Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Many new bloggers take a look at their blog’s traffic stats and become confused while viewing the stats for “Hits”, “Page Views” and “Visits”.
Even worse, they often become more confused when they see other bloggers/webmasters bragging about how many “hits” their sites receive every month.
If you find all of this traffic terminology confusing as well, I hope to clear it all up for you in this post. [Read more…]
Question from Carla G.: I have a WordPress blog and a while back I read your post explaining why we should write our blog posts using an “Editor” account instead of the “Administrator” account.
I set up a new account with the Editor role as you suggested and I’ve been logging into that account to do my writing ever since.
Yesterday I happened to notice that my old posts still have the Author name that corresponds to the Administrator account that I no longer use when writing my posts.
I tried to change the Author of one of those old posts to my other name and I can’t find a way to do it anywhere on the “Edit Post” screen. I know there has to be a way to do it though.
Can you tell me what I need to do to change the Author name on my old posts?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Freida: I have a simple question about setting up a blog with WordPress.
If you could only use ONE plugin on your blog for some reason, which plugin would that be?
There are thousands of WordPress plugins out there and I don’t even know where to start in choosing the ones I need to install on my blog.
Thanks in advance for your answer, Rick.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
If you’re a blogger you probably depend on email to communicate with your readers, your advertisers and any other folks that you talk to in the course of writing and managing your blog.
And chances are you even use email to deliver an informational newsletter to your subscribers.
If you’ve noticed that many (or even most) of your emails are being ignored, there’s a good chance that your email server has somehow landed in an email blacklist database. [Read more…]
Question from Dan J.: Hi Rick. I recently made the switch from Blogger to my own self-hosted WordPress blog with the help of your step-by-step guide to installing WordPress. I can honestly say it’s the best move I’ve ever made.
I need your help with one issue though. I have a habit of changing my mind about the images I use with my posts, sometimes more than once. The unused images always pop up in the Media Library when I go back to choose an image for a post.
How can I remove the images that I don’t ever plan to use from the media library?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
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