Tag: WordPress

As I continue to learn, I find that I’m constantly tweaking my blogs. The latest addition to my blogs is the “WP Notable” plugin from Cal Evans. By searching, I found his site at www.claevans.com The instructions on his site are quite self explanatory. I followed them, but did run… read more Adding The “WP Notable” Plugin To Your Blog

Linking to a “page” in my blog, has been a mystery to me for over a week now. I tried using the URL, but ended up getting pings. I tried something else (who knows what I did), and ended up getting “comments” from myself. I searched WordPress, but couldn’t figure… read more How To Link To A Page In Your Blog

For me, having two WordPress blogs, has proven to be very helpful. Being in the process of learning HTML code, and adding advertising to my blogs, I spend a lot of time in the “presentation” section of my blogs. Last night, I was on a quest to add my blog… read more The Advantage of Having More Than One Blog

When I’m researching for my blogs, I never know where the search will take me. Yesterday, as I was researching, “how to link to previous posts”, I came across, “how to add meta tags”. From what I’ve read, it may be important to have meta tags in your blog. Apparently,… read more Adding Meta Tags To Your Blog

I’ve been seeing the term “permalinks” ever since I started blogging. I didn’t have a clue as to what they were. Finally while researching about linking between individual posts, I figured out what a permalink is. Since you’re on my site, in the box at the top of your browser,… read more What Are Permalinks?

As I mentioned in an earlier post Learning About & Problems With My RSS Feed, I was having problems setting up the RSS feed on this blog. I already had one at the bottom of the page, but I wanted to be able to use the universal RSS feed symbol…. read more RSS Feed Problem Solved

In an effort to increase traffic to my blogs, I came upon Google Analytics. It appears to be a well designed tracking mechanism. It apparently can analyze what improvements can be made to your blog to continue getting a good traffic flow, plus possibly increase your traffic flow. It also… read more How To Add Google Analytics To Your Blog-It’s Free

When I’m writing my blogs, this one and www.observationmountain.com, I post directly to the WordPress “Write Post” screen. I don’t use a text editor. I continue to click, “save and continue editing” until I’m happy with my post. I often need to move sentences or paragraphs around to make my… read more How to Copy and Paste in WordPress

Setting up a blog can be time consuming, however, I find that micromanaging my blogs is even more time consuming. Since starting my blogs, I have changed the theme, added advertising, familiarized myself with WordPress, Bluehost (my hosting company), and started to learn a lot of new computer language. I’m… read more Micromanage Your Blog

Today I decided to begin learning HTML (Hyper Test Markup Language).  I searched on the internet and found a great, free website, www.w3schools.com.  They have a quiz you can take, which I like, so I know if I, indeed, learned something about HTML or XHTML.    Having looked at my “presentation” – “Theme… read more Learning HTML & XHTML

Even before I started to blog, officially, I kept running in words that I had seen before, but never took the time to learn what they meant. Blog, being one of them. Now I know that blog is short for web log. Anther “word” you see often, is “http“. This… read more HTTP, FTP, FTP SERVER,PUBLISH, & FLICKR – MY Definitions

Okay. I had my domain name registered, and a webhost. Now I needed to find a blogging software program. Based on what I had been reading, WordPress got good reviews. I decided to go with them, but before downloading the software, tried to get an understanding on exactly what I… read more More Information on Setting up Your Blog – Part 3

When I first decided to set up a blog, I did quite a bit of research on the internet about “blog” sites. In a lot of the blogs I read, the authors said they use WordPress. I didn’t know one blog “software” from another, so I, too, decided to go… read more Product Review: WordPress

In my journey of setting up this blog, and my www.observationmountain.com blog, I gained tons of knowledge from other bloggers. The first website I found helpful was www.stevepavlina.com. He writes on life’s issues as well as on blogging. I listened to a lot of his podcasts, and read many of… read more Give Credit Where Credit Is Due

I’m finding that getting very familiar with your WordPress blog pages is very important. I recently signed up for a Paypal business account, and then I added a Paypal “donate button” on my blog. I played around with it for awhile, and had to correct a few things in my… read more Working with your Blog