Posts by Alex

I'm the 17 year old blogger & designer behind Blogussion. I live in New Jersey (but root for the New England Patriots), and am a Junior in High School. I am the owner of the "soon-to-be all you need Thesis theme resource" which I call Kolakube. Oh, you can also connect with me on Twitter if you'd ever like to chat.

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Breakdown of the 28 WordPress Plugins That Have Contributed to the Growth of our Blog

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If you use WordPress, there’s no doubt that you know of all the free plugins and modifications available for it. Without all of these plugins, a lot of the features found on many blogs today wouldn’t exist. In this article, I want to share with you guys the 28 plugins we currently have installed here [...]

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How to Keep an Organized Inbox and Keep Everybody Happy

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A very important part of keeping in sync with the readers in your community is to chat with them through email. Whether it is you emailing them, or they email you – it is vital to keep the conversation going and keep everything organized for the sake of your readership.

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Does Your Post Frequency Bring in the Best Results?

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The rate at which you publish blog posts is a very important factor towards building a solid readership. Believe it or not, adding a post a random day of the week and not sticking to a consistent schedule can really have an impact on the reaction it gets from your community. Just recently, we changed [...]

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Wired Weekend #2: The Best Blogging Tips From Around the Web

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Another Friday calls for our second installment of our awesome Wired Weekend series where we bring you our favorite blogging tips from around the web. The thing that makes this series so great (besides how useful these links are) is that we select articles from our community and feature them in the post. We collect [...]

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How to Setup a “Favorite Posts” Section to Bring Old Posts Back to Life

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One very well received new feature of our new design here was the “Favorites” section that I setup in our sidebar. Basically, it is a part of our blog where we selected our favorite articles that were no longer in plain view for our readers and made them more easily accessible.

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