Protect Important Folders in your Blog

Bill Hartzer’s recent post reminds us to mask some of the more sensitive spots in your blog. Although this is only applicable to self-hosted blogs, I think everyone will benefit from this tip of keeping your blog secure. It’s another one of those tasks we should do habitually but often forget. Here’s how it works: […]

Changing Your WordPress Permalinks

When I’m opening a WordPress blog (I’ve done so a dozen or more times), one of the first things I do is to change the permalink structure. “Permalink” (a portmanteau of “permanent” and “link”) means the URL or web address of your blog posts, pages, categories, archives, and so on. When you install a WordPress […]

Suggested Blog Manners

What I noticed in blogs is that it is now a main source of information to the “Netizens”. As we are in charge of feeding useful, creative, and wacky information to everybody. So it’s time that we as new and old bloggers share our opinions and thoughts. But also be careful because it also reflect […]

Setting a Blog Posting Schedule

There are a few gifted bloggers who somehow manage to finish their posting requirements on time – how many they might be – even if they are slackers and crammers. But for the majority of us bloggers and freelance copywriters, posting regularly proves to be a hurdle. Whether you’re blogging for other people or for […]

When Your WordPress Theme Keeps Reverting To Default

You have a nice WordPress blog set up. You changed its theme to one of your favorites. After a few days, it suddenly returned to its default theme. “What the?…” You thought “Must be a glitch.” So you set up the theme again back to your favorite one. After another day, it happens again. The […]

Tweaking your blog’s HTML? Avoid these horrible tags!

If you’ve been blogging for sometime now, you would have tinkered with HTML several times of already. In fact I’ve shown how you can use several HTML tags to make your posts more readable. The bad news is, HTML has a dark side: it has tags and attributes that are not very useful or meaningful […]