Running a website means you're in the publishing business. And if you're in publishing, you should have an Editorial Calendar. As Copyblogger says, "An editorial calendar is just a fancy name for a pubishing schedule." The editorial calendar is where you plan your WordPress content in the upcoming days, weeks or even months. If you have a team, you assign tasks to individuals based on your editorial calendar. Want to learn more about editorial calendars? Here are a few good overviews of …
What Should I Put in my WordPress Sidebar?
Adding, moving and rearranging elements in your WordPress sidebar is easy peasy. With widgets and plugins it's simple. No sweat. But knowing what to put there? That's another story. First, understand there's no one-size-fits-all answer. Millions of different sites in tens of thousands of different categories, businesses and interest areas, need different stuff (a highly technical WordPress term!) in the sidebars. Second, your sidebar shouldn't go on . . . and on . . . and on. Scroll down …
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Require Featured Image Plugin: Review
Plugins add functionality and dress up your WordPress website. I've just found a new plugin that will help you make your blog pages look a lot more interesting! It's called the Require Featured Image Plugin. What's a Featured Image? The Featured Image is the little image that shows up on a blog page next to the excerpt from the article or post. If you forget to add it before you hit the Publish button, your blog page will look like this (boring!). Now there's a plugin that won't let you …
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