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Entries Tagged ‘Blogging’

How to Add a Plugin to a WordPress Blog

One of the great features of the WordPress blogging platform is the ease with which you can extend its functionality using plugins. Wordpress maintains it’s own directory of plugins, and you can easily find others that aren’t in the official directory by Googling “Wordpress plugin [some function you want to enable]” (without the quotes).
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Pre-Writing Posts: Write Ahead for Best Results

Here’s a quick blogging tip for anyone who writes online (which includes you, if you’ve taken my advice and started a blog to promote your writing). Stockpile posts ahead of time and use WordPress’ post scheduler to automatically post in the future.
I try to do all my web writing for the week in two […]

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Getting Comfortable with RSS

I had originally scheduled this post for later in May, but the folks at Daily Blog Tips declared May 1 RSS Appreciation Day and I decided to join in the fun. So you lucky readers get not one but two posts this Thursday — a day when I normally don’t post at all!

Depending who you ask, RSS […]

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What Should I Write About in my Writer’s Blog?

So you’ve got a nice website and a blog ready and waiting to be filled — what should you write?
Well, the good news and the bad news is that there’s no real limit to what you can or should write in your blog. You’re a writer — you can be as wide-ranging or as focused as you want. There […]

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What Blogging Software Should You Use?

There are a number of top-quality blogging systems available today, many of them for free. There are hosted solutions like Blogger, WordPress.com, and TypePad, and there are install-it-yourself software packages like Drupal and WordPress. Although the hosted services are easier to get up and running with, I recommend you use the free WordPress software installed […]

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Should You Blog on Your Writer’s Website?

A blog — a regularly updated stream of updates about you and your writing — can be an important, maybe the most important, part of a writer’s website. While your portfolio and bio are useful, especially in getting new clients and supporting queries and proposals, they offer no reason for the passing reader (read: your audience) to come back.
If […]

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