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RSS Series: How do I burn my blog’s RSS feed with Feedburner?

March 8, 2010

Today I’m starting a five-part series about RSS and why you need it. Throughout the series you’ll learn what RSS is and why you need to make sure you’re offering it (Pt. 1) how to burn a feed with Feedburner (Pt. 1) how to offer your readers RSS via e-mail (Pt. 2) how to customize [...]

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Helpful Blogging Links: October 23, 2009

October 23, 2009

5 Ways to Know if Your Blog is on the Right Track via ProBlogger Facebook Groups Finally Getting a Makeover via Mashable 2009 State of the Blogosphere: The Full Video from Blog World via TechCrunch A Plug-In Broke Your WordPress Blog? Here is What to Do via Daily Blog Tips 7 Things Web Designers Hate [...]

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Blogging Tutorial Links: HTML, CSS, WordPress

October 14, 2009

I have been a collector my entire life. I think I come by it naturally since my mother’s side of the family tends to “collect” things in the form of never throwing anything away on the off chance it might be valuable or hold the key to the family’s history. From reality television, I now [...]

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Helpful Blogging Links: May 15, 2009

May 15, 2009

Every Friday, blog expert Melanie Nelson alerts you to five of the best articles about blogging. This week covers breaking out of the mommyblog niche, adding your Twitter account to Technorati, and taking the guesswork out of design.

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Choosing Movable Type as Your Blogging Platform

March 2, 2009

Movable Type is the self-hosted blog platform offered by SixApart (also owner of Typepad). Ostensibly, Movable Type is the equivalent of WordPress.org. Put simply: Both are non-hosted blogging platforms that allow you to tweak your own code. Movable Type, at one point several years ago, was set to be a “potential successor to the kingdom [...]

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Helpful Blogging Links

December 19, 2008

How Alltop Powers Bloggers via Chris Brogan 10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress via SmashingMagazine How Much Time Do You Spend Writing a Blog Post? via Performancing You’re Losing Subscribers, Here’s How to Get Them Back by Glen Allsopp via Problogger Using Google Alerts to Monitor Incoming Links via EduBlogger

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How can I remove widgets from my sidebar in WordPress?

April 3, 2008

Jordan McCollum from Momma Blogga is answering this one because she’s awesome at WP. To get widgets out of the sidebar in WordPress: Go to Presentation > Widgets.  Click the widget you don’t want anymore and drag it down to the "Available Widgets" box before releasing it.  It must be below the words "Available Widgets" [...]

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How do I deal with Spam comments on my WordPress blog?

October 24, 2007

Thank you to Jordan McCollum at Momma Blogga for this answer! On WordPress.com, they automatically filter spam comments using a plugin called Akismet.  Sometimes spam comments aren’t marked as such. Mark them as spam to help Akismet block comments from that bot. On a self-hosted WordPress blog (WordPress.org), you need a WordPress.com API key to [...]

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I use WordPress. Every time I try to publish a comment on a BlogSpot page, it won’t allow me. I have to do it anonymously. Is this a WordPress problem and how do I fix it?

October 23, 2007

Thanks to Jordan McCollum at Momma Blogga for this answer. I haven’t heard of this specific problem before, but these are the things I would try: Sign up for a Blogger account at Blogger.com. Some BlogSpot blogs don’t allow anonymous comments; you have to sign in to Blogger to comment.  (If you have a GMail [...]

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I’m using WordPress. When I added the ChiliTried button to my sidebar and I click on it, the link tries to put MY URL before the chilitried URL, even though in my text widget, only chilitried.com is there. What’s wrong?

October 18, 2007

Thanks to Jordan McCollum at MamaBlogga for this answer. The problem here is that when you type the link, you MUST include the "http://" part.  Otherwise, the browser thinks it’s a "local link" (i.e., a link leading to a page on your own site).  Just add the "http://" in front of www.chilitried.com. 

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