November 14, 2010 By Amanda Padgett 
Are you new to WordPress.org? Or, are you thinking about moving from Blogger, but aspects of WordPress (like plug-ins) intimidates you? Well, if you are anything like me, the word “plug-in” stresses you out. Before I started a WordPress.org blog, Everyday Elements, I would hear others talking about plug-ins and they seemed so complicated and something I just wanted to steer clear of. 😉 Then, after I had my nice, shiny new blog set up (after much crying, trying to figure out FTP, themes, hosting, you name it), I realized other people had things in their sidebars or posts that I want in my … [Read more…]
July 12, 2010 By Amanda Padgett
Posted by Dawn Farias OK, I admit it: the only things I know about Seth Godin are that he is bald and doesn’t have a horizontal header on his blog. He has a vertical one. Both points can be easily illustrated. Observe: Actually, I should say that’s all I knew about Seth Godin until recently. Blogging with Amy published a post talking about how to use and optimize the What Would Seth Godin Do plug-in for WordPress. That’s how I came to find out more about Seth Godin. But first, more about plug-ins. A plug-in for WordPress and Typepad is a lot like the header gadget for Blogger: a … [Read more…]