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Credit goes to a reader who recently asked how to make a blog private. My immediate thought went to the Privacy setting of Wordpress 2.7 (Settings, Privacy in the left column) that will block search engines from seeing and cataloging a blog. But I was not fully correct – she wanted to know how to [...]
Gravatars are growing in popularity, along with commenting on blogs. Gravatars are those small avatars or images, like your picture, that are linked with your email address, and added automatically when you comment on blogs and online forums.
Gravatar.com describes them this way:
A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows [...]
If you blog about a timely subject that might be reported in the media – such as news stories on a particular subject or issue – consider adding a live RSS News Feed to the sidebar of your blog. It’s a snap with Wordpress 2.7. Here’s how:
Set up a Google Alerton the news issue. You will [...]
My friend, Ed Lallo, a professional photographer based in Austin, Texas (right), has written a terrific piece on his blog about managing files online or the world of FTP. I have re-posted it here:Â
It should have been easy. I should have been home working on my next assignment; instead I was stuck at a Panera [...]
A number of people have contacted me about how to move their Typepad blogs over to Wordpress. Typepad doesn’t make it easy. But at least you can Export a Typepad blog to your computer desktop as a .txt file.
Then, Wordpress – the friendliest blog platform – makes it easy for you to import. First, though, [...]
There was so much traffic on my blog, David Henderson.com, about an evolving crisis communications situation involving Ketchum Public Relations and FedEx that it crashed my new VPS hosting service with InMotion Hosting. Let me express that I believe InMotion is an outstanding Web hosting company. A quick call to their 24-hour live tech team [...]
Over the holidays, there were some “too-good-to-be-true” sales on Web site hosting by some hosting companies. “Unbelievably low” prices! You know the hype. One hosting company got so many inquiries that its site crashed … that is not a good sign.
Let me explain why hosting prices have gotten so low:
Competition among an over-supply. There are [...]
No one wants their blog to get hacked. But, it is happening more frequently by obviously malicious hackers. Part of the reason could be because everyone knows the username of any Wordpress blog – it’s admin. So, all a hacker has to do is develop a software program to figure out the password.
If you have [...]
I am asked regularly for guidance on selecting themes for new Wordpress blogs. So, I thought I would write a suggestions here.
While Wordpress is a fabulous behind-the-scenes software that powers each Wordpress blog, a theme gives a blog its visual appearance. There are thousands of Wordpress themes, and most are free or available for a [...]
I am frequently checking new blogs and Web sites I visit against Alexa.com, the free online site ranking service owned by Amazon.com. While Alexa has its detractors – often among webmasters of poor ranking sites – it is not bad, in my opinion, for taking a snapshot of where a blog or site stands in [...]
Hi there. I'm Michael Pollock, and I train coaches, consultants and other solo-professionals on how to use the web to impact more people, earn more money and live a bigger life ... continued.
