Best Practices for Installing or Upgrading a Plugin

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Here’s a step-by-step list on what to do before, during and after you install or upgrade a Wordpress plugin. Plus Troubleshootin’ Tips.

How to Make a Static Home Page in WordPress

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The default Wordpress install of your new blog will put your blog posts on the home page. But if you’d rather have a “static” home page with copy on it, you can make this change easily. Blogshop shows you how.

How to Save Your Blogging Butt: Export, Backup and Archive

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Follow these steps to make sure you’re ready for the strange things that can happen when you are the boss of your own blog.

How to Start a Sky Blog in Your Area

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A couple friends on Facebook have loved my posts from my photo-blog (or “phlog”) SantaFeSky365.com and asked if I could give them a quick tutorial so they could start a West Coast phlog. Here you go, Maya and Liz!

Blogging Step-by-Step: Posting Like a Pro

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After setting up your blog in Blogshop, it may be a few days, a few weeks or even a month before you get back into your dashboard to post. Many of you have asked for a quick Step-by-Step reminder.

Next Steps for your New Blog

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Most new bloggers want to know what next steps they can take to get more traffic. Have you tried Guest Posting on another blog, adding an email service and enhancing your marketing focus?

Playing with Galleries in WordPress

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Can you have a great-looking gallery on your blog without adding any special widgets or plugins? Yes, you can! Wordpress has a built-in, easy-to-use gallery option you can use for your posts.

How to Install a WordPress Plugin

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Plugins are like mini-apps that connect to your Wordpress blog and do a myriad of things. If you have just started your blog, you can test drive the “Hello, Dolly” plugin and not harm anything.