How to Videos for Wordpress Blogging

Wordpress Blogging Quirk

I recently discovered there are some instances where you will find in your Wordpress blogging posts, the paragraphs do not format, or display properly.

It’s a quirk that I’m not sure is related to the theme you select, or Wordpress itself.

However, the quick and easy how to video below will show you the solution we found, and are currently using, to work around this issue.

If you have found another solution, or can offer us and our readers more information on this topic, please leave a comment.  If you need further help, please feel free to contact us directly regarding this topic, or any other Wordpress blogging issue you may like to discuss.

Wordpress Blogging Tip

The Wordpress feature, called Quickpress, available in the latest version 2.7, is a great way to save time!

If you want to add a quick post, nothing fancy, to your Wordpress blog, to get an update or important news out to your blogging audience, this is a great way to go in and add the most important data, and then publish.

Wordpress Quickpress

You get to the Wordpress Quickpress feature from the main wordpress dashboard, and the very short video below will walk you through the few steps you need to quickly and easily add a blog post.

Using Wordpress-QuickPress Feature

For more great Wordpress Blogging step-by-step videos, visit our Wordpress Blogging Video Catalog.

Blog Pinging

Here’s one of the reasons we believe that WordPress is a great option for blogging. WordPress has a built in “Ping” option that will notify all the major blogging and RSS feed directories that you’ve made a new post on your blog. This is automatically activated in the “Writing” section of Word Press. If you scroll to the bottom of the “Writing” section you will see a section called “Update Services”.


Below that you will see a URL link: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/.

For a full list of URL’s you can add to your Update Services, email us below and we’ll send that to you right away.

Whenever you make a post on your blog, this option sends out a notification to all the blogging directories that you have made a new post and they usually automatically index it. Each time you make a post this ping is automatically done ensuring that your feed is sent.

Posting Regularly

Now that we’ve got the theme setup, the URLs for all your posts being search engine friendly, your pings being automated, the next step is to start blogging. Here comes the tough part, what am I blogging about? It’s important that your blog be about something you actually have knowledge on, and can write about fluently. For example if your site is about recipes, you can have your blog posts related to anything about recipes, perhaps experiences you have had while preparing dishes, etc.


When blogging remember you must be very personable, friendly and seem easy to talk to. The reason for this is that with each post you make you are trying to elicit a response from users. With WordPress you have the option to enable comments. By having comments on your blog enabled, it increases your popularity rating. The search engines will visit and update your blog more often as it is constantly changing by having new content. We recommend that in each blog post you make, that you always ask questions, request feedback to ensure that the people viewing your blog find a reason to actually post a comment.


To learn more about setting your ping options, and posting features and functions, view our online blogging video lessons catalog for how to’s that are easy and quick.