The Four Hour Work Week Project – Allison Reynolds

I have itchy fingers again after taking another hard look at my blog design. I had to ask myself some hard questions and be absolutely honest with the answers

1. What is the main purpose of my blog

2. What is currently on the blog that gets in the way of that primary directive

3. What should be on the blog, but isn’t now.

For my blog the answers are as follows; for your blog they could be completely different priorities

1. My primary purpose is to present good quality content so that people add me to their readers or regular reading platform.

2. Side bar and banner advertising gets plenty of clicks but not enough to warrant their existence. So they are gone!

Popular articles is good for new readers to dip their toes in, but this one is manual and I haven’t updated it in a long time. Will look for a widget that will automatically post the most read / most commented posts of the last XX days to ensure fresh content and turnover

Tags are useless, they can go

Same with archives…gone

Countdown timer to my quitting corporate will stay, but I will probably move to the footer or header as it is a focus point that will help set the tone of what this blog is about.

Most active commenters will stay, but I will again set that to the 10 most active commenters of the last XX days to encouraged multiple comments and discussion rather than fly by night VA crap.

3. I need to make the RSS button bigger

I need to have a footer on each post that links to signing up for my pay-by-month newsletter

I need a “quote” banner eye-catcher that explains exactly what this blog is about so new visitors are instantly drawn to the story within

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So what is my plan for achieving all of this? Well I am looking for a quote from WordPress specialists that could work with me to create what I am looking for. If you have the time and the chops, drop me a message in the comments. Maybe we can do business.