Have you ever been on vacation or taken a step away from your blog? If so, did you schedule a bunch of posts in advance? Or did you just have zero posts while you were away? I was inspired to publish this post when I […]
Category: Blogging
We Blog for OURSELVES
This Kathleen Hale business has led to a few things: Bloggers being concerned about their safety and privacy Bloggers starting a “Blogging Blackout”—no book reviews for a while A few silly authors criticizing bloggers for participating in the blackout Bloggers getting discouraged, unmotivated, and wondering, […]
How to Use FTP for Your WordPress Blog
What the heck is FTP and why should I care? FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, but let’s not worry too much about the name. Your WordPress site is composed of files. There are files for: The main WordPress installation. Your theme. Every single plugin. […]
CPU and Memory on your Self Hosted WordPress Blog
I am using godaddy to host two of my sites, both are wordpress sites. I recently received an e-mail from godaddy saying my cpu usage and physical memory usage is very high (reaching my current maximum limit). They offer the option to buy more resources, […]
How I Organize My Computer Files
Someone suggested I do a post on how I organize my computer files… so here it is! I originally thought this post would have a lot more cool info than I think I turned out having, but I hope you still enjoy it. 😛 I’m […]
What Kind of Blogger am I?
I don’t know what kind of blogger I am. I’m not sure that I’m really a “book blogger” since I don’t only blog about books, so it feels weird to put myself under that umbrella. I don’t think I’m a web design blogger because I […]
Why “Follow Backs” Are Pointless
Have you ever seen someone say, “Follow me, I follow back!” I mostly see it on Twitter but it also pops up on blogs (especially in comments on memes that link up). I think this is pointless behaviour. By telling me you “follow back”, I […]
{Rant} When People Sign Up for Your Newsletter & Report it as Spam
Every now and then I see someone who subscribes to my blog report the email as spam. This annoys me because the content of my emails are not spam and this person opted in to receive the emails. It’s not like I added them to […]
It Turns Out, The iThemes Security Creators Aren’t Very Secure
So, the iThemes site was hacked On September 23rd, the iThemes team announced that their website had been attacked and their database was compromised. Now, before I dig into that, you may have heard of iThemes in one of two places: You use their theme […]
I Deleted My Categories!
I did it! I reduced 35 categories to only 10! This process was a little scary. I shouldn’t have been that worried or afraid because I keep regular backups of my blog, so I could always fall back to that just in case… BUT STILL! […]