A WordPress plugin to help you write your book reviews faster so you can spend more time reading and less time tinkering with formatting.
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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… […]
Heading tags confuse people. The different heading tags (1-6) are often styled in different ways. When someone starts experimenting with their theme, they see the different styles, then associate those tags with design. When they want to use the green uppercase font, they switch to […]
1) Optimize and compress your images. Large, uncompressed images can so easily double, triple, or quadruple your site loading time. A 1MB-sized site could become 4MB with just a few uncompressed images. Yikes! Resize images down to the size you actually need. You don’t need […]
What’s the best social media site? Which site do I need to be on? What social media will help me grow my traffic the best? In 2013 I wrote a post on the most important social media sites for growing your blog. The lovely Ariel […]
Bluescreen was such an AWESOME and original idea. I’m a computer nerd so to read about computers in peoples BRAINS and such a unique “computer drug” idea… loved it!! For the first half of the book I literally just could not get over the idea […]
How can I learn to code? Where can I learn CSS? What course should I take to learn HTML? How can I learn to make a website? I see these questions a lot. My answer is always the same: Get out there, build a website, […]
Let’s talk about something that’s so incredibly dead, and yet tons of people are still using it. <center> You might use it like this: <center>Please center this bit of text.</center> Oh my god, this little bit of code needs to die. <center> is deprecated in […]
I’m about to commit marketing suicide. On the day I announce pre-orders for my new e-course I’m about to tell you why you possibly shouldn’t buy e-courses. WTF? But I want to be real with you guys for a bit. E-courses are awesome, but they’re […]
I’m not against the idea of making money. Other people do it, I do it, maybe you do it too. There’s nothing wrong with that. But sometimes I visit a website and I feel like I’m being sold to ALL THE TIME. There’s no break […]
I see a lot of people who are fucking sick of advice. On the one hand you have a handful of people who love to share blogging tips. They say, “Do x to achieve y!” These people are typically just trying to help. They want […]