These 2 topics tend to confuse people the most. Not knowing the difference between when people subscribe via rss (which is done through feedburner) or to their Newsletter. Essentially, these are 2 different databases and are entirely seperate from each other and would require 2 separate subscription forms. RSS Email Subscribers: If someone is subscribed [...]
I get asked this question… A LOT!!! So being the sweet person I am, I’m going to tell you. This is for blogger only though, because it’s a little more difficult to do with wordpress depending on your theme. First thing you need to do is create your own background. You can either create your [...]
Want to add an etsy widget to your blog to automatically feed the items you mark as favorites? Well, if you are like me, and love handmade stuff, you do. So here’s how: Login to your etsy account. If you don’t have an account, sign up. It’s free and you don’t have to sell anything [...]
Twitter Tools is another great social media plugin for wordpress. This one is for you, the blogger, whereas the previous 2 that I’ve covered are for your readers. This plugin allows for you to select the option from your dashboard, when creating a posts, to notify twitter that you’ve posted a new blog post. The [...]
Tweetmeme is another really popular social media plugin. You’ll see this on lots of blogs. This plugin allows your readers to easily hit the tweet button to tweet a link to your posts. Perfect for keeping things very user friendly. Again, this plugin is easily configurable through your wordpress dashboard. You can select it to [...]
With the huge popularity of social media these days, most bloggers want a way for readers to be able to easily share their posts on outlets such as twitter and facebook. With that said, there are tons of social media plugins that are great for your wordpress blog. Sexybookmarks is one of them (and I’ll [...]
Well, if you are still on blogger, then you know that when you upload your images, blogger automatically resizes those images for you. Thank you, but no thank you. I really don’t like that they do this. Especially for bloggers who like to show off their photographs! So here is a quick how-to on fixing [...]
That title is pretty funny. But it’s so true. If it weren’t for being able to schedule posts, there would simply never be posts here. During the week, I’m generally consumed with completing all my design projects, family, etc to even think about blogging. So I like to gather a bunch of blog posts at [...]
