{"id":12796,"date":"2013-02-12T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shareaholic.com\/?p=12796"},"modified":"2014-05-13T11:16:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:16:57","slug":"consolidate-your-blogging-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/consolidate-your-blogging-features\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Consolidate Your Blogging Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12812\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quick-tip-41.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12812\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12812\" alt=\"quick tip 4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quick-tip-41.png\" width=\"572\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quick-tip-41.png 715w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quick-tip-41-689x400.png 689w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quick-tip-41-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quick-tip-41-400x232.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Icons by <a href=\"http:\/\/Iconify.it\">Iconify.it<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>As a blogger, you have a lot to think about. Between thinking up what\u00a0post to write next, promoting your content on social media, responding to comments from readers and running giveaways, you have enough to think about. Managing a ton of tools, trinkets and widgets shouldn&#8217;t be yet another thing that flusters you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Less is more<\/strong>. Don&#8217;t overwhelm your readers with choices of actions to take &#8211; various kinds of share buttons or overloading your sidebar with badges and more.<\/p>\n<p>Look for multi-functional blogging features, like WordPress plugins that make it easy to maintain several different features all within settings screen. With <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/shareaholic\/\">Shareaholic for WordPress<\/a>, you get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/publishers\/sharing\">Share Buttons<\/a> &#8211; \u00a0increase traffic and engagement to your content.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/publishers\/recommendations\">Recommendations related content<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/how-to-engage-every-visitor-by-putting-your-best-foot-forward\/\">makes the most of your best content<\/a>\u00a0with relevant recommendations of your own posts at the bottom of every article you publish.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/publishers\/analytics\">Analytics<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"How to Discover Your Blogging Niche\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/blogging-niche\/\">discover your blogging sweet spot<\/a> through a simple and elegant one-page metrics dashboard that shows you your best-performing posts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/publishers\/analytics\">Channels<\/a> &#8211; the opportunity to syndicate your content to a targeted audience on Shareaholic&#8217;s content discovery engine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/channels\">Shareaholic Channels<\/a>, just by being a Shareaholic publisher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bonus? Since all of these features work in sync with each other, you get the best possible performance and prevent your site from slowing down with excess code.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re a WordPress blogger, don&#8217;t hesitate. Be sure to check out all of the features that the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/shareaholic\/\">Shareaholic WordPress plugin<\/a> has to offer.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Like &#8220;Quick Tips&#8221; like this? Join our newsletter below and have only the best posts delivered straight to your inbox.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/shareaholic-email-signup\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Shareaholic Email Signup\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shareaholic-newsletter-cta.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a blogger, you have a lot to think about. Between thinking up what\u00a0post to write next, promoting your content on social media, responding to&hellip;&nbsp;<br \/><a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/consolidate-your-blogging-features\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[606,545],"tags":[538,537,295,358,536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}