The grand unveiling of The Blogging Musician’s Google Web Story, which provides an audio-visual introduction to what the blog is all about. What’s a Google Web Story? Google Web stories are Google’s brand new method of providing content with more of an audio-visual focus, similar to, for example, Instagram and Facebook stories. The content has […]
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Introducing my new category: Blogging Tips, which brings together everything I’ve learned from over five years of WordPress blogging. I’ve learned a lot in the last five years and have written a few blogs on the subject of Blogging in that time. As the number of these blogs increased I thought now was a good
As The Blogging Musician reaches its 400th blog post, here are 5 lessons I learned since the 200th and 100th milestones. Lesson 1: Don’t mess about with WordPress themes (too much) I should listen to my own advice on this, but I just can’t help tinkering with WordPress themes, particularly when a new, lightning-fast, all-singing-all-dancing
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All the signs are there, but could 2021 really be that different from 2020? First of all, I just wanted to wish all my readers and contributors a very Happy New Year. I hope you and your families have a fantastic year and hopefully 2020 will soon be a distant memory. Alicia Keys is brilliant.
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After an awfully unique year, and just short of the 100 posts a year target, I reach my 99th and final post of 2020. I know we’re not there yet, but after the year we’ve all had, I thought it was time to shut up shop for the year, relax with family, and put the
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Introducing our brand new About page, as well as some other blog tweaks. I thought it was high time I put together a dedicated About page detailing the full story of how The Blogging Musician came to be, our journey so far right up to the present, and also, for newcomers, a handy reference to
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How the worlds most popular content management system was broken by an update to it’s most popular plugin. As of June 2019, WordPress is used by 60.8% of all websites (whose content management system is known). That’s 27.5% of the top 10 million websites. And Jetpack? That’s WordPress’ number one plugin, shipping as standard on
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As the Blogging Musician approaches its fifth birthday, I thought it was apt to set up a ‘Buy me a Coffee’ donation page. As you can see, a coffee icon has appeared on the bottom right corner of the site, so If you’re enjoying the content, feel free to donate and share a coffee with
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Welcome to The Blogging Musician Community Forum. I thought now was a good time to re-launch our forum, which will make it much easier to connect, share, and discuss. I’ve added the obvious categories mapped to our main themes of Guitar, Music, and Travel, but feel free to suggest others. Take a look, say hello,
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