CategoryBlogging Tools and Services
Everything You Need to Import and Display RSS Feeds with WordPress
WordPress makes it super-easy to publish your own content, and even easier to import and display content from other great sites around the Web. Just as other people are displaying and reading your feed in their apps and devices, you can use external RSS feeds to supplement and strengthen your ...more
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How to Ajaxify Your WordPress Site
This guest post is by Jeff Starr, co-author of the book Digging into WordPress. Injecting a dose of Ajax into your WordPress-powered site is an excellent way to enhance functionality and streamline the user experience. Without touching a line of code, you can harness the power of Ajax to boost ...more
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Awesome WordPress Plugins to Empower Your Visitors
This guest post is by Jeff Starr, co-author of the book Digging into WordPress. Helping your visitors get the most out of your site benefits everyone. Visitors get more relevant and useful content, and you enjoy better statistics and more exposure. Unfortunately the game is set up to keep people ...more
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5 Tools I Am Willing to Pay for [And Recommend] to Improve My Blogs
One of the great things about blogging is that it is very accessible to anyone with internet access. There are some fantastic tools around that are completely free that mean you can have a blog up and running within minutes of deciding to start a blog. Free tools range from ...more
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Wibiya Toolbar [First Impression Review]
Over the last week I’ve been trialling the Wibiya Toolbar on my photography blog. For those of you unfamiliar with it it is a little toolbar that appears at the bottom of the browser of those who visit your blog which allows them to do a variety of tasks. You ...more
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ProBlogger Readable on Mobiles
One of the most requested featured by readers here at ProBlogger has been for the option to view this site more easily on a mobile device (at least some). In the last few days we’ve added the WPtouch plugin to both ProBlogger and DPS. I hope that this will enable ...more
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How To Run Subscriber-Only Competitions on Your Blog
A Guest Post by David Cleland from TotalApps. In 2006 I proudly started my first blog, DigMo! It was technology, it was creativity, it was music and it was education. Despite it being a bit of blog soup I was pleased at how quick the site grew but within a ...more
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Speech Recognition for Bloggers – The Ultimate Guide
Speech recognition technology has come a long way in the last few years – in this in depth, informative and inspiring video which Jon Morrow (Associate Editor of Copyblogger and Co-founder of Partnering Profits) shares his first hand insights into speech recognition for bloggers. Jon does all of his blogging ...more
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How to Use Apture
By Mary Jaksch of Goodlife Zen. Do you want to create posts that sparkle, dance, enthral, touch the heart, and inform? Do you want your blog to stand out, and subscribers to scramble in at the door? Then I suggest you check out what the New York Times, Reuters, the ...more
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