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So far we’ve looked at defining what your hub is going to be, prepping the networks you’re going to be using for your hub, and what features you might want to consider and what the best platform is to build your social media hub on. So now that you have all the key components in place, there’s only one thing [...]
When the For Bloggers By Bloggers blog made the switch back to Headway, it reminded me of what attracted me to this theme in the first place. One of the major benefits was that I was finally able to customize my sidebars. Since then, other themes have done the same and there is now even [...]
All of us who love WordPress, love our widgets. You know—those little bits of code that work tirelessly in our sidebars and other places to offer useful and cool things? We sometimes find them on other sites and think, “Man, I have to get that one”. It’s like accessories for your car, your wardrobe, your [...]
One of the biggest mistakes you can make on your blog is not allowing your readers to sign up for your RSS feed—and giving them a way to choose either the option of getting your posts in their reader or by email delivery. You may think you know what it is. You have seen that [...]
If you are thinking of starting a WordPress blog, normally your first decision is to either put up a free blog at WordPress.com or choose to self-host it on a paid server. I used to try to explain it as a WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org kind of thing but, honestly, that is just way too confusing. Okay, [...]
I am a huge fan of contact forms on WordPress blogs and sites, and have been for years. If you go to my site and look at one of my pages, you’ll see what I mean. WordPress has some very nice simple contact form plugins, like Contact Form 7 and Simple Contact Form, but for [...]
Do you like to play with widgets? You know, those little buggers that do so many things for your WordPress blog? If you are on WordPress.com, you get a certain number of widgets to work with. If you are self-hosted, the sky’s the limit—and be forewarned: there are thousands of them out there. In fact, [...]
If you are contemplating a WordPress site or blog, or have dived in head first, you probably have found one of the first choices to be made is your theme. And good God, it can be overwhelming. Free vs. premium paid themes alone, the choices are literally in the thousands. And of course there are [...]
If you have a self-hosted WordPress site or blog, it’s time. You may have heard, or seen via your dashboard, 3.2 has officially been released. And. as major upgrades go, this one is pretty sweet. A “write only” full screen and a much faster load time just to name a couple of my favorites. Cool, [...]
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