Tag Archives: Wordpress

Maximizing Your Feeds Value through Excerpts

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Once in a while I stop tweaking my blog and writing posts and I settle down to read other people’s writing. Tonight I did that and got to about 10 on my list of 34 blogs I read. The 4th one awakened me to the idea of optimizing the earning potential of my feed. Below [...]

07 Song: No Kings w/ Message:How to Start a Money Making Blog

Planning projects in my music, on my blogs, and at work takes forethought. That’s what I will talk about in this week’s podcast. I’m happy to debut “No Kings” my new tune. At the request of a few listeners, I will podcast in this episode on Blogging for $ demystified.

Matt Mullenwegg – WordPress creator addresses the community in Montreal

I have been highly impressed with the creator of Wordpress, Matt Mullenwegg, through my time as a blogger. What a well spoken guy he is. At his age, early 20s?, to be inventing and innovating like he is just marvelous. His software is one of the secrets to my success in blogging.

Manage Your Comments: Recaptcha In, Akismet Out

Akismet, the native WordPress comment spam protection service, spams a lot of good comments on my blog. I don’t always have the time to check it for false-negatives. As a result, I probably have missed at least some comments from many great writers, friends, and visitors. I’ve suffered with it long enough. Today I deactivated it and now I’m using Recaptcha. In the future I may use them both in concert with one another.

Add V.A.L.U.E. to Your Blog :: “L”

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Okay, so I covered the first two letters of value: “V” for visceral and “A” for aphoristic. Now the third: “L” for linkage! Link love is the #1 way to make friends and influence people (namely bloggers you link to on the web. After you’ve written your visceral post of around 200 [...]

Email a Friend Add-ons for Traffic

Many bloggers think it’s important when you’re trying to get backlinks and traffic to have a way for your readers to send your blog url to a friend. There are some great plugins for Wordpress and some good scripts out there that can achieve this function on any blog or website. On my [...]

How to Install a WordPress Blog

1. Understand the difference between Wordpress.org and Wordpress.com
.com is a free blog service like blogger, Yahoo! 360, or Livejournal (there are many many more). You have very limited control over the files apart from the post content. Furthermore, most ad campaigns will not pay out to free hosted blogs such as these. These [...]

Migrate a WordPress Blog in 2,773 Steps

Okay, the title is tongue-in-cheek. The reason it took so long is because I insisted on doing it trial and error instead of actually reading the full instructions. I started Friday morning getting things ready and only now, Saturday evening am I actually ready to post on the blog. What I have [...]

Kubrick: Wordpress Default Theme is all I Need

A few people have asked me about my recent theme changes so I wanted to address it here in one place rather than in several emails and comments.  It’s been a very good thing.
Most people who read my blog know that I have been a theme changer since the beginning. Shelly Tucker even addressed [...]

Celebrating WordPress Themes

You’ll see a variety of visual themes showcased here at Postcards throughout the next couple of weeks. I want to share with you some of the themes I’ve admired and used in the past year and a half. I also hope this “series” will accent the versatility of WordPress. Feel free to [...]

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