Blog Diyiin Bi

All four blogs that we administer use the plugin “broken link checker” in order to flag links in articles and comments that do not work. When such a link is found, the plugin adds a tag to the link that tells the search engine robots (google, etc.) that the link is broken, and also prints the link with the strikethrough attribute for the benefit of human readers.

In the past few days, the Vision for Life Ministries cofounders, identical twin brothers Olu and Kay Taiwo, have posted a couple of articles on Christian Internet Resources. The articles are so good that I want to link to them from here.

Bro. Olu Taiwo posted this article about answering God’s call. It is well thought out, and is obviously the work of a real man of God who spends much time in prayer and Bible study. Kay Taiwo wrote an article about Nations. What was just said about Bro. Olu applies to Bro. Kay as well.

Christian Internet Resources and The Go Light get articles from Free Traffic System. FTS is a service for webmasters and bloggers that provides quality articles to the blogs in return for backlinks within the article to the author’s website. Bros. Olu and Kay have joined FTS and are providing articles; TGL and CIR get articles from FTS, and I may write some myself in order to get backlinks to one or more of the four blogs we have. So both of the articles under discussion might be posted to as many as 30 blogs, but with minor changes in order to not have exactly duplicated content, which the search engines are not too fond of!

I highly recommend both articles, and also recommend that you check out the Vision for Life website.

There were some minor technical problems with Bro. Olu’s article, which I was able to correct:

The two links Bro. Olu Taiwo had placed in his article were flagged as broken by broken link checker, and so were edited to correct them. Also, an additional link to the Vision for Life Ministries homepage was placed in the last paragraph of his excellent article; as originally posted by Mr. Taiwo, it was just text, not a clickable link. (FTS has a limit of two clickable links for articles submitted through them, but blog admins can add links as they see fit – so we did!) The same link was added to Bro. Kay’s article as well.

The references to Bible passages (for example, John 3:16, NOT the actual Bible text, “For God so loved the world…”, as may be quoted in the body of the article), were reformatted to work better with the Wordpress plugin “reftagger,” which, when the mouse cursor is held over a properly formatted Bible reference, pops up a window displaying the passage from bible.logos.com’s Bible search engine using the NKJV translation. (All articles and comments containing Bible references will have those references reformatted in a similar manner as we find time to do so – not just on CIR, but on all four blogs.) Blog Diyiin Bi does not get articles from the Free Traffic System, because not all articles are as good as these two.

We also added the tag “vision for life” to both articles, and will add the tag to any future articles posted by VFLM, whether through FTS or directly, in addition to any other tags that they may use themselves. You will be able to find any of their articles by clicking on the tag either in the tag cloud on CIR or at the end of any of their articles. (If any other authors use the same tag on CIR, we will change it unless the Taiwo brothers tell us that the authors using the tag are writing on behalf of Vision for Life Ministries.) We are contemplating adding another category on CIR just for articles by VFLM. We think their articles are that good.!

And, as we routinely do (as we find time) with articles posted through Free Traffic System, the generic link to FTS was replaced with a link to our FTS referral URL, which goes through our own website but ends up at the same place. (The magic of the “Pretty Links” plugin for Wordpress, our own private link cloaker!) That way, if you sign up as a member of FTS through a link in a post on one of our blogs, you will be in our FTS downline. If we didn’t make that minor change, you might be placed in some random member’s downline.

I also slightly reformatted the quotation from Genesis 11:1-9 in Bro. Kay’s article; on some of the verses, there was no space between the verse number and the text, so I added one. That makes it easier to read and does not change what it says.

Nothing else was changed in either article.

Thank you, both Bros. Taiwo, for such excellent articles!

Now, a few technical details for anyone who might want to write articles or comments using Bible references for any of our blogs…

…when citing Bible references on any of the blogs, do it this way: <cite class=”bibleref”>John 1:1</cite>. If citing two or more consecutive verses, use a dash, not a comma, like this: <cite class=”bibleref”>Gen 1:1-2</cite> NOT <cite class=”bibleref”>Gen 1:1,2</cite>. The reason is that reftagger will make one link with two verses for the reference using the dash, but two links with one verse each if the comma is used. (Of course, if that is what you want, then use the comma!) A future article on one of the blogs will have more details, but this is enough to get you pointed in the right direction. For instance, it is also possible to override the default NKJV with a properly-formatted reference, but that will need almost a full article by itself. I will place several pdf documents that have more detail about standardized Bible references on one of the blogs, and will put the links to those documents on all four blogs so you can download them, as well as links to the various websites that have some details about using standardized Bible references in web pages.

in His service,
Pastor Marv
blog administrator for:
Blog Diyiin Bi (diyiinbi.org)
Christian Internet Resources (nizhoninet.com)
The Go Light (diyiinbi.com)
John’s Joint (geofam.org)

Related Reading:

Related Posts:

• No Related Posts