Work

The Beginner’s Guide To Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog

You took the leap and installed WordPress to host your own blog because you want complete control over how it looks and works. Now, it’s time to power it up, lock it down and make your blog completely yours.


September 20, 2009
Work

Move From Blogger To WordPress Without Losing Google Rank

Your experiment in blogging has really taken off, so you’re itching to move from Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress installation. Luckily, you can do so without losing the traffic you worked so hard to build.


August 15, 2009
Work

Make Your Own URL Shortening Service

URL shortening services are ubiquitous on Twitter and other cramped online spaces. They won’t all last, as tr.im has demonstrated, and their shutdowns could annihilate your linking history. If you own a domain, though, you can host your own service.


May 8, 2008
Uncategorized

Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done

Writing your blog should be a fun way to stretch your mind and stay connected to trends, friends, and the greater world, not another computer task that takes far too long to get done. But that’s exactly what it can feel like if it takes you more time to find your post ideas, tweak your markup, and make everything look right than to actually get your thoughts down. Being somewhat experienced at this blogging thing, your Lifehacker editors have pinpointed a few tools and tricks that make our posts go faster and smoother. After the jump, we round up 10 of them.