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January 11, 2022 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

An Introduction to Using WordPress Plugins to Help Blog a Book

WordPress plugins for blogging books

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 […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, Building Community, Create Your Blog, Increasing Traffic, Success Strategies Tagged With: blog, blog a book, bloggers, blogging, blogging a book, plugins, recommendations, Wordpress

May 11, 2021 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

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, […]

Filed Under: categories and tags, Create Your Blog Tagged With: blog, blog a book, blog posts, blogging, categories, tags, Wordpress

November 24, 2020 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Create Your Blog Tagged With: blog, blog a book, blog theme, blogging, blogging a book, create a blog, how to create a blog, theme, Wordpress, WordPress Themes

October 13, 2020 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a WordPress Blog or Website

Create your Wordpress website and blog

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 […]

Filed Under: Create Your Blog Tagged With: blog, blog a book, blogging, blogging a book, create a blog, how to create a blog, start a blog, Wordpress

May 12, 2020 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

How to Create a Budget for Your Blog

track your blog expenses with a blog budget

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, […]

Filed Under: Build a Business Around Your Book, Professional Blogging, Success Strategies, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: blog, blog design, blog expenses, blog hosting, blogger, blogging, blogging a book, budeting, budget, Domain name, hosting, self-hosted, URL, Wix, Wordpress

July 16, 2019 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Tools to Help You Blog on the Go

If you blog on the go, you need the tools to help you write and publsh posts and record ideas.

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, […]

Filed Under: Publicizing Your Blog, Success Strategies Tagged With: blogged book, blogging a book, book promotion, bottom of post, image, shortcode, text, Wordpress

July 2, 2019 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Use Bottom-of-Post Images and Text to Promote Your Blogged Book

Promote your blogged book and keep readers engaged with bottom-of-post images and text

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 […]

Filed Under: Publicizing Your Blog, Success Strategies Tagged With: blogged book, blogging a book, book promotion, bottom of post, image, shortcode, text, Wordpress

February 7, 2017 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

How to Make Your Blog Idea Real Using WordPress

dream of blogging or blogging a book

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 […]

Filed Under: Create Your Blog Tagged With: blog, blogging, blogging dream, blogging success, CMS, Domain name, Wordpress

July 5, 2016 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

How to Choose the Best WordPress Themes

how to choose a blog theme

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 […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, Create Your Blog Tagged With: blog design, blog theme, choosing a theme, theme, website design, Wordpress, WordPress theme

May 18, 2010 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

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 […]

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