This is a guest post by Stephanie Stiavetti from Wasabimon. Stephanie has agreed to write a couple of posts for the site while I’m busy moving and getting ready for NaNoWriMo. Please welcome her to the site, and do yourself a favor by visiting her site too! I visit a lot of blogs as a part […]
So far in this series, I’ve talked about plugins that would be useful for just about any WordPress site. Today, I want to talk about a few plugins that are designed specifically for the needs of writers. The first three deal with formatting, allowing you to easily produce article series (like this one), a table […]
Like anything else technological, a website needs to be maintained and backed up. There is a lot that can go wrong with your website — hackers could get in and mess with your files, your web host could experience a hardware failure and not have sufficient backups to restore from, you could accidentally delete a crucial file […]
The #1 hassle of running a website is the inevitable flood of spam that, if left unattended, will fill your posts’ comments sections. Most of these are obvious attempts to get either click-throughs (people clicking on the links to see what’s up) or link-backs (links from your site to theirs which affect their site’s rating […]
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). Installing […]
It’s generally not a good idea to post your email address “as is” on your website. Spammers use programs called “bots” to scour the web and collect email addresses, to which they then send massive amounts of spam email. Instead, create a separate “Contact Me” page and add a contact form where your visitors can easily […]
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 […]
