Serendipity Blog

This is my first video tutorial for Serendipity and it's all about plugins, specifically how to move sidebar plugins from one column to another, changing the order of s9y sidebar plugins, adding plugins to sidebars, installing Spartacus, and installing plugins using Spartacus.

Plugin management with Serendipity is so much easier than some other Blog software and this 10 minute video shows how powerful it is. Many new bloggers automatically choose Wordpress or Blogspot simply because a friend uses it, or because 'everyone' uses one of the other packages. I'm a passionate supporter of Serendipity for my blog and if you're one of those people who hasn't used it, and want to try it out, sign up for a free Serendipity blog over at Supersized.

I'm really happy to release my latest theme, an affiliate template for Serendipity. Bloggers who are looking for a simple to use template with built-in support for affiliate banners will really love this template.

The template features a sidebar that can be swapped from left to right, or deleted, all within the admin screen, no need to edit any HTML. Also, at the bottom of the template are three plugin columns, ideal for blog rush, mybloglog, recent comments, recent entries, shoutboxes etc. Read More

I've had an interesting email conversation with another user who wants to get started on the path to being recognised as a Serendipity template designer, and more importantly, then wants to be able to monetize this hobby.

Rather than keep this conversation hidden away out of site I thought I'd publicise some of it, hopefully it will encourage other users to start developing templates. Let's assume you've got your template finished, how do you promote it? Read More