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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 […]