WordPress for Writers

A year ago I wrote about Typealyzer, a service that would analyze the personality of your blog based on your posts. At that time, my blog had only been running a couple of months, and its personality was assessed as ISTJ (introverted-sensing-thinking-judging) called The Duty Fulfiller. Sure, I like doing a good job, but I [...]

Fellow authors – in addition to my career as a non-fiction author, I’ve spent close to 10 years doing website analysis for corporate, higher education, and personal websites.  Increasing your conversion rate (the number of people who purchase your book or service, rather than just looking) is a must for authors, whether self or traditionally [...]

Over the years of pro blogging, I’ve tested hundreds of WordPress Themes, many free and others fee-based. Although I’ve seen lots of posts about the best free themes, I rarely read any about premium themes.  Based on use for my own or client sites, these are my picks for the 5 best premium WordPress themes: 

I stumbled across a WordPress Plugin that rewards people who comment on your blog: When a comment is left, the commenter will receive a link back to their site, embedded in the SEO keywords of their choosing. How cool is that! In brief, when you leave a comment (like I hope you do below), instead [...]

Saw a great post by Tom Chandler about Typealyzer, a site that instantaneously analyzes your blog and pops out a personality type along with a diagram of the parts of your brain used to write your posts.