Craigerson http://www.craigerson.com Motorcycles, Blogging, Development, & More Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:20:24 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 How To Start A WordPress Blog: A Video Series http://www.craigerson.com/how-to-start-wordpress-blog-video-series/ http://www.craigerson.com/how-to-start-wordpress-blog-video-series/#respond Tue, 12 Sep 2017 02:52:30 +0000 http://www.craigerson.com/?p=1499 So you’re wondering how to start a WordPress Blog huh? Let me start off my saying, this is not your regular WordPress post. I won’t be creating some 3000 word article with screen shots that lays out how to start a WordPress Blog. Nope. That’s already been done like a gazillion times. What I will […]

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