Comments and discussions on your blog are the lifeblood of building real community, which leads to loyal readership. Hands down, the best comment system to add to your Wordpress blog is Disqus. Disqus will allow you to easily integrate social media connections, video comments, and much more – taking your comment system into overdrive [...]
You must backup your Wordpress blog database. There is no way around it, if you don’t want to take the chance of losing everything you’ve invested in your blog — content, plugins, settings, and comments. Nothing can be rebuilt if you do not have a regularly scheduled backup of your blog. Think a crash [...]
When building your Wordpress blog, there are general settings you’ll want to be mindful of. These settings, as part of the core functions offered by Wordpress, will help ensure your blog is running smoothly. While not detrimental if you’ve missed these settings, they are definitely one’s you’ll want to take a look at before launching [...]
The use of format and images, within your Wordpress posts and pages, can help your content be SEO and user friendly. Content that is formatted with the user in mind, will help your killer content present visually and in a way that encourages loyal readership. After all, there is nothing worse than looking at a [...]
Wordpress content structure is based mainly on two aspects, posts and pages. Understanding how to use posts and pages is important to structuring your blog/website in a way that is user and SEO friendly.
Posts versus Pages
Posts are the dynamic pieces of content added to the “blog” portion of Wordpress.
Pages are static pieces of content [...]
Your blog’s permalink structure is arguably one of the most important steps you can do right in the build process. Often, it’s one of the most overlooked SEO and linking steps missed by do-it-yourselfers. A simple mistake that can create a huge negative impact over the long-term. We’re going to talk about what [...]
In the spirit of starting from point zero, here’s a quick video about how to login to your self-hosted Wordpress admin dashboard (the backend)… without having those lame “admin” login links on the front of your website/blog for the entire world to see.
DIY Marketing Mastery: How to Login to Wordpress Admin Dashboard
DIY members login here [...]