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The Internet is overcrowded with blogging tools, services and other goodies that are meant to support you as a blogger. With so many options available, it’s tough working out which ones you should use and which ones you should avoid.
While a lot of this is related to personal choice and cost, there are tools out there that just aren’t as good as others or don’t do exactly what you expected them to do.
Read moreBest WordPress Blogging Tools for Beginners and Pros
Friends often ask me how to start a WordPress blog properly and how to actually make money with it. The answer to that question is actually not that simple.
So I’ve decided to dedicate an article to this topic that you can use as a helpful resource in case you also want to start a WordPress blog of your own.
Running a blog for most people is not much more than a hobby. It’s a medium that you can use to share your thoughts, ideas and experiences with the rest of the world.
For others, a blog is a business that requires hard work. A good quality blog that attracts targeted traffic can indeed generate a full-time income.
WordPress is by far the most popular blogging platform you can find in cyberspace. Countless of new WordPress based websites go live everyday and there are no signs of slowing down.
WordPress is reasonably easy to use, but it can be challenging to find your way through so many different themes, plugins and configuration settings, especially if you’ve never been through this process before. It’s easy enough to do a WordPress installation through your hosting provider, but what do you do after installing WordPress?
Having installed and configured WordPress on so many websites over the years, I’ve learned what works for me and what doesn’t work so well. I now simply follow a routine whenever I need to install WordPress, either for a website I own or for someone else.
Perhaps one of the most neglected parts of WordPress blogs is the good old category page. Whenever you navigate to a category page within a blog or website, chances are it’s not much more than a list of the latest blog posts within that category.
And even worse, more than often the title of that category page is something along the lines of “Category Name Archives”.
Booooring… 🙂
I recently ran into an issue where I wanted to share an old WordPress blog post on Facebook, but Facebook refused to pick up the thumbnail cover image that I had configured for that particular post. It literally drove me mad as I had no clue why Facebook was being so stubborn.
I tried to share it several times, in different browsers, after clearing all my Internet history, but no luck. After spending some time digging I was finally able to resolve the problem and get Facebook to recognize and share the right thumbnail for that WordPress post.
Read moreHow to Get Facebook to Share the Right Thumbnail Image of Your WordPress Blog Post
If you’ve been running a WordPress blog for some time now, you probably know already that HTTPS and SSL are a hot topic. Google has been pushing hard to get all blog owners and webmasters out there to migrate their blogs and websites from HTTP to HTTPS.
As with anything in life, security is a big thing. Having a proper SSL certificate installed and having your domain configured as HTTPS is now officially a search engine ranking factor.
Read moreHow to Migrate Your WordPress Site from HTTP to HTTPS
