Archive for the 'WordPress Tips and Tricks' Category

Sooner or later, your beloved WordPress blog will be flooded with comment and trackback spams. As a blogger, there is not much you can do to stop spams from hitting your blog, but there are several things you could do to fight them back. 5 Levels of Spam Protection 1. Discussion Settings A key setting in your WordPress configuration is the check box "Comment author must have a previously approved comment". You can find this under ...

Over the past few weeks, my friends and I wrote about different aspects of blogging and how to position your blog more successful. In this post, I would like to take a step back and talk about how to start a blog. Specifically, I will discuss how to start a self-hosted WordPress blog since we already established that it's one of the best platforms to start on. Photo by rocatis via Flickr Please note the discussion ...

Every blogger starts at the same place - a theme you chose and your first article. But once you start writing and getting your groove, you will want to do more for your blog to help promote it and follow it's growth. Although there is a ton of advice available on what every blog should have, these 5 items that I have chosen are a good place to start if you are just starting a ...

Aside from the standard accounts for your blog -- i.e., domain name, web hosting, and WordPress -- there are several companion accounts that I think are very useful. Below are 12 essential companion accounts, plus two that are worth mentioning. For Money and Monetization PayPal - This is an online payment web site that allows you to accept money and credit card for products or services that you sell. I have used PayPal to accept payments, ...