How to Find Free Images to Use on Your Blog without Breaking Copyright Laws All images, pictures, drawings, and so on are owned by the person who originally created them and are protected under copyright laws in the United States. Therefore, if you’re a U.S. business or using images on your blog owned by an individual from the United States, then you need to either have permission to use that image or pay to use that image. Alternately, that image needs to hold a copyright license that allows you to use it on your blog without paying a royalty or asking permission. That’s a lot to consider. How do you find images to use on your business blog without violating copyright laws and without having to pay or ask for permission all the time? Fortunately, there are website that provide free stock photography or images with Creative Commons licenses that allow you to publish them on your blog as long as you provide attribution with a link back to the owner (as well as any other requirements listed with the image). 1. stock.xchng 2. morgueFile 3. 4. 5. Image: stock.xchng
Complete Guide before & after Publishing Blog Posts As much as you can’t wait to hit the publish button so your readers can read your latest blog post, there are guides to what you must do before and after publishing the post to ensure it is appropriate for your readers. So what are the things you are supposed to do before and after publishing blog posts? This article will provide you with a list of guides to follow before publishing blog posts and after publishing blog posts on your blog. I will take the guides in two categories, before publishing blog posts and after publishing blog posts. So let’s get started…. Guides before Publishing Blog Post: Check for Typographical errors: We are humans of course and are bound to make typographical errors when we type, so I advise you always use a word processing application like Microsoft Word while composing your blog posts, that way it will mark out the errors for you to correct. Must Read: The Basic Onsite SEO Tips You Should Know Guides After Publishing Blog Posts:
How to Create Your first WordPress Theme: Part 1 | Graphic and W WordPress is the most popular and the best (in my opinion) blogging platform, created by Automattic. It’s really easy to use and it’s very powerful, giving you the opportunity to build any kind of site, from blogs to shopping carts and CMS’s. In this series of tutorials, we are going to create our first WordPress theme. For this tutorial you need to have a little more than basic knowledge about HTML and CSS. Let’s get started.You can Download source files and you can also Live preview the theme here. It’s a basic css layout so it will be easy for beginners to convert it into a working WordPress theme. What we need WAMP/XAMPP Server (or similar software) - Download WordPress 2.9.2 (latest version, recommended) – Download Getting started – creating the working environment First thing first, you need to install WAMP Server. Now, create a new database. WordPress Installation After copying all the files, you need to install WordPress. Click “Create a Configuration File”. 1. 2. Copy the following:
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10 Tutorials to Take Your WordPress Development Skills to the Ne Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now As the community of WordPress designers and developers continues to grow, and as new versions of WordPress are released, there are more opportunities to learn different techniques and tricks that you can apply in your own work. In these 10 tutorials you will find strategies that should prove to be very useful in your own theme development. 1. Custom taxonomies in WordPress are similar to tags and categories, but they provide almost endless possibilities. You can also find more about custom taxonomies in Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr’s new book, Digging into WordPress, which I highly recommend. 2. Spencer from Function wrote a great tutorial that shows how you can create custom write panels in your WordPress themes. 3. These two posts from Ian Stewart will help you to learn more about using child themes and customizations. 4. 5. 6. Another tutorial from Pro Blog Design. 7. 8. 9. 10. For more WordPress-related content please see:
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The 8 Parts of Writing an Effective Blog Post Writing an effective blog post for the human visitor and the Search Engines is far from rocket science, but at the same time, there is a pattern you should follow. Here are the SEO-Alien’s 8 parts to writing better, more engaging blog posts that will help the human visitor as well as the Search Engines. 1) Give Your Article an Awesome, Keyword Rich Title! The Title: There is no doubt that the Search Engines are going to “look” at the Title of your article as the main source for indexing. In other words, make sure your Title is or contains the majority of the search phrase your want people to use when they search for an article like yours. 2) Add a Catchy Picture! A picture in a blog post is a good way to break up a mass of text and all effective blog posts will have at least one. Don’t just grab any image from Google though, you will want to check the copyrights of your picture. 3) Create a Hooking and Visually Powerful Introduction! 4) Create a Catchy Lead In! 5) Your Main Points
Allow contributors to upload files If you have contributors to your blog, you probably got annoyed to see that they can’t upload files and images while writing guest posts for you. Today’s recipe will solve the problem, allowing contributors to upload files to your blog. Nothng hard with this code: The only thing you have to do is to paste it in your functions.php file: if ( current_user_can('contributor') && ! Big thanks to Altaf Sayani for his contribution to WpRecipes!