We’re big advocates of the WordPress platform for blogging. Not the free WordPress.com so much as the self-hosted WordPress.org. But although the platform is open source (read: free), you’ll need a web hosting service the hoist the blog. Most of these services are lost cost and some are even free. Free options If you’re willing to put up with advertising, [...]
It’s all about images these day. Just check out Pinterest’s explosive growth and Instagram’s recent billion dollar acquisition. Images draw people in. They add to the aesthetic of your blog and posts. And if you use Pinterest to pin select blog posts, then accompanying images are necessary. However, blogging can take up enough time without going on a hunting expedition [...]
There are tons of posts written about WordPress plugins that extend the functionality of your blog. I’ve added my two cents. But can too many plugins slow down your site? We’ve all been to websites that take forever to load and we often leave without viewing a single page. The speed at which a site loads is important for retaining [...]
Is your RSS reader overflowing? Are the choice pieces you saved to Instapaper to read later, unread? Have a dozen or more brower tabs open with interesting blog posts that you’ll “definitely” get to today? Yes, yes, and yes. Maybe converting the blog posts to audio could help. Since rejoining the gym, I’ve been looking for ways to keep toiling [...]
Producing consistent, relevant content is a challenge for many bloggers as the thousands, even millions of outdated blogs can attest. Evernote can help. The popular application is used for a host of productivity enhancing functions, with one of the more useful being a repository for blog posts ideas. Getting started Create an account and download Evernote to your computer, then [...]
You’ve read about the many virtues of blogging and started a blog of your own. Useful, current content will bring a few eyes, but for traffic numbers you’ll need to promote the blog. Here are three ways to do just that: 1. Social Media Over the past couple of years, I’ve seen Twitter and Facebook rank consistently among the top [...]
The virtues of blogging range from marketing your practice to personal enrichment. And people are listening as thousands of new blogs are created every day. But you haven’t. Why not? Here are some of the more common reasons: 1. I don’t have the time – I’m starting with the most obvious reason, and frankly, the most legitimate. Creating meaningful blog [...]
Plugins extends the functionality of WordPress, the already terrific, free, open source blogging platform. But with over 18,000 to choose from, it can quickly get overwhelming. We occasionally review some of our favorite plugins, like WPTouch which allows you to Get Your WordPress Blog Mobile Friendly In Less Than 5 Minutes. Here are three plugins that enhance the back-end administrative [...]
If you blog, the free and open source WordPress is the way to go. The number of sites built with WordPress is over 60 million and counting. Why it is so popular? It offers a range of features and flexibility, with a simple and intuitive backend user interface. It’s optimized for search engines. Oh, and it’s free. But it’s much [...]
We’re consuming more information on our mobile devices, including blog posts. As bloggers we know that content is king. We also spend a bit lots of time fiddling with the format, font, color, and a ton of other design features to enhance readability and make the experience for our visitors pleasant and efficient. Unfortunately all of that formatting doesn’t translate [...]
