Social media as a marketing channel is one of the most effective ways of referring traffic to your blog and reaching out to your target audience online. Using Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other social media sites will help you build a community of like-minded people who share a passion for your niche and find leads and […]
Why Bloggers Should Care About WordPress 3.6
After well over half a year since the previous 3.X release, two weeks ago WordPress 3.6, named “Oscar”, was released and the blogging world, it seemed, barely took notice. Sure, there was the standard griping about having to update X number of blogs and clamoring to learn about the new features, but it can’t be […]
6 Quick Ways to Improve Your Blog’s Writing
Almost every blogger wants to improve their writing and no blogger is perfect at it. However, the only way to truly get better at writing is to either keep working at it, writing every day for years on end, or to study it intensely in a classroom. But if you don’t have time to either […]
Maintain WordPress Coding Standards with Coda and TextWrangler Editor
One of the most popular text and code editors for Mac OS X certainly is Panic’s Coda. Sadly Coda isn’t 100% compliant with the WordPress coding standards and neither is TextWrangler. Luckily not much is needed to make both editors compliant with the WordPress coding standards and in an entry over at Magp.ie Eoin Gallagher, […]
5 Great Online Image Editors for Bloggers
As Web-based apps gain greater and greater acceptance, especially for casual use, many of the applications we previously considered “must haves” for new computers may just become specialized tools for those with specialized needs. One important area where expensive, downloadable software is losing ground, especially among users with limited needs, is in image editing. Though […]