Ari Herzog

JANUARY 7, 2011

The way it’s historically worked on this blog is when you submit a comment, you have the option to check a box — powered by a WordPress plugin called Subscribe to Comments — to receive subsequent comments by email. Enter another WordPress plugin called ReplyMe. 1 Essential Plugin for Your WordPress Blog.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 22, 2011

I’ve never shared a real-time WordPress editor screenshot that shows you chunks of my text alongside other chunks of HTML code. I’ve never shared the WordPress “add new post&# screen in a video , showing you where I select and add categories, tags, trackbacks, and meta descriptions.

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Why I Use 22 WordPress Plugins Today. Tags: Blog News plugins SEO Wordpress. . -- Thank you for reading How KeywordLuv Promotes Your Blog at AriWriter. Related posts: How to Enhance Your Blog Comment: Focus on KeywordLuv and CommentLuv. Why Do You Subscribe to Blog Comments?

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

As such, and complemented by this blog being powered by the WordPress Thesis theme , I employ custom functions written in PHP that perform numerous actions. I am unsure how other WordPress themes would need to be tweaked, but the WordPress codex on archives is always helpful if you get stuck. The archive is such an action.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 12, 2011

I thank Owen Cutajar for agreeing to backup, restore, and setup core WordPress files and the physical database. He has more experience doing WordPress domain transfers than me (as I have none), so all I have left to do are some cosmetic changes both on this site and externally. That’s me.

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

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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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 7, 2011

The way it’s historically worked on this blog is when you submit a comment, you have the option to check a box — powered by a WordPress plugin called Subscribe to Comments — to receive subsequent comments by email. Enter another WordPress plugin called ReplyMe. 1 Essential Plugin for Your WordPress Blog.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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. If you’re a self-hosted WordPress blogger, give it a chance. Related posts: 23 WordPress Plugins I Use: Part 5. at AriWriter.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 31, 2018

I suppose I should also incorporate grammatical structures that WordPress allows and that social media does not. This got me thinking that I want to write more and keep people here.

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

With the help of a WordPress user group on Facebook, a lot of people suggested SiteGround. My three-year promotional rate was set to expire this month; and they were unwilling to offer me a discounted rate to renew. I also grew dissatisfied with increased incidents of downtime and longer-than-usual responses to my support questions.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 31, 2014

It’s a WordPress plugin (and works with other blog platforms or any website for that matter that lets you add code) that lets you record a short voicemail message to any website owner or blogger who has it installed.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Related Stories Rethinking Blog Comments Why Successful Blogging is About You How WordPress Comments are Evolving. If you enjoyed this, follow my tweets at @ariherzog and sign up to receive blog posts by email. Strategy blogging comments'

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 25, 2016

Epoch improves WordPress commenting. I’d previously used Mailchimp but delivery was never instantaneous and sometimes I want (to empower) you to read something now and not later. Postmatic, at its basics, is automatic email delivery of posts. This includes several extras including real-time commenting by email.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 25, 2011

Italics are emphasized depending on the nature of subsequent comments; if they are viewed as spammy, they will be marked as such and removed from public view through either enhanced WordPress filters (some of which are already in place) or server blocking. The future is unknown.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 17, 2011

After migrating this blog from Google’s free platform to a self-hosted WordPress platform in the fall of 2008, I followed Chris Brogan’s blogging advice and contacted Tubu Internet Solutions (affiliate link) to host my blog for $10 a year.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 3, 2011

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. For example, writing Stephen @ Custom WordPress Plugins in the name field results in Stephen from Custom WordPress Plugins.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Turning this setting on in WordPress allows readers to respond directly to each other and not just show up as the most recent comment. Whether it is the native WordPress system or a third party client like DISQUS , Livefyre , Echo or Intense Debate (my favorite), you need to choose the best system that fosters community.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

This blog is powered by WordPress — and the Thesis framework , a premium theme that sits on top of WordPress. There comes a time in every blogger’s life when a choice must be made: do you keep doing things the way you’ve always done them, or do you step out of your box and ask someone to do it for you?

