The other day Karen from Blazing Minds did a post on her Blogging Wire called Why I Enjoy Guest Posting on Blogs. It prompted me to write this long overdue guest post and I’m quite pleased that she offered a guest spot.

If you’re a new blogger just getting started you might not know what plugins are or how where to get started. For starters, read my post called So You Want To Be a Blogger before you dive in. Basically, using a plugin is a way to include additional functionality to your blog. Plugins help you customize your blog and give it some personality. Read the rest of this entry »

So it’s now 2010, wow doesn’t time fly, it doesn’t seem that long ago since it was the 1st Jan 2009. With another month flown by it’s that time ago to bring you a round-up of the previous months round-up, things have been hotting up on the blog over the last month and only today I was proud to announce on Twitter that my blog had hit the 3,000 mark in comments a wonderful milestone for myself and a true appreciation of those that stop by and decide to leave well written comments.

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Another list for those that are interested this time it’s a collection of the [intlink id="565" type="category"]Blogging Tips[/intlink] that have been posted on my blog, these are a collection of my own posts and those by [intlink id="413" type="category"]guest bloggers[/intlink].

So I’m going to stop prattling on and let you get on to reading som very interesting posts that have been very useful to myself and those that read and comment here on Blazing Minds. Read the rest of this entry »

It seems to be that another month has gone by and that means it’s time for a chance to bring the readers of the Blazing Minds blog a monthly round-up of the best commentators, best posts, top referring blogs and some other little stats that I can throw in for good measure

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Welcome one and all to another Weekly Round up on my blog, as you know each week I bring you a list of blog posts that I have enjoyed reading over the last week as well has some stats. from Blazing Minds, all in a top 5 format….

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When it comes to WordPress plugins for posting on my blog, I use several which I couldn’t do without and find extremely useful for several reasons when producing blog posts or controlling posts from guest bloggers.

So after my post about the WordPress Plugins used for my Weekly and Monthly Stats I thought I would bring you some blogging tips and show you just some of the WordPress plugins that I use and fine helpful in my blog. You can get all these plugins via the links from this blog or you can use the “add new” option in your WordPress dashboard under plugins. Read the rest of this entry »

I was getting a bit fed up with the ugly permalinks that my blog had recently, but the problem I had was all the links to the blog on other sites would then become void, so what was I to do.

But luckily I found a plugin that would help with this, the plugin is called “Permalinks Migration” this handy WordPress plugin will do a 301 permanent redirect when an old link is clicked and send it to the updated permalink, helping you keep traffic and retaining your Google PR for those links, it’s easy to set up with simple instructions.

So if you are thinking of changing your permalinks on WordPress then this plugin is certainly worth considering.