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How to Change Admin Email Address on Comment Reply Notifications (WordPress)

Thumbnail image for How to Change Admin Email Address on Comment Reply Notifications (WordPress) December 2, 2012 blogging

Or, How to Fix that box999.bluehost.com Thing This tutorial will tell you how to install the Comment Reply Notification plugin on your blog, as well as, how to ensure that when those notifications go out, they indicate the proper FROM email address, rather than whatever the crazy default is. Things you’ll need: 1 self-hosted WordPress [...]

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How to Undo Anything on Your iPhone or iPad

undo on ipad, undo on iphone October 24, 2012 Other Tech

If you’re like me, and you’re probably not because I’m a weirdo, you are constantly flip-flopping on your stance on that whole Whales of War issue. And because of it, every time you start typing something on your iPhone or iPad, you rethink the whole thing and know you’re going to regret what you said [...]

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How to Schedule Facebook Posts from Facebook

schedule facebook posts October 16, 2012 Social Media

Did you even know you could schedule Facebook posts? First, you should know that you can schedule Facebook posts on both your personal wall and your admin fan pages, and you can schedule for the future as well as the past. Because who doesn’t want to post stuff in the past so no one will [...]

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Are Tablet Friendly Tools Like OnSwipe Stealing Traffic From your Site?

stealing page views, hijacking traffic, tablet friendly, mobile friendly September 6, 2012 blogging

Did you install anything on your blog to make your site more mobile or tablet friendly? Did you know these tablet friendly tools like OnSwipe could be stealing traffic and page views away from you? I spent several hours yesterday developing a tutorial explaining how to make your blog tablet friendly, only to discover that [...]

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How to Add Google Authorship to Your WordPress or Blogger Blog

google authorship, rel author August 7, 2012 Blogger

What Is Google Authorship? Google Authorship tells Google that the blog post you just wrote and published belongs to YOU, not that other guy who is out there scraping and stealing content for their silly auto-botted, keyword stuffed, backlink-riddled piece of fraudulent crap, pardon my French.

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WordPress: How to Add Social Media Icons to Your Blog Header

Thumbnail image for WordPress: How to Add Social Media Icons to Your Blog Header July 2, 2012 Social Media

One of the things that your blog must absolutely positively must MUST MUST have (in my humble opinion) is ease of access to your social media platforms for your reader. If you have a Facebook page (or a Twitter account or a Pinterest account, etc.), make it super easy for your reader to connect with [...]

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How to Add That ‘Read More’ Thing to Your Blog (WordPress, Blogger, HTML)

Thumbnail image for How to Add That ‘Read More’ Thing to Your Blog (WordPress, Blogger, HTML) June 22, 2012 Blog Beginners

Blogger calls it a “jump break”. WordPress calls it the “more tag”. Potayto, potahto. Maybe you don’t want your whole article taking up all that precious real estate on your front page. Maybe you think you get an extra page view if you make your readers click to another page. I don’t know that that’s [...]

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How to Start a Free Blog on WordPress

Thumbnail image for How to Start a Free Blog on WordPress June 10, 2012 Blog Beginners

There are millions of blogs out there on the internets. Which means that there are billions more to be made, if everybody wanted one. Which means some of you haven’t created a blog yet. It’s really easy. Here’s how:

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Public Domain Photos: Where and How to Get Them

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Here we show you how and where to get public domain photos legitimately without having to worry about copyright infringement. There is so much highway robbery and plagarism and thievery and a whole bunch of other negative nouns to describe copyright infringement when it comes to blog post photos. However, you can use other people’s [...]

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WordPress: How to Make Your Blog Mobile Friendly

make blog mobile friendly, wptouch May 21, 2012 blogging

Having a “mobile-friendly” site simply means that your blog has been configured to appear differently on mobile devices. Better, theoretically. For example, a mobile format won’t have all your fancy schmancy banners and sidebars and such.  If your site is mobile friendly it is easier to read and easier on the eyes. Making your site [...]

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