Tag: WordPress

If you’re new to blogging, you may be overwhelmed with all of the blogging language. You did find out that blogging has it’s own language, didn’t you? My best advice to new bloggers, is to take it, one step at a time. There is no way, you’ll learn all there… read more Are You A New and Overwhelmed Blogger

If you’re a newbie to blogging, who is using WordPress, finding the right information can be difficult. Searching for information about blogging with WordPress, can produce millions of results. The best source for WordPress, is in an obvious place. It’s at WordPress .org. By clicking on the following link, you… read more Best Source For WordPress Newbies

WordPress.com Stats is a great plugin for checking your stats. The WordPress Stats plugin, does not count the visits you make to your site(s). Like Akismet, with the WordPress.com Stats plugin, you need an API key. Once the API key is entered, the rest is automatic. You will then find… read more Plugin – WordPress.com Stats

If you have a new blog, and want to get indexed by Google, Yahoo, plus other search engines, thus improving search engine optimization, it’s apparent that a site map is imperative to install. What is a site map? Think of a site map as a blueprint of your site. When… read more Google Sitemap Generator

Testing your WordPress blog on Firefox, Internet Explorer, and other browsers is imperative. I use the Firefox browser for most of my work. However, when I began testing my blog’s appearance on the Internet Explorer (IE) browser, I began seeing a different “look”. When I thought I had things perfect,… read more Testing Your Theme In Firefox Browser vs Internet Explorer

My head is still reeling from “crashing” both of my blogs late last week. It all started, when I decided to add a third blog (more on that at a later date). I signed on to my web hosting account, and filled out all of the information. No problem there…. read more I “Crashed” My Blogs

Adding a block quote to your blog is easy. Block quotes are are great way to reference other valuable sites Today’s Lesson We all get ideas of what to blog about from different sources. Oftentimes, we are well versed in an area, and the words come easy. Other times, we… read more Adding A Blockquote To Your Post

Want your links to open in a new browser? Inserting the code, is very easy. The code that needs to be inserted is { target =”new” }, or. {target =”_blank”}. This gets inserted immediately before the {>}, which is immediately before the description of the link. For an example, if… read more How To Create A Link In A New Browser

I bang my head against the wall every now and then. This time it’s over my RSS feed, again. One of my “Blogging Buddies”, emailed me, to let me know my feed wasn’t working correctly. I decided to try adding the new “FeedBurner FeedSmith” plugin. This plugin works with WordPress,… read more New Plugin Added – FeedBurner FeedSmith

Are you constantly checking your blog stats? Have you become a stataholic? With new bloggers, it understandable that you check your stats often. You want, what you’ve written, to be read. After all, you started blogging to share with the world, what you feel is valuable information. I’ve been a… read more Are You A Stataholic

If you’re a newbie to blogging, you’ve probably asked the question, “How often should I post to my blog?” How often you post to your blog, is a decision you should make even before you start to blog. Ask yourself, “What is my objective to blogging?” “How much time do… read more Blogging? How Often Should You Post?

Blogging can be compared to dieting in many ways. In some ways, blogging and dieting are opposite, but in other ways, blogging and dieting are the same. With dieting, you want lower numbers With blogging you want higher numbers With dieting, we may be obsessed with our “numbers”, and “weigh… read more What Do Blogging And Dieting Have In Common?

My blog theme doesn’t include a “description” tag line, so I just added HTML code to create a “description” tag line in my sidebar. Since I’m not familiar enough with CSS to start messing with my stylesheet, adding the HTML code to my sidebar was much easier. Since my blog… read more Adding A Description Tag Line To Your Blog

Blogging is easy, once you have your software program in place. Now, blogging got even easier. Last night I was reading Lorelle’s site on WordPress., and came upon a post of hers about a nifty feature that Firefox has as an addon. It’s a split brower, or often called, split… read more Blogging Just Got Easier

Showing your most popular posts, either most viewed, or most commented on, can revive old posts. Showing most popular posts also makes navigating your site easier. How to show your most popular posts can be done by using a plugin. The plugin I’m using is Top Posts by Category by… read more Show Popular Posts on WordPress Blog

