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

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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

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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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How to Make a QR Code. Are They Worth It? Are They Dead?

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Are QR Codes still in vogue? Or are they just a passing fad? Are they effective? Or have they already gone the way of the dodo bird? I still don’t know the answer for sure, but I figure until magazine ads stop using them (or some really cool person humiliates me into a puddle of [...]

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How to Make and Add a Favicon to Your Blog

Thumbnail image for How to Make and Add a Favicon to Your Blog April 15, 2012 blogging

You know that little bitty tiny schminy icon that shows up in your browser? If you don’t have one, maybe your current favicon looks like the default square thingie for WordPress blogs: This is my current favicon, and I can’t have that! Especially if I’m about to tell you how to install your own favicon. [...]

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WordPress: How to Remove Comments Entirely from Pages

April 9, 2012 blogging

In a previous post, I told you how to remove the comment box from a specific wordpress page or post. Sometimes that’s not enough because you still get the “Comments on this entry are closed” message, which is kind of like walking around with your shoes untied, amiright? So how do you get rid of [...]

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