To keep your blog running smoothly, WordPress often needs to schedule tasks to run at certain times, or at some point in the future. Examples include scheduling posts for publication at a future date, generating backups and newsletters at regular Read more…
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Every now and then, I find the need to create a page on my blog that is easily accessible, but not widely publicised. Say I want to make a special offer available via a URL on a business card, in Read more…
Do you like listening to music while you read? I do. And sometimes when I write a blog post, I find there’s a song that’s particularly relevant to what I want to say, so I want to make it easy Read more…
Social media is all the rage, and Facebook is the place to be. Connecting your blog to Facebook allows your friends and followers to get updates from you in their newsfeed whenever you publish a new post. For example, see Read more…
Bullet points are an excellent way to convey lists of information in articles on your blog. They’re easy to read, and generally quicker for readers to scan than the same information represented in full grammatically correct paragraphs. Bullet points are Read more…
By default, the MailPress subscription widget looks pretty crude, because it has no styling. To make it look nice like the one on BuildYourBlog.net, you need to add some rules to the style.css file in your theme. Start by creating Read more…
WordPress has a feature called shortcodes, which allow you to embed dynamically generated content, often from plugins, into your posts by wrapping the shortcode in square brackets [ and ]. For example, to embed a MailPress signup form, you go: Read more…
MailPress is the most powerful free self-hosted automatic newsletter plugin for WordPress, according to my detailed comparison of WordPress newsletter plugins. But and all that power can make it a little tricky to configure. Having a newsletter on your blog Read more…
This is where to start if you want to build your own blog with functionality similar to this one, without having to fork out your hard earned cash to a web developer. Of course they can do it much faster Read more…