Category Archives: Blogs

Luv Luv Me Do

Happily I’ve been able to upgrade my Sandbox theme, and as a result can now upgrade my WordPress plugins and add some I couldn’t use before. One of these is Comment Luv. Comment Luv is a nice way to thank a visitor for leaving a comment on your blog by automatically listing the most recent [...]
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Evolution of a Blog

When I first started the Diva, it was because it was a requirement of my new job at Terralever in July ‘07. I had never blogged before, and was terrified of sounding like an idiot in front of a global audience (yeah, like everyone was just waiting to read my blog). My first posts are pretty [...]
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The Difference Between Pages and Posts

When should you write a post, when should it be a page, and what’s the difference, anyway? Posts are frequent entries, tend to be shorter, and contain information that is immediate. If you’re a real estate agent, your posts may revolve around homes you just listed; a decorator would write posts on the the most chic, [...]

Co-Author Your Blog

Keeping up a blog can be a real chore. The ideal is to have 3 - 5 posts a week, and if you’re writing on the side after your day job is over, that can get tough. With 3 blogs to keep up with, plus client blogs, my brain starts spinning sometimes. Giving up a [...]

Replace CAPTCHA with ASIRRA

CAPTCHAs drive me crazy. Often the code is so warped I can’t decipher one of the letters or numbers. If I can read it, for some reason when I type the code in it’s usually wrong the first time. If I lose any of the data in the form I’ve just completed then I tend [...]

Promote Your Blog in These Directories

It’s so easy to write your posts, use the plugin All-in-One-SEO to optimize the title and tags, and think you’re done. But what about advertising your blog and getting traffic? How do you do that? Word of mouth generally won’t do the trick. I’m as guilty as everyone else about letting my poor blogs languish. But [...]

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