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It completely confuses me when I land on a blog I can see has been around for awhile, yet when you see it, it screams “beginner”. Why wouldn’t you change these few things at the very beginning and not worry about them later? Because some of them just make you look really… inexperienced…
It’s Independence Day here where I am, on American soil. Beer, potato salad, strawberry shortcake and sparkling fireworks. It’s about freedom, man. Used in the right way, WordPress is all about freedom, too. The beauty of it is the control you have over your own blog—not only in the content, but in the design and [...]
In our digital-happy world, news travels at breakneck speed. “Thought leaders” and “experts” are around every corner, with advice sprinkled with untruths, half-truths, exaggerations and over-promises. We hear something and we believe it. Someone posts or tweets or puts it up on Facebook. Then a keynoter at a conference throws it in and, bam, it’s [...]
Unless you live in a remote cave or have been on an extended vacation on Mars, you probably know that WordPress 3.4, also known as ‘Green,’ was released last week. A lot of under-the-hood work has made it faster and better, but WordPress users are talking about a few cool features in particular.
Even the smallest things that happen in WordPress can suddenly become huge problems—if you don’t know how to fix them. Here they are, some tiny, some big. 1. Why is there a double return in my posts? When you are doing a post or page and hit return, it gives you a space between lines. [...]
Along with content, great blog design is a key point in keeping the interest of any visitors to your blog. Sure, content may be king to some, but if that’s the case then the design is your Royal courtyard. And you wouldn’t want to have a messy courtyard, would you? So having a great blog [...]
In some of my other posts here at For Bloggers, By Bloggers, I have walked you through various settings in WordPress. In this one, we’ll look at the Settings > Media. Although there aren’t a ton of decisions to make, let me explain why you may want to revisit these settings.
WordPress gives us so many features and options once we are in the dashboard. And if we add some widgets and a theme: presto, there’s even more. But no matter what you are using WordPress for—if you have one site or ten— there are features you might want to understand more clearly. When in WordPress, [...]
I can’t tell you how many times I have heard one of these two things from clients: “Someone told me I should have the XXX plugin because it will help with [fill in the blank.]. Do you think I need that? Can you install it for me?” or “I would love it if my theme [...]
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