Recent Posts in ‘Blogging’
6 Tips to Keep You Blogging Every Day
Blogging often is one of the Big Keys to running a successful website. However, there might be some confusion (and understandable reticence) about it. “Do I have to write a new article every single day?” Fortunately, it’s not like this. Blogging every day does not mean publishing every day. You publish articles, but those articles
A Month With BufferApp (published on ProBlogger.net)
BufferApp is a fantastic service that lets you schedule tweets. What are the pros and cons of using it? Follow the link to read the article.
5 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers
There is a secret to successful people – whether they blog from home or build the space shuttle. In applying the principles of being successful I’ve made practical application and offered suggestions to help home business bloggers be more effective also.
You’re Boring: Why You Should Keep Your Sentences & Paragraphs Short
As a writer and a blogger, you’re under constant pressure to make your content snappy and relevant. The problem is when content is king how do you keep the content short and still benefit your readers? Keeping things trim and short makes it easier for a reader to read and understand… and easier for them
5 Ways to Lower Your Blog’s Bounce Rate
The bounce rate on a blog is what determines how effective your content is at attracting readers – it measures the interest in your site as a whole, is a good indication of whether your links are working effectively as they point to existing pages on your site. Kind of like a click-through calculator for
Part 2: Using an ISSN for Your Design Blog: How Do I Get One?
So a few weeks ago ThisIsInspired explored the pros and cons (well, pros and con) of acquiring an ISSN number for your design blog. How do you go about getting one for your blog, though? In this next installment, I’ll show you how to get an ISSN for your blog and start enjoying those benefits.
Part 1: Using an ISSN for Your Blog: Is It Really Worth It?
Books and periodicals — anything that gets published, really — has something called an ISSN or ISBN, an International Standard Serial Number. What’s the benefit of registering your publication for an ISSN? Why do it with a blog? Let’s go over the basics.
Quick: 1 Fantastic Way to Block Spam on a WordPress Blog
ThisIsInspired has been getting plugged with spam galore. Granted, we have Akismet installed and it prevents and sorts most of the spam that comes our way — but there’s an even more root way to prevent spammers from sending their junk in the first place.
10+ (Almost) Essential WordPress Plugins
I’ve installed WordPress for a lot of people and each time there are a few plugins that always get installed — sort of by default, you could say. If I install a blog, these are ‘part of the package’ that I install and configure right after WordPress itself. I use these all on my own blogs as well — including This.Is.Inspired.
Add Custom Content for Your Blog’s Index Page
Most of the time we want our index page to the flashiest page on our site. A while ago I wanted to put a dynamic slideshow and special copy on my home page that wouldn’t show up on the rest of the site (and oversized, 2009-trendy intro header sentences written in first-person don’t count). It’s easy enough to do with plain ol’ CSS and HTML — even with the bulk of simple CMSs — but might be a bit more
Start Using WordPress Attachments Now
Check it out: How often have you wanted to add an attachment for a specific post in WordPress? This little snippet of PHP will let you do just that. It loads attachments into an array ($args), and then lists them (foreach…) with their respective titles (the_title).
