Working with Blogs

• 2014-07-24

  Pick the Perfect Theme for Your WordPress Blog: A 2-Part Tutorial

  For this 2-part tutorial, we’ll talk about the things you need to consider when choosing the perfect theme for your WordPress blog (or site – given the nature of WordPress, both a blog and CMS platform, we’ll use these terms interchangeably).
  
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• 2014-05-22

  A Blogger’s Guide to Markdown: Speedier, Simpler Blog Writing

  Without question, bloggers or anyone writing web content should know a modicum amount of HTML. You must know at least how to hyperlink text and/or images, indicate beginnings and ends of paragraphs, insert headings and subheadings, create ordered or unordered lists, and style text elements like italicize, embolden, put in blockquotes, etc.
  
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  2014-04-18

  7 Free and Gorgeous Hosted Blogging Platforms You Should Try Out

  When it comes to finding a place to blog, the default choices seem to be Blogger, WordPress, and Tumblr. They’re free (although they offer paid upgrades), are easy to set up, and provide plenty of great-looking themes to cater to every taste. But don’t be limited to just these three options. Unknown to many, there are a number of hosted blogging alternatives that are not only free and great-looking but also let you focus on writing, not setting up or fiddling with code. So if you’ve decided to start blogging this year, or if you’re already blogging but would like to try something else, check out these seven new awesome blogging platforms.
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• 2014-03-25

  7 Plugins That Let You Search and Insert Stock Images Without Leaving WordPress

  Need a good stock photo or illustration to spice up your blog post? You need not go very far or look for long. You don’t even have to leave your WordPress blog editor and open a new browser window to search online. (True, there are dozens of stock photo sites and image search engines, but finding the right image and giving proper attribution can take a lot of time and effort.)
  
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  2013-07-30

  Why You Should Consider Migrating Your Site to WordPress

  A decade after the first version of WordPress was released to developers, the software has become the most popular way to design, launch, and manage a website from top to bottom. WordPress has grown dynamically in functionality over the past ten years, moving from a text-based content management platform to one that manages images, video, social media connections, scores of plugins, and millions of websites that are self-hosted and remotely hosted on the company's own servers. With that kind of clout, the reasons to move from a competing system to the WordPress "gold standard" might seem inherent so some site owners. Even so, others view this transition as a large undertaking fraught with risks and potential incompatibilities.
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  2013-07-19

  Wordpress Security: A Wordpress User Ultimate Guide to Security

  Wordpress is one of the most popular blogging platforms available today, and as such, it has become a target for hackers. However, experts and developers who believe in the power of this open-source blogging software have been hard at work educating webmasters on how to reduce risks and producing new security plug-ins.
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• 2013-01-11

  The 50 Best eCommerce WordPress Themes from 2013 - 2015

  As WordPress has grown in size and scope, it has increasingly been used to manage ecommerce websites as well as traditional blogs and news websites. To get the job done, developers have created a number of intuitive ecommerce themes that blend content management with easy commerce features, WordPress plugins, and mobile-friendly responsive design. In particular, fifty of those themes stand out as some of the best for developers to get online with their customers quickly.
  
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  2012-10-11

  The 75 Best Photography WordPress Themes in 2012

  Pinterest is a relatively new social network that is built on the premise of sharing images and building common groups around images. Pinterest is known as a “photoblogging" site. With the growth of Pinterest and photoblogging within the last year, many people are now searching for ways to share photographs and images through their own websites. Many professionals, including photographers, are choosing WordPress platform for creating their professional websites. WordPress presents site owners with a platform for sharing their content with users and allowing users to photoblog, or provide feedback by way of comments on their content. Several WordPress themes have become available specifically for displaying photography and many famous artists and photographers now showcase their work using a WordPress site.
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  2012-06-27

  How to Monetize Your Blog

  Monetizing a blog is a crucial step in securing its long-term success. At the very least, a blog should be able to sustain itself. Monetizing a blog is all about balance. The trick to doing it well is doing it in a manner that readers will embrace or not even notice. The good news is that there is a wide range of excellent options, which means that the blogger can choose the opportunities perfectly suited to the particular audience.
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• 2012-03-29

  The 100 Best Free Professional WordPress Themes

  Themes play a major role in how powerful and popular the WordPress platform is, especially since a great deal of them are free. For professional sites, however, choosing a free theme can be a challenge. Many themes are too loud or design heavy, and the pitch-perfect ones tend to cost money or include some other deal-breaking obligation. In the following list, we present 100 WordPress themes that are completely free, have no significant obligations, and are just right for professional websites.
  
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