The great thing – okay one of the great things – is the ability to subscribe to another calendar.

To subscribe means to set up a system that automatically updates your own calendar. Once done, you don’t have to look after it, the system looks after it for you.

Here’s a video explaining how it works.

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IN the previous post I showed you how to create a user account. That video is meant for people who just want to join Inthekoots, leave comments and take part in other ways.

In this post I’ll show you how to create an account and a blog at the same time.

Just a warning, I use the terms “blog” and “website” interchangeably. Really, they’re the same thing these days.

The video is after the link below.

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Inthekoots is free to visit so why create a user account? Well, by having a user account you can:

• become a contributor to a blog;
• leave comments with your name attached;
• join a growing community of Kootenay residents.

There are likely other benefits. I think I’ve lived longer because I’m member, but that’s not scientifically proven so don’t hold me to that.

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Your writing is beautiful, eloquent and fluid. Obviously. But regardless of how your prose flows, a picture is going to help it out. Working online, you’ve got all the room in the world for photos and I strongly encourage you to use that room.

Here’s a video showing you how to insert an image.

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I’ll take pretty much any opportunity to add a YouTube video to a blog post.

Look below, I’ve done it again. That video explains how I got a YouTube video into a blog post. It’s gotten way simpler than it used to be.

Videos make the most of this medium that is the internet. We don’t have to use static photos to tell a story, we can use moving photos too!

Enjoy the instructional video and below that is a bonus feature: The video I used in the example of how to embed a video. It’s kind of like when you set up two mirrors directly across from each other and you can see infinity. Kind of.

The video is after the link below.

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Editor’s Note: This blog post has been updated after I realized my personal blog makes use of the biographical info field. This after writing that I couldn’t find a blog that uses the field. Ahem. It’s just before Christmas, I hope you’ll forgive me that oversight. Anyway, I’ve made a much better video for this help item.

Some blog themes – not all – will draw on some information you put in your profile and display it publicly.

The video is after the link below.

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A great part about blogging and using WordPress (the platform Inthekoots is based on) is its ability to be customized. There are hundreds of themes to choose from and many of those themes can be tweaked to better reflect you and the things you’re writing about.

A simple way to bring that individuality is to change the header image your blog uses. That’s assuming your blog has a header image. This blog, Blogging in the Koots, doesn’t have a header, but blogs like Rock Yer Bod or Learning in Retirement do and those blogs have changed their header to reflect what they’re writing about.

There’s a video that shows you how to change that header image after the link below.

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In earlier videos I showed you how to turn on the All-in-One Events Calendar and how to change the look of your blog so all you see is the calendar.

For those of you who want to see just how to post an event, I created a new video. You can see it after the link below.

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OK, so you’ve followed the instructions in the video on how to activate the calendar plugin (detailed in this post) and even tried out posting events to it, but what you really want to is make the calendar the very first thing people see when they go to your blog on Inthekoots.

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