Tips

This is a second article highlighting plugin tips we think our readers will find useful. Plugins (the right ones) make your blogging life much easier. We recommend ones that have worked for us or that we find in a trusted site. I found the Thesis OpenHook plugin after I customized Thesis the old-fashioned way. I [...]

It is pretty obvious that every one who starts a blog would love to receive more visitors. This post basically provides tips on increasing the traffic to a  blog, especially aimed at blogs hosted on Blogger/B domains.  Although, there are various methods that one could adopt to increase their blog traffic, the following methods would [...]

How to Recover Lost Sidebar Widgets

by SBA on September 22, 2010 · 11 comments

There are a couple of ways to lose a sidebar widget that you worked forever to customize. It could be your grab button scrollbox, your custom subscribe and follow icons, or images with teaser text links.  You may have accidentally pressed the delete button (there is no confirmation!), dragged it from the sidebar and missed [...]

We’ve added a new feature highlighting posts with tips we think our readers will find useful. There are so  many plugins that you can’t keep track of all of them! Yet, finding the ‘right one’ can make your publishing so much easier. Every minute save leaves more time for content. On the flip side, you [...]

SEO. Doesn’t this word sound simple?

Perhaps too simple!

But when you start optimizing a post for search engines, the real picture comes out. SEO is not that easy.

In this post, I have explained SEO and related terms in easy to understand terms which are perfect for beginners

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” The decision to move from Blogger to WordPress is a bit like moving from an apartment to a house. You don’t just decide today and move in tomorrow. This article series looks at the short and long-term planning it takes for a successful move.” – part one of series Now that you have a [...]

Okay, the WordPress developers are in no way interested in making it easy for you to create custom text widgets! They assume you’re very happy to have theme developers provide those nifty widgets where we just indicate the number of comments to show, etc. How is that? Well, there is no “Visual” mode in text [...]

Managing time is a big headache for bloggers.

All those simple looking tasks end up consuming too much time! In this post, learn how you can easily manage your time with the help of a priority list.

The old expression, ‘look before you leap’, applies to lots of situations, including WordPress, Plugins or Theme upgrades!  It’s good advise to think about possible problems before upgrading. In so doing, you often prevent problems. This article uses WP 3.0.1 upgrade as an example. The announcement at the top of your dashboard is very inviting [...]

This is a video tutorial for creating the custom domain name link to your Blogger blog. Getting a domain name is part of any plan to Move from Blogger to WordPress. Here’s how to redirect blogger posts to your new domain name. A custom domain name allows readers start to view your blog as more [...]