This blog is powered by WordPress. I composed most of the posts using the offline blog editor Microsoft Live Writer.
I have run into several “pain points”. Below is my wish list of blogging software improvements:
- This blog receives hundreds of comments each day. A lot of these comments are spams. I would like to have a MS Outlook type of UI, which allows me to search comments by “email address”, “subject”, etc., and then bulk select and delete the spam comments. The default Word Press comment system don’t let me to bulk select comments to delete. I’ve to click on the text box in front of each comment. Lately, I’ve moved my comments to Disqus, but the same issue applies. I still cannot easily search, bulk select and delete spam comments.
- I selected the default Permanent Link URL structure when I started this blog last September – this means my post has URL such as http://www.geekmba360.com/?page_id=412. I soon learned that I would get much better search engine results if the permanent link URLs have specific description words, instead of the numbers. However, since my site articles have been linked by a number of external sites, I’m really hesitant to change my Permanent URL structure because it will break all of the existing links to my sites. I could set up “301 re-direct”, but it will still involves a lot of manual work to re-direct the requests to the correct pages. I’ve made a lot of the posts since this blog was launched. I would love to be able to change my Permanent link structure for new posts while preserve all of my existing post URLs. I have not seen such a plug-in/software.
- Occasionally, I make changes/updates to old posts. As the number of posts have been growing, sometime it’s pretty tedious for me to find specific posts. MS Live Writer provides “filter”, but it’s not sufficient. What I need is the ability to search all my previous posts by attributes such as “title”, “subject”, etc”, and locate these posts.
If you know any tool that addresses my pain points, let me know. Otherwise, I’m calling all of the current and aspiring entrepreneurs out there to create these tools to make life easier for fellow bloggers – who knows, you might make some good money along the way. 
Excellent Blogging Resources:
- ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
- The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly
- The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging
- The IT Girl’s Guide to Blogging with Moxie
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