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5 Plugins Every WordPress Blog Should Have

Plugins are add-ons that give WordPress (self-hosted, not .com) sites extra functionality. They’re basically apps for your sites, and whatever you want, there’s a plugin for that. But just because you can use plugins for whatever doesn’t mean you should. Every plugin you add to your website is one more thing …

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How to Back Up Your WordPress or Blogger Blog

I’ve been blogging for a long time and I’ve written over 700 posts and have about 170 sitting in my drafts folder. That’s a lot of typing and letters. If something was to happen and my site crashed and I lost all of these, I would basically quit writing. I’d …

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Blogging 101
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Blogging Do’s and Don’ts: 10 Commandments

There are some things to consider when blogging, so I decided to write a 10 commandments of blogging, with 5 do’s and don’t. Blogging Don’ts. I. Thou shan’t have a URL that is hard to spell – If your site’s address is something that cannot be remembered by the World …

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