From WordPress Beginner To Blogging Rockstar: 28 Awesome Tips
October 14, 2011
Admit it...you want to be this guy
WordPress can be overwhelming at first. And there is a good reason for that – it is an extremely powerful piece of kit. And with great power comes great responsibility. Whilst that’s not at all relevant to this post, it is always fun to sound ominous.
There are a few things that you want to get right with WordPress. You want an awesome theme. All the right plugins. All the right knowledge. And much more. You want to know those little things that we all wish we’d known when we first started out.
Well, you’re in the right place.
Getting Started
- Learn the basics
- Install WordPress in less than 90 seconds
- Still working on your design? Let visitors know that your blog is coming soon
Finding Plugins And Themes
- Choose from our own huge resource of free plugins and themes
- Check out the WordPress repository (themes | plugins)
- Only ever download themes from trusted sources
Special Social Sauce
- Get your blog optimized for social media lovin’ with Floating Social
- Keep the comments flowing with Comments Plus
- Follow these 6 simple steps to get more comment love
- Keep your blog visitors smiling with WP Grins
- Make comment spam a problem of the past
- Make sure that your visitors can contact you
- Optimize your blog for Facebook
Content Love
- Learn how to be a successful blogger
- Write great content
- Be remarkable
- Publish a pillar article
- Go viral
Under The Hood
- Secure your blog
- Set up an offline WordPress blog for tinkering (Mac | PC)
- Make sure you don’t break your blog!
- Make sure that your blog displays correctly on all major formats
- Beware of updating plugins
- Power up your blog with FeedBurner
- Optimize your blog’s load time
Some Fancy Pants Stuff To Be Starting With
That's right...actual fancy pants
- Save time by editing your CSS on the fly
- Power up your browser for WordPress domination
- Be stylish – use Google fonts
- Spice up your theme
What Now?
What are you waiting for? You can’t tell me that you have owned all 28 of those tips already? Really?
Well it’s your turn then: submit your own awesome WordPress tips in the comments section below! What else do you think should be on the list?
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