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How to Change Authors in WordPress (+ Author Plugins)

Updated: October 4th, 2023 2 Comments Category: WordPress

Although today WordPress is a powerful and versatile content management system that’s capable of practically anything, it’s still mostly used as a blogging platform. Even if a blog is just a part of your website, you will have to have at least one author that will write new content. But the chance is, you will […] Read the full story

How to Add a Copyright Notice in WordPress

Updated: October 4th, 2023 Be the first to comment Category: WordPress

Almost every website that you find on the Internet will have a copyright notice which gives basic information about the site. Even though the law has changed and placing a copyright symbol won’t actually protect your work, there is an unwritten rule for web designers to put a notice in the footer of the website […] Read the full story

How to Add Google Analytics to a WordPress Website

Updated: October 4th, 2023 Be the first to comment Category: WordPress

Whether it is a blog, a simple personal website, or a business portfolio that you are building with WordPress, you are doing it for a reason. You want people to be able to get to the content that you have presented online. Without the audience, your web project doesn’t serve its purpose. So one way […] Read the full story

Email Marketing Guide for Beginners

Updated: January 24th, 2025 5 Comments Category: Blogging

Digital marketing is a sophisticated approach that businesses have to take into consideration to succeed online. Due to the development of different technologies, customers have shifted their attention to other devices, and to other forms of communication. It has forced businesses to rely on social media marketing, content creation, PPC campaigns, and email marketing. Today, […] Read the full story

How to Create a One-Page Website with WordPress

Updated: January 24th, 2025 4 Comments Category: WordPress

A one-page website is a site with just one page which the user can scroll through. A lot of one-page websites still have a primary menu. People can click on the menu items, but instead of going to another page, they go to another section on the same page. We already showed you how to […] Read the full story

How to Hide Posts on Homepage of the WordPress Website

Updated: October 4th, 2023 6 Comments Category: WordPress

WordPress is versatile. By choosing different WordPress themes, installing plugins and manually fiddling with code and templates, you can develop any type of website that you want. The style of the homepage depends solely on the theme and your wishes. But even though it has been years after WordPress evolved into much more than a […] Read the full story

10 Best FeedBurner RSS Alternatives for WordPress

Updated: September 15th, 2024 Be the first to comment Category: Blogging

When you decided to start a blog, you obviously wanted people to be able to easily get access to your posts. An average user will probably stumble upon your site through search engines or social media and just take a look at one or maybe two pages. But what happens if that user decides to […] Read the full story

What is an RSS feed? How does it work?

Updated: October 4th, 2023 Be the first to comment Category: Blogging

Information is all around us, and more often than not, it is simply hard to keep track. It can be frustrating, as important news are happening every day and it is important to stay up-to-date. Such a significant amount of information is probably hard to filter out, to only follow what you want and what […] Read the full story

Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin Review

Updated: October 4th, 2023 Be the first to comment Category: WordPress

With more than 3+ million active installations, Yoast SEO is one of the most popular plugins for the WordPress blogging platform. There are more than 150,000 new downloads each day, and it doesn’t surprise that this free plugin is one of the first choices for new bloggers. Even if you are just starting out with […] Read the full story

What Is Copywriting? Who Is a Copywriter?

Updated: October 4th, 2024 2 Comments Category: Blogging

It may be nobody’s fault that the word “copywriting” has started to lose its meaning. In linguistics, we recognize this phenomenon as “semantic satiation” – you repeat a word so many times that it eventually starts disintegrating into an incomprehensible string of letters. As copywriting is everywhere around, it’s nothing peculiar that we’ve lost every […] Read the full story

Disqus Comment System Plugin Overview

Updated: October 4th, 2023 Be the first to comment Category: WordPress

Blogging and commenting go hand in hand – you pretty much can’t have one without another. Right after you start receiving the first comments on your new WordPress blog, you will realize that managing discussion takes time. Although there is nothing wrong with having the default comment system which comes pre-installed with WordPress, there are alternatives […] Read the full story

100+ Types of Content Creation You Can Use in 2025

Updated: March 22nd, 2025 6 Comments Category: Blogging

Do you ever feel excited to start a blog or share something on social media, yet find yourself unsure about which types of content creation best fit your vision? With new formats emerging almost daily, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer variety of options—from simple text posts to highly engaging social media content. But […] Read the full story

How Much Does It Cost to Start and Run a Blog?

Updated: January 24th, 2025 4 Comments Category: Blogging

Writing a few articles as a hobby on some of the free blogging platforms is one thing, but being a professional and running a full-time blog is entirely another thing. The first one comes at no cost, except, of course, your time. And it is a viable option if you want to keep things casual. […] Read the full story

Why You Shouldn’t Use FREE Blogging Sites to Launch a Blog

Updated: October 4th, 2023 1 Comment Category: Blogging

For complete newbies, the whole process of picking a blogging platform could be confusing with so many choices out there. Or you might not even understand what is a blogging platform. The first thing that might come to mind is to find some free option to set up your blog. We are here to disappoint […] Read the full story

What is Gravatar? How to Create and Use it?

Updated: October 4th, 2023 Be the first to comment Category: WordPress

When starting a blog, simple icons that represent individuals probably won’t be on top of your list to check out. But after just days of blogging and starting to connect with people, it’s hard not to notice that most of the bloggers and commenters have their pictures associated with the name. Those little images that […] Read the full story

How to Start a WordPress Blog: Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

Updated: January 24th, 2025 18 Comments Category: WordPress

Even years before the term “blog” spread through the Internet, people were writing personal stories in different online formats. Back in the ’90s, individuals had been writing online journals and diaries where they were able to express feelings and share information. Since then, those diaries evolved into the whole blogging industry, and blogs quickly became […] Read the full story

The Beginner’s Guide to Blog Content Planning

Updated: October 4th, 2024 Be the first to comment Category: Blogging

Blogging is not only a day in, day out writing effort within a particular niche or related to a particular subject matter. To create and maintain a successful blog you need to have a well-established content plan. It should include all the details related to future blog posts, publishing schedules, audience development and growth, social […] Read the full story

How to Sell a Blog for High Five Figures

Updated: October 21st, 2024 Comments Off on How to Sell a Blog for High Five Figures Category: Blogging

Starting a blog can be a very lucrative career choice, but many bloggers tend to transfer from blogging to something else after a while. That leaves them with a resource that they can cash in on, but how high can you go? Six figures is a realistic number to aim for a well-established blog, but […] Read the full story

How to Sell Ads on Your Blog

Updated: March 23rd, 2025 5 Comments Category: Blogging

There are many ways to make money off a blog and selling ads is one of those. Some people even create blogs with this goal in mind as it’s an entirely viable option and one of the legit ways to earn money. Not all of us enjoy seeing ads and often getting annoyed by them. […] Read the full story

How to Sell Digital and Physical Products Online

Updated: January 24th, 2025 Be the first to comment Category: Blogging

It has become easier to start an online business and make money online that it seems like everyone is doing it. Why shouldn’t you when it is quite simple and, most of all, beneficial? It doesn’t mean that you need to quit your job to start selling products or services online. You can do both […] Read the full story