4 Tips On How To Make Your Blog Better In the spring everyone talks about spring cleaning their house and about just starting fresh with a clean place to live. I figured why not apply this same system of thinking to your blog? Every once in awhile you should really clean up your blog and get rid of the old plugins you don’t use anymore, fix anything that needs to be fixing, and add any new features you think your blog is lacking. So that is exactly what I did about a week or so ago. I went through my blog cleaned up some old plugins and then I added/modified some of the current features on my blog. Things I’ve missed and things I thought would add extra value to my blog. So here are the few simple things I’ve added to my blog to improve it. Archived Blog Posts This is something I forgot to look at and work on when I changed my blog theme over from an old one to the current one about a year or so ago. It is a relatively simple fix but something I didn’t do properly and it probably made my blog a lot worse than it should be. What I am talking about is the link at the bottom of my blogs home page that says: SEE MORE ARTICLES IN THE ARCHIVE –> I actually found out when going through my blog that if I clicked on that link it actually brought my blog to a 404 error page. That was definitely something I didn’t want so I had to fix it. How I Fixed My Archive Page For my blog theme it was a relatively simple solution. In my WordPress backend login there is a section to select an archive page. The only issue I had was that I didn’t have an archive page setup and didn’t know how to setup an archive page in the first place. So what I did was go to Google to get the answer! The answer was pretty simple. All I needed to do was to create a new page > then on the far right column there is a section for Page Attributes > in there I changed the template to Archive Page > I then created a name for the page and published! That was it! Then once the page was created I went into my theme options and selected that page for the archive section and voila it was set! I tested it and it worked out perfectly! However I didn’t stop optimizing my archive section on my blog there. Then what I did was optimize my sidebar of my WordPress blog. Originally my blog was set to show all posts for every month in a column on the left. However that list was getting very big because my blog has been around for awhile now. So what I did was limit the number of archived months to 5 instead of [...]
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