Utilizing functions like the Twitter tweet button and Feedburner help you to easily share and spread the direct link for your blog post. But once your current post is replaced by a newer one, the only way to push those older posts out again is to manually tweet them. Unless you use something like the Tweet Old…
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Buffer: What it is and why it’s great
Buffer is a social sharing tool that automagically shares content added to it to (your choice of) Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Most commonly used with a browser extension or Buffer Button plugin, what makes Buffer so great is how easy sharing content at optimal times can be. In your Dashboard, under Settings, you can determine…
Setting up Akismet on your WordPress.org Website
Controlling comment spam is one of the most annoying website upkeep issues there are. *Image credit Sean MacEntee Each website platform has its own set of available tools to curb or eliminate those pesky, unwanted messages. For WordPress.org websites, Akismet is probably the most popular comment spam blocking tool. How to Install Akismet on your…
Using the Social Author Bio Plugin
If you’ve ever wanted to highlight your blog’s authorship, an author bio box plugin like Social Author Bio is a great one to check out. Seen here on Eli | Rose, the Social Author Bio plugin includes an avatar, name, author post count, biography and links for 18 social profiles (including email and website). You…
Adding Google Analytics to your WordPress Website
Installing analytics tracking scripts on your WordPress website is the best way to learn as much as you possibly can about your site’s visitors. Analytics can tell you where your visits are coming from, how those visitors are finding your website, how long visitors stay on your site, what pages they viewed during their visit…
WordPress Plugin: What Would Seth Godin Do
What Would Seth Godin Do is more than just a catchy phrase; it’s a popular WordPress plugin that allows a user to present website visitors with a custom welcome message. This custom welcome message box can appear above or below your content, and on your posts or pages or both. Because it’s easy to change,…
Why you Should Use the Rel Authorship Markup Tag
Google has created a way to link content written by you to your face and name. It is called authorship markup, and adding that markup to your website means that search results that pull an article written by you, show the world that you are the author. Below is an example of a search result…
Comment Reply Plugins for WordPress.org Sites
Replying to comments can be a great way to keep communication open with followers, to show readers that you care about what they have to say, and to get people coming back to your site. However, if people don’t receive your comment replies, it’s really not helping you at all to spend the time replying…
E.R. Recommends: Putting your WordPress Site in “Maintenance” Mode
If you are moving around some elements on your website or blog, in the process of a full site redesign or perhaps want to tinker with the layout or other formatting, you may prefer that your “in process” changes aren’t visible to the rest of the world. WordPress makes it easy – via plugins – to…
Google XML Sitemap Plugin
While not detectable from your site’s design or other on-page features, a sitemap is a key component to the core of your website or blog and a crucial part to an overall strong web presence. The foundation of good SEO efforts, a sitemap provides search engine bots the information they need to effectively crawl and…
