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At some point, you will receive a meta tag or tracking code that you will need to add to your blog. If your site is built on the Genesis framework, as all the ones I build are, adding that code is super-easy. In your dashboard, just hover over “Appearance” then click “Customize.” In there, scroll…
You got your RSS feed set up (woohoo!). But when you test it, there’s a line at the bottom that says “The post appeared first on” It shows in your MailChimp emails, MailerLite, in feed readers. And it’s annoying. Mostly because you can’t where it’s coming from. So where did the text come from? The Yoast…
A blog series is a great way to build engagement and create repeat visitors for your blog. What exactly is a series? Remember how TV shows used to occasionally end an episode in “To be continued…”? And then you couldn’t wait until next week to see what happened? Each episode was still an episode, but those…
UPDATE: While Tasty Recipes is a fine plugin, I do now definitely recommend WP Recipe Maker over it. While it’s still not quite as easy to set up, there are SO many more options for customizing it, and the customer service is AMAZING. Plus, there is a free version you can get started with. Before…
Before I tell you how to change your domain name’s DNS info, I want to give you a quick explanation of what it all means. That way what you’re doing will make sense and if the particular company you’re using does things a little different than my instructions, you’ll be able to figure it out…
Moving the labels on a contact form to inside the fields is as easy as replacing the word “Label” with the word “Placeholder.” Really. We’ll use a simple Jetpack contact form as our example, but it’s basically the same procedure for MailChimp sign up forms or any other forms you can access the HTML or…
On average, I get an email about once a month asking “Why aren’t my latest blog posts showing on my home page? The blog post is there, but it won’t show up on the home page.” It’s a maddening issue that is becoming a pretty common problem. Every single time someone has asked me that,…
When you use the Read More links on your blogger blog, it just adds a tiny text link to the bottom of your posts that can be pretty easy for readers to miss. And it’s not very pretty either. By default, the Blogger read more link will look like this: Not very noticeable. Click on…
It’s pretty easy to add your Pinterest profile to your Blogger sidebar. (If you prefer to watch me do it rather than read, there is a quick video tutorial below the instructions!) To add Pinterest to your Blogger blog, we’ll first create the Widget on Pinterest’s website, then we’ll just copy and paste the code…
In this quick tutorial, I’ll show you how to add your Instagram pictures to Blogger. It’s free, it’s fast, and it’s easy. (If you learn better from watching, there is a video tutorial at the bottom of the post.) Here are the instructions for adding Instagram to Blogger: First, we’re going to create the widget…
If you have just one or two images that you want to be circles instead of squares, there’s a really simple line of code you can add to the image. It will be much faster than editing your image in Photoshop. If you remember from this post, you’ll remember that the code to add an…
There are several plugins out there that make it easy to add an image to your sidebar. But they’re pretty unnecessary. Adding an image to your sidebar only takes one little tiny line of code. You can just copy and paste it and then add your image. No plugin required. I’ll walk you through it in the video, or you can read the step-by-step below.
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Puppy shenanigans included, a WordPress theme and child theme can be installed in less than 5 minutes. Watch the video below for step-by-step instructions. Or if you’d prefer to read, scroll below the video.
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Once you have purchased your domain and hosting, the next step is setting up WordPress. In the video below, I’ll show you how to install WordPress on your website. As you can see, the video is under 4 minutes, so the setup will be quick and painless!
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As a designers and developers, sometimes we’ll make a change to a website and then hear back from the client or customer that they don’t see the changes we made. We’ll usually respond that you should try clearing your cache and then see if you see the changes.
Why? What does it mean? How do you do it?
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In the past, Microsoft allowed had a very simple way to insert a PowerPoint presentation into a blog post. Sadly, they no longer offer that service unless you have a business or “pro” account. There is still a simple work-around though, and it just requires a couple extra steps. Sign up for an account on…
If we’ve worked together, you know I’ve probably mentioned optimizing your images at least a half dozen times. Why is it so important? The biggest reason is your page speed, which can have a big impact on your SEO rankings. We don’t want all your hard work to be dragged down just because your images…