Category: Blogging
How to customize your WordPress 404 page
Ever searched for something on a blog and didn’t find it? It’s awful to see that 404 message and not have anywhere to go from there. Have you tested your blog’s 404 page? Try testing it out by trying to go to yourblog.com/testpage or some other page you know isn’t there. If you only see [...]
How to install a theme
If you’ve never installed a theme for WordPress, don’t worry. It’s pretty straightforward and easy. The hardest part is finding a theme you want to use. Once you find it, download the theme to your computer. Unzip the files and upload them to the themes directory of your WordPress blog. In the WordPress dashboard click [...]
Add This – How to add social bookmarking options to your post
Did you ever see a widget within a post that had a + and said bookmark this, add this or share this? And when you rolled over it a bunch of different social bookmarking sites were listed? You probably have. If you’ve seen the one I’m referring to it’s a free WordPress widget called Add [...]
How to show someone’s last post (and some love) on your blog
Did you ever see links in the comments of a blog? Ever wonder how to get them to appear there? If you want to show the last post of people leaving a comment on your blog, use the plugin Comment Luv. The plugin tries to visit the feed of your commenter’s blog and grab the [...]
How to let your readers subscribe to comments of a post
Have you ever seen a post on a blog that has a little checkbox at the end that said subscribe to comments? For anyone who isn’t sure what that means, I’ll tell you. If you check that box you’ll get an email notifying you when new comments have been made on that post. It’s a [...]
How to clean up your blog archives
A couple of weeks ago I came across a plugin that organizes your archives on a page of their own. This easy to use plugin is called SRG Clean Archives and can be downloaded for free. The plugin will lists the years, months and days that you’ve posted in. The listings include the post permalink [...]
My thoughts on permanent text ads
I have been getting numerous different offers lately to place text links on several of my blogs in the form of a post. The content of the proposed ads would not be completely mine. The advertiser would write the ads. In this instance I would have been allowed to change text in the ads but [...]
My blog comment policy
Well, I’ve been thinking about putting a comment policy on my blogs for a couple of weeks now. Until now I’ve just used Akismet, and sometimes spammy comments get through, also the spammers are getting better at being less obvious about leaving them. I appreciate it when anyone reads my blogs, and love comments. I [...]
Blog comment policies
Whether you’ve just started blogging or have been at it a while, you probably understand the value of traffic and regular readers. And what blogger doesn’t love receiving relevant comments? Comments are a conversation between the blogger and the reader. They let a blogger know that someone has taken the time to read what’s been [...]
Bloggers Choice Awards nominations
Two of my blogs have been nominated for Bloggers Choice Awards. I know EVERYTHING – just ask my hubby was nominated for The Blogitizer, a phrase which means a blogger who can write about anything. This is my oldest blog as well as my main, personal blog. Val’s Views was nominated for Best Blog About [...]
