3 Plugins for Easily Migrating a WordPress Site, Tried & Tested
These Wordpress plugins can semi-automate the entire process of migrating a WordPress site for you.
Your Last Minute Guide To Exporting Your Posterous Blog Before It Shuts Down Forever
For a while now, Posterous has been been the home for thousands of blogs – including a few of mine. They started out marketing themselves as a way to easily blog, thus likely acquiring many less-tech savvy bloggers looking for a solution to get their blog started fast. And because of that, I feel there definitely needs to be instructions as to what you do now that Posterous is going to be gone forever… tomorrow, April 30th.
Blogger vs. Wordpress.com: A Complete Comparison
The two undisputed kings of the free blogging sphere are Google's Blogger and the content management system-turned-host WordPress.com. While both offer what every free-thinking democracy-guzzling thought-cannon wants – a place to express themselves – there are some core differences in each service. Both WordPress.com and Blogger are workable free solutions, but which is the right one for you? This detailed breakdown of each service should hopefully help you decide.
Get Creative With WordPress - 5 Interactive Ways to Use the Platform
There's quite a lot of ways you can use WordPress beyond simply using it as a blogging platform. We've already taken a look at a list of 5 things you might not have known you could do with WordPress. The platform lends itself to versatility and there's a huge variety of websites out there that you can't even tell are created using WordPress, and there are five ways you can put the platform to use that goes beyond simply content management.
Transform Your Social Output Into Web Page Content With Tint
There is this fascinating service called Tint, and I actually struggle to accurately describe it - that's how unique it is. Tint is 50% about promoting your social networks, but it's also 50% about providing website content. It's both. It should be a paradox that should cause the Universe to implode and create a black hole - but it doesn't. Somehow, Tint pulls it off and makes it work - it brings social content and web content together in one place.
How To Insert PHP Content Into the Loop of Your Blog Excerpts
There are times when you realize that an ad or maybe some other content needs to go into an area of your blog that isn’t so easy to get to. Sidebar content is one thing, and usually fairly easy to modify, but when it comes to other areas of your website that might be dynamically generated by code, inserting single content isn’t so simple.
What's The Difference Between Running Your Blog On Wordpress.com & Wordpress.org?
With Wordpress now powering 1 in every 6 websites, they must be doing something right. For both experienced developers and the complete novice, Wordpress has something to offer you. But just as you start on your path of Wordpress nirvana, you're going to hit a stumbling block: "Do I need wordpress.com or wordpress.org? What's the difference?!" This question comes up a lot, so I've decided to write a definitive guide.
Setting Up A Blog Part 2: Tumblr, Blogger, And Other Services
The hardest thing you'll have to do if you opt to not host your own blog is decide on the service you want to use. A few years ago this was easy - LiveJournal and Blogger dominated, providing a generation of teenagers with a place to moan about the wrong in the world but these days there are more services to choose from than ever before, each with a niche.
Setting Up A Blog Part 1: The DIY Self-Hosting Method
There are an abundance of quality free "sign-up" blogging services scattered across the Web, with big names like Tumblr, WordPress.com, Blogger and Posterous getting increasingly popular as their numbers grow. It wasn't always this way, and a few years ago the go-to platform for bloggers was the humble standalone WordPress blog. The open source blogging engine is still massively popular.
Write & Publish Blog Posts With The Stylish New PixelPumper [Mac]
I've been a long time user of the Mac text editor, MarsEdit for writing and posting blog posts to WordPress. In fact, I'd fall to my knees in tears if I had to use the online WordPress editor to write posts. While MarsEdit does pretty much everything I need, a new Mac editor called PixelPumper looks like a very stylish alternative that is available for free in the Mac App Store (note - the app is free while the developers of the application are ironing out the bugs).
Post This: 5 Fantastic Blogging Add-ons [Firefox]
Growing up, I created dozens and dozens of blogs on nearly every subject that interested me. I've had software development blogs, video game blogs, religious blogs, mini-blogs for team projects, small blogs for my inner circle of friends. You might be running a blog right now, or you may be thinking of running one. If so, listen up! One of the best advancements in browser technology over the past decade has been in plugins/extensions/addons.
7 Ways to Keep a Personal Journal
Journaling is an exercise for the mind and it has several proven benefits, but it can also seem difficult to do. This is primarily due to the overwhelming feeling of having to journal – it shouldn’t be like that. Instead, it should be something you look forward to doing every day. It should be a task that inspires you for the day ahead and/or relieves you of the day you have just had.
Make People Rave About Your Blog With These 5 Great Sharing Plugins For WordPress
Share plugins are a dime a dozen in the Wordpress repository, but most aren’t worth the time it takes to check out the screenshots. I’ve done the hard work for you here, and gathered the absolute best for your consideration. All you need to do is make sure your content is worth sharing - there are no plugins to do that for you.
Jux: A Free, Feature-Rich Blogging Platform That Gives Tumblr A Run For Its Money
When it comes to blogging platforms, it's a crowded industry, with the likes of WordPress and Tumblr definitely taking the lion's share of users looking for an easy way to showcase their work. Founded in New York city just last year, Jux is somewhat of a newcomer, but offers a set of pretty impressive features that might have you ditching your preferred platform in favor of this one.
Vroom, Vroom: A Comprehensive Guide To Speeding Up A WordPress Blog
MakeUseOf serves hundreds of thousands of visitors everyday, and we do it all on Wordpress. Wordpress can and does scale from tens to millions of pageviews, but you’re going to need some heavyweight plugins and strategies to increase performance at that level. Here’s a comprehensive list of things you can do to speed up your blog, and the plugins you can use to do it.
Windows Live Writer: The Easiest Way To Blog, Right From Your Desktop
There is something nice about being able to blog from your desktop and simply clicking “submit” and then having it appear on your blog. Of course since you are creating it locally on your computer you’re also able to save it locally, which for many bloggers is a plus – backups are always nice, especially when you don’t have to think about it. Windows Live Writer (WLW) can do that and more.
How To Try Out Wordpress, Joomla & More Quickly & For Free In a Virtual Machine With Bitnami
We've talked about setting up a local server before, but the process is still fairly complicated and there's lots of quirks and incompatibliities if you're trying to run it on Windows, leading to nothing but hassle when you actually upload the thing to a real website. What if you could just boot up a virtual machine and have instant access to a Wordpress install to play around with, all contained within a fully functional standardised web server setup?
3 Cool Ways To Get Visitors To Interact On Your WordPress Site
User engagement should be a top priority for anyone running a website, blog or any kind of online business. While there is a lot that should be done in terms of encouraging users to share your content on social networks, as well as encouraging them to leave comments, there are a few more unique ideas that can help visitors interact with your site, and in some cases keep them there for a bit longer.
Create a Social Updates Wall in Your WordPress Blog With Socialist jQuery Plugin
Socialist is an incredible new jQiuery plugin that aggregates your updates on various social networks and displays them beautifully in a grid similar to Pinterest. Socialist is a jQuery plugin. I’ll be giving full instructions on how to implement this in WordPress, but a working knowledge of jQuery would be helpful to identify typos or errors in your code.