Meghan

Today, I am going to take you through how to start a mailing list using ConvertKit. ConvertKit is an email marketing service for bloggers. Its primary purpose is to allow you to gather and maintain a list of email addresses, organise them, and send marketing emails. With the provided WordPress plugin, you can easily add … Read more

Having your WordPress website looking good on every kind of device is essential. Today I give you four ways to test your WordPress website on different devices so that you can be confident your blog looks fantastic wherever your readers are. Not long ago, the only screen size we needed to worry about was the … Read more

In today’s tutorial, I am going to take you through how to use Cloudflare with your WordPress website or blog. Cloudflare is a free service for small to medium-sized blogs. It provides a content delivery network, a reverse proxy, denial of service protection, and DNS in one package. What is Cloudflare? Cloudflare is a service … Read more

Today I’m going to share with you exactly how to add affiliate links to blog posts. Promoting third-party products and services is one of the top ways that bloggers can earn an income from their posts. Other ways to make money blogging are through advertising, sponsored posts or by selling products and services. Earning cash … Read more

In today’s post, I look at how to convert existing WordPress Posts to Gutenberg blocks. WordPress introduced Gutenberg blocks in version 5.0 of WordPress. Since then, the features in the block editor gradually improved. At the time of writing, we are now at version 5.3. Related reading: What’s New in WordPress 5.3 What is the … Read more

In today’s post, I am going to share how I use Grammarly in WordPress to spell and grammar check all my posts. Since I started using Grammarly, I have to say that my productivity has skyrocketed. I used to spend hours reading and re-reading posts, but they would still have errors! Now, all it takes … Read more

Recently I’ve been looking more closely at what the WordPress editor can do (also known as the Gutenberg editor) and how it can help you to write better posts more quickly and efficiently. In this post, I reveal the most timesaving tips and tricks I have found plus some surprising things that you may not … Read more

Did you know you could schedule a WordPress blog post ahead of time? Scheduling has been a liberator for me because it means I can blog and blog and blog …. until it’s time for a much-needed break. Then I can spread out my posts over time, while I put my feet up or do … Read more

I often help people speed up their websites. Along with slow hosting, WordPress image mistakes are the most common contributor to a slow site. Get your images right, and you are on the path to blogging success in more than one area: Better SEO Better loading times Better user experience (no waiting for a slow … Read more

Today we will be learning how to use MailChimp with our WordPress blog. I will show you how to use MailChimp to send out an automated email (or email series) that is triggered when a reader responds to a lead-magnet, such as a checklist, content upgrade or cheatsheet. This tutorial takes you from ground zero … Read more