{"id":867,"date":"2011-07-02T12:46:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.boston.wordcamp.org\/?p=867"},"modified":"2011-10-09T18:40:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T22:40:24","slug":"toms-top-ten-tips-for-blogging-on-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/toms-top-ten-tips-for-blogging-on-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom&#8217;s Top Ten Tips for Blogging on WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/46\/143104960_5a55fb9633_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\" \/>One  year ago I launched three properties on the self-hosted  version of WordPress &#8211; a professional association website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonsim.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">bostonsim.org<\/a>), a cycling  hobbyists site (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadbikingmassachusetts.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Road Biking MA<\/a>), and a personal blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomcatalini.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">tomcatalini.com<\/a>) &#8211; taking me on a journey of trial  and error in everything from tweaking the platform to integrating it  with other platforms to developing an effective blog writing style.<\/p>\n<p>Come  get a head start on your own blog (or take it to the next level) by  learning my top 10 tips, which are specifically geared toward anyone  running on or planning to launch a site on the self-hosted  WordPress.org platform.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to share everything I&#8217;ve learned. Topics  will include specific WordPress settings, the\u00a0 plug-ins and  widgets I&#8217;ve found most useful, and ways to organize posts with categories and tags.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also talk about developing a content strategy and schedule, how to  find and use Creative Commons images for your posts (and why images  matter), and making your posts easily shareable on other social media  platforms. I\u2019m happy to share tips on coming up with ideas for  posts, blog writing style and formatting, and finding your blogging  voice.<\/p>\n<p>The session will be fast-paced and interactive, with lots of Q&amp;A and discussion.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to seeing you at WordCamp. In the meantime, feel free to contact me on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomcatalini\" rel=\"nofollow\">@tomcatalini<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/76283671@N00\/143104960\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laineys Repertoire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago I launched three properties on the self-hosted version of WordPress &#8211; a professional association website (bostonsim.org), a cycling hobbyists site (Road Biking MA), and a personal blog (tomcatalini.com) &#8211; taking me on a journey of trial and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/toms-top-ten-tips-for-blogging-on-wordpress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tom&#8217;s Top Ten Tips for Blogging on WordPress<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8011131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6846],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-feature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tTIn-dZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8011131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}