Blogging Tips

WordPress Galleries: How to Make a Portfolio Page

May 2, 2013 7 Comments

I want to marry WordPress and have fabulous .php babies with it. Seriously, I love the platform. Because every time I find myself even starting to brainstorm a feature wishlist, those darned developers come out with exactly what I needed. The most recent example is the WordPress Image Galleries feature, which is native to the WordPress.org platform (previously, there were plugins you could use to get the same effect but this is better). You can now upload multiple photos at {Read More}

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Moving From Feedburner to Feedblitz

April 3, 2013 18 Comments

I’ve moved my RSS feed to FeedBlitz, and you may want to do the same. It was time for me and FeedBurner to break up. We had a pretty good run but I think the writing is on the wall. I mean, Google just announced that it’s shutting down one of its most popular services — Google Reader. Why would it keep FeedBurner?

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Learning From Your Blog Critics

March 15, 2013 46 Comments

How to accept feedback from critics without ending up in tears

I’m terrible at accepting criticism but it’s funny — in every job I’ve held in television, I’ve had daily, immediate and often negative feedback (even on good days!). So I urge bloggers to consider looking at their readers and critics as news directors.

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