3 Most Common WordPress 3.5 Issues

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WordPress 3.5 came with a number of visual and functional upgrades, but as with any major update, it came with a series of frustrations as well. Many of the issues that came with the update are minor, but some of the issues being reported are essentially breaking people’s blogs. The three most commonly reported major [...]

Blogging fears: I can’t write

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It’s the new year and this year you’ve decided to blog. You’ve set up your site, added a header, followed all the instructions in a blogging guide and now you are hesitant. You have to write something but the words won’t come.  you’ve looked over the tips for writer’s block; you’ve been for a walk, [...]

Don’t do This Alone! How to Score it Big Time with a Blogging Tribe

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OK, so you keep reading these blogging tips on how all you need to do to become a successful blogger is to write great content and people will find you, blah, blah, blah… You and other million people that are doing the same thing. You can’t wait for the success to happen to you, you [...]

Saving The Cat

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  I love getting writing techniques from other disciplines or applying little-known principles to the art of blogging. This next one isn’t a far stretch because it comes from the world of hollywood screenwriting, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say most of you aren’t familiar with this one. It’s a [...]

WordPress Wednesday – WordPress 3.5 For Bloggers, By Bloggers Review

For Bloggers By Bloggers WordPress video tutorials

I know, for all you seasoned bloggers out there this isn’t really news.  But we thought it would be a great way to ring in the New Year by talking about the new WordPress 3.5 in our weekly WordPress Wednesday.  There are some cool new features and changes and now that we have had some [...]

How Writers Are Taught To Stink, And How To Throw The Smell Off Forever

I know. I get it. This should be a time for serving eggnog, not swift kicks to the pants. But there are too many people who need it this holiday season. If you’re a talented, creative, funny, one-in-a-million type of writer who isn’t getting any responses on your blog, you should ask yourself whether the [...]

Want to Make Your Blog the Best it can be? Here’s the List!

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Seems like I am one of those people that often go by “Do what I say, not what I do”. but I do learn from the things I’ve done wrong So in an attempt to prevent you from making the same mistake, let me try and streamline your blogging education a bit with a few useful tips [...]

What To Blog About AFTER The Apocalypse

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  December 21st came and went and the world did not end in a ball of Mayan fury. I know, you’re all as surprised as me. As writers, you of course used all your best material over the past few weeks just to make sure you’d get it in under the Mayan wire. Those unexplored [...]

How to Find Inspiration for Post Ideas Fast

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I wrote about blog post ideas before, here and here. You can never have too many, right… But what if you like to think for yourself, don’t need really specific ideas, but more a pointer as to where to find inspiration for some?! OK, I guess time to cover this one too. Now that you [...]