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Advertising on your wordpress.com site

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As we all know, we can't advertise on our wordpress.com blogs, which is rather annoying as many of you have found out over time that adverts 'do' appear on your wordpress site. Wordpress do place their own Google ads on your site, but the chances are … [Read more...] about Advertising on your wordpress.com site

Talk About Local training at Better CIC in Coventry

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Last Friday Nicky and myself attended Better CIC in Hillfields in Coventry, another of the Community Capacity Builder UK online centres we are currently working with. We held a workshop with some of the Digital Champions and members of the local … [Read more...] about Talk About Local training at Better CIC in Coventry

Talk About Local training at Eden Rural Foyer in Penrith, Cumbria

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Last week Michael and I headed North to Penrith, Cumbria to deliver training at Impact Housing's Eden Rural Foyer, another of the many Community Capacity Builder UK online centres Talk About Local are currently working with. The group of 10 local … [Read more...] about Talk About Local training at Eden Rural Foyer in Penrith, Cumbria

Adding new contributors to your WordPress website and overcoming issues with inviting contributors

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Here at Talk About Local we find many people we're helping to develop community websites using Wordpress ask about inviting new contributors to their site to lighten their load, get more local people involved and give their website a variety of … [Read more...] about Adding new contributors to your WordPress website and overcoming issues with inviting contributors

Adding tweets to your WordPress blog post

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How many times have you seen something on Twitter that you wanted to add to a blog post and had to spend 5 minutes doign a screen grab of the tweet to add to your post as an image like this?Well you might not know it but you can actually embed a … [Read more...] about Adding tweets to your WordPress blog post