Fabulous Blogging

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22 Ideas to Help Your WordPress Website Look Customized and Professional

When you first install WordPress, it’s fairly bare bones. You are given a default theme, no plugins (or very few) and all the default settings for comments, timezone, favicon, etc. In order to make your blog or website stand out, here are 22 ways to customize your site to look like one of a kind. […]

Quick ‘n Dirty – Your Questions, Answered!

As a blog designer and social media consultant, I receive a lot of questions in my email inbox. And you’d be surprised how many are repeats! So I thought I’d start a series where I compile them in a list with no frills answers. Consider it a grab n go resource guide for you to […]

Everything You Need to Know About Twitter Lists

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Twitter Lists are the single most essential organizational tool for managing Twitter. Without them, you will be lost, disorganized, and unable to track the best tweeters in your niche. What is a list? A list is a group of tweeters that are centered around […]

IFTTT | Social Automation for Working Smarter Not Harder

I can hear what you’re thinking…Oh no! Not another social media tool to learn! I’m not introducing a new platform today, but I am going to show you how to use all these tools in the most efficient way possible. If your blog or website is the storefront to your business or platform, social media is your […]

Ask Fabulous Blogging: The Quick ‘n Dirty

As a blog designer and social media consultant, I receive a lot of questions in my email inbox. And you’d be surprised how many are repeats! So I thought I’d start a series where I compile them in a list with no frills answers. Consider it a grab n go resource guide for you to […]

Never Miss a New Pin From Your Favorite Pinners Again

This is one of those hacks that I wish I’d known about months ago. Today, I’m going to show you how to keep track of your most favorite Pinterest boards. It’s so simple! Here we go. Step One: Get a Feedly Account (or some other RSS reader). I love Feedly. It’s easy to star things, […]

Everything You Need (and Don’t) With the Jetpack Plugin

If you are using WordPress for your blog, you’ve probably heard of the plugin called Jetpack. I get a lot of questions about Jetpack — its function, its connection to WordPress.com, as well as how to use it. So today, I’m going to decode the mega-plugin for you. I’ll explain how to get it on […]

Create a Button or Header That Changes When You Hover With Your Mouse

If you are a self-taught blogging DIYer, you might have seen these gorgeous headers and buttons with mouseover effects and you wonder, “How do they do that?” Today’s tutorial is going to teach you how! One disclaimer — I’m going to show you how to create a fully interactive header, but I’ll be giving instructions for […]

Set Up Self-Hosted WordPress Like a Boss

Let’s start at the beginning. In order to have your own website or blog, you need two things—a domain name (otherwise called a URL) and a server to hold all your files. Most people don’t have a dedicated server in their homes, so you’ll need to buy space somewhere. In layman’s terms, the URL is […]

Social Media in a Pinch

Time is always in short supply. Be a blogger or a small business, some of the “expert” social media strategies take a long time…my own advice included. Unfortunately there are still some widely held beliefs that social media is simply a place to goof off, or it’s a quick and “easy out” solution for marketing […]

The Best Spots to Find Great Content to Share

As a social media manager, you are not only responsible for sharing relevant and helpful information in your client’s niche, they will probably have anywhere from 2-8 social profiles that need a constant supply of edible content- and it can’t always be their own. So how do you find out where the best stuff is? […]

What to Do When Your Blog Isn’t Working

Have you ever had one of those dream sequences where you are forced to be naked at school/work/party? There is something so humiliating about looking “undone” in public– it’s a very normal and natural human fear. I think this is why some common blog problems can drain us so quickly. The site is live, there is […]

Blogging for Teens | A Guide for Parents

The following post is a collaborative effort put together by myself and Jessica Smock. For those of you who don’t know her, Jessica Smock is a former educator and researcher who earned her doctorate in educational policy last spring. At her blog School of Smock she writes about parenting and education. She was a co-editor of the recent […]

Behind the “Screen” with Fabulous Blogging

I don’t know about you, but I love to read blog posts that highlight how people accomplished something. I especially love behind the scenes secrets and I suspect I am not alone. So today, I’m going to give you a look at what goes on behind the screen for Fabulous Blogging. It never fails, when […]

Moving a Blog Checklist

Getting ready to move to self-hosted WordPress? Congratulations! You’ll never look back. That said, moving a blog (whether from Blogspot or WordPress.com) can be stressful, even if you’ve hired someone to do it for you. I have several resources on this blog about moving, but here is a handy checklist to use as a reference! […]