Seven WordPress Hacks for Bloggers

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There are tons of awesome blogging platforms to consider, but WordPress is definitely one of the most popular content management systems out there – and with good reason. It’s easy to use and easy to customize, even if you’re a beginner. But as you begin to use it more and more, you start learning little … [Read more]

WordPress.com Announces WordAds for Making Money with Your Blog

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Back in October, WordPress.com and Federated Media announced a partnership to help bloggers make money from advertising revenue on their blog. They’re ready to open up the doors and announced today their service called WordAds. It’s taken WordPress quite awhile to make something like this available and they say it’s because what they had seen … [Read more]

You Can Now Connect Blogger to Google+

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In an effort to begin integrating Google+ into Blogger, Google announced you can now use your Google+ profile with your Blogger blogs. It was back in July talk of Google unifying the Google+ brand began. Although they haven’t renamed Blogger to “Google Blogs” as it had first been reported, they are starting the process of … [Read more]

A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Basics

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If you’re a new blogger, you might want to check out the entire Beginner’s Guide series we’ve been doing here at the BlogWorld blog, which, to date, includes guides to Twitter Basics, SEO Basics, Podcasting Basics, and Blog Monetization Basics. Today, I wanted to cover another common challenge for new bloggers: using WordPress. WordPress is … [Read more]

WordPress Releases Retro Mac Theme in Honor of Steve Jobs

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The internet was in full force yesterday honoring the life of Steve Jobs. From his best quotes and his 2005 Stanford commencement speech, to the way he changed technology forever. It was inspiring to see the different ways people chose to highlight his life, his legacy and keep the memory of him alive. Boing Boing … [Read more]

Google Brings Dynamic Views to Its Free Blogging Tool Blogger

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Google announced new layouts for their free blogging tool Blogger called Dynamic Views. These look amazing! The new themes are powered by AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3. Dynamic views reportedly load 40% faster, as well as provide their blog readers with more enjoyment and discovery of their content. Some of the new features include infinite scrolling, … [Read more]

New Posterous Spaces Makes It a Breeze to Share with the Right People

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Blogging tool Posterous (created in 2008)  introduced a new system this week called Posterous Spaces. It features more up-to date sharing and social tools. They announced the new system on their blog saying, “Why did we create it? Simple – because we think you should be able to share online like you do in real … [Read more]

Tumblr Reaches 10 Billion Post Mark

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As TechCrunch writer MC Siegler logged into his Tumblr account this morning where he operates his personal blog from, he noticed a little something at the top of his dashboard. It read “We’ve just hit our 10 billionth post! Thank you so much for being a part of this awesome journey”. The number 10 billion … [Read more]

Survival Guide to Domain Names

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From the time when the Internet was invented until today, with all different technologies developed in the mean time, domain names and DNS remained strictly structured and fairly easy to understand, which is amazing since everything else changed so much. It is true that sometimes an average user doesn’t even want to know what holds … [Read more]

New Blogger Redesign Available to Everyone!

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Remember news of the Blogger redesign? Well, you can check out the preview of features right now! While there are some new features available (like customizing your favicon) – the most prominent aspect of the redesign is the streamlined look of Google+ and Gmail’s new facelift. Check out how clean the Overview page looks: And … [Read more]