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WordPress is a type of blogging software. Author Buzz uses WordPress to power the free blogs we offer users. Posts tagged into this archive are generally slightly technical in nature, discussing the practical uses of WordPress in platform building.

If you decided to go platform building alone and run your own WordPress blog, here are ten plugins that may be very useful to you. All the plugins listed are available to Author Buzz bloggers. 1. Redirection Redirection is a great little plugin for taking care of permalink changes and […]

7 WordPress plugin recommendations for authors

16th December 2020 in Blogs and blogging tagged blogging / plugins / WordPress by Matthew Brown

links — Links are a vital part of a growing blog. They provide not only additional information and resources to delight your readers with but help anchor you in the blog ecosystem. In this post we will take a look at: What are links? How to add links to you WordPress post […]

WordPress Basics: Links

5th September 2020 in Blogs and blogging tagged blogging ecosystem / links / permalinks / SEO / URL / WordPress by Matthew Brown

One of the things that Author Buzz offers is a free WordPress blog. Which is all well and good if you know how to use WordPress. What do you do if you find figuring it all out far too stressful? You read this guide, of course. What is WordPress? Something […]

A beginner’s WordPress primer

4th September 2020 in Blogs and blogging tagged admin / beginner / blog posts / guide / pingbacks / posts / primer / themes / WordPress by Matthew Brown

Internet — Did you know that URL structure can make a difference in search traffic? Although minor, URL structure can have a cumulative impact on SEO. URLs are one area that most people setting up an author blog forget about. One thing that I did not cover when I wrote A Definitive Guide […]

Let’s talk about URL structure for author blogs

3rd March 2018 in Blogs and blogging tagged Author / blogs / guide / SEO / URL / WordPress by Matthew Brown

Can and dog — Should authors blog? If so, what should we be blogging about? Blogging, like social media, is often touted as the golden ticket to book sales. It rarely delivers on this promise. Of course, they don’t – there is no such thing as a magic bullet to make sales happen. However, […]

Should authors blog? What should they blog?

8th August 2017 in Advice tagged Andy Weir / Author / Author Platform / blogging / blogs / Jane Friedman / Neil Gaiman / WordPress by Matthew Brown