(Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes)
Learn something new about WordPress in 5 minutes. That’s about as long as each of these practical tips take to learn. That’s I call them practical, they are easy to do.
These tips form a series of articles. Note how each one is linked (you will have to click through). As explained in Blog Post Engineering ebook, each tip also has a specific structure allowing you to grab what you need, quickly.
The Practical WordPress Tips series started way back in mid-2009, so it’s likely many new readers haven’t stumbled across one yet.
If this looks like it might be leading up to sales copy for a future product, let’s just keep those suspicions to ourselves.
- Practical WordPress Tip #1: Use the “View” link for URL shortcut. Find out how to use the “View” link on your post admin page to rapidly extract URLs useful for linking to your content… which increases search engine ranking!
- Practical WordPress Tip #2: Make Your Draft Queue Work For You. Find out an easy way to leverage WordPress built-in post editing work for you.
- Practical WordPress Tip #3: Keep A Few Spare Posts Handy. Keeping a few spare posts handy for emergency situations is slightly different than scheduling in advance. Find out how you can use this technique.
- Practical WordPress Tip #4: Use inline styling for testing CSS. Use this simple procedure to help you make small changes in your CSS styling… without killing your website.
- Practical WordPress Tip #5: Keep rough drafts ready to publish at any time. Use these simple techniques to keep your article queue full of easy-to-publish drafts… save time and never run out of material ever again!
- Practical WordPress Tip #6: Limit word count per post to create article series. Here’s an easy procedure for creating series of articles practically compelling people to return again and again to your website.
- Practical WordPress Tip #7: Use Redirected URLs to help build traffic. Simple, easy URLs are easy to type and remember, making it easy to promote individual posts and driving traffic. Learn 3 different ways to make simple URLs.
- Practical WordPress Tip #8: Have your profile URL point to other blog. Drive traffic from one blog to another using different URL’s in your profile. This easy tip explains all.
- Practical WordPress Tip #9: Use Sitemap page for fast URL. Find out how you can speed up your deep linking chores to help improve your SEO results… get more work done faster!
- Practical WordPress Tip #10: Rename your modified themes. 4 simple steps to preserve all those little tweaks you put into your customized WordPress theme. It’s easy and you can save your skin with 5 minutes work.
- Practical WordPress Tip #11: Spot check your posts. Use this Practical WordPress Tip to improve all of your SEO metadata on your blog for getting better search engine results.
- Practical WordPress Tip #12: Use date ranges to control “Edit Posts” page. Here’s an easy and practical 4 step procedure for better blog post scheduling… key for increasing productivity for dedicated and serious bloggers.
Here’s a complete list of all the Practical WordPress Tips. As noted in Blog Post Engineering ebook, each is tagged with “Practical tips,” so each is stored in a virtual index. Click on the tag, you get them all!
Please leave a comment or three on any of these tips you find useful, and I’d love to have your questions or suggestions as well. Please leave a comment here in any case.
I am overwhelmed with practicality!
Seriously though, there are a few of these that I use all the time now. With some of them, I didn’t “get it” till I saw your screencast, but then it “clicked”.
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Recall our little bet last year concerning screencasts? That’s these.
But I’m only posting a few. The rest going into the product!
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Dave, you’ve done something truly rare, here: you’ve left me speechless. I maybe knew (or in some form of reverse-altruistic synchronicity, believed I knew at the same time as knowing it for the first time through your transposed wisdom) one of them.
You’re a genius. A bloody genius. I salute you. And you are the fifth person to know that partly in your honour, I am forming a tribe at a totally new and exciting ewerel otherwise known as notyouraveragewriter.com in an exceedingly short time from now.
Thank you, Dave. If you were a woman, I’d have divorced you already.
.-= Dave Thackeray´s last blog ..Back – to the future… =-.
Egad.
Don’t worry overmuch. My motives are entirely base, quite banal in fact. I plan on bundling the lot of these up all nicely formatted with screencasts and selling them.
As usual a treasure trove of good, practical stuff to apply and therefore do better. Thank you Dave.
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Thanks. I’ll have these packaged up at some point.
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Awesome list of practical tips indeed. #1 and #6 are my top picks and believe it or not I always forget to use the post tab on a separate window so I can find the links faster. Creating post series particularly if the article is compelling enough is an excellent tip to keep your readers striving for more.
DiTesco! So good to see back.
Now I need to go visit Holly.
.-= Dave Doolin´s last blog ..Atahualpa Theme – Pixel Perfection, No Inca Required =-.
I am so literal minded that I never discover shortcuts myself and seem to be resistant to picking them up from others. As a result I waste much, much time in execution. I intend to read these carefully before you get them nicely packaged for sale.
Ralph, if you like what you read, and I suspect you will one or two that will “pay for themselves,” you’re going to be *stunned* at what I’ll be initially delivering for $5.
I have to get Blog Post Engineering launched first.
.-= Dave Doolin´s last blog ..Saturday Morning Surfing: Programming Is “Actionary” Blogging Is “Reactionary” =-.
Number 5 brother is key for me, having a ton of posts in draft wether they be just the title or 99% completed it really does help.
.-= TheInfoPreneur´s last blog ..Make This Weekend Count + Video =-.
I had to move to move to paper scheduling last week.
It really ended up helping. I’ve now got articles tentative through April 12.
Picture in link below.
.-= Dave Doolin´s last blog ..Carlos Velez Prewriting Throwdown: Blog posts by the pound =-.
most of these tips are what got my site set up and running! Always good advice! thanks dave!
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My goodness.
I hope that’s a good thing!