A Blogger’s BluePrint: Tools that Ensure Our Success Online
I've spent today laying out a blueprint to every tool we use at DearBlogger.org, to guide you across the treacherous waters of trial and error.
Category: blog plugins
5 Ways To Create Amazing & Timeless Blog Post Images
As bloggers we all want to plan out a style our readers can recognize, a style which sets our blog apart. Our images are a big part of this plan. In this tutorial post we'll look at 6 ways to…
How To Easily Use Google Fonts with WordPress
Check it out right here or on the YouTube channel!
Contact Form 7 Not Sending – Just Use JotForm
Hi guys, really quick post today. For the longest time now I have not understood why Contact Form 7 gets so many downloads, aside from the snowball effect that it has so many downloads already.
WordPress Not Changing? Clear Your Browser Cache or Turn Caching Off
It's a question I hear more and more these days: "I just changed the BLANK on my site, but nothing is happening and I can't see my changes. What am I doing wrong?!" In this post, I'll show you why…
My Site Was Hacked: How to Prevent WordPress Hacks
If you run a blog in the 20-teens then you could get hacked. Dear Blogger was hacked just a week ago, meaning anyone visiting the site saw a 403 error page and we were de-indexed from Search. Let me say…
How To Make Custom Widgets for Your Sidebar
I hope you enjoy this blog post where we use the new post editor and a blank text widget to add cool things in the sidebar. Let me know and comment below! — Greg
How to Hide an Affiliate Link from Google (Video + Coding Tutorial: Part 2)
If you engage in affiliate marketing on your blog or website, you’re going to be embedding third party links given to you from the affiliate program. While these links are great for tracking your unique performance, the problem is they…
Finally Published! The Dear Blogger Toolbox
As you know, I regularly recommend products, to provide answers, both at the blog and on social media. For a while now I had been thinking of creating a “toolbox” that you could return to again and again for the…
How to Place Your Ad Units Above the Fold for Over 50% More Clicks
Dear Readers, The top left corner of your blog posts is one area that’s proven to maximize click through rates on your ads. Problem is, unless you’ve got a premium theme with a section devoted to advertisements, you’re going to…
You and Lorraine Take on Coding: PART I
As Lorraine prepares to launch her new site (check out her pre-announcement post right here) we found ourselves talking about WordPress code over Skype. Here I am explaining the code I basically live by around here, and I got to…
Sticky Widgets: A Great New Plugin
So as I wound up Spring Cleaning, I stumbled upon a plugin called Sticky Widgets WordPress that I’m really glad I integrated into the blog. The actually name of the plugin is a bit odd so I’m just going to…
What Exactly are WordPress Plugins and How do You Use Them?
Answer: Plugins are blog add-ons that do specific things for your WordPress blog like show related posts, count post views, or add Facebook buttons. There is a plugin for literally any WordPress feature you can think of. Let’s start this…