Metaverse Musician

WordPress avatar — creating one for the blog admin

WordPress allows one to associate an avatar with a user profile. This is a small picture that will be displayed on each post or comment you make to the blog, giving casual visitors a ready means of identifying all your posts. However, it is not readily apparent how the site admin is to set this avatar. There are no settings anywhere in the Site Admin control panels for setting this. Accordingly, the admin is stuck with the default ‘phantom person’ for an avatar.
This Two Minute Tutorial explains step-by-step how to set up a custom avatar for the admin.

embed an mp3 player in your wordpress blog post with WPaudio

One can put an mp3 file into a blog post, creating a clickable link. However, clicking this link will navigate to a new page with the viewer’s system’s default application for listening to mp3 files. It would be preferable to embed a working audio player right into the blog post.
Fortunately, this is readily achievable. There are a number of media players that extend the functionality of blogging platforms to this end. This post describes how to install my favorite such player into a WordPress blog.

add a wordpress blog to a ReverbNation profile

Social media tools provide a platform for musicians and bands to expand their fan base. Wordpress is a widespread blogging platform, and ReverbNation provides a comprehensive toolset to market musical endeavors. But who has time to duplicate their blog posts to both platforms? You don’t have to! You can set these tools up to synchronize with each other!

This article explains how to add a wordpress blog to a ReverbNation profile.

wordpress, pretty permalinks, and seo

URLs generated by wordpress’ default policy suck, from an SEO point of view. Here’s a better plan, that uses the post title as a URL. Using keyword rich titles thereby improves rankings.

add a ReverbNation widget to a wordpress blog post

ReverbNation widgets can be embedded right within a wordpress blog post. This two minute tutorial demonstrates how.