How to Leverage the Power of Categories on Your Blog and Website

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In just about every workshop I do—no matter if it’s WordPress specific, or about more general blogging issues— the subject of categories always rears its head. I’m often surprised how many people who have used WordPress for some time, don’t really understand the power of categories. One question I often hear is: “What’s the difference [...]

Let WordPress Give You Career Options

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WordPress is a platform that can give you all kinds of digital career options, from writer to developer and more. There are a lot of blogs out there about blogging tips and developer tips, but I never found anything that really talked about all the options you have with WordPress and how to improve your [...]

Flashing Red Lights: 10 Signs Your WordPress ‘Expert’ Might Not Be One

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Everywhere you look, WordPress “experts” are popping up. Try googling it if you dare. There are even sites that will tell you how to become a WordPress expert in hours. Amazing, huh? Well, I just don’t buy it. Like so many professions, people toss around the word “expert” effortlessly. So, let’s look at the definition [...]

The Bottom of the Barrel, or What About Those Footer Widgets

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You might have noticed that many WordPress themes now have widgetized footers. There may be two, three or even four areas at the bottom of your page where you can drop in some more widgets. When you design your blog, you add what you feel are the best widgets to include in your sidebar. After [...]

23 Of Our Favourite WordPress Plugins

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At For Bloggers By Bloggers, we use self-hosted WordPress as our platform of blogging choice. There are many reasons for this – flexibility, support, strength of platform, theme developers and much more. But one of the best reasons for using self-hosted WordPress for your blog is that it has a thriving plugin developer community. Plugins [...]

Simple Tips for Cleaning Up Your WordPress Dashboard

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How many times do you go into your dashboard? Some places you visit often. Other times you stumble around trying to find what you are looking for. Things take up too much space. You ask yourself, “Do I even freakin’ care about the “Other WordPress News?”  Heck, you have enough trouble just keeping up with [...]

Who’s Sitting In Your WordPress Sidecar? 5 Tips for Creatively Using Custom Sidebars

Whose Sitting in Your WordPress Sidebar?

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 [...]

When Widget Love Becomes an Obsession

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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 [...]

I’m a Button Dork: Look What I Found!

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Since giving up my Mac to my wife (group awwwww…please) and not using it’s Text Editor, I have been looking for a simple, straightforward, no bloat (thank you @MSchechter for that word) application that I can use for my blogging. Holy Moly Batman, today I discovered just the thing I was looking for and it [...]