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Stop Missing Scheduled Posts In WordPress


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For the past 2 months I have had a serious issue on my WordPress powered personal site. Every single time I would schedule a post, it would miss posting the article at the right time, sometimes never posting it. I had to figure out how to stop missing scheduled posts. It took me a little while to figure out what was going on and I don't think it was an issue just for my site has ChurchMag has struggled with this as well. I reached out to some WordPress Church-friendly Twitter friends and they ... Read More

Readability Tests: How Readable is Your Text?


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One crucial reason why people may stop reading your text—whether it’s a blog, a promotional flyer, an email, or anything else—is because they don’t understand it. This happens more often than you may think. And it’s a shame, because after all, you write to be read. The readability of your prose, then, is of crucial importance. A mistake many make when they write a text is that they forget to take their targeted audience into account. More specifically, the reading ability of their intended ... Read More

5 Vlogging Tips to Consider


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We are in an era of vlogging. Not as in it's the hot new thing, though it is. As in, there are already people who are retiring from vlogging, it's that far into it. To give some formality to this, I speak form a bit of experience with my own Youtube channel having over 70 vlogs at the time of writing this article and the first having gone up on May 24, 2015. Below, I want to give some helpful tips about vlogging, which include the equipment, using an online video service like YouTube, and some ... Read More

Community Blogging Challenge #1 [Videos]


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Last month, we had our first blogging challenge which we originally announced here. Five people showed up and so much content was written. Everyone said they had such a blast that I ended up purchasing a new webcam for my desktop so we can do it again. Here are the two videos, the first setting up our expectations for blogging and the second one is our reactions to what we either accomplished or ways we learned to do better next time: ... Read More

Top 10 Blogs to Follow in 2017


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Blogs. I cannot scroll through social media without seeing a blog post from someone. It would seem that blogging is one of THE things to do lately. So with all the blogs out there I thought I would share some of the best ones that I follow, as well as some of the best for church communicators. As much as I love writing blogs, I like reading them more. I like reading them because I love to learn new things, new approaches, and new ways to communicate the message of Jesus to the culture around ... Read More

Join Our Community Blogging Challenge!


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Have you ever heard of someone taking part in a blogging challenge? There are several kinds from a blogger taking part in a Nano November, New Years resolution to blog daily, or others. This blogging challenge is a little different. I've taken part in this challenge before when Dustin Stout hosted them but I wanted to bring them back. Let me share details of the challenge below: ... Read More

Creating Effective Titles and Headlines [Infographic]


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Titles are the window into an article and many believe can be more important than what you actually write. That does set up a belief which would make it ethically okay to spam and clickbait, so be careful with it. That being said, we simply cannot dismiss effective titles if it promotes your content better, short of personal ethical guidelines. Here are a few tips I pulled from the infographic below to help you come up with better headlines. ... Read More

Are Personal Blogs Dead?


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It wasn't that long ago when having a website for a business or church was still very unusual. Fast forward to today and your web presence has become the first thing that many people see and will set the impression that people have of you. But what about personal websites and blog? Before Facebook and Twitter, a personal blog was the main social network. But with the ubiquity of Facebook, the growth of group blogging sites and now platforms like Medium, is the personal blog dead? (And perhaps ... Read More