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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 [...]
There is no such thing as a “perfect” theme for Wordpress. Each of the thousands of themes available for Wordpress are designed to express individual personality, preferences and purpose of a blog.
During more than five years of blogging, I used Typepad in the first year when I didn’t know anything about blog platforms and found [...]
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 [...]
This is an excellent testament to the merits of using the latest version of Wordpress – version 2.7 – and the Thesis theme for Wordpress from popular blogger, Chris Brogan:
The other day, Chris Pearson kindly upgraded my site to WordPress 2.7. I asked him to do so because I wasn’t sure if his customized Thesis [...]
These two plugins for Wordpress self-hosted blogs help to bring added visibility to your blog, and are both very easy to install and configure. I use and recommend both.
First is WPtouch by Doug Mugford and Duane Storey. WPtouch delivers an iPhone-friendly blog presentation for anyone who views your blog on an iPhone (photo on right). [...]
Powerpoint has been around for so long that … well, many if not most Powerpoint presentations are pretty boring. There is a newer style that’s actually easier and enables you to create visually compelling and engaging presentations – Animoto and SlideRocket.
While both Animoto and SlideRocket are good and reasonable, I recommend using SlideRocket for business [...]
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.
