Blog - The Blog Starter

In the articles below you will find tips & tricks for new bloggers. If you still haven't started your blog, use my easy beginner's guide to create one and then come back to this page later.

How to Install WordPress Plugins

In Step #4 of the tutorial I highlight some of the ways that you can utilize plugins as part of your blog. Plugins can make any blogger’s life easier, and they might even offer you some new functionality that you were unaware of. Now I’ll show you how to actually go about installing these useful […]

How to Add a Video to Your Blog

In Step #3 of the tutorial I show you how to easily add an image to a WordPress post (or page). But what if you want to add a video? This is really easy to do as well, but the process is a bit different. Adding a video to a post is known as “embedding” […]

How to Move Your Site from Joomla to WordPress

Although Joomla is a highly sophisticated and popular content management system designed to power a blog or website of almost any type, it is certainly not for everyone. If you are among those who have decided to make the switch from Joomla to a WordPress website or WordPress blog, the latter powering almost a quarter […]

Featured Blog: Running in Lavender

Are you interested in starting a blog, but not sure if it’s for you? Today I want to showcase one of the hard-working bloggers who started her own blog with the help of The Blog Starter guide. Hopefully this will give you a better idea of what a blog created with the help of The […]

How to Transfer Your WordPress.org Blog to a New Domain

This guide will show you how to move your self-hosted WordPress blog to a new domain. If you are looking to move your WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted installation use this guide instead. Moving your self-hosted WordPress.org blog to a different domain needn’t be a complicated or particularly time-consuming task, but there are some important […]

How to Move Your Blog from Blogger to WordPress

Google’s blog publishing service, Blogger, is a popular content management system for casual bloggers, but it doesn’t provide nearly as many features and the degree of versatility that a self-hosted WordPress site does. Powering almost a quarter of all websites, self-hosted WordPress blogs come with a vast database of themes and plugins as well as […]