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  • Spoilt For Choice With WordPress Plugins

    Spoilt For Choice With WordPress Plugins

    WordPress is a popular publishing platform and it is quite simple to use. There are so many WordPress plugins out there that add to its focus on aesthetics, usability and web standards.

    And best of all – WordPress and its plugins are free.

    WordPress plugins can do almost anything and everything that you want. There is a wide array of plugins which are available. They allow you to extend the functionality of the blog more than what the installed software offers.

    There are literally thousands of plugins which you can use and every day there are many more being introduced.

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  • Securing Your WordPress Blog Against Hackers

    Securing Your WordPress Blog Against Hackers

    You need to make sure you are securing your WordPress blog. As a blogger the most senseless thing that you can do is leaving your blog unsecured. It’s like letting every visitor use your home for whatever activity they want.

    Many people don’t pay attention to this critical aspect. The security of your WordPress blog is crucial once it has been created.

    Securing your WordPress blog means there should not be any loopholes for hackers to steal or destroy your data and information. When your blog gets hacked into, the user input is not filtered out by the software properly.

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  • Premium WordPress Themes And Their Benefits

    Premium WordPress Themes And Their Benefits

    Over the last two decades WordPress has emerged as a dominating weblog engine and has safely ensconced itself in virtual space. The main reason behind its overwhelming success is the software and the premium WordPress themes are easy to use. It is absolutely free and it has a huge worldwide community that continues to grow.

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  • More About WordPress And Plugins

    More About WordPress And Plugins

    WordPress and plugins are a great combo together. WordPress is a pretty good facility in its own right, but adding on the usefulness of plugins can and does increase the power of the WordPress tool. Although, it must be noted that WordPress.com takes the security of its site so seriously that it does not allow plugins on its WordPress.com website itself.

    WordPress.org vs. WordPress.com

    The differentiation is that plugins are permitted on the sites which accept the WordPress.org software; and, there is a huge difference.

    Confusing it may be, but WordPress.com is not WordPress.org and plugins are not allowed on the former but they are allowed on the latter. That is the first of the differences.

    Now, there is open source software issued for bloggers which needs to be downloaded onto your own PC. This software is provided by WordPress.org and this is a software program, pure and simple.

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  • What tasks Can A Virtual Assistant Do?

    What tasks Can A Virtual Assistant Do?

    I often get asked the question, “What Tasks Can A Virtual Assistant Do? ” Virtual Assistants can perform pretty much any task that an onsite secretary can do assuming that he or she has the right technology in place.

    Virtual Assistants can add exponentially to your time each day. In some cases, it can be almost like duplicating yourself so that you can focus on what earns your business money, allowing the VA to work on the tasks that are necessary but do not necessarily produce income.

    What Tasks Can A Virtual Assistant Do?

    Here is a list, not comprehensive by any means, of various tasks that a VA can do along with the technology that helps them perform these tasks.

    Social Media – Many Virtual Assistants are social media specialists. In fact, Freelance University has social media courses specifically designed for Virtual Assistants to work with small business owners. A Virtual Assistant who specializes in social media can schedule your Twitter tweets and Facebook posts in HootSuite (3 times a day, 4 times, etc.), grow your Facebook likes, add followers for you on Twitter, design your Facebook header and so much more!

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