March 1st, with a partner, I started a contributor based website for parent’s with special needs called Break the Parenting Mold. It all started easily enough; we had a great idea, a built-in web designer (moi), a built-in editor (my fabulous partner) and a lot of amazing bloggers with even better content. What we didn’t […]
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Those Facebook Follow Threads Could Be Killing Your Engagement
Are Facebook follow threads a good idea? In the blogging world, one of the big races is to get to x amount of followers. Round 1 is 500, round 2 is a 1000, and so on until you hit the ever elusive 100,000 or more! Then it happens, you get to 1000 and you’re scratching […]
Facebook’s New Algorithms Aren’t Really Algorithms at All
Facebook’s Big Announcement Last Week New Algorithms? We all know that Facebook’s top-secret algorithms effect who get’s to see our content on Facebook, and for bloggers and content marketer’s it is no small frustration. Most of the time, we are convinced that Facebook won’t work for us, because we can’t unlock the great mystery. And […]
The Best Image Sizes for Social Media
Bookmark this page! You probably already know that social media is the best way to promote your site. But did you know that each social network has a size it prefers for its images? Of course they would never make it easy by making sizes universal, so you have to keep a cheat sheet, like […]
6 Easy Steps to Create a Drop-Down List of Categories in Your Main Menu
For some reason, one of the things WordPress does not make easy, is creating a drop-down list of categories in your main menu. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do that. Before we start, make sure you are on your Menu page, by going to Appearances>Menu. Now here we go! 1. Make […]
Adding Clickable Images Using Jetpack
Jetpack is one of the most versatile plugins you can use on your WordPress site. I think every blogger can benefit from this plugin. Jetpack does the work of 10-20 plugins in one. And because it is built by Automattic, the folks who build WordPress, you can be sure that it will be compatible with your site. […]
SEO For Bloggers
Last month, I went to a fairly hugemongous blogging conference. Besides getting to meet many blogging friends in real life, which was a lot of fun (read getting to see a bunch of middle age folks singing karaoke like no one was watching) the most valuable thing I got out of the conference was the […]
3 Easy Steps to Setup Akismet and Eliminate Comment Spam
I just got back from an amazing blogging conference called Blog U. I was there in the capacity of “Design Lab,” which was a brilliant idea by the conference creators to offer a help desk for bloggers. They could schedule a 20 minute session and discuss any questions they might have. I have been humbled hearing the […]
Optimization, Vulnerabilities, Hackers, Oh My! An Explanation of the Crazy WordPress Events of the Past Month
The WordPress Twilight Zone… It has been a really busy month for WordPress and WordPress users. It’s enough to freak a person out. But don’t. I know how out of control you can feel when you rely on technology to take care of itself, and it’s been doing a really good job of it until BAM […]