Template Tags, Categories and Tag Clouds
WordPress Coding & Design Template tags are functions defined in the core WordPress files and are globally available for use in your templates. There are a lot of tags available for different aspects of your template files. To get a complete list of what’s available see the Template Tags on the WordPress Codex. Some accept many parameters (information passed to the function enclosed in the brackets/parentheses), others do not accept any parameters. To use a template tag you need to ensure it’s within opening and closing PHP tags e.g. <?php template_tag_name('parameter_name=value¶meter2=value'); ...
Continue readingDo You Have a Specific – Enough Game Plan For Blogging?
Blogging “Ahhh, I am just going to post something today.” That used to be my game plan two years ago when I started blogging, and created The Profitable Business Edge 2. But, if you asked me today what my game plan was, I would probably show you a calendar with specific actions to perform on specific dates, and specific objectives to meet by certain points each week, month, and year even. I ...
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Design & Coding Another element in the sidebar of my portfolios new blog design is a menu that changes what it displays depending on which one you click. So when you are on the Archive page the archive link changes state to display where you currently are, and when you are on the News page the subcategories are displayed below the link. Here’s what I threw together. This displays the subcategory when in ...
Continue readingOh Yeah! I Need A Hundred More Twitter Followers By This Week
Blogging Image Source: mil8 If you are saying things like “Oh yeah! I need a hundred more twitter followers by this week.” Or something similar, you must really work towards it. Twitter, though it is addicting, is a very good tool to increase your fame and your blog’s fame. Every time you send a twitter update, at least 1/5th of your fans are going to see and also your fan’s fans will see your ...
Continue readingBlogging on a Promise: Revenue for Words
Making Money Now that blogs have seeped into every single aspect of online media, and bloggers are suddenly considered legitimate writers, the opportunities for new work abound all over the Internet. The offers look enticing, with their promise of revenue percentage and potentially unlimited income. But is blogging on the mere promise of revenue a good idea, or any sort of viable way to establish a writing ...
Continue readingBlogger Appreciation Week
Around The Blogosphere April 14 was declared kind of an unofficial Blogger Appreciation Day. If you missed it, don’t feel bad: there’s nothing stopping you from appreciating the blogger of your choice right this minute. Here are a few suggestions for ways to appreciate your fellow bloggers this week: Speak up Too often, too many of us feel like we’re blogging in a vacuum. You might have thousands of readers, but ...
Continue readingSEO, SMO – Whats The Difference?
Promote your blog In short, everything. Social-media optimization is not at all like search-engine optimization, though it should be part of your overall optimization strategy. Instead of adding keywords in the right places, tweaking your meta tags, and digging up the right balance of links, you’re doing something different — creating relationships, generating content, and tagging the Web. Don’t sell it ...
Continue readingCan Blogging & Affiliate Marketing Make You Any Money?
Making Money Can blogging and affiliate marketing make you any money? The answer yes, if you do apply yourself to the goal in every way possible. You will need to know the ins and the outs of the affil1ate partnerships available for the blogger today and take the best opportunities for your blogging space. However, it may not make you a millionaire overnight. There is money to be made in both blogging and ...
Continue readingHaven’t you done an evaluation yet ?
Blogging Once in a while it’s good to do a self evaluation to your blog. It’s good to take a look back and check what happened, where did yo go wrong and what did you miss, if at all any. It’s a boring thing to do I know, but believe me, it’s a good thing to do. Even thought it’s drudgery, it helps you to do a cross check of where you are and how well you are going to do in ...
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Blogging While fostering conversation is one compelling reason to begin a blog, it should be recognized that bloggers have the ability to define the discussion and steer the dialogat least on their own sites. Beyond that, it can be argued that they have a responsibility to their readers to make sure contributions by others add value and insight to the online conversation. Not everyone agrees with the idea ...
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