robrubin

The custom theme definitely helped. Custom themes are the main reason I switched from WordPress.com to .org. Feedburner kind of sucks, but it’s pretty much the only free tool out there like it. My main issue is that a good number of people fail to verify their email addresses and there is no way to auto-verify them or send automated reminders to verify. If they lose the verification email or it gets sent to their spam box, the only way to activate them is to delete their account and ask them to resubscribe.

I was considering replacing feedburner with the JetPack subscription form, but my theme from Theme Junkie has a lot of feedburner hooks built in and I don’t have time right now to overhaul that code. Maybe in the future.

Thanks! I’m glad you like it enough to bookmark it. Means a lot to me that My work is not being done in vain. As far is displaying ads, I wanted to walk the fine line between successful monetization and being outright obnoxious. The content is the main thing I’m selling, but a few ad clicks here and there can’t hurt. In fact, I’ve already made enough for a frozen organic burrito!

Well, I just migrated the site and it’s now hosted on it’s own server. Went pretty smooth. Hopefully my old followers stick around.