All Things Wordpress - Read these 9 articles to start blogging properly

The Daily Post is on hiatus this week, so we'll be highlighting great posts from the archives that you might have missed the first time around (never fear -- there'll still be a new Photo Challenge on Friday!). Our recent Blogger or Brand? post generated a lot of interest.

As a human partaking in civilized society, there are certain pieces of information that you simply have to know, and critical documents you need to have at-the-ready at a moment's notice. For example, I bet that right now you know what your social security number is and where your social security card is located.

Now powering over 17% of the Web, WordPress is increasingly becoming the content management system (CMS) of choice for the average user. But what about websites built with an outdated CMS or without a CMS at all? Does moving to WordPress mean starting over and losing all the time, energy and money put into the current website?

Security has become a foremost concern on the Web in the past few years. Hackers have always been around, but with the increase in computer literacy and the ease of access to virtually any data, the problem has increased exponentially.

You want to know the secret to a faster WordPress website? You and everyone else. But it's not a secret. The problem is that there is a whole lot of misguidance out there that makes it hard for site owners like you and me to identify the solutions that really work.

I love how my funnel optimized website helps invisible buyers become visible sales leads. My site, which was created by Copyblogger Media is built on the Genesis WordPress platform using a customized Streamline child theme.

As a business blogger , most of the tools you need to do your job live right up there in your noggin. Do you understand the subject matter you're writing about? Can you string together a sentence? Got a computer? You're pretty much good to go. But (isn't there always a but?)

Jess Ostroff is Managing Editor at Convince & Convert, and also runs the virtual social media assistant agency Don't Panic Management. You can find her tweeting about social media, martinis, and music as @jessostroff. If you have a conversation with any WordPress developer, they'll likely tell you that less is more when it comes to plugins.

You probably know all too well by now that content creation is a very necessary function of successful inbound marketing. And for the inbound marketers who embrace that, a business blog is one of the most reliable and effective platforms for publishing much of the content they create.But if you've been consistently blogging for a while, you probably have all the business blogging basics down pat.