This is kind of a funny post because as soon as someone takes advice on how to be authentic, that almost makes them less authentic. Furthermore, “authentic” means something different to everyone. There is no one, single right answer there. Not everything in this list […]
I’ve had this blog since April 2012. That’s over four years now. It took me a long time to find my groove in the blogging world and I had plenty of insecurities along the way (I still do). But here are five things I finally […]
WordPress.com WordPress.com with a custom domain. WordPress.com Premium WordPress.org / self-hosted What the hell is the difference between all these?? The WordPress differences are confusing. It’s all because there’s a WordPress.com and a WordPress.org and they look the same except for the end of the […]
It seems like every year around this time, Google (the owners of Blogspot) go on a pruning spree. They start suspending and terminating Blogspot blogs for “violating the terms and conditions”. Despite the fact that many of these bloggers have done no such thing. In […]
Okay maybe I didn’t unsubscribe from your newsletter specifically, but I unsubscribed from a lot over the past few weeks. Here are some of the reasons why: I’m not your target audience. This is the one reason that hurt. I felt guilty. I was subscribed […]
You want to add a cool new feature to your WordPress site so you look up a tutorial on how to make it happen. The tutorial gives you a chunk of code and tells you to paste it inside functions.php. You do that. Your site […]
I can’t believe I leave for BookExpo America in less than a week! It seems like BEA sneaks up on me every year. I can never believe it when it finally arrives. Over the past few weeks I’ve been buried deep in schedules, spreadsheets, and […]
Static homepage? Or homepage showing a list of blog posts? Which is better? Which do you use when? If your site is ONLY a blog, then show your blog on the homepage. Your readers are looking for your blog, so give them your blog. Don’t […]
This isn’t a new topic for me. I’ve written about why WordPress wins and which platform is better. But both of those posts approach the topic from a list of features. It’s all very technical. While answering this question over and over again on Facebook […]
You’re messing around in your functions.php file (courtesy of Appearance > Editor). You type in a bit of code, hit “Save”, then suddenly your whole site goes white. Blank. You can’t even sign in. A lot of people think this means their blog is GONE… […]