- Reaction score
- 3,928
Evening lads and ladies. Just a quick one about an electricians blog I'm trying to get going.
Some keen-eyed members would have noticed that we keep having an electricians blog button appear. Then disappear again. I keep breaking it.
We have a Tilers Blog and Plumbers Blog running and working. Albeit missing some detailed content. The contributions (articles?) on there already are mostly there so I can configure the system and make sure it's knitting in with the forum software properly.
So the comments system uses the forum software not the blog software, to make sure when people are commenting and clicking like etc, they get their counts change forum-wise.
Anyyyywaay, on all forums I'm looking out for a few contributors to it. I can actually set it up so that any member of the forum, or arms member, or esteemed etc, can have the ability to post an article. But I don't think I've got the balls for that just yet lol
But I'd be interested in knowing if any people on here would like to contribute to it.
On the tilers and plumbers forum I seem to have a lot of people saying they wouldn't mind contributing, only to then find out they've got a commercial interest in what it is they want to post about.
Now I don't mind companies submitting press-releases, I'll post them. And sponsors adding their news, I'll post them. But those will always be fair, open, and obvious - when it comes to what it is they're doing. So getting their news out. Fair enough.
But when it's a member of a forum, just under a username, then plugging a tool or supplier, you have to ask yourself, how much have they been paid. lol - I don't want that type of thing. I want honest articles that we can host for all-time to come. When I've got the electricians blog working right, it's going to stay online forever. I know I break a lot of stuff as we change software, but this is using wordpress. And that's always going to be around. Hence the reason for me getting the forum, knit with the blog, and them still both run independently from each other. So they can both be upgraded independently and not have an effect on the other.
If you're interested in helping, let me know by replying to this thread, or PM me.
Some keen-eyed members would have noticed that we keep having an electricians blog button appear. Then disappear again. I keep breaking it.
We have a Tilers Blog and Plumbers Blog running and working. Albeit missing some detailed content. The contributions (articles?) on there already are mostly there so I can configure the system and make sure it's knitting in with the forum software properly.
So the comments system uses the forum software not the blog software, to make sure when people are commenting and clicking like etc, they get their counts change forum-wise.
Anyyyywaay, on all forums I'm looking out for a few contributors to it. I can actually set it up so that any member of the forum, or arms member, or esteemed etc, can have the ability to post an article. But I don't think I've got the balls for that just yet lol
But I'd be interested in knowing if any people on here would like to contribute to it.
On the tilers and plumbers forum I seem to have a lot of people saying they wouldn't mind contributing, only to then find out they've got a commercial interest in what it is they want to post about.
Now I don't mind companies submitting press-releases, I'll post them. And sponsors adding their news, I'll post them. But those will always be fair, open, and obvious - when it comes to what it is they're doing. So getting their news out. Fair enough.
But when it's a member of a forum, just under a username, then plugging a tool or supplier, you have to ask yourself, how much have they been paid. lol - I don't want that type of thing. I want honest articles that we can host for all-time to come. When I've got the electricians blog working right, it's going to stay online forever. I know I break a lot of stuff as we change software, but this is using wordpress. And that's always going to be around. Hence the reason for me getting the forum, knit with the blog, and them still both run independently from each other. So they can both be upgraded independently and not have an effect on the other.
If you're interested in helping, let me know by replying to this thread, or PM me.