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 6, 2011

After searching for a WordPress designer who is adept in customizing CSS and PHP code for the Thesis theme , I stumbled onto Steve. Inspired by Danny Brown’s launch of his blog design, I figured there was no better time than the present (err, past) to change the look of things around here, too.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

I adore the ease of creating a blog with Google’s Blogger (or Blogspot) platform — which AriWriter once was before migrating to WordPress in the fall of 2008 — but the commenting system is not user friendly. While I’m not a fan of Disqus on WordPress blogs, I welcome them on Blogspot blogs. Enter Disqus.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 23, 2012

Why should you be forced to use the vanilla WordPress commenting system to type your name and a website when you can now link your name to that Facebook or Twitter account? My blog metrics indicate that you are very likely to visit this blog after clicking a link on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and other social platforms.

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

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? Pro Powers My Short URL at AriWriter.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Related Stories Analyze Your Visits to My Blog How WordPress Comments are Evolving Plot Your Tweets with @Xefer. Thanks for reading. Thanks for reading. If you were inspired, please add a comment and sign up to receive blog posts by email. Blog News blogging metrics Twitter'

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 12, 2010

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. For background, see why this plugin is essential for your WordPress blog.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 1, 2010

Related posts: Enhance Your WordPress Blog with 23 Plugins. I created these in Adobe Photoshop Elements. How would you improve the design further, if you were chief? -- Thank you for reading Introducing a New Blog Banner at AriWriter. Rethinking Blog Design. Install Website Ads and Risk Losing Customers.

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg opines why Kopytoff lost his marbles : If you’re reading this blog you probably know the thrill of posting and getting feedback is addictive, and once you have a taste of that it’s hard to go back. Moreover, the reporter allegedly never read the entire survey or he’d have his facts correct.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 29, 2010

Every time I click the link to write a new article, the Wordpress editor prompts me to fill in a field for the title. Enter title here. How am I supposed to know what title to write? How is anyone supposed to know when in the presence of those three words? More to the point, when do I write that title?

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 25, 2011

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. Plugins can help you with SEO and speed of your blog and are great for enhancing features and adding other functions.

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 4, 2011

More than two months since Livefyre launched on this blog and replaced the vanilla WordPress commenting system with a more social interface, metrics indicate the number of visitors has essentially remained the same — but the average time you spent on this blog has drastically decreased.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 14, 2010

But I got tired with that design so I clicked a few buttons in the WordPress dashboard and voila! It used to be more representative of Shannon Paul ‘s here and Julie Road ‘s there — blogs with the most recent article displayed in full.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 6, 2011

Recent comments Recent comments Related articles 17 Plugins to Improve Your WordPress Blog. Connect: Twitter | Facebook | Email | 978.558.0008. No related articles yet. Have you visited the blog archive ?

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Ari Herzog

JULY 26, 2010

If you don’t know what I’m babbling about, go read the benefits of a gravatar and why you should upload your headshot or some other representation of your brand to follow you around from WordPress to Disqus to more. Add a comment below and we can see what square image is in the top right corner of your published comment.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Asked to add a comment quickly on a blog such as this with the built-in WordPress commenting system, you can easily step up to the opportunity. You may optionally write your name, fill in your email address, and share a tidbit. You submit your comment and voila!

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Ari Herzog

MAY 11, 2010

Enhance Your WordPress Blog with 23 Plugins. -- Thank you for reading Redesigning My Blog Layout: Do You Like? at AriWriter. Related posts: 16 Video Critiques on Blog Content and Layout. How Mobile Friendly is Your Web Design?

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 24, 2011

It is natural to change things (and WordPress plugins exist) whether you want to bulk edit articles and tags , or convert a tag to a category , or merge categories. (And if you scroll to the bottom of her article linked in the last sentence, you will likely see a backlink from this site to her site.).

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Ari Herzog

MAY 14, 2010

I shifted from Google’s Blogger platform to WordPress in October 2008. I started tracking blog visitors with Google Analytics in June 2008 — and I see 332,384 unique visitors have arrived since that day. You speak 135 languages and collectively viewed 508,750 pages. Here’s a post when I explained how I did it.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 26, 2011

John Haydon leads the Inbound Zombie army of Kim Woodbridge and Tina Marie Hilton helping nonprofit organizations with numerous internet services including online fundraising, social media training, and Facebook and WordPress implementation. I’ve met Beth and John in the flesh and respect their work.

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