Plugins provide a blogger or blog-to-book author with the special features and automation a blog theme lacks. Plus, they improve the blogging process and make it more effective. Therefore, it’s essential for bloggers to understand plugins…and use them. This is especially true if you are blogging a book. So, today Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress) provides an […]
How to Use Categories and Tags to Structure Your Content
You’ve got your blog up and running. And you’ve been producing lots of content. That’s a good thing…until readers feel challenged to find posts on the topics they most need. That’s when you want to use categories and tags. Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress) explains how and when to use both tools. As your blog grows, […]
Choosing a WordPress Theme for Your Blog
After you register a domain name, choose a web hosting service, and create your WordPress blog, it’s time to give your site a “design.” That means you must choose a WordPress theme. Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer and blogger, shows you how to choose a theme for your site. (This […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a WordPress Blog or Website
To blog a book, you have to have a blog. Your blog serves as or resides on a website. After you register a domain name and choose a web hosting service, it’s time to download website software and create your WordPress blog. Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer and blogger, takes […]
How to Create a Budget for Your Blog
Not all blogs are created free. Some blogs cost…up to four figures for their design. And then comes the cost of keeping that blog running every month. Here’s the good news: You get to decide what you spend on your blog, and the way you do that is by creating a budget. In this post, […]
Tools to Help You Blog on the Go
If you do a lot of traveling or are constantly away from the office, it’s important to be able to write and publish posts from anywhere as well as to record your post ideas in a way that they don’t become lost or forgotten. Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer and blogger, […]
Use Bottom-of-Post Images and Text to Promote Your Blogged Book
It’s essential to keep visitors reading your blogged book. Plus, you want to employ whatever tactics possible to promote the fact that you are, indeed, writing a book on your blog. Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer and blogger, has managed to do this in a unique way. Today, she eplains how […]
How to Make Your Blog Idea Real Using WordPress
Lost of people get ideas for blogs or blogged books. Not so many create the blog and publish posts consistently. In fact, many never begin blogging or, if they do, quit soon after. Today, James Blake offers a quick guide on how to get started with a blog site and sustain your blogging efforts. Hey! Why […]
How to Choose the Best WordPress Themes
Have you ever tried to choose a WordPress theme? There are so many options, especially free ones, that the decision can feel quite hard. If you upgrade to paid themes, the choice seems harder. After all, you don’t want to pay for something that isn’t the best choice for your site or that you can’t […]
How to Schedule Your Blog Posts to Publish Later
As I mentioned in my last post, most blogging software offers you a way to write in advance and publish your posts on a schedule. This allows you to write your posts for a whole week or a month in one sitting (or two or three) and schedule them to publish whenever you want. For […]