How do you deal with negative or critical comments you receive on your blog? Do you delete negative comments? Do you post negative comments? Or do you mark the negative comments as “spam”? With WordPress, choosing what to do with negative comments is all up to you. Don’t you just… read more WordPress – Dealing With Negative Comments

If you’re a newbie to blogging, learning WordPress can be quite confusing. WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms, and with it being free, that makes WordPress even more attractive. The question is, where do you get the best information about how to learn WordPress? Quite obviously, go to… read more How To Learn WordPress

I just installed the “Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form v.2.0” which can be found at Beast-Blog.com or, at Blue Anvil.com. It was written by Mike Cherim and Mike Jolley. To install the Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form v.2.0, is quite simple. The “Mikes’” have written a very thorough… read more Secure Contact Form For WordPress

So, you want to change your WordPress theme, but aren’t sure what to do? Switching your WordPress theme is pretty simple. 1) First, locate, download and unzip (extract all files) a WordPress theme that suits your site. Check out my previous post The Best Source For Free WordPress Themes 2)… read more How To Change Your WordPress Theme

I found this WordPress theme, and thought it reminded myself of me. Thinking about life and what I want to blog about each day. The more I have been working with this theme, the more I am getting to like it. Hopefully, you, my readers, will enjoy it too. I… read more New WordPress Theme Activated

Just yesterday I wrote about a free plugin for Meta Tags. Today, I’m writing about a free widget for “recent posts”. I love being able to share the fact that creating and working with a blog, doesn’t have to cost very much. I used the free recent post widget yesterday… read more Free Recent Posts Plugin

I love finding free stuff. From the time I started my blogs, I have been amazed at how much free stuff is online to aid in blogging. First it was WordPress blogging software, then it was tons of plugins and widgets, and now I’m using a free Meta Tag Analyzer… read more Free Meta Tag Analyzer

To change your WordPress theme, is actually quite easy. All you have to do is find one that fits your needs, and also fits the theme of your blog. If you’re not sure where “your blog will take you” (subject wise), I think it would be best to stick to… read more Changing WordPress Themes

I have to say it again, I love WordPress Theme Viewer. Over the past few days, I have been searching on WordPress Theme Viewer for a new theme for my other blog. I love how you can see a thumbnail of the theme, click on “Test Run” and determine whether… read more The Best Source For Free WordPress Themes

I recently discovered that if you change the title to your WordPress post after you’ve published it, you must also change the “post slug”; otherwise, your URL permalink will continue to display the original title. (providing you’re using “pretty” permalinks) If you’re writing with keyword density in mind, make sure… read more Change Title Of WordPress Post-Change Post Slug

Learning where to insert code into a WordPress blog can be confusing. Most code is written in HTML, as are the “presentation”, “theme editor” pages. All the more reason to learn HTML. The process I follow to make inserting code into my WordPress blogs easier, is to study the “theme… read more Learning Where To Insert Code In A WordPress Blog

Two months have passed since I set up this blog. What have I learned? 1) Start with a good blogging software program. I use WordPress 2) Install a good spam remover. I use Akismet,-caught 96 spam so far 🙂 3) Post often. Post valuable data 4) Research what you don’t… read more 11 Blogging Lessons For Newbies

When I started my blogs, the first thing I did was to start posting articles. The second thing I did was to concentrate on finding a good WordPress theme. I searched the internet and found many sites that offer WordPress themes, however, the best free site I found is Theme… read more Best Free WordPress Themes Website

My research recently took me to an interesting plugin named Clean Archives. It can be found and downloaded at Geekwithlaptop.com The Clean Archives plugin will list all of your posts by month and date, creating a neat and orderly list. They can be listed either in your sidebar, or on… read more Listing All Of Your Posts With Clean Archives

Six weeks ago, I was banging my head against the wall while I was trying to load and learn WordPress. I was so green to blogging, the terminology, HTML,posts, web-hosts, RSS readers, social book-marking, etc…the list was long. Now, here I am, about 35 posts later, a little less green,… read more How To Post Date Your Posts – WordPress