Translating your blog, is there a good way to do it?

Is there a good way to translate a blog?Whereas English may at times seem prevalent online, the majority of people in the world do not speak it. Furthermore, only a small minority speak English as a native language. For all other languages, the audience figures look even worse, save perhaps for Chinese.

Therefore, providing content for people in their native language is an attractive idea for many bloggers and companies. A static website can be translated, no problem, but what about a blog, with comments and all? Continue reading “Translating your blog, is there a good way to do it?”

6 features that make your blog a social media hub

Social media hubWhen starting a professional or business blog, you should aim to make it a social media hub. In order to do this, you need to ensure that your blogging platform offers six key features.

My choice to fulfill these criteria is self-hosted WordPress that is able to match all of these criteria through its extensive selection of plugins. The ideas themselves are universal and can be realized on multiple blogging platforms, but my examples on how to implement them are focused mostly on self-hosted WordPress. Continue reading “6 features that make your blog a social media hub”