Blogging

New plugins Flickr Blog This to Draft Post will make a draft post to your blog instead of publishing via Flickr’s “Blog This” function. Ice Visual Revisions adds revision tracking to the visual editor. Minify automagically concatenates JS and CSS files that are output in wp_head() and wp_footer(). Updated plugins CloudFlare ensures your WordPress blog is running optimally on the CloudFlare platform. Jetpack supercharges your self-hosted...  

WordPress has improved greatly and one of the improved areas is the plugins section. In this guide, I will show you how to quickly locate and install plugins you need for your WordPress site.Contributor: Jasmine StarrPublished: May 16, 2012  

Pinterest is growing at record speeds, and it can be a great place to spread your content and gain more exposure and traffic for your blog. Charnita Fance from WP Mods put together a great list of Pinterest WordPress plugins that can help with pinning and showing off pins. Here are a couple of tools that weren't included in Charnita's list that you might want to check out, too. I use the Really Simple Facebook Twitter Share Buttons plugin on...  

Over the last few years I’ve hosted 2 events here in Melbourne for bloggers. What started in 2009 as a quickly pulled together and very cramped and crowded event for 150 bloggers has grown considerable. Today tickets have gone on sale for our October Event and it is going to be big – both in [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Early Bird Tickets On Sale for Melbourne ProBlogger Event – #PBEVENT  

New plugins Google Authenticator gives you two-factor authentication using the Google Authenticator app for Android/iPhone/Blackberry. WordPress Password Expiry expires a user’s access to the site after a specified number of days. Updated plugins Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps is the first WordPress XML Sitemap plugin that comes with comprehensive support for Sitemapindex, Multi-site and Google News sitemap. BFT Autoresponder allows...  

New plugins HTML5 MP3 Player with Playlist allows you to easily use the HTML5 audio element to enable audio playback in most browsers, with playlists. Stop CISPA Ribbon places a black ribbon with the words “Stop CISPA” in the top right corner of your website, linking to the Stop CISPA website. Updated plugins BackWPup allows you to backup your WordPress database, files, and more. FoxyPress is a custom plugin made to integrate FoxyCart e...  

INDIANAPOLIS, March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Wiley announces the third edition of best-selling blogging book ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, 3rd Edition (Wiley, 978-1-1181-9955-8, March 2012). ProBlogger, 3rd Edition includes two new chapters and...  

This guest post is by Neil Patel of Quick Sprout. Anybody can be a content marketer … but not everyone can be a good or even great content marketer who creates articles that convert and rank high in the search engines on a consistent basis. Over time experience will teach you how to do this, but [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger 3 New Tools That Can Help You Create Better Content, Convert More Readers and Conquer Higher Search...  

This guest post is by Conor Powers-Smith of Factbrowser.com. Blog posts, whitepapers and other shareable content rely on supporting data—not because people just love a good color-coded pie chart (though they are pretty), but because numbers give stories shape. They add scale. They provide perspective. They quantify that something meaningful is happening. Think about it: which [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger How to Use Data to...  

Content marketing—using content to promote our product or service—is a favorite promotion method of today’s bloggers. Many of us are in the content business, so content marketing makes sense. The activities that come under the umbrella of content marketing are broad. They cover everything from guest posting to uploading content to purpose-built networks (like YouTube [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger What Makes Good Content...  

People in the blogging and online marketing world know Darren Rowse from Problogger. Many, however, don’t realize that Problogger is an industry sideline where Darren shares what he learns from his primary business, which is the multimillion dollar web venture Digital Photography School. DPS has 500,000 subscribers, and 5,000,000 monthly site visitors. But Darren started [...]  

This is a guest post by Gregory Ciotti of Sparring Mind. When it comes to blogging, a number of platforms have come and gone. Recently, Posterous was acquired by Twitter, signifying that a shut-down of the platform was imminent. I noticed this in a big way; my blog, called I Love Tumblr, which focuses on [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger How to Be a Problogger on Tumblr  

Description. Do you eat, sleep and breath anything with an engine and four wheels? We're looking for a blogger who loves anything to do with cars and is looking for a platform to share his/her passion. Ideally, we're seeking one or more ...  

A lot of beginner bloggers do a heavy about of sinning when they first start out... I'm not saying they're bad people, it's just that they are committing nearly all of the deadly sins that bloggers need to look out for. Original Post: The 5 Deadly Sins of Blogging (And How to Avoid Them)  

For most WordPress users updating to a newer version is pretty straight forward: log into the WordPress dashboard, click on "Updates" and then select the option to update WordPress. Within 10 seconds or so you are set. Original Post: How to Upgrade WordPress via SSH