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How to Integrate bbPress within your Wordpress blog.
-by Timothy Caron

Hey Guy’s and Gal’s, lately I had a few people ask me how to integrate bbPress within their Wordpress blogs.

This integration primarily shares database the user database between the to applications as to streamline the login process. Also, it allows you to show the most recent posts in your bbPress into your side bar in Wordpress.

Take a look at this detailed bbPress and Wordpress Integration by Sam Bauers from Wordpress.TV. (This video is quite long, because it goes through the entire installation of Wordpress and bbPress if you were to do things from the very beginning.

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Until next time, have a wonderful day.
PS Don’t forget to let me know your thoughts about the video.

How to Learn Blogging Software

A lot of blogging programs and software is specifically designed to be simple to use, but even the least daunting blogging program can feel very overpowering to somebody who has not spent a lot of time learning the ins and outs of different kinds of software. Specifically for newer bloggers, learning how to use the back office or dashboard of blogging software is the most difficult part of blogging. If you are somebody who feels comfortable expressing themselves in another medium, it may prove to be well worth your time and effort to learn blogging software, but that doesn’t mean that the chore will be easy.

The main thing that will help you find achievement as you learn how to use a new kind of blogging software is to try and take things slowly. Many people get so excited about learning to blog that they try to rush into the thick of it and start exploring the most complicated features of a program right away. This can lead to getting confused and feeling frustrated, and all too many potential bloggers burn out during this stage of the process.

If you take your time learning the basics of your blog software program before you move on to more advanced techniques, you will be more likely to retain what you have learned, and to keep feeling positive about your ability to understand the world of blogging.

Until Next Time…
Timothy Caron

The Definition of Blogging

The definition of blogging is something that is very much in flux, as the new technologies that appear every day redefine what a blog is, what a blog can be, and what a blog should do. For many years, blogs were defined as text-based websites that kept records of days, similar to a captain’s log on a sailing ship. However, this started to change as the group of people who kept blogs became more diverse. The more bloggers began to explore the limits of the medium and of the technology that made it possible, the more the boundaries of what could be called a “blog” expanded.

Today, there are an abundance of photo blogs, and there are even video blogs as well. Mobile blogging devices may well change the definition of blogging entirely by making it possible for bloggers to create new kinds of posts. Another element of the blogosphere that is starting to redefine blogging is the corporate blog. As more companies hire writers to keep blogs with the sole purpose of creating positive buzz about their brand, bloggers across the globe are arguing about whether these manufactured blogs are really worthy of the name.

Between all of these different forces that are constantly expanding and reshaping the blogosphere, it is difficult to imagine that the definition of what is and is not a blog will ever remain fixed for very long.

Until next time…
Timothy Caron

Blogging 101

Blogging 101 is mostly about the blogging vocabulary. To understand blogs, you need to know  the terms blog, platform, domain, and web host.

Once you have mastered these key elements of  blogging, you can enter any conversation about  blogging with confidence. After you know what  exactly a blog is, you will be on your way to  passing the final exam of blogging 101.

Blog is short for weblog, which simply means a  series of online posts presented in reverse  chronological order. That’s all! Most blogs are text,  but there are also photo blogs and video blogs. The  rest of blogging 101 has to do with the technical  side of things. If you are setting up a blog, you will  need a platform, a web host, and a domain.

A  blogging platform is a computer software program  that allows you to write posts and to update your  blog. Your platform is also what you use to design  the look of your blog, from color scheme to font  size. The web host is sort of like the virtual file  cabinet where your blog is stored.

Your computer  communicates with the host when you upload or  edit a post. The domain is the online address of  your blog, and usually ends in ‘dot com’. Now that  you know what a blog is, what a platform is, and  what domains and hosts are, congratulate yourself!

You have passed blogging 101.
Until next time…
Timothy Caron