Avoiding First Blog Pitfalls
Posted by on December 14, 2006
While it’s true that your blog is a unique expression of who you are and what you have to say, like actors on the stage, successful bloggers cultivate audiences. The most broad appeal possible is where to start designing your blog from so be careful to avoid the pitfalls that narrow the field of potential readers from the outset.
Read the full post here Building a blog with readers in mind
Very good advices… And very nice blog. competent, smooth looking and remarkbly fast loading…
Regarding the “avoid pittfalls”:
I have a WordPress blog and would actually like to limit the no. of posts shown on the front page to 4, in order to make the page load fasters. My recent posts are very long. I could also limit the number of pictures, but I don’t want to do that!
But I can not seem to find the option in “dashboard” where I can choose the number of posts on the front page.
I would be happy to receive a tip on that!
Cheers, Anne
I found out… it’s no issue…
Anne
meme tag: http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/12/15/five-things-you-don%e2%80%99t-know-about-me-meme/
very helpful.
Very nice blog.
Anne,
I’m very so sorry I lost your request for help somewhere along the way. If Jannette hadn’t poste to this thread I would probably not have found it at all.
Here is where you limit the number of posts on your front page.
Dashboard => Options => Reading scroll down to this:
Blog Pages
Show at most:___ posts (After you insert a number in the blank be sure to click “Update Options” to save your change. And note that you can change this whenever you want).
Please accept my apology for the delayed response.
@ Jannette,
Thanks for dropping in and if you have a question to ask feel free to leave it on the Questions page. I’ll do my best to find the answer for you.
P.S. If I don’t answer in one days time then please remind me again, okay?
Timethief; Thank you but no worries, I found out…
Timethief: no prob. I’ll be sure to let you know if I have any questions.
P.S. Thanks for linking back to me.
Reply: I just visited your blog and really like the improvement I see there. All my best to you.
Thanks, really appreciate it.
Good points!
Time thief is such a great name!
Nice new layout!
Thank you Anne. It’s so good to hear from you again. I hope you are well and happy.
Thank you
I am.
All WP blogs look a bit funny today. Guess it is just a phase.
Hi. I would like to add my profile in the front page of my wordpress blogs. Any idea how i can do it?
Some themes have a default sidebar setting (Regulus and Misty Look are all I can recall) that place a small bio on the front page in the sidebar. However, if you change any of the widgets remember that as it’s a default setting this will disappear.
What I recommend regardless of which theme you use is to create an “About” page. Here’s the link to mine http://bloggersblurt.wordpress.com/about/ If you so choose you can also upload a photo into the page as well.
The third alternative is to create a text widget with the information and a small avatar in it and display it in your sidebar. Here are the instructions for that option
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/12/24/using-the-text-widget/
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/put-an-image-in-your-sidebar/
I hope this is helpful.