New Blog Help

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A question all new bloggers have at one time or another is, how often should I post? There’s no firm rule about this, but here are some guidelines:
Some posting schedules are too frequent and a waste of good quality posts, while others are more efficient at getting your articles out there in force. [...]

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Most new bloggers fail to spend enough time in their organizational skills. It’s just not enough to have most of your best ideas on post-it notes all over your computer desk and no idea how you’re going to manage your blog. It’s also extremely important that you have a clear and [...]

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Have you ever wanted to try your hand at modifying or creating your own Wordpress themes? Maybe you thought it would be ridiculously hard to do or far beyond your scope of knowledge, but modifying Wordpress themes and templates are not quite as hard as you might think.
Do You Know Your HTML?
There are [...]

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Anyone new to blogging eventually ponders whether or not to monetize their blog with products and services closely related to their chosen topic. While I can’t tell you whether or not you should or shouldn’t make some money from your blogging, I will say that there is no shortage of products [...]

In the spirit of helping others get the most out of their Wordpress blogs, I’m divulging the list of plugins I use on my blog in the hopes that it helps someone out there get more functionality out of their blog software. Feel free to try these plugins yourself and recommend any plugins you feel [...]

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As a new blogger you’ve probably gotten Wordpress all loaded up to your server by now and even though you might not be too familiar with the Wordpress Admin dashboard you can’t wait to get your blog on and write your first post. While you could by all means get straight to blogging [...]

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In the Wordpress Admin there is a Settings tab and within that tab is the Permalinks tab. Setting up this area of your blog administration is crucial to having your blog post urls (or links) be the way you want them. The default setting for your posts is p=”whatever the post id number [...]

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Now that you’ve gotten your blog up and running you’re probably already writing posts but some unusual anomalies have crept into your work. You’ve perhaps wondered why your text is not wrapping around your images? Or perhaps you find that you have oodles of whitespace to the right of your posts because your [...]

Hey everyone today I’ve been clearing out some old files on my computer and I came across some graphics I’ve made from random thoughts in my head, but that I haven’t been able to use in a practical application in my online works so far. So instead of tossing them into my recycle bin I’ve [...]

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Congratulations on getting your Wordpress blog installed! Now you can start blogging…what’s that? You despise the default Kubrick theme that comes with all Wordpress installations? I for one find that very hard to believe, I mean look at that theme…it’s simple, it’s rounded at the corners….it’s a sea of blue…
Okay, okay so there’s [...]