Have You Secured YourName.COM Domain Name, Yet?
Do this. Do this now! Go to http://www.WholesalerDomains.com and type in your name in the search box, and see if YourName.com domain name is available to register. If it is, don’t be cheap and spend the $10 registration fee to own the one and only YourName.com domain name. I can almost guarantee you it is the [...]
How to Build a Blog Announcement List With Google Feedburner
The most notable difference between a blog and a website is the RSS feed. A very practical application of the RSS is to feed it to a free feed management service such as Google’s Feedburner. Whenever you publish a new blog post, the RSS feed also gets updated. Feedburner constantly polls for new content from [...]
RSS Feed Explained: Everything You Need to Know About RSS As a Blogger
What is RSS? RSS is commonly known as Really Simple Syndication. It is simply a protocol, or a communication standard if you will, for the website or blog to publish the content in a way that other website/blog/software could easily retrieve and re-publish (thus Syndication). Here is Google’s explanation of RSS feed if you care [...]
Blog in Multiple Languages? How to Use Multilingual Text WordPress Plugin and Google Translator
Helen from veldiglondon.com asks, “My blog is aimed at Norwegian anglophiles wanting to know where it’s happening in London away from the usual tourist traps. However, many of my english speaking friends wants to read it too so I wondered if you know of a way to give a choice of language norwegian/english? I am [...]
Blogging Platform Migration: How To Transfer Your Blog From Blogger To WordPress
You are reading a guest-contributed blog post. Special thanks to Kimberly Lim for this helpful article on transferring a Blogger blog to self-hosted WordPress blog! So you have been blogging in Blogger for some time now, and you have come to the decision to get a self-hosted blog in WordPress – one that you can [...]
How to add a contact form page on your blog
My last post on ”How to add an icon (favicon) next to your browser tab“ I talked about having a favicon helps with your blog’s branding and page completeness. Today, I’m going to show you how to add a “Contact Me” page on your blog. Unarguably, having a “Contact Me” page is a trust factor and gives you a huge [...]
How to add an icon (favicon) next to your browser tab
Favicons are these little 16 by 16 pixel icons that appear next to your browser tab. Here is a comparison between a site that has a favicon, and one that doesn’t: Of course, after publishing this blog post, my blog now does have a favicon. If your blog has it defined, and someone bookmarks your [...]
How To Back Up Your WordPress Blog Data
I usually work late at night after I put my wife (yes, wife ) & kids to sleep for a couple of hours, then I hit the sack. So, last night was no different. This morning I woke up, turned my monitor on (had left the computer on overnight), and saw a Windows error message [...]
How to put ads in between my posts?
A blogger asks, Hello, I recently started to put up ads on my blog but I would like to know how to put ads in between my posts? also a banner at the very top. Thank you. Answer: There isn’t a pretty way to do this, other than to modify your WordPress template file(s). From [...]
How do I edit how much of my posts appear on the home page?
A blogger asks, How do I edit how much of my posts appear on the home page? Also the posts seem to have lost their punctuation and spacing when they appear on the home page but are fine when you click on them individually. How would I go about changing that? Answer: You are seeing [...]
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