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What is a Plugin?

by Sam McArthur on March 9, 2010

in Blogging, Blogs

If you use WordPress or another content management system for your website, such as Joomla, you may have come across ‘plugins’. Basically, a plugin is software which gives additional functionality to the website and many plugins are free.
For example, when you have a site built in WordPress (the self hosted version, not the free hosted [...]

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Has Your Website Been Hacked Yet?

by Sam McArthur on March 2, 2010

in Blogs, General, Web/Tech

OK, this is a of bit alarmist post title, but seriously, if you haven’t been a victim of website hacking, chances are you could be in the future.
I wrote a post in January about my WordPress site being hacked before Christmas. It’s been an ongoing saga until a couple of weeks ago – I thought [...]

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Do You Have to be a Good Writer to be a Good Blogger?

by Sam McArthur on February 23, 2010

in Blogging, Blogs

When I talk to people about blogging and starting a blog, a lot of people are reluctant as they worry about what to write about, the time to do it plus they don’t think their writing style is good enough.
The first two concerns can be tackled by preparing a list of things to write about [...]

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More WordPress Tips

by Sam McArthur on February 9, 2010

in Blogging, Blogs

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about getting started with WordPress.com. As a follow on, I thought I’d write a bit about what you should include in your blog plus categorising posts and tagging them.
If your blog is an addition to your main business site (rather than a standalone blog), then make [...]

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Getting Started with WordPress.com

by Sam McArthur on January 26, 2010

in Blogging, Blogs

Many of you probably know that WordPress is a very popular blogging provider. There are 2 versions of WordPress, which I’ve covered in a previous post, and today I want to talk about getting started with the free, hosted version – WordPress.com
Setting up a blog with WordPress.com is quite easy, but getting used to the [...]

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Improving your RSS feed subscriber experience

by LouiseBJ on January 21, 2010

in Blogs, Web/Tech

Whether you already have a blog or are just getting started, here are a couple of quick tips to help you get more subscribers to your RSS Feed and keep them!

1.  Make reading your blog easy for RSS Feed subscribers
I noticed the other day that, despite doing some serious housekeeping of my blog feed reader [...]

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