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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled The Complete Idiot's Guide to WordPress about President, CEO, KeySplash with the genre: Computers & Technology, Web Development & Design.
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conversations.value: the author is President and CEO of KeySplash Creative, Inc., a full-service marketing communications and branding solutions provider. She is also the author of five books. She has one of the leading blogs for business women, WomenOnBusiness.com, and is also a featured columnist for Entrepreneur.com, Forbes.com's Work-in-Progress blog, and the Guide to Blogging for About.com.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: com., a full-service marketing communications and branding solutions provider. She is also the author of five books. She has one of the leading blogs for business women, WomenOnBusiness.com, and is also a featured columnist for Entrepreneur.com, Forbes.com's Work-in-Progress blog, and the Guide to Blogging for About.the author is President and CEO of KeySplash Creative, Inc.
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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: The Complete Idiot's Guide to WordPress
  In terms of paying for WordPress.com upgrades, I don't recommend it. You can get all the functionality WordPress.com upgrades provide and much more by self-hosting your blog and using the blogging application from WordPress.org. It's also cheaper in the long run to use the self-hosted WordPress.org application than it is to pay for WordPress.com application upgrades.
  So I guess my answer to this question is simple. If you're new to blogging, start a new test blog on any subject you enjoy using the free application at WordPress.com. You can set up your test blog to be private if you want and even delete it later. Play around with the various features and functions available to you, so you get comfortable using the WordPress application.
  When you feel somewhat confident with WordPress, you can decide if blogging is right for you or not. If you decide to join the blogosphere with a real blog (rather than your test blog), and you have blogging goals that include growing your online audience or making money, start your real blog with WordPress.org. Once you get over the process of creating your actual first self-hosted blog, you'll realize how easy it actually is!
  In simplest terms, a guest blog post is an unpaid post written by one blogger to be published on another blogger's site. Guest blogging is an excellent way to boost traffic to your blog because it puts your amazing content, your name, and a link to your blog in front of a new audience. Guest blog posts usually include a link back to the writer's blog and a brief writer's biography.
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conversations.value: The conversations that happen on your blog through the commenting feature are what make your blog interactive and help you build relationships with your readers. Comments also help your readers build relationships with each other. When a community develops around a blog, that blog has hit a significant success milestone. That community of loyal readers is likely to share content on your blog with their own audiences, talk about you and your blog with other people, and keep the conversation going when you're too busy to join it. It's essential that you moderate comments to ensure your loyal readers don't have to sift through spam and negativity to find the valuable conversations they expect on your blog.
  Comment moderation can be time-consuming as your blog attracts more legitimate and spam comments. You can teach yourself how to identify spam comments, so you can spot them and delete them more quickly by following these tips:
  Also see Chapter 7 for a variety of suggestions related to configuring your comment moderation settings to reduce spam and make the moderation process more streamlined.
  Let me put it this way: the more restrictions and requirements you put in place in an effort to reduce spam or useless comments from being submitted to your blog, the more overall comments and conversation will decrease. If your goal is to grow your blog and the traffic to it, leave commenting open to anyone, as recommended in the configuration suggestions found in Chapter 7.
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conversations.value: If you use the WordPress-hosted application from WordPress.com, your blog is automatically upgraded for you. However, if you use WordPress.org, you'll see a message at the top of your WordPress Dashboard, as shown in Figure B-22, and also in the Updates section of your dashboard, notifying you that a new version of WordPress has been released and you can upgrade when you're ready.
  New versions of WordPress include great new features, but they also often include security updates, so upgrading is a good idea. However, upgrading immediately might not be a good idea, for a couple reasons.
  First, problems with the new version of WordPress often aren't noticed and fixed until a large number of users actually work with the application. It's a good idea to wait a few weeks before you upgrade to ensure any bugs are fixed.
  Second, your plug-ins might not work correctly with the new version of WordPress. If you rely on plug-ins that have not been tested with the new version, you might want to wait until those plug-ins are updated or look for substitutes that do work with the new version of WordPress. When you're ready to upgrade, be sure to back up your blog first using a plug-in like WP-DB-Backup, discussed earlier in this appendix.