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Q&A: Is the Copy Plain Text browser extension safe?

Posted on July 14, 2024

Question from Amber: I do a lot of copying and pasting when I’m writing posts for my lifestyle blog.

Something that always irritates me is having to paste everything into Notepad to get rid of the formatting and then copy the “clean” text and paste it into the blog post I’m working on.

I checked Google and found a Firefox browser extension called Copy Plain Text that allows you to copy text and paste it without the formatting.

My question is, do you think it’s safe to use this extension? [Read more…]

Want to be a successful blogger? Diversify these three things.

Posted on June 20, 2024

Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.

There are certain things every blogger must be able to do in order to succeed at blogging.

Of course knowing how to write well and get your points across to the reader is at the top of the list.

However, there are other things that are just as important that don’t really have anything to do with the “blogging” process itself.

Today I’m going to concentrate on one of the most important things bloggers can do to ensure their long-term success: Diversify!

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10 powerful blogging tips for beginners

Posted on May 29, 2024

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…]

Why you should enable ‘Breadcrumbs’ on your blog

Posted on May 4, 2024

If you’re a blogger you’re probably familiar with the term “breadcrumbs”.

In a nutshell, breadcrumbs are navigable paths from a blog’s home page to the page that’s currently displayed in the browser.

Every portion of the breadcrumb path except for the post/page name itself can be clicked on to jump immediately to that section of the blog.

For example, if you look at the top of this page you’ll see the following breadcrumb situated between the bottom menu bar and the post title: [Read more…]

How to change the order of your blog posts in WordPress

Posted on April 14, 2024

In my opinion, WordPress is by far the best blogging platform out there.

Why? Because no other platform even comes close in terms of power, flexibility and ease of use.

There are tons of intuitive ways to do virtually anything in WordPress, but one useful task that isn’t all that intuitive is changing the order of one or more of your existing blog posts. [Read more…]