Technical
Super-Easy Tactic For Increasing Reader Anticipation
One of the things we all want is for our readers to come back to your blog. This is why we like getting visitors onto our lists, follow us on Twitter, or subscribe by RSS.
However, there is another super-easy tactic you can use to increase anticipation: Showing them what’s coming before it is published.
With that in mind, here is some code you can copy/paste into your blog theme in order to easily list out scheduled posts.
How To Do A Custom Login Box With Wishlist Member
Wishlist Member is one of the absolute best ways to quickly and easily set up a membership site with Wordpress. However, as good as it is, it isn’t perfect.
One of the limitations is the lack of ability to customize your login box. Wishlist comes with a widget for a login box which makes it very convenient. The problem is that the code for that login widget is encrypted, so you can’t do anything with it. What’s more, they didn’t bother to add unique CSS identifiers to the fields so you could at least style it yourself.
The solution is simply not to use their built-in login widget and do one yourself.
How To Reorganize Your Blog Categories
If you’re anything like me, your blog’s category structure was evolved over time and got to be a bit of a mess.
You write a new post and think, “Well, this doesn’t seem to fit anywhere, so I’ll just make a new category.” Next thing you know, you’ve got an unwieldy list of categories. Some are too general and are loaded with posts while others have barely anything to them.
The solution is to reorganize. But, how?
How To Create An Events List With WordPress
When I did the recent design changes to DavidRisley.com, one of the things I wanted to do was add an events list. You can see it off in the right sidebar.
The idea behind it is simply to be able to use the blog as a central platform for all events that I do, including webinars, launches, live events – anything with a particular date assigned to it. Even if I do a call only for my students, I’ll still list it here on the blog.
From a technical perspective, this looks easy. But, it isn’t. It took me some time and testing to figure out what I’m about to show you.
How To Keep Your WordPress Blog From Being Hacked
Has your blog ever been hacked? Have you ever had that horrible, sinking feeling when you go to check out your blog, only to find that it isn’t even there anymore? If you haven’t had it happen yet, there’s a decent chance you will. I have. More than once. And it sucks. One moment your [...]
How To Have Random, Rotating Images In Your Blog Header
As part of my new header design for this blog, I am using a series of 12 header images which rotate randomly. I’ve had a few people comment on that and wonder how I did it. It is actually VERY easy to do.
How To Pause The Aweber Autoresponder
My readers know that I am a big proponent of Aweber for mailing list management. Out of the many things that you can do with Aweber, one of them is an autoresponder. If you’re not already familiar, an autoresponder is simply a pre-scheduled series of emails that get sent out to a new subscriber on [...]
Using Google Voice To Give Your Blog A Phone Number
I am a self-proclaimed Google whore. I use many of their free services and there is rarely a time when I don’t have at least one of my browser tabs open to a Google property. This last week, I was reminded of Google Voice. I was reading the revised edition of the 4-Hour Work Week [...]
The Search For A Good Shopping Cart System
I have been spending some time looking into different hosted shopping carts. This is something every internet entrepreneur will need to do eventually. I wouldn’t say that my evaluations are over, however I will discuss where I am now for the benefit of you guys. Plus, perhaps by writing this post, I’ll have some others [...]
How To Set Up A Poll With WordPress [And Why]
As bloggers, we want our readers to be involved with our blog. Blogging is not a one-way interaction. Typically, most bloggers view comments as the main sign of involvement. A comment is certainly a sign of high involvement because it takes time to write a comment (a decent one anyway). The reality is, though, that [...]
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