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Wordpress Help Wanted
Huckfillary ^ | June 4, 2014 | huckfillary

Posted on 06/05/2014 2:00:34 PM PDT by huckfillary

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1 posted on 06/05/2014 2:00:34 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: huckfillary

Not a response.


2 posted on 06/05/2014 2:02:27 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: huckfillary

Ditch the blog, write your stuff right here.
Responses guaranteed.


3 posted on 06/05/2014 2:03:22 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: huckfillary
I started a WordPress Blog a few months ago and basically don't know what I'm doing. I can write, but am IT-challenged.

I've never done one but have considered starting one myself. Pinging myself to the thread to see what responses you get.

4 posted on 06/05/2014 2:04:57 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: huckfillary

A lot of your hits are the ‘bots that are reconning your site to see if it’s worth autoposting to.


5 posted on 06/05/2014 2:05:29 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: humblegunner

>>Ditch the blog, write your stuff right here.

And get flamed for too many vanity posts, or for one misspelled word, or for grammar, or punctuation errors, or....!


6 posted on 06/05/2014 2:08:08 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: huckfillary; humblegunner

I started a WordPress Blog a few months ago and basically don’t know what I’m doing.

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Well then. Ping the expert.


7 posted on 06/05/2014 2:08:14 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: huckfillary

Freepmail me and I’ll help you. I charge.


8 posted on 06/05/2014 2:10:11 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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Depending on how you have your wordpress configured there may be comments to your posts but they are waiting for moderation. It isn't a good idea to have responses automatically post to the live wordpress thread unless you plan to sit there and monitor it 24/7 and you'll get a mountain of trash responses like viagra ads etc. Under the wordpress admin area there is an area that will allow you to set how new comments are handled. I believe the default is to hold them until you OK them or trash them.

If your settings are set to hold any comments for your inspection and if there are comments made to your blog posts then there is an area in the admin area where you will find the posts awaiting your perusal. You can them give them the OK which will automatically post them to your blog or you can trash them.

9 posted on 06/05/2014 2:17:56 PM PDT by Justice
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To: Bryanw92

I post everything I write to freerepublic. But I also put it on artfuldilettante.com as well. I’m not a pro-—at writing or IT—so the blog isn’t 1/100th of where I’d like to take it, substantively or aesthetically. I’d like to transform it to a website with a reading list, links, etc., but I haven’t the know-how to do it. Please, go to the site, read my stuff, and let me have it. I really want some feedback.


10 posted on 06/05/2014 2:20:05 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: Bryanw92; huckfillary; Lazamataz
And get flamed for too many vanity posts

Hey Laz.. what be that category for FReep editorial / self publishing?

11 posted on 06/05/2014 2:24:18 PM PDT by humblegunner
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OK, I clicked your blog.

I liked it. The spacing was good, the lines were clear, the black print on white background was perfect. I HATE morons who use a blue font on purple background or some such junk as that. Makes it too hard to read. And your margins were good. A very clean layout.

But only 4 blogs? Dude, you gotta get up in the hundreds, maybe thousands before you develop readership and responses.

And even then.


12 posted on 06/05/2014 2:27:59 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: huckfillary

Many of those “hits” are bots


13 posted on 06/05/2014 2:29:36 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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The different post titles on that bar at the top is a really nice touch, I have never seen that before.


14 posted on 06/05/2014 2:33:06 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: humblegunner

I can never figure out how to post on here unless I’m responding to some other post like right now. Even when I want to post an article I’m only sporadically successful with it! Oh well, I hope huckfillary has better luck


15 posted on 06/05/2014 2:58:56 PM PDT by hulagirl (Mother Theresa was right)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/help.htm#articles


16 posted on 06/05/2014 3:05:43 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: huckfillary

Here are some suggestions.

- I see you’re adding a menu item for every post you make. You’re going to run out of menu slots before the blog ever gets big enough to make an impact. Adjust your settings so the home page lists *all* of your blog postings, newest to oldest. Then change your menu items so they correspond to selected categories or tags to narrow the selection down. At the very least, make some sub-pages to organize things more effectively.

- Use a search engine optimizer plugin, with plenty of keyword tags, to help your posts get visibility on Google and other search engines. Yoast Wordpress SEO is the one most people seem to use.

- Start a Facebook page and link in both directions to that. Share your posts on your own page, as well as others when it would be of interest to users. Be judicious and unobtrusive but don’t be intimidated by self-appointed spam police.

- Use Akismet to filter spam posts. I leave comments completely open on my site, without even requiring registration, to encourage easy participation. With Akismet I very rarely have to remove anything that slips through the filters.

- Pingbacks/linkbacks/trackbacks are an important source of readers. You’ll want to mix your own content with short links and reviews of related material on other blogs you like. This does not mean plagiarism! You’re giving the other author full credit and encouraging your readers to go and have a look. Typically WordPress will create a new link back to your own post in the comments or footer of the other site’s post.

- Keep at it. It takes a long time for a blog to build an audience. You need fresh and timely content, nice illustrations, and constant self-promotion on other appropriate sites.


17 posted on 06/05/2014 3:06:09 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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Your blog has only four posts.
They are all esoteric.

Go to Google Adwords and see what people are searching for and use the high ranking keywords in your posts.
Use images. Name those images with keywords.
Post more.

You have no privacy policy. You can generate one and that gives you another page at least.

Privacy Policy Online

Add some meta tags and facebook tags.

Meta Tag Generator

Go and post a backlink on another site like WebDeveloper.
They have a section called website reviews where they allow posting a link to a site.

18 posted on 06/05/2014 3:10:51 PM PDT by Fear The People (When the government fears the people, you have LIBERTY.)
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To: ccmay; huckfillary
constant self-promotion

Which does not include exerpting your material here. Post the whole content.

Some folks hereabouts get pissy about that.

19 posted on 06/05/2014 3:12:45 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: huckfillary

In the world of Cyberspace there are some deserts, keep going; in the desert, there are also some Oasis!


20 posted on 06/05/2014 3:17:53 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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