Tag Archives: WordPress questions

Embedding a YouTube Video

February 17, 2012

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Embedding a YouTube video into your blog isn’t difficult to do, but I find the instructions from the WordPress support forum to be difficult to follow.  It’s really not that hard.  There are two ways to do it: Using the “upload / insert”, choose “from URL”.  Then choose “Audio, Video, or Other File” and copy [...]

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Comment Moderation & Pingbacks

February 9, 2012

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Comment moderation is a way to prevent spam in your comments, as well as stop trolls who want to leave off-topic inflammatory comments. Pingbacks are a way of tracking when someone has linked to one of your posts, reblogged it, or when you have created a link to one of your own posts.  It’s also a way [...]

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Reading The Blogs You Follow

January 23, 2012

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In case you missed the recent announcement from WordPress, there is a reader that you can use to follow your blogs in once place, including blogs not on WordPress. When the initial screen comes up at www.wordpress.com, you’ll see tabs across the top.  One of those tabs says “Read Blogs”.  Just click it and the [...]

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