way to do it before. But since I’m here to guide you all the way how to do it much more effectively, here’s how:

1. First, with your WYSIWYG Editor still Activated (FYI: WYSIWYG Editor is activated by default), encode first everything you needed to appear in the post. I’m talking about the content of the post, so if ever you won’t need any text to appear in your article, then you can skip this step. After typing the necessary contents, then save your post as draft.
2. In your Blogsome admin, go to Plugins, then choose to Deactivate WSYI-Wordpress plugin.
3. Go back to your saved draft. As you notice, you won’t be able to edit your post the way you usually do it. If you are not familiar with HTML codes, then you only have to insert the code of your Embedded Object (code provided by YouTube or IMEEM), at the end of the post. By doing so, this would prevent mixing up the codes. But if you’re a bit knowledgable with HTML, then you can choose to insert in anywhere as long as you know what you are doing.
4. Now press Publish then presto! Your object will already appear by next time you view your post.
5. Finally, if you need to bring back your old editor, then just go to Plugins again, then activate WYSI-Wordpress plugin.

Did it help? Anyway, if you have questions or comments, just leave it right here. Thanks! And by the way, here’s a YouTube video my brother just posted, it’s about the ducks he fooled when we were in the province.

Regards,
Ronald Borla 

Have you noticed an Icon appearing right before where your blog’s complete URL is? See top of your browser which has something like this »

Well, in the above case is just my customized FavIcon here in my blog at GuideToBlogs. You can also change yours. There are two different ways: either plain icon (static) or an animated icon. Well here’s how you do it:

Plain icon

Animated Icon

Were you able to get it right? If you have comments or questions, just leave your message here. Also, you may leave your links here so that we may also be able to see your blog’s icon.

Regards,
Ronald Borla