Cool WordPress Plugins to Install on Your Blog

By Eren Mckay  
Filed under Miscellaneous



wordpressWhenever I start a new blog, one of the first things I do is install the basic plugins that will provide the functionality that I need. There are thousands of plugins out there, but I’ve narrowed down the amount of plugins that I use to the list I’ve compiled in this blog post. If you have too many plugins, they will start to conflict with each other and give you error messages in your database. Of course, being the busy blogger that you are, you can’t risk wasting loads of time fixing database errors or trying to guess which plugin is conflicting with which. This is why it’s best to install only the truly necessary plugins.

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Where to Find Free Images for Your Blog ~ an Alternative to Text Search

By Linda Stacy  
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Linda Stacy
The following is a guest post by Linda Stacy who is always willing to take the time to help others. You can follow her on Twitter @lindastacy.


This post is a continuation of Google advanced image search and covers another aspect which is the searching by image feature that Google has.

An alternative to using keywords to search Google is to use an image to start your search. This is a great way to find free images for your blog. It also can be used when you’re trying to discover the original source of an image to give proper attribution. At images.google.com click on the camera icon to open the image search options.
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How to Use Google Advanced Image Search

By Linda Stacy  
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Linda Stacy
The following is a guest post by Linda Stacy who is always willing to take the time to help others. You can follow her on Twitter @lindastacy.


Find Free Images for Blog Posts Using Google’s Advanced Image Search

There are good reasons to add images to your blog posts. But for busy bloggers, there’s a danger that searching for free images can become just another time-consuming task that takes away from other important activities. With so many available sources, finding the right images to add to a blog post can sometimes take longer than actually writing the content.
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How to Register a Domain with Name Cheap

By Eren Mckay  
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I'm thinking about my domain name hereWhen I started building my online presence, I knew that I had to research before making certain essential decisions. After all, this was business and a wrong step could affect me a lot in the future. So I researched domain registrars and found that most entrepreneurs were singing praises about Namecheap.
I also saw many people frustrated with other places.
I’ve been using Namecheap for many years now and am very happy with their customer service. It’s where I recommend everyone to buy their domains from.

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