There are many useful widgets and scripts which you could use to add interactivity to your Blogger powered blog. Ranging from lists of your most popular posts to a table of contents which loads above your posts, this article contains 20 of the most useful widgets and scripts you could install own blogs.

Easy Install Widgets

All of the widgets int his section can be added easily to your blog using widget installers.

Recent Posts

This widget will display a list of your most recent posts, with links to their relevant pages. This widget…

Quick Introduction - I’m Sarah and I will be writing each Sunday on intermediate to advanced WordPress topics including template development, tips and tricks, PHP coding for use in WordPress and plugin development. I’ll be basing my posts on the latest version of WordPress, and also assume an understanding of HTML and CSS, and presume you don’t run at the sight of a little PHP I’d love to hear what you want to read about on this subject so please let me know in the comments.

Understanding the WordPress Template Hierarchy

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You’ve heard all the SEO tips…

“Place keywords in your post titles.”

“Use h1 and h2 tags here, there, and everywhere.”

“Make sure that blah, blah, blah, SEO trick, blah, blah etc…”

Now, I am not discounting the fact that SEO is important to ranking your posts, and pages, and your blog altogether, but I have seen numerous bloggers forgetting one important detail when they are writing.

The human being on the other end of the post!

If you are writing an article, and conveying valuable information, keep in mind that it is humans that have emotions…

In the process of redesigning my portfolio I decided to upgrade how I presented links to select articles here at blogging tips. Previously it was a static and simple list of links off the to the side, but I wanted to simplify the addition of new article links and have them included in my RSS feed. I looked at a few plugins for asides and link blogs, but I chose a much simpler and convenient method, but If you are not using FeedBurner then this isn’t for you.

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Whenever someone registers a domain, they have an expiry date before which they have to renew it. But few people, either forget or deliberately, let their domain to expire which result in a lot of expired domains everyday. We can profit by registering them in several ways. If it is a keyword domain, you can park it and earn money. If it is a 3-5 lettered domain, you can profit by selling it.

Though there are many domains that expires everyday, we cannot find them manually by typing the…

As we discussed yesterday, you have three seconds to hook visitors on your website. Snap, snap, snap - and they are gone. Without further adu, lets jump right into the following methods of increasing stickiness on your website.

Make Your E Mail Communications Valuable but Not Too Valuable

As the barrage of e-mail communications (e-zines, tip of the week, etc.) escalates it is absolutely critical that you differentiate your e-mails/newsletter from all the others cramming your customers’ inboxes. It may take several messages before they learn to distinguish your messages from the…