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Are you thinking about creating a self-hosted blog or website but find the various options in web hosting to be extremely confusing?
I know just how confusing it can be when you visit a hosting company’s website and are faced with choosing the best web hosting plan for your website or blog.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to clear it all up for you in this post. [Read more…]
Anyone can start a blog in a few minutes, but if you want to market an existing business or start a new one with your blog, you’ll need to be more strategic.
In this list of tips for new bloggers, you’ll find the ideas that we’ve found to be the most helpful in professional blogging. [Read more…]
If you’re a blogger you’re probably familiar with the term “breadcrumbs”.
In a nutshell, breadcrumbs are navigable paths from a blog’s home page to the page that’s currently displayed in the browser.
Every portion of the breadcrumb path except for the post/page name itself can be clicked on to jump immediately to that section of the blog.
For example, if you look at the top of this page you’ll see the following breadcrumb situated between the bottom menu bar and the post title: [Read more…]
Question from Carla G.: I have a WordPress blog and a while back I read your post explaining why we should write our blog posts using an “Editor” account instead of the “Administrator” account.
I set up a new account with the Editor role as you suggested and I’ve been logging into that account to do my writing ever since.
Yesterday I happened to notice that my old posts still have the Author name that corresponds to the Administrator account that I no longer use when writing my posts.
I’d like to change the Author of those old posts to my other name and I can’t find a way to do it anywhere on the “Edit Post” screen. I know there has to be a way to do it though. [Read more…]
If you have a blog that runs on WordPress you probably already know that plugins make it easy to add new features and capabilities to your blog.
But with thousands of WordPress plugins to choose from, how do you know which ones you really need?
Well, I’m going to try to shed some light on which plugins you need to install on your blog, and which ones you should avoid.
First, let me explain which plugins you need to avoid, because that’s the really easy part… [Read more…]