Digg’s smart button widget is not working after their recent move to the new platform.If you have a Digg button on your blog or website that lets your visitors easily submit your content to the bookmarking website, Digg.com, and it’s no longer displaying properly, don’t worry because they are aware of the issue. I follow their Developer Blog and they have listed this as a known issue. Continue Reading
Another tutorial for those using the Empowered Theme for WordPress. A great way to utilize your side bar and your blog’s traffic is to offer great affiliate products within the side bar. The Affiliate Widget built into the Empowered Theme makes that super easy. You only need to upload the affiliate banner (or copy the Image URL), add it to the widget. Add your affiliate link and save.
Blogging is exploding and what a great why to express and brand yourself! You spend so much time talking about your product, your service, health and wellness, personal development, and so on but you often forget to talk and share about yourself. Inviting your readers into your world and letting them know about who you are and your life journey is essential to building a relationship with your readers. One of the best ways to do this is by creating your blog’s author page.
Empowered BloggersMost of my subscribers and readers are fellow bloggers running a WordPress blog. If you are using the Empowered Theme by Empowered Blogs then here is another video tutorial to help guide you in utilizing all the features built into your Empowered Blog.
Blogs are often used to build a brand or market a product or service. People are also using blogs to promote themselves and brand themselves as a leader in their industry and niche. Continue Reading
If you remember on May 10, 2010 I wrote a blog post titled ‘New for WordPress 3.0 – Menu Management‘ that featured a hot new feature added to WordPress version 3.0, Menu Management. This is definitely one of my favorite improvements in a while so I am really excited to shoot another video tutorial for it. The first video I shot was on a blog running version 3.0 beta. So although the menu management page didn’t change much, I decided to shot a second video tutorial on a my personal blog that is running the stable version of WordPress 3.0. Continue Reading
If you have an Empowered Blog then you are using the Empowered Theme developed by Clifton Hatfield. This theme has a really useful built in module that is an affiliate widget you can place into your side bar or footer. You can use it with any affiliate program you are involved in and fit banners into the side bar up to 300 pixels wide and height doesn’t matter. It is super easy to use. You just need a banner and an affiliate link. Watch the video below to learn exactly how to use it. Continue Reading
How to use the WordPress More Tag and what are its benefits?Have you ever glanced through all those icons and buttons above the text box where you write your awesome blog posts and articles? Ever wonder what they all do? Feel a little intimated to give them a click? Well, let me tell you about one of my favorite little icons up there called the More Tag.
This button looks like a page with about the top third of it cut off and someone slide a dotted line between the pieces. This is the More Tag and should become a very good friend of yours. Why? Because of its benefits for search engine optimization, blog organization, and overall giving your visitors a better experiences.
The More Tag lets you choose where to limit the text that is displayed on the home page and post feed pages such as Search, Archive, Category Pages and so on. Everyone’s method of using the More Tag may be different but I will tell you how I use it. Continue Reading
Adding a signature to your WordPress articles for an Empowered BlogA trend that I often see across WordPress blogs by internet marketers is the use of a signature at the bottom of each of their blog posts. Before I officially released Empowered Theme version 1.5. I decided to add a few more modules that make things easier for the blogger. One of them is the easy ability to add a signature. Since this module is brand new, it will receive some TLC in upcoming version of the Empowered Theme. For now, it’s simple and it works. Continue Reading
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