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    How to Change Your Author Name in WordPress

    In WordPress, when you write a blog post, you can choose to have who has written the post next to the title. This can appear in the blog search/archive list of your posts, or on the blog post itself. See in this image below how the post has been set with the author being The Balanced Blogger? That’s what I’m talking about here. Some people like to see their name next to the blog post they’ve written. And if you’ve got guest authors or a few people contributing to your blog, being able to differentiate who wrote each post is super useful for your reader and for giving he right…

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    12 Things I Wish I Knew BEFORE I Started Blogging

    I started blogging 7+ years ago and to say that I started this journey knowing nothing about blogging is an understantement. I just knew that I liked writing, I liked learning about building websites, and I wanted to somehow bring these two interests together. I’ve come a logn way in my blogging journey since those early days where I did A LOT that I would now consider to be so wrong. But that’s the point, I was on a blogging journey and I learned as I progressed on this journey. So, after being in the blogging world for a number of years, here’s some things I with I knew when…