How to Know What Premium WordPress Theme is Right for your Site

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This is the 11th in our Blogging for Expats tutorial series. So you’ve got an idea for your blog, you’ve worked your way through the basics of setting it up, maybe you’ve even posted a few articles. But your site still doesn’t look as professional as you’d like. What to do. . . what to [...]

Dress Up Your Blog with Pictures

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In our last installment of Blogging for Expats, we learned how to add content to a WordPress blog. Today we’ll go ahead and add some eye candy. Keep in mind that some WordPress themes require you to handle images a little differently, but this will work with the majority. It’s very common to see two [...]

More Fun with WordPress Plugins

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In our last installment of Blogging for Expats, we looked at plugins. Plugins can decorate your blog, and provide additional functionality beyond what your theme offers. Remember, though, just as you should never download free themes from anywhere except WordPress.org, you should never get free plugins from any other source either. I’m going to talk [...]

Blogging for Expats: Choose Your Plugins Wisely

One way to support your expat, overseas lifestyle is by creating a blog-based business. This is the 6th installment in the series of Blogging for Expats tuturials. In our last installment we talked about themes for your blog. Today we’ll continue with our WordPress / home construction analogy. If WordPress is the foundation and framing, [...]

Turn Your Blog Into a Reader Magnet

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One way to support your expat, overseas lifestyle is by creating a blog-based business. To help with that, I’ve created a tutorial series on the basics of starting and running a WordPress blog. The series is called Blogging For Expats, and this is the 5th installment in the series. Click the links below to review [...]

One Simple Key to Locking Your Blog Against Hackers

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One way to support your expat, overseas lifestyle is by creating a blog-based business. To help with that, I’ve created a tutorial series on the basics of starting and running a WordPress blog. The series is called Blogging For Expats, and this is the 4th installment in the series. Click the links below to review [...]

How to Install WordPress

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Welcome to the third part in our Blogging for Expats WordPress tutorial series. Previously, we’ve looked at choosing a domain name and a web host and then purchasing and setting them up. Now you’re ready to install WordPress. WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world, used by over 25 million sites. (Read [...]

How to Start Your Expat Blog

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This is the second tutorial in the Blogging for Expats series. You can review the first one here. In the first tutorial in this series, you learned how to choose a domain name and a hosting company. Today, we’ll review the process of purchasing the domain name and signing up for your web hosting service. [...]

How I’m Going to Finance My New Life Overseas

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Last September, I started a series of posts talking about how you can finance your new overseas life if you’ll need to generate income. I stated: “In our recent poll, we discovered that most — at least 80% — of our readers will have to generate some income when they move overseas. None of them [...]

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