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 [...]
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 [...]
“You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” Solved
During a recent WordPress plugin development I came across a dreaded “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” message when I tried to access the menu item for the plugin: After some digging around and Googling this seems to be an issue unresolved for many people. Here is the background information – [...]
100 Must Have WordPress Plugins
I’ve put together a list of the top 100 WordPress plugins covering everything from SEO to database management. These are MUST HAVE PLUGINS for any serious WordPress blogger. Do you want to know? The Best Plugin To Load Your Pages Lightning Quick The Best Plugin For SEO The Best Plugin For Handling Duplicate Content The [...]
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