Showing posts with label wordpress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wordpress. Show all posts

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

How a Wordpress website works - use one for your band

I saw this on Musformation the other day but it comes from a techy website called Yoast.

You can see the original post there.

We are always writing about how you need to make the hub of your online promotion your own band website, and we always recommend that you use Wordpress. This infographic explains the basic elements of layout and functionality.

Someone working on your act - a member of the band, manager, or friend - needs to understand this and make it the hub of what you do!

 

Wednesday, 22 September 2010

Essential plug-ins for your band's Wordpress based site

We agree that the only sensible way to build your artist website these days is by using the amazing Wordpress platform.

Points 1 through 5 of this post on our site about how to build your fanbase cover the hosting, use of wordpress and email software that we recommend.

As you'll see from that, we recommend using the Thesis theme, which is the very best way to use Wordporess. Check it out.

However the plug-ins that can tweak that are well covered in this post.

WordPress and its open source community have created some immersive and interactive plugins for small business’s bloggers and photographers. This article will cover some of the band and music orientated plugins that you can install on your bands wordpress website.

Read about the 14 best plug-ins for musician websites in full here.

Tuesday, 21 September 2010

How to autopost to 30 plus social networks

It is a key skill for modern aspiring artists that they understand how to use social networking for musicians, but it is a challenge to keep up with all the profiles that people think are necessary today.

This great post on the 'Tight Mix' blog covers a method to make all that updating much easier.

Alas, I have finally found some light at the end of the tunnel. In this post, I will talk about two different methods that you can use to syndicate your new blog posts across 30+ social networks at one time. Pretty awesome, right?

Read the whole article here.