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Question from Brandie: I recently started embedding YouTube videos in some of my blog posts and I have a question about it.
Sometimes I want a video to start playing at a specific place instead of at the beginning. I know you can do this because I’ve seen it.
How do I choose where the video starts playing? [Read more…]
As a blogger, you’re always looking for ways to keep your audience engaged and coming back for more. In today’s digital world, static content often isn’t enough to captivate visitors for long.
Adding interactive elements to your blog can significantly boost engagement, improve the user experience, and make your content more shareable. Best of all, many of these interactive tools are easy to implement and require no advanced technical skills. [Read more…]
In my opinion, WordPress is the most powerful blogging platform out there. And truth be told, it’s also one of the easiest to use.
There are times however when something goes wrong and your blog simply refuses to load in a web browser.
If you’re new to WordPress it can be quite frightening the first time you see the dreaded “white screen of death” – the stark, solid white error page that WordPress displays when it encounters what it deems to be a catastrophic error. [Read more…]
Anyone can start a blog in a few minutes, but if you want to market an existing business or start a new one with your blog, you’ll need to be more strategic.
In this list of tips for new bloggers, you’ll find the ideas that we’ve found to be the most helpful in professional blogging. [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’d like to change the Author 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. [Read more…]