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I have gathered over 300 different but useful tips and tricks you can use for your WordPress Blog. Make sure you go through each of these individually. The tutorials are really easy to follow and understand.

1. 135 Ultimate Round Up of WordPress Tutorials
   
2. Things You Should Know When Using A Post Excerpt
   
3. Giving Each WordPress Post A Thumbnail, and Display the Thumbnail on Your Homepage
   
4. Don't Ignore Your WordPress Footer
   
5. How To Create A Custom WordPress Page Template
   
6. 15 Useful WordPress Tricks To Make Your Theme Even Better
   
7. Removing The Title of WordPress Pages
   
8. 110+ Massive WordPress Video Tutorials
   
9. 63 Essential WordPress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files and Cheats
   
10. How To Speed Up Your WordPress Blog
    
11. How To Add An Announcement Box To Your WordPress Theme
    
12. Import and Export WordPress Data
    
13. 5 Useful WordPress Functions You Didn't Know Existed
    
14. How To Import A Blogspot Blog To WordPress
    
15. 7 SEO Secrets For WordPress
    

I hope you find these resources as helpful as I do. The Authors of these post share a ton a great useful information make sure that you bookmark each of them so you can access them again quickly.

I received an email from one of my readers asking How to add a Widget to your WordPress Blog. Well she specifically asked on how to get the widgets centered. So this is for you, Michelle!

Login to your WordPress Blog.

Scroll down to the Appearance Tab and under that tab is Widgets, click on it.

A bunch of different options appear and you are going to want to find "Text" tab.  (It's usually down near the bottom on the right)

Drag the "Text" to your sidebar that you want it to appear in. (Hint: Make sure to open your sidebars before moving a tab, just click on the down arrow to open them – this will save you from having to go back and grab the Text tab again)

Once you drop the "Text" tab where you want it, it will open up.

It's not necessary to put in a title, if you do it will show up above the code your adding.

You will want to paste the html code in the Big blank box and should look something like this:

You can add different codes to the beginning and ending of your code will change the way your widget will appear.

Here are a couple of tags I use.

<center>  </center> – This will center your widget

I use these for Text Links

<b>  </b> – This will make the Text Bold

<u>  </u> – This will make the Text Underlined

<i>  </i> – This will make the Text Italic

Here is a great list of HTML codes for Reference (print and save)

Yesterday I was playing around with the internet on my phone and of course I went and checked out my blog. It didn't appear the way that I wanted it to. So it got me thinking "Why do some blogs show up on my cell phone, but my blog doesn't?" and "How can I make my blog viewable to mobile users?" I came up with some really great resources and I am really excited to share them with you.

The first thing I found were two WordPress Plugins that allow you and your visitors to communicate with on another via SMS (Text)

The first one allows your visitors to get updates of your blog via SMS. – SMS Text Message

The second one allows your visitors to contact you through SMS (Text) – Quick SMS

I though these were really cool. I can't wait to add them to my blog and play around with them a little more and see what they do. (I will keep you posted of my findings).

So now on to the really cool stuff I found. I really think that making your wordpress blog viewable to mobile phone users will benefit you and your readers. Just think more readers can lead to more sales. Adding this feature to your blog will give you more exposure.

Here are the plugins you need to Make Your WordPress Visible To The Mobile World:

MOBILE PRESS – This plug-in allows your blog to be viewed on mobile devices. You can use customized themes. Track your mobile stats and send ads to your readers using their recommended services. Since this plug-in is SEO enabled and detects the major mobile search bots like Google, Yahoo and MSN. This feature allows your blog to be indexed in the mobile search results. This is a very popular plug-in due to the indexing by major search engines.

WORDPRESS MOBILE PACK – This complete toolkit allows your blog to adapt to the type of device viewing your site. Some of the other features this plug-in has are different mobile themes to choose from, extra widgets and it even has a mobile wordpress admin panel that gives the Admin of the blog the opportunity to edit the site and add posts when a computer isn't available.

WORDPRESS MOBILE EDITION – This plug-in allows your blog to be viewed by mobile phone users. Mobile Browsers are automatically detected. You can customize the mobile browser list.

WORDPRESS MOBILE ADMIN – I guess you could say I saved the best for last. WordPress Mobile Admin is a fully functional control panel for your WordPress Blog that works on any mobile device. This mobile plug-in has a ton of awesome features. Add new posts, post pictures and dictate where they appear on the post (How cool is that?), post, page, tag and category management, moderate comments and reply to them, user profile page including color schemes, support for gravatars and finally it will translate to any language supported by WordPress.

If you have used any of these plug-ins I would love to hear any feedback about them…please comment below..

Here is a great list of plug-ins that every hosted WordPress blog should have. I gathered this list to help you get started in the right direction. I know when I first started out I was overwhelmed by all the choices. These are the plug-ins I use with all of my blogs.

**Note: If your blog is already installed you can install the plug-ins directly to your blog. All you need to do is click on Add New under the Plugins Tab. When the page appears put in the name of the plug-in you are looking for. Once you find it just click on install it should be over on the right hand side. Once the plug-in has been installed you can either activate it or you can go back and select another plug-in to install. Once you have installed all the plug-ins you want go ahead and click on Installed under the Plug-ins tab and there you will see all of the plug-ins you have installed on your blog. The plug-ins that are highlighted are the ones that need to be activated.

All In One SEO – SEO for your Blog. Easy to use

Akismet – Check your comments for spam (This comes pre-installed with your blog. You will need a WordPress.com account to retrieve the API Key in order to make this plug-in active)

Broken Link Checker – Checks your post for broken links and missing images and will notify you if any found.

Dean's FCKEditor For WordPress – Replaces the default WordPress Editor with lots options.

Fixed Social Buttons - This plug-in allows you to keep your social network icons in one place with out having to use space on your blog. You can see mine in the upper right corner.

Google Analyticator – This allows you to keep track of your stats for your blog.

Google XML Sitemaps – This plug-in will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and others to better index your blog.

No Self Pings – Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your blog.

Shockingly Simple Favicon – A simple and easy way to add a favicon to your blog. ( A favicon is a 16×16 image or logo also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or a bookmark icon.)

SimplePie Plugin for WordPress – Easy way to add RSS and Atom feeds to your blog.

Subscribe Remind – Remind your readers to subscribe to your blog at the end of each post

WordPress Database Backup – On demand backup of your WordPress Database

WordPress Easy ToDo – Creates a To Do List in your WordPress Dashboard. This is a great way to keep track of what needs to be done with your blog.

WP Polls – Easily include a poll into your blog's post or page.

WP Email Capture – Captures email addresses and can be imported to other services

WP Security Scan – Perform a security scan of your blog

I put together a easy step by step guide to show you how to setup your blog on your own hosting using Fantastico.

Check It Out   DIY Blog Setup