wordpress-tips
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Should I Move to WordPress for SEO Reasons?
I get this question a lot. This time, it came from a friend, and eventually, she hired me to do the work for her. The question is: Do I have to move to WordPress if I want to do SEO for my website? This is a fair question, especially if you’re not very well versed…
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How Add Your Profile Picture to Comments with Gravatar
Have you ever noticed some people’s profile picture in some blogs is just a silhouette? This happens in blogs, and you’ll see it on the comments. Sometimes you’ll see a “monster” or a big “G” in place of a profile picture. If you have just jumped into blogging with a WordPress blog, this is something…
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How to Find Images to Use on Your Blog Posts Legally
Finding images for your blog posts seems like a straight enough endeavor, right? Go to Google, put in some keywords to search, download the pictures and then use them on your WordPress blog right? Not so fast. Doing this can land you in some trouble with the person or entity that owns the photos or…
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How to Blog if You Don’t Want to Write or Type?
So here’s a really good tip for those of you that would like to blog, but can’t write or don’t want to write. This is part of my do once use many philosophy. But let’s just focus on the part where you don’t want to actually write your post. Because… you can’t type fast enough,…
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Writer’s Block be Gone! 8 Unusual Tips for bloggers
Most people struggle with two main aspects of blogging. Time to blog, and topics to blog about. When you first started your blog, you were probably gung ho about blogging and you said to yourself: I will blog every day, I have so much to say! Yeay! and you began strong and powerful. First post,…
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Updating Plugins on your Free Website
As more people are taking notice of the free website stuff, I’m trying to put a simple manual or quickstart together to help with all aspects of setting up your WordPress site. I think people that are new to WordPress need it. And if I’m the one convincing you to come to WordPress and use…
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Setup a Backup system for WordPress Tip #02
Just like setting up Permalinks, and tomorrow’s tip, backing up your WordPress website should be done very early on when you first get your WordPress website. The best backup system for WordPress is one that is implemented and tested regularly. A good backup routine will guarantee that if you make a mistake on your configuration, or…
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Setup Permalinks Early #WPTips 01
One of the very first things you must do on WordPress is to setup your permalinks. You actually don’t have to do this, but it’s a good idea to customize your permalinks. Permalinks is a term that refers to the URL of a particular post or page on your WordPress site. By default, WordPress uses…