Hi! I really like your “Follow Me” widget on your sidebar. My question is: How do you get it to display your follower count? Particularly for Goodreads as I’ve never seen it for that social network before, only Facebook and Twitter. If you could share […]
Tag: WordPress
How to Set Up Post Templates in WordPress
Hi Ashley! I participate in a lot of weekly memes and I was wondering if there was a way to set up post templates so that I could just choose it instead of having to go through and copy and past every week! Thanks! Kaytee […]
What Are WordPress Pingbacks?
Hi Ashley! I was wondering if you could explain pingbacks. I’m not sure if they’re good, bad, spammy, etc. I’ve been getting several a week, and I see there’s a way to reject them. I just don’t know what to do! Reject? Keep? Ignore? Jana […]
Moving from Blogger to WordPress – A Full Walkthrough
If you’re a “do it yourself” kind of person, or if you are afraid to move to WordPress but can’t afford to hire someone to do it for you, this post is for you! I’m going to walk you through how to move your blog […]
Organizing WordPress Images, Auto-Approving Comments, & Logging in on WordPress Blogs
How to Organize Your WordPress Images Hi, Ashley! I’m curious if there is a way to categorize the images I upload in the media section of WordPress. I wish I had a way that I could keep book covers in one area, post headers etc […]
How to Track Page Views & Statistics in WordPress
Sometimes people moving from Blogger to WordPress can be confused about how to track page views. Blogger has a built-in page view counter (it’s highly inaccurate, but that’s not the point..), but WordPress does not. So how do you track page views in WordPress? Thanks […]
Everything You Need to Know About Moving to WordPress
The Blogger to WordPress mass migration is in full swing, and I’m going to answer a question from Meredith about the move! This will cover various different aspects such as which web host to choose, how to move your content over, and whether or not […]
What is the Best WordPress “Contact Us” Form?
If you don’t have a “Contact Us” form on your site, you should get one! Thanks to Tyhada, I’m going to tell you a bit about the best WordPress contact form plugins. What is the best “Contact Us” plugin to use? Tyhada The hands down, […]
Why the Built-In WordPress Commenting System Owns Disqus/Livefyre/etc.
Ladies and gentlemen, let the battle of the WordPress commenting systems begin.. Is it best to use the built in “comments” option or is there a plugin that works better? Such as Disqus, CommentLuv etc Tyhada First, here’s a list of some available third party […]
There’s Never Been a Better Time to Move to WordPress
If you’ve been on Twitter or around the Blogosphere at all, you may have noticed that everyone is moving to WordPress! Google went on a massive “blog deleting” rampage where they decided to mark innocent book blogs as “spam” and delete them. Now most of […]