Jumpline Blog
- How to Use the Twitter Embed Feature on WordPress 3.4 As they do sometimes, WordPress has released an update with changes that were designed to make your life easier. My favorite change in WordPress 3.4 is the Twitter embed. By posting the url of a tweet, it embeds a box that looks a lot like a tweet as seen on the Twitter page. From your site, your visitors can retweet your... Read More
- Creating a Community on Your Website with BuddyPress Buddypress is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to create an online community on your website. Buddypress has been compared to Facebook a lot because each user/customer/visitor has an account of their own, there are forums, activity streams, friends lists and a feature similar to the Facebook “wall”. Buddypress is a plugin that you, the webmaster... Read More
- Getting Photography for Your Blog or Website Part Two: PhotoDropper Plugin In Part One I shared some ways to use images on your website or blog. I also gave some ways to obtain photography through your fans or customers, on your own and how to edit those photos for free and easily. Today, I want to share with you a new plugin that I have discovered: PhotoDropper. PhotoDropper searches through over 60... Read More
- Getting Photography for Your Blog or Website Part One Images can make a huge difference in your posts and on your website, especially if you create a product or provide a service, there are so many possibilities! Showcase your product being made, your service being used, the people behind your company, the places your product is sold. The opportunities are wonderful for your site and the images you place... Read More
- Google Alerts for Content Ideas and Monitoring Your Reach Google Alerts are a neat tool that will alert you when something you’re monitoring ends up on the internet. I have Alerts set for my name, my business name and topics that I blog about regularly within my industry. This way I know what people are saying about me and the things I care about. This can help... Read More
- Plug In Highlight: Tweet Old Post The Wordpress Plugin called Tweet Old Post does just that, it automatically tweets your old posts for you to help bring more traffic to your site and promote your older posts. I use this plug in during slower time periods on my blog. Web traffic on my own company website generally falls during winter months so writing new posts isn... Read More
- Time Saver: SPEAK Your Blog Posts and Content into Your Smart Phone If there's anything that I don't have in life, it's time and I know a lot of you are like me. So you're thinking alright, I have this webpage and I know that keeping a blog or updating the content regularly is very important however I don't have any time! Well, I have an idea... Read More
- Using a Series of Posts on Your Blog or Website Have you ever posted a blog series? What is that? You may notice that sometimes on the Jumpline blog we post several posts with a similar topic. One example is our Pinterest Series.. It was broken into three shorter parts that had information grouped together. A good blog post should be able to get a message or information across in... Read More
- 5 Reasons Bloggers Use Numbers Lists Numbers list posts work well for bloggers for a variety of reasons. 1. A numbers list lets your readers know right away what their commitment is to reading your post. As a reader, I’m more likely to visit a post that has somewhere between 5 and 15 pieces of information. Anything more than 15 is probably too much for me to process... Read More
- 4 More Search Engine Optimization Tips 1. Edit your URL to be sure it contains good keywords, even if they are different from your post title. 2. Change your image file names so that they contain keywords, instead of a file name of “horse2.jpg” or “img12345.jpg”. Also, make sure that you use a good description of the photograph in the description area. 3.... Read More
