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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.  

ways to improve WP, the navigation suggestions are good for wp.com users since navigation is one of the most important aspects of getting around a site and finding what you want

D#6, HW#6-- I really enjoyed this website for many different reasons. Firstly, for the way t is set up. It is easy to read and enjoyable. They have a main bullet point to look at, and then list and shortly describe different aspects of that bullet point. Also, it covers just about every aspect from design, to performance, to even security. It has a lot of great information!

I like this article because it gives an endless amount of possibilities on how to improve your blog. This article features ideas that will suit any 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 is a very intelligently written site. All the ideas are good and make sense.

I like this article because it gives helpful tips on how to manage and control your comments in order to make your blog successful.

Improvements specifically to blog comments.  Good content on managing comments.

A list of 15 tips to promoting your blog in order to improve blog traffic and increase your blogging success. Simple yet effective.

This site which is a blog about how to improve a blog is good because list many many methods on how to improve your blog.

This site offers 110 suggestions made by actual bloggers on how to improve a blog! While a number of them cannot be applied to my course blog (I'm not collaborating with anyone else, for example), there was still plenty of relevant advice. Even though I am given the topics to cover, I can still let my own personality come through. This relates to the course outcome of performance; a blog needs to feel like it was written by a human being and not by a robot.  I could also start adding videos that contribute to my audience's understanding. I know that the sample rhetoric on the town assignment included a video of the advertisement the student had analyzed. Another good suggestion is to break up the paragraphs, which I try to do, or use bullet points. Another blogger suggests using subheads.

I thought the 5th way to improve a blog was important. Having ideas to write about is important. If the core of your blog (writing) is worthless, it won't matter how pretty your blog is.

Great suggestions on the site. I found several sites that were similar. Its kind of funny because I cant remember hearing about Wordpress prior to this class.

10 ways to improve your wordpress blog.

10 easy ways to improve the SEO of your blog. Definitely USEFUL for any BLOG!

This is a good resource for how to improve your blog because it tells you to spell check (which I'm surprised lately with how many things I've been reading on and offline that are not spell checked...), it says to back up facts, and have a plan. Even though this webpage is mostly for food blogs, I think a lot of the info can be used for regular blogs also.

This website gives ideas to help improve your Wordpress blog through personality and passion

The last way this suggested on improving my blog made me laugh. I am not getting paid for this so I guess I am doing it for the right reasons. I didn't even know people blogged for money, I just thought of it more as a Public Service announcement kind of system. Where people could vent their ideas and opinions in a structured environment where they could receive feedback on such ideas. This page helped a bit due to the simplicity of it, being crunched for time within the last week I took the very brief descriptions and began to try to incorporate these facts into my blog to see if any imporvement would come about. 

Well I retract my statement from just moments ago. THIS website really integrates everything that we have been taught thus far and brings it around full circle.

A page on teaching what design flow is and how it works. Teaches you how to keep the reader's eye and make them follow the 'flow'.

This is a good website to help you understand what flow is and the different types of flow. It talks about verbal flow and visual flow. It also goes on to explain how to improve your verbal flow and your visual flow.

This webpage incorporates more details about many key aspects of flow that were also mentioned in chapter seven. There are tips to improving visual and verbal flow within a page and also how to add flow across an entire site involving many pages.

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. 

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. 

This site is useful since it explains about how to improve your blog through proof reading and adding things to it such as links.

This website is great as well, it shows 10 different ways that blogging can help improve your daily life, from increasing confidence, to sharing with others your beliefs and thoughts. This can be directly related to what we are learning in TWC 301.

This website is great as well, it shows 10 different ways that blogging can help improve your daily life, from increasing confidence, to sharing with others your beliefs and thoughts. This can be directly related to what we are learning in TWC 301.

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

This site suggests ways to improve the content, organization, and marketing of your blog. It focuses on making everything user friendly, easily accessible, and keeping it simple (not too many plugins).

100 easy step to help your blog. Content, beainstorming, use other writers, use vdeos some obviuos and some so unobviuos.

Here is another list to help me spark my ideas on how to create a more proficient blog. Some of the options on this list are a bit ridiculous for this class and I couldn't really see myself doing them like hiring other writers. While others like ridding myself of unproductive widgets sounds like such a great way to make space and reduce clutter.I like this one a lot just due to all the suggestions it imposes. 

If you need some simple ideas of how to improve your wordpress blog, here they are. 10 great recommended plug-ins with descriptions of how they will effect your blog.

*Social sharing buttons. *Recommend popular post. *Speed up my blog- clean up side bar. * Fix my "About page"- Info about a a good About page. *Plugins *Polls ***This site has very useful tools***

This article is focused directly on WP users. It consists of 10 easy things that will improve your blog. Although some of them don't apply to the basic users there are still some useful tips.