As I go about making some changes in my sites, I see that an update is in order for my favorite basic plugins. We are constantly evolving, humans and software. 🙂 Caveat reminder: I’m writing primarily about plugins available for self-hosted WordPress.org installations. If you are on WordPress.com, some of these will not be available. […]
Tags for Posts: Best Practices
I covered how to use the broader idea of categories for your blog posts in this article. Now, I’d like to contrast that with a bit on the use of tags. To me (having originally been a book indexer by trade), tags are more like an index, while categories are more like a table of […]
Post Categories: Best Practices
If you are a professional content strategist, you probably know the latest about how to use this feature of WordPress blog posts, but many great writers are just a little clueless about the most efficient and effective way to use categories. In addition, Google’s search engine has changed the way it evaluates tags in particular […]
Social Media for Introverts
I’d put money on the idea that many serious introverts, including a number of authors as well as artisans and artists, are the majority of the no-social-media accounts population. Problem is that social media has become a go-to space to be visible to an audience for your books or jewelry or paintings. Years ago, we […]
Do I Need a Website?
Well, it depends (like most things). Note the word “need” in my post title. First make sure you need one for some purpose (doesn’t have to be something you get paid for, though). Let’s go through the possibilities: Service business (even if it’s just local) = yes Products to sell (autos to xylophones) (even if […]
Making Content Changes to Your Site
This is a WordPress-versus-your-static-custom-coded-site comparison. I just finished tweaking a client’s site because the web host made a change that caused it to not display at all. Between her web host and me, we got her original site back up, and I made a small update to the content on one of the pages. All […]