This is kind of old news by now, as it was in early April that WordPress.com announced it was changing up the plan options, and it was in late May that they added the Starter plan option. However, it came up for me this week as my friend Andy of Eden in Babylon decided to […]
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If you’ve been blogging for a few years, you’ve probably noticed that traffic to your blog will sometimes drop off for no apparent reason. It can be easy to personalize these ebbs and flows, especially if you’re new-ish to blogging, so I think it’s good to chat about it so we can see that we’re
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For this week’s blogging chat, I thought it would be interesting to talk about people’s blogging goals. That’s not to say that you need to have goals; there’s nothing the least bit wrong with cruising along at status quo. Posting frequency might be one area where people have goals for their blog. My plan is
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There’s a lot that one can learn about blogging, and one of the things I like about it is that there’s always more to learn. But do you actually need to fuss over learning the technical side of blogging? And by technical side of it, I mean anything that goes beyond your basic writing, publishing,
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Comments can be a great thing about blogging, but they can also be a source of stress. In this week’s blogging chat, I wanted to talk about whether people ever choose to turn off comments on their blogs. First off, if you want to turn off comments on individual posts, that’s in the post settings
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If you write blog posts, you probably have some desire for people to read them. On WordPress, it’s not too hard for people to find you if you use tags and interact with other bloggers, but what if you want a wider audience? If you choose to go out looking for readers, social media is
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Today, I thought we could talk about what you do when another blogger follows you. Do you follow back automatically, or are you more selective? I’ve never been one to automatically follow back. A lot of sites that follow me are clearly spammy or not something that interests me at all, but aside from that,
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This is something I’ve thought about before, but I was inspired to write this post after I happened to be looking at the blog of someone I follow on Instagram, but not in the blogging world. This person had a shit-ton of ads, to the point that it was a major turn-off, which got me
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There are two different ways you can do WordPress: having a plan with WordPress.com (and they host your blog) or being self-hosted and using the WordPress.org software. What’s the difference, and which is better? Let’s chat about that. Note that your domain name is unrelated to this; hosting is about the servers where your blog
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On a free WordPress.com plan, or a cheap one for that matter, you don’t have a ton of storage space to work with. Here are a few tips to manage your images so you can make the most out of your media storage. Find out what sizes your theme allows Your theme will have certain
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