I would really like to visit other peoples sites that have blogs and leave comments, etc. I thought maybe we could list urls to blog pages on SY members' sites.

I will start. Feel free to leave comments, links, etc.

http://cathyslifestockphotos.com/blog/

Comments always welcome

The lazy Photographer    http://glennspecht.com/wp/category/s10-blogs/c59-lazy-photographer-photo-blog/

Good idea.

http://stockphotology.com/blog/

Give me another day or two though... 

Good idea, mine is
stockimages.kerioak.com


Modified - thanks Cathy for the heads up.

http://semmickphoto.com/blog/

http://www.picture5479.com/blog/

http://softlightstock.com/blog/

I accidentally deleted my blog (photomining.com) when I moved the domain over to Bluehost this week. If I can figure out how to re-implement it I'll get it back up and running soon....

And mine - I'll check out these other ones as well.

Steve

http://www.backyardsilver.com/2013/07/selling-stock-photos-through-your-own-personal-website/

Quote from: Tinny on July 12, 2013, 07:25
Good idea, mine is
http://stockimages.kerioak.com com/blog

Christine, your link above is messed up. Or did you mean for it to be that way?

I made a folder to drag weblocs of all your blogs into, so that every week I can go through and post a comment. I noticed that some people are requiring login in order to leave a comment on a blog post. I can tell you that for me personally, I will not want to create that many logins just to leave a comment. Right now, there are only 7 posts in this thread. If everyone in the SY network posted a link to their blog, it will already be a large amount. And growing fast.

You, of course, can do whatever you like for your blog page. But I did want to mention that the SY theme allows for moderation of all comments, if you like. This way, you can weed out any irrelevant posts. I understand why you would want to capture login data. Are there other advantages to requiring login that I might be missing?

Quote from: cclapper on July 14, 2013, 13:41

Quote from: Tinny on July 12, 2013, 07:25
Good idea, mine is
http://stockimages.kerioak.com com/blog

Christine, your link above is messed up. Or did you mean for it to be that way?

The link is http://stockimages.kerioak.com/blog

QuoteThis way, you can weed out any irrelevant posts.

Thanks for your comment on my blog, Cathy. I don't require login, but I do moderate each post. I have Akismet running which weeds out 90% of the spam posts really effectively, and so the ones I see are almost always valid posts. I just approve them and they are online.

Steve

Quote from: steheap on July 14, 2013, 15:15

QuoteThis way, you can weed out any irrelevant posts.

Thanks for your comment on my blog, Cathy. I don't require login, but I do moderate each post. I have Akismet running which weeds out 90% of the spam posts really effectively, and so the ones I see are almost always valid posts. I just approve them and they are online.

Steve

I have the same approach 

same here.

Quote from: cclapper on July 14, 2013, 14:05
I noticed that some people are requiring login in order to leave a comment on a blog post. I can tell you that for me personally, I will not want to create that many logins just to leave a comment.

I was going to make a similar comment... then I check my own settings.

Whoops. I am one of the people I was going to comment about       

For those who want to change this.

Settings>Disscussion settings
   Other comment settings          Unclick User must be registered and logged in to comment

Comment away
http://glennspecht.com/wp/category/s10-blogs/c59-lazy-photographer-photo-blog/

I'm just diving into the blogging aspect of the theme.  Here's the link to my blog and my first real post.

http://www.karensarragaphotography.com/blog/

Quote from: klsbear on July 14, 2013, 16:21
I'm just diving into the blogging aspect of the theme.  Here's the link to my blog and my first real post.

http://www.karensarragaphotography.com/blog/

I don't think you have comments turned on. Go to Settings>Discussion and go through the settings there. Also Settings>Reading, there are a few settings there at the top. Be sure to define your Blog page as your posts page.

I ended up not wanting to keep a blog on my Symbiostock site, but I do keep one on my other similarly-named site. Matter of fact my other site has become pretty much just a blog, and a small portfolio of stock and other design work.

Both links are in my signature.

Ok, also  fixed my site so you don't need to register to comment.

Steve

Allowing open commenting in a WordPress system will undoubtedly result in comment spam. I'd highly recommend getting some sort of comment spam plugin or switching your commenting system to Disqus to cut down on spam. I use Disqus and get almost zero spam comments. Before that, I was spending a lot of time moderating comment spam.

Quote from: cclapper on July 14, 2013, 16:31

Quote from: klsbear on July 14, 2013, 16:21
I'm just diving into the blogging aspect of the theme.  Here's the link to my blog and my first real post.

http://www.karensarragaphotography.com/blog/

I don't think you have comments turned on. Go to Settings>Discussion and go through the settings there. Also Settings>Reading, there are a few settings there at the top. Be sure to define your Blog page as your posts page.

Thanks for the notice Cathy.  That was a tricky one to track down.  I had the settings and discussion info correct and in editing the post itself it seemed like Comments were on.  I finally found in the view Posts/Quick Edits view the "allow comments" box was not checked to allow comments.  I probably missed the check box when writing the original post and the Quick Edits view seemed to be the only place to correct that.

Quote from: cclapper on July 14, 2013, 14:05
I made a folder to drag weblocs of all your blogs into, so that every week I can go through and post a comment. I noticed that some people are requiring login in order to leave a comment on a blog post. I can tell you that for me personally, I will not want to create that many logins just to leave a comment. Right now, there are only 7 posts in this thread. If everyone in the SY network posted a link to their blog, it will already be a large amount. And growing fast.

You, of course, can do whatever you like for your blog page. But I did want to mention that the SY theme allows for moderation of all comments, if you like. This way, you can weed out any irrelevant posts. I understand why you would want to capture login data. Are there other advantages to requiring login that I might be missing?

I'm entering all the blog addresses into a Symbiostock folder in my Feedily Reader so it automatically updates when new blog entries are posted.  I'm not a guru when it comes to SEO but it seems like site traffic plays a role so I figure having subscribers that cause Feedily to reach out regularly to link in and out should be a good thing.  I've added my own site to my reader too just for that reason but if someone has a good argument against using a reader like Feedily I'd be open to changing things.

Quote from: EmberMike on July 14, 2013, 16:51

Allowing open commenting in a WordPress system will undoubtedly result in comment spam. I'd highly recommend getting some sort of comment spam plugin or switching your commenting system to Disqus to cut down on spam. I use Disqus and get almost zero spam comments. Before that, I was spending a lot of time moderating comment spam.

I already had an Akismet account, so I just re-activated that. Nice sites, by the way. 

OK, removed the need for a login, enabled comments and just posted a freshly minted entry.

http://stockphotology.com/blog/