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How to Create Email Subscription, Special Offer and Info Bar Popups

How to Create Email Subscription, Special Offer and Info Bar Popups

By Adam W. Warner

[su_note note_color=”#22a1c4″ text_color=”#f9f9f9″]This tutorial is accomplished using a premium plugin.[/su_note] You know this already. If you’re running any kind of website, you need to offer your visitors a way to subscribe by email. You’ve probably also found dozens of services and plugins for creating popups. But what if you need more? What if you’d like…

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How I Use Canva to Make Blog Images

By Adam W. Warner

I’m active in a lot of blogging and WordPress communities and one of the questions I see posted again and again is “What is the best tool to make blog images?” My answer is always Canva.com and in this post I’ll tell you why and show you exactly how I utilize it to make blog images and…

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What the Hell is CSS and How Can I Simply Change the Font on My Site?

By Adam W. Warner

I’ve experienced it myself and I’ve seen many other non-developers struggle with the same question. “How do I change the font (or colors or a multitude of other design elements) of my blog?” The design, or more specifically, the styling of things on your blog theme like fonts, link colors, menu backgrounds and more are…

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Receive and Publish Guest Posts the Easy Way

By Adam W. Warner

[su_note note_color=”#22a1c4″ text_color=”#ffffff”]This tutorial is accomplished using a premium plugin.[/su_note] I just finished creating a form on this site to accept guest posts. To be clear, it’s an interview form for bloggers to submit their guest posts answers about why they chose self-hosted WordPress for their blogs and businesses. It has the standard form fields you…

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How to Add Closed Captioning to your YouTube Videos for Better Search Results

By Adam W. Warner

In this post I’ll show you exactly how I add closed captioning to my YouTube videos. But first, let’s talk about why I do this and why you should too. What is closed captioning on YouTube? Closed captioning (or captions) are simply written text overlaid on the video as it plays. You can see captions…

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How to Easily Add Internal Links to your Blog Posts

By Adam W. Warner

I’ve been using WordPress for 10 years and one of the recurring “pain points” for me is the process for adding internal links to my existing content when writing a new blog post. In this post, I’ll show you a great little utility plugin that makes adding internal links simple and fast. Video below. Linking to…

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Using the WordPress.com App to Connect and Post to a Self Hosted WordPress Site

By Adam W. Warner

In this post, I’ll detail my first run through and impression of the WordPress.com Desktop Application for Mac. This app gets installed like any other software program on your Mac and allows you to do a lot of cool things with your WordPress.com sites as well as your own self-hosted WordPress sites. WordPress.com App Video Tutorial…

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"Thanks to Adam, our company is now a WordPress power user. He did a superlative job transitioning us and all of our content to WP in an organized way. Beyond the basics, Adam helped us keep our eyes on the end game for enhanced traffic seo and conversions."

— Mary Lou Davidson
Dir. Strategic Planning at Scout Media Services

"Adam never fails to go above and beyond your expectations -- he always comes through and has saved my behind more than once. He's also a truly smart guy and has at least 10 good answers for how to accomplish any goal. I rely on him (and his brain) to keep my own business humming and would work with him on any project he proposed."

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