While many bloggers tackle their individual blogs all by themselves, larger corporations and larger blogs may have anywhere from 2 to 20 additional bloggers that post on the site. Now while that may seem awesome to you, if you are not good at managing people and getting the most out of them, you can quickly see your bloggers work start to go downhill. I have seen this many times, and present a few tips to help you push your authors to produce quality work for your blog. (more…)
If you have been thinking about starting up a blog, congratulations. Having an entrepreneurial urge, but wanting to start it out without taking on too many additional expenses, is a great way to get your feet wet without getting in over your head. You can start a blog in a few minutes, and get it [...]
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Though WordPress has made a name for itself as being one of the most user-friendly and powerful blogging platforms/CMSs available, it’s admin interface can leave a great deal to be desired. Dull, gray and not always the easiest to use, WordPress’ interface has its fans, but more than its share of detractors.
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There is an inevitable war going on in the ‘blogosphere’ and it starts with one blogging platform competing against another. The one who wins will get a control over the world of blogs. The Blogger and WordPress are unanimously acknowledged as the two most famous blogging platforms for all bloggers who are in search of [...]
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The recent posts widget that comes default with every installation of WordPress allows you to display the hyper-linked titles of the most recent posts from a widget. Although (in widget configuration), you can set any number of posts to display, only a maximum of 15 posts can be displayed. This can be a real pain [...]
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I say almost because no one person will ever be able to define the perfect guest post or how to go about writing the perfect guest post. Guest posting isn’t something that be done with one thing in mind: Link building. Guest posting should peek the readers mind, and it should open them up to [...]
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Like markets and economies around the globe, the global Internet advertising market is unlikely to return to its pre-recession levels just yet. Bloomberg News reports that worldwide expenditures for online advertising are not expected to return to 2008 levels until 2012. This doesn’t mean, however, that online markets are stagnant, just that the online advertising [...]
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Moving your WordPress installation to another server is just as easy as installing it the first time. There are at least three ways you can do it: Install a new version of WordPress (a fresh install) along with your custom themes and plugins on the new server. Then import the old database from an XML [...]
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Hundreds of bloggers are falling prey to a deceptive link baiting scheme that I would like to expose. The website OnlineMBA.com has a section for ‘awarding the web’. This award system is 100% illegitimate.
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In WordPress 2.7, the wp_list_comments function was introduced, putting all of the elements of comments in one easy function. The new function comes with an imitation of the old get_avatar function built-in. So how do you remove the avatars without removing the wp_list_comments function, which is much needed for outputting all of the other elements [...]
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In recent weeks, Blogtap has undergone some very large changes. A new partner has jumped on board and he’s brought with him a ton of experience from the Web and IT industry. DoFollow commenting has been enabled so that every user that gives something to Blogtap (in the form of a comment), receives something in [...]
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Custom post taxonomies in WordPress are little different from post tags and categories. To borrow the words found in a reply to an inquiry email I sent to WordPress lead developer Mark Jaquith, “taxonomies are used to tie groups of posts (or any content type) together, and come with a URL structure to access them.”
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