Explore blogging tips and how-tos based on Kelly’s experience building and maintaining blogging web properties. These are especially useful for writers using WordPress as their blogging platform.
How I solved the Wordpress Error: "Updating failed. The response is not a valid JSON response."
in 2024, when I went back to update older posts on ArtsandBricks.com to make updates, many posts would error and not save. When I clicked "Update," a red bar across the top of the page would appear that read, "Updating failed. Could not insert post into the database." Here's how.
Read about my partial journey of growing a parenting blog focused on kids' art and LEGO bricks. I discuss site traffic and indicators that my site is growing in credibility.
The WordPress Media Library does not permit uploading SVG file types by default. Trying to upload an SVG file to the WordPress Media Library displays a warning reading, "Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons." To change the functionality of your site and to permit SVG upload, you'll need to update your theme or child theme's function.php with this code.
Writing with enough transition words is an important measure of your website's readability. Your page's readability score is a Search Engine Optimization metric. Learning to use transition words is instrumental in improving your SEO readability score. Consequently, the proper use of transition words improves your website’s visibility. Read on to discover actionable tips.
Bloggers and writers carefully weave their personal creative writing style in addition to SEO best practices and appropriate reading level guidance into their writing. Let's tackle readability to reach a target Readability Score for a blog post.