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One of the reasons WordPress is so popular is because of its flexibility. Designers, developers, and bloggers have plenty of options. In this post we'll look at a combination of tutorials for improving a WordPress-based site, and plugins that can provide added functionality that will bring new possibilities. Tutorials: Build a Featured Posts Section for WordPress Magazine themes are becoming increasingly popular. There are plenty of quality premium themes available, and also some decent free magazine themes, but you may want to build or customize your own. This tutorial covers the process of coding the index.php file to set up a magazine-style front page with a featured post section. - if you're willing to download all the plugins that are available from this site, you can really have the wordpress site look awesome and provide a lot more options.

This page has it all! Aside from just telling an explaining what we can do it provides screenshots so we get an idea of the "trick" to see is we might want it. This offers help anywhere from blog rolls to navigation to addding sideshows and tabs to your page. VERY resourceful.

This article is good because it provides tutorials on how to improve your blog.  For example, there are descent free magazines themes or you can build your own.  Also it gives techniques for seo and plug ins.  

Good tips on how to speed up load time for blog.

This site gives 14 plugins that can help make your blog better.

I like this article because it lists helpful plugins that will make your blogging experience much easier. 

D6 HW 6 - It is easiest to start small. I can do 10 things to get better and so can you. This website gives the top ten things you can do and adds in links for several of the steps to get even more help. A great place to start!

This is an amazing resource of how you can improve your blog. There are 100 different tips of how to make it better. Her first two, Keep an Idea Incubator and Make a Mindmap of your Blog, are excellent, I think. A mindmap would really show what you quickly what you have been blogging about and what you can do differently.

Great website, and while not all of the tips will be of bennefit to us, there are a lot of great and hidden treasures to be found within this post. The fact that tip number two was to create a mindmap also made me smile because it connected with the rest of our course in full circle.

So many quick ideas to help grow your blog

10 Tips to Improve Your WordPress Blog

This is a website that gives us 10 tips on making out WordPress blog better. It shows me many different things that I didn't even know I could do to my blog.

This was a helpful website because it provided tips on improving the theme of the blog. It also provided codes such as for adding multiple widgets. I thought this was helpful because our homework asks us to add widgets.

This site is great because it is clear and to the point. My favorite steps from this site is how the author tells how to brand your blog.

This would be an excellent resource to use to try to improve your blog it gives a great variety of tips on how to do it.

This site provides information on how to make your word press blog great! I enjoyed reading all of the recommendations and agreed with most of the suggestions!

The great for this sites is that it gives you 31 steps to improve your blog. As well, it gives steps for a new person to the blogging world.D#8Hm#3 Blog improvements

ProBlogger provides numerous links to various sites on how to improve your blog. This is a really in depth site but really provides a lot of information. 

D6 HW6- This website introduced me to the idea of a sneeze page. It gives several resasons and methods for improving a blog. Especially to improve longevity.

This website talks about the most important navigation options to have on your blog, which I am currently lacking.

I chose this site because not only was it a "how-to" site, but it was also a how to better yourself in the sense of documentation. I thought it was helpful.

very neat. good article.

This site goes through some useful pointers and tools used to create better websites, and better web page layouts.

I enjoyed these suggestions because it said that your design on your blog should be unique and attractive.

This is an interesting site in that the blogger spent two years analyzing the things that both limited and improved a blog. There are some helpful ideas not just about the presentation and content production aspects but also thoughts on having a vision/direction for the blog always in mind. Some of the key ideas about having a key strategy in mind and working within a well planned concept are useful ideas to bear in mind.

I like how this site talks about texture. Texture can be used on a blog to send a vibe of yourself to the readers. This is important because readers who follow your blog want to feel like they know you.

I really like this website because it gives 30 different options of what you can do to your blog to make it better. For example you can get the plugin to allow icons for subscription like twitter and emails. You can also get newsletter widget and post videos and or photos.

This website gives readers step by step processes on just about anything in wordpress. I recommend that all my peers check this page out. It allows you to have an experts opinion on how to make your blog better.

This site has a lot of ways to enhance your blog and make it more appealing to others and thus getting better grades on projects .

This gives some great examples of visual hierarchy

Found some pretty good ideas here. haha

Don't argue with it... hiring someone to write for you would be something about not thinking it twice.

Clean and easy to read blogs are what audiences enjoy looking at. Learn how to do it the right way on the site!