It’s a great feeling when people are really involved in your blog, and show their interest and appreciation by actively participating.
The best way to motivate your visitors to comment is to offer them information that’s inspiring, helpful, and compelling. But it also helps to develop an interactive, dynamic relationship with them. And one way to [...]

In a previous post, I presented my 7 Must-Have WordPress Plugins. These are the critical plugins that I install on all my blogs right from the get go.
With those 7 plugins installed, I then install a suite of additional plugins, selecting those plugins that are consistent with the goals of the blog. This customization varies [...]

Over the last couple of years, I’ve installed and configured many WordPress blogs. With each new blog installation, I do a fair amount of research on plugins that might benefit my blog. Why the repeated research? A couple of reasons. One is that plugins that I may already know about may be incompatible with the [...]

When I started this blog just about a week ago, I invested my time in installing WordPress, searching for and installing a theme, ferreting out some must-have plugins, and working up my daily posts.
The one action that I hadn’t yet taken was something that now, a week later, I couldn’t put off any longer – [...]