1. Provide you with an online presence bigger than Etsy.com
Having a Maker Spot blog is an ideal solution for adding flavor and personality to your Etsy business through your own website. With dozens of themes to choose from, you can express yourself and your interests so that potential buyers can get to know you. It [...]

This tutorial shows how to make your visitor’s landing page a static page instead of showing your blog posts first.

Add a Custom Blog Page

If you don’t want a Blog page, skip this step and move on to the next one.
To have a page titled “Blog” that will show in your main navigation, create a new [...]

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All you have to do is tweet a link to Maker Spot and you’re entered to win.  Here’s a few specifics:

The link has to be http://makerspot.com.  Don’t shorten [...]

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How to Activate / Deactivate your plugins.

Navigate to the Plugins Section

Under "Posts" in the sidebar, click on "Plugins"

Overview of the Plugins Panel

1. This screen provides you with the name/description of the plugin, the description tells you what the plugin does.
2. Action: This column allows you to Activate / Deactivate your plugins. Check out your plugins [...]

Using the handy import tool to bring in posts from another blog

Export from your current blog / journaling software

Export your items from your current blog software by using its export function. Each blogging software has it’s own export methods which you can probably find in their support pages.

Click on Import

Navigate to Tools > Import

Choose Software [...]

Using Contact Form 7 to add a contact form to your website

Open Contact Form 7 settings

Navigate to Tools > Contact Form 7

Overview of Contact Form 7

1. The code that is in the field under “Contact form 1″ will generate a generic contact form.
2. The form field shows the code that makes up the contact form.
3. [...]

Under your General Settings you can change the tite, tagline, email address and timezone, date format, and time format for your site.

Click on General Settings

Navigate to the "General" option under "Settings" in your Dashboard sidebar

General Overview

1. Blog Title: this is the name of your site that will appear in the header of your site.
2. Tagline: [...]