Instagram Widget for WordPress.com Users

instagramInstagram is a fast and easy way to share your photos with friends and family free of charge.

Snap a picture, choose a filter to transform its look and feel, then post to Instagram. Share to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr too – it’s as easy as pie. It’s photo sharing, reinvented.

Today WordPress.com Staff announced something Instagram users have been waiting for. Widgets » Instagram Widget > via Instagram Widget — Support — WordPress.com. via Instagram Widget — Support — WordPress.com.

Make a Free Award, Event or Website Badge

one cool site gradient badgeThere are free ways to make graphic badges and banners for promoting your website, business or event. If you are planning to create an award badge, a website badge or an event badge you can make your own and get the code for your friends so they can display it on their blogs too. Continue reading

Keyword Metatags

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The keywords metatag was a critical element for early search engines but hasn’t been used in search engine ranking since 2002. There is no such thing as setting a meta keyword tag for a WordPress.com blog. However, from time to time new bloggers post to the WordPress.com support forums asking for instructions for setting a meta keyword tag for their blog.   Continue reading

WordPress.com: Heading Tags from h1 – h6

Heading tags are an important part of any HTML document and blogs are HTML documents.  Search engine spiders read HTML and understand the relevance of heading tags, so when heading tags are used appropriately search engines give more weight to text that is inside a heading tag. That’s why it’s important for WordPress.com bloggers to learn what HTML heading tags are and how to use them properly. Continue reading

Yellow Fonts, Contrast, And Clarity| Light Reading

I’m eagerly awaiting activation of this custom colors feature on free themes. There are some themes that I would be using now, if we had the ability to set custom colors without having to pay for a custom design upgrade, but we don’t, yet. Click through to see the image here  Yellow Fonts, Contrast, And Clarity. Continue reading

WordPress.com Widget Visibility Options

categories widget visibilityWhen was the last time you opened your Archives widget, Authors widget, Categories Widget, Pages widget or Tag Cloud Widget? Take a peek inside and explore the new possibilities the Visibility options provide. Continue reading