Blog Contest : Why I Hate KongsiBlog.com

Salam and hello to all. This post was written as to take the challenge by Sabri Ahmad aka Kita. And for sure, this is not a hate blog post. This post purposed to show what the weak points of this blog that need to be improved by KongsiBlog.com. Ok here it goes.

I hate KongsiBlog.com because;

Part 1: Blog Interface

• Recent Comment at the sidebar
  This blog still using the common recent comment plugin that already have in wordpress which show the name of commentators and in what post they comment. For me, for this kind of blog which have so many topics discussed, I think KongsiBlog.com should use another comment plugin which more attractive such as Get Recent Comment plugin. This plugin will show recent comment together with some part of the comment that written by the commentators, can avoid from showing comments from the authors of the entry and can avoid from showing trackback as comment. All these can’t be done by common recent comment plugin that already installed after you install Wordpress blog. Example of this plugin is as what you can see at this blog. Its not wrong to show what peoples commented but I think it should be shown more attractively which can attract other reader to comment back and knows what other have said.
• ‘Ahli’ section
  In this Ahli section shows several links for the users which are register, login, entries RSS, comment RSS and Wordpress.org (Very loyal, huh?). I’m just thinking why KongsiBlog.com didn’t change the RSS link to standard RSS link by Feedburner since I noticed that KongsiBlog.com offered RSS via email provided by Feedburner. I think it should be more convenient to stick to only one RSS link and at the same time can avoid confusion among the readers and subscribers. Last but not least, do you mind to remove Wordpress.org link? Haha, everyone knows that.
• MyBlogLog and Alexa widget
  From my personal opinion, these widgets should be removed as it will increase the blog loading time and there’s no necessary reason to put these widgets. What for? Just show what you need to show and keep it clean and simple.
• Blogroll page
  What I can see is just a link to Blogroll Links plugin?

Part 2: Content

• Lack of pictures in blog post
  From my thought, this blog should be a magazine type blog which focus in various topics so I think by putting some pictures inside the post can attract readers to read the entry plus make the entry more interesting to read. The homepage should be more attractive if the author can insert some attractive pictures about the entry because it can be easily boring if everything is all words.

Part 3: Others

• Directory browsing and indexing
  I noticed that KongsiBlog.com didn’t turn off directory browsing and indexing. I noticed this while I’m trying to access this blog from http://kongsiblog.com/wp-content/plugins and it shows some directory contained in the plugins directory. This for sure not a big deal if KongsiBlog.com really wants to share what it has in the plugins directory and what it has in the uploads directory (http://kongsiblog.com/wp-content/uploads) . You don’t mind? To turn this feature off, proceed here.

Part 4: Suggestion

• List of Authors at the sidebar
  I know that there’s already list of authors in the About Us page but I think it would be more convenient if you can put the list of authors at the sidebar together with their blog url (if they have blog). So, readers can easily know how many authors write for this blog and at the same time can easily browse posts from selected authors.

Those are all my comments about KongsiBlog.com. I personally think that its too harsh to use “hate” instead of dislike for this post. Hoho, anyway this is what the contest organizer wants so I just follow it. Anyway, by commenting about KongsiBlog.com doesn’t means my blog is perfect and I think no blog is perfect but it would be good if we keep improving what we need to improve.

p/s: Those who still don’t know about the contest, you can read all the details at KongsiBlog.com and this contest is open to all bloggers with paid hosting and domain.

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