How to Display the Feed Button

To some people words like "feedreader" and "rss" make their eyes glaze over and focus attention to that speck on your tooth.  So why not loose the geekeze, and make it easy for readers to subscribe?  Let them, "get an email every time you post" instead of "subscribe in a feedreader". Here are the subscription options and displays for some of the best sites out there: Copyblogger: This is my … [Read more...]

Essential Plugins for a new WordPress Installation

Image via CrunchBase Included in all our bundled packages are 10 plugins: 1. *Akismet anti-spam 2. contact form 3. All In One SEO 4. TinyMCE Advanced - installs extra options in the write panel 5. Google Analytics or Wordpress.com Stats - which one? 6. *WP DB(database) Manager 7. Sociable bookmarking options. 8. Broken Link Checker 9. Feedburner 10. WP-Super-Cache to speed things up * … [Read more...]

Everybody’s got one, do you?

It's one of the cool things about blogs.  You can read them in your very own "feed reader".  And for those who do this, it is quite likely the ONLY way they will read your blog.  So, we need to make sure that your blog is EASY PEASY for others to subscribe to.  (Subscribe = how they grab your blog and feed it to their reader.) 1.  Find an image of those RSS buttons. Here's over 35 styles, each … [Read more...]