Vladimir Prelovac posted a link to his new plugin this week in the Blogging Tips Forums. I have been pretty busy this week but got a chance to try out his new plugin Theme Test Drive today.

So what does the plugin do? Here is how Vladimir explains it :

Ever wanted to live test another theme you are designing or you just wanted to see how a different theme looks with your site content?

Theme Test Drive allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as an administrator, while visitors still…

Blogging is still a new art, and that means there are some exciting decisions you can make for yourself. One of the biggest is deciding who you’re writing for. I’m talking about something more fundamental than identifying a demographic: I’m talking about deciding whether you’re writing for yourself or your readers.

If you’re writing for your readers, then your blog is like your face. You use it to communicate with the outside world, through expressions, through speech, and through visual appeal. The better your face/blog looks – clean, color-coordinated cosmetic…

If your like a lot of Bloggers out there, myself included, you have a lot of junk sitting on your sidebar that should be gotten rid of. If not gotten rid of at least re-arranged and cleaned up a bit. The sidebar of your Blog is arguably the most valuable part of your Blog.

The problem is that you have a limited amount of space and an unlimited pool of blog stuff to put on your sidebar. Think about some of the stuff that can go in your sidebar. There…

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Bloggers need to accomplish projects from time to time. The problem is most of us just dive in with little thought to the process and an unclear understanding of what we’ll be doing. A project is a series of tasks that has a start date, an end date, and which produces a unique output. I’ve taught project management for several years, now. Although much of project management is overkill for a small blog, we can borrow quite a bit from it to help us…

As a blogger, you are part of a community. If you want to be successful, you must get involved. While it is very important to become involved and read blogs within your blog’s niche, it is also a good idea to spend some of your time reading blogs in other niches. It might seem like you just don’t have enough time to add anything else to your to-do list. But this is seriously an investment worth making. Here are three great reasons to read blogs in other niches.

To Increase your…