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Three Quick Customization Ideas For Your Blog
Looking to add a few custom tweaks to your blog? Interested in simple ways to personalize your site? Read on. Display a Text Widget for updates In the first Declutter Your Prose post, we suggested...
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Virtual Volunteerism
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” Author Cynthia Ozick’s words ring a resounding bell for me. Since reading them, I’ve made it a priority to show appreciation...
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Nitpickers of the World, Unite Edit!
Like most activities we subject to intense procrastination, editing our drafts is something we dread starting, but never regret once we’re done. To give you a push next time you’re staring at the...
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Three Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers
Image by claudiasnell Summer is over (at least in my neck of the woods), which means back to school…and in my case, back to trying to blog more. I don’t miss much about school, but I do miss the ritual...
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How to Choose the Right Featured Image for Your Post
Confession: my favorite part of the drafting process, other than the writing itself, is choosing a featured image for my posts. To me, it’s that final drizzle of olive oil, that last turn of the pepper...
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Perennial Favorites: All about Post Formats
Many bloggers rarely experiment with post formats. In this useful guide from our archives, Elizabeth demonstrates the many ways post formats can enhance — and complement — your content. What’s the...
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Create a Custom Image Widget: A How-To for Non-Designers
Widgets on WordPress.com are handy features: they display important information and visually enhance our sidebars and footers. For those of you who want to personalize your site a bit more — for free —...
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Resources from the Community: Tips From Three Writers
November is a busy month of blogging and writing, especially for participants in challenges like NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo. To get you excited for next month, here are bits of advice from three bloggers...
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Recommended Reading: “Platforms Are Overrated”
When you have to make a choice about how to spend your writing time, choose your book first. Every. Single. Time. To approach your writing career any other way is a mistake. – Stephanie Bane,...
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Five (More) Posts to Write Right Now
Next time you think you have nothing left to write about, think again. Beyond our daily prompts and weekly writing challenges, it’s always good to have a few trusty post ideas you can rely on. Here are...
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Perennial Favorites: Don’t Undermine Your Comment with a Plug
Learning a bit about and practicing good commenting etiquette will help you become a thoughtful member of the community. Get the skinny on commenting dos and don’ts from Michelle, in this fun post from...
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The Art of the Roundup
As bloggers, we develop our own voices and posting styles… and sometimes end up in a rut, or simply have a dry spell. Introducing different types of posts to your blog reinvigorates your muse and your...
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Creative Storytelling: Five Ideas
Itching to do something different on your blog? Want to tell a story in a new way? Here are five quick ideas: Use pages and links in fresh ways. The bear blogging at Hello, I am a bear shows how you...
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What do exercise, veggies, and writing have in common?
Part of the mission that drives The Daily Post is to provide encouragement and inspiration to people who want to be more active writers, bloggers, and creators. We often provide tips on how to write or...
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Perennial Favorites: Create an Awesome (Free) Header in Ten Minutes
In this popular post from our archives, we go over the quick — and often fun — process of transforming a Creative Commons-licensed image into a sleek custom header. A custom header image is one of...
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Isn’t It Lovely: Understanding Blog Awards
As you explore the blogging community, you’ve probably seen bloggers whose sidebars are filled with awards. Maybe you’ve even gotten one of these yourself: There are dozens of awards circulating in the...
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Hacking Creativity: Simple Steps to Become More Creative
One of my most vivid memories from high school involves a pottery class I took during my senior year. While I was sitting there mashing clay around the table trying my best to sculpt something that...
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Recommended Reading: Clark’s 50 Writing Tools
The quick list comes from Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark. Self-editing is a skill that any writer can benefit from, though sometimes as writers, we don’t know what we don’t know. In other words, we...
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Lights Out: How to Take a Holiday Hiatus
The end of the year can be a personal and holiday maelstrom. Hanukkah. Christmas. Kwanzaa. Kids are off from school. Family and friends are in town, or you’re traveling to them. Work projects need to...
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Getting Your New Blog Off on the Right Foot: Setting Up House
In this post from The Daily Post archives, Michelle walks us through the basics of getting your blog all spruced up for the new year and its onslaught of visitors. Congratulations, it’s a blog! It’s...
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