Ari Herzog

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Goodbye Feedblitz, Hello WordPress Feed

Ari Herzog

Subscribing by email is easy: You submit a form with your email address, confirm you want to opt in, and you will receive an email message every time your favorite blogger publishes a new post. Subscribing by RSS is different: You use a web application and add the blog’s feed to your app.

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Goodbye Feedblitz, Hello WordPress Feed

Ari Herzog

Subscribing by email is easy: You submit a form with your email address, confirm you want to opt in, and you will receive an email message every time your favorite blogger publishes a new post. Subscribing by RSS is different: You use a web application and add the blog’s feed to your app.

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Socially Share Blog Posts Easily

Ari Herzog

I am testing a WordPress plugin to share blog posts across social media. If everything is set up correctly, a link to this post should be automatically published to profiles of mine on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Here’s a screenshot of the plugin’s homepage. Let’s see… Is it working? Thanks for reading.

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Introducing a New Design at AriHerzog.com

Ari Herzog

He founded a company called StudioPress and created Genesis, a framework that runs on top of WordPress. To the uninitiated, think of rungs on a ladder: WordPress is at the bottom and is the platform; Genesis contains features and functions; and themes enable customizable design and coding. Brian Gardner to the rescue!

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Goodbye Akismet and Hello G.A.S.P.

Ari Herzog

But for some reason that I was never able to understand, their comments were considered spam by Akismet — the most popular anti-spam plugin used by nearly all WordPress blogs. To them and to everyone else who tried to publish a comment that seemingly went nowhere, I apologize. Related posts: 23 WordPress Plugins I Use: Part 5.

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Why Blogging is Still Not Dying

Ari Herzog

It is sad that an article published on this blog 26 months ago on the fallacious death of blogging must be written again. Blogging — or content marketing, if some want to call social publishing that — is very much alive. -- Thanks for reading Why Blogging is Still Not Dying by Ari Herzog. You may blame The New York Times.

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How Bit.Ly Pro Powers My Short URL

Ari Herzog

Amid yesterday’s comments about my announcement of a domain I bought to shorten web addresses , Leo noticed [link] redirected to [link] and wondered why I didn’t use a WordPress plugin instead. Why I Use 22 WordPress Plugins Today. What’s Leo babbling about, you ask? Something like [link] which points to [link].

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