Let’s look at what’s been happening recently, and possibly a good reason for you to back up your blog NOW: 1.  You’ve been writing way more posts than usual.  Great content, everyone is enjoying blog.  Would be a sad day if you lost it all because of a server hiccup, wouldn’t it? 2. You’ve got [...]

I wanted to share a post from ProBlogger today.  I think it’s pretty fitting with the 30-Day Blogging Challenge.  Since we’re all dedicated to posting in our blog every day for 30 days… what happens if a reader wants to begin a long term relationship with us when those 30 days are over?  Are you [...]

I had thought of a topic to write about today. I had some ideas about it, but I figured I’d “remember” it later so I didn’t write it down.  However, between eating dinner (Mango Chicken and Roti Canai) and just being too excited about taking my first class class with Connie Ragen Green, it just [...]

As a special request, this is a quickie to show you how to add visitor photos (aka gravatars) in your comments like I have on my blog.  You will need to have the Recent Comments plugin installed and activated in WordPress. In you Recent Comments configuration screen, click on the Output link to be taken [...]

All the talk about 30-Day Blogging Challenge and the EzineArticles 100 Articles in 100 Days has gotten me to thinking about my posts on my blog. For some reason whenever I write a post and click Publish, I just get a spinning icon, nothing happens. I panic every time thinking I’ve lost all that I’ve [...]

Well, I found in my GoogleReader a post by Caroline Middlebrook from yesterday about her blog being taken down again by her host. Unfortunately, as I’m writing this and trying to link to it her blog is gone!  So I will just try to recap what she was explaining. Basically, she hadn’t secured her WordPress installations [...]