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As our blogs age, content gets buried in our archives. I suggest going through your older posts and find your favorites (find the gold) and pull them up for your audience. Your reader base has grown and many haven’t seen your older posts. I’m featuring a different post each week as I go through my [...]

WordPress makes it easy to add content from other sites to your sidebars through widgets. You can add tweets to your blog, links from your other sites such as social media, a podcast site, trending topics in your niche, etc. The best part is that this updates automatically with fresh content, links.

Are free WordPress themes really free? Well, that depends. No upfront cost to you, but did the last person to modify the theme add anything nasty to it? Now I don’t have a problem giving credit to a theme’s designer for their work with a link. I do object when they add some kind of [...]

No one wants to wake up in the morning (afternoon, evening or even middle of the night) and find your website now says “Hacked by . . .” or that their sites fail altogether. Worse yet your site may be hacked and you not even know it. There may be hidden links, not visible to [...]

I created a video to show some friends how to add a tweet this button to their blog posts (on wordpress). Tweet this adds a button to the bottom of your posts, making it easy for your readers to tweet what you say. It can be set to shorten the url’s, add facebook, digg, stumble [...]

One of my favorite features of the newer wordpress versions, is that you can search and install plugins from within the dashboard of wordpress. Follow along as I add Blubrry Powerpress Plugin, if you want to add a podcast to your website, it is worth checking out.