Pin the Love … in 6 easy Steps

Social Media is all over the Internet and I have the feeling that new platforms grow around us like weed in the garden.
I am not saying that the new platforms are weed or crap … no way. They are good, great, fun and maybe even necessary. And our readers want to share our thoughts with the new platforms.

So today we are talking about one of the brand new kids on the blog: Pinterest.
People are in love with Pinterest, they are crazy about it … everybody wants to pin.

Why not? Let us give them the chance to pin this article. Give them a pin-button among Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn:

And you guess it already: it is easy … it is WordPress!

4 Steps: Who is tweeting my blog?

Ever wondered why some tweets come along with the twitter name of the blog owner and others not?
It is not magic to add your own twitter ID to your own self hosted blog.

Step 1

Go to your Dashboard

How to make your picture feel comfortable

We all love to have pictures on the blog. It looks so much better and more interesting.
But it is not only about adding pictures to the blog, we want it to look cool too.

Uploading pictures

First you have to upload you picture.

Hit the camera-button:

click “Select file” …

… and upload your picture.

Now you have to select one out of four way to align your picture.

Commenting Issues with WordPress

No Fonts today … there are problems to be solved.
Since a couple of days my fellow bloggers aren’t hardly able to comment on my blog. This makes me sad. Our WordPress Guru Paul Taubman of I Need Help With WordPress (hop over and give him a like!) made me aware of a forums thread at WordPress.com.

They are discussing it up and down … 9 pages so far, while I am writing this.
It is not your fault, it is not my fault, nobody is too stupid to comment … WordPress has changed the commenting system … not for the better.

Help the Commenter

Last Thursday I moaned a bit about the pain of commenters.

The desire to interact, to communicate with the blogger, which is sometimes not really possible.

But it is easy for us bloggers to help our reader, our commenter to interact.

We all love the little checkbox “Notify me of follow-up comments via email”