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Goodbye Feedblitz, Hello WordPress Feed

Ari Herzog

If you want to read many blogs and don’t want to remember to manually bookmark and visit them in a browser, you can opt to subscribe via email or RSS. Subscribing by RSS is different: You use a web application and add the blog’s feed to your app. Here’s a 2018 Wired article about RSS readers.

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Why I Donated to WordPress Developers

Ari Herzog

I also donated small micro-payments to an assortment of WordPress plugin developers who enable this blog to be seen by all and increase our sociability. This year’s recipients include: Ajith Prasad Edassery – for Contact Commenters , which is how I might email a bulk of commentators at once.

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Goodbye Feedburner, Hello Feedblitz

Ari Herzog

After nearly four years of powering this blog’s email and RSS delivery options, I’ve parted ways with Google and its free Feedburner service and embraced the paid service of Feedblitz. Moreover, Feedblitz offers more than delivery by mere email and RSS, but also by Twitter update, Facebook wall post, and instant messaging alerts.

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This Is My Last Post of 2018

Ari Herzog

I suppose I should also incorporate grammatical structures that WordPress allows and that social media does not. And I’ll end my posts with a request for comments, social shares, and/or mental memories to return here for more. Please sign up to receive blog posts by email or RSS. Thanks for reading.

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8 Tips for Successful Business Blogging

Ari Herzog

Whether you’re using a Blogger or WordPress blog (the two most popular blog platforms), there are plenty for you to choose from. Peruse through the WordPress plugin directory or this Blogger widgets repository. If you are inspired to add a comment with your thoughts, please visit 8 Tips for Successful Business Blogging in your browser.

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17 Plugins to Improve Your WordPress Blog

Ari Herzog

One of the neat aspects about WordPress is nobody owns it. With more than 1,300 themes and over 13,000 plugins , the appearance and functionality of any WordPress blog is up to the blog owner’s imagination. When you add a comment and John replies to you, a plugin emails you that comment. Want to see the map ?

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23 WordPress Plugins I Use: Part 5

Ari Herzog

First: The following plugins only apply for self-hosted WordPress blogs. Pre-installed with WordPress, new users need to follow directions on the Plugins page to sign up for a WordPress.com account, and copy the API code into the plugin management page. If you want to see the page without adding a comment, click here.

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