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How To Build a CI/CD Pipeline in Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps by Microsoft Azure is one of the leading tools that automate CI/CD’s process and, in turn, supports automatic builds and code projects to make them available to others. The Azure pipelines combine Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) to consistently test and build the code and ship it to the target environment.
In this article, we will learn how to configure an Azure CI/CD pipeline and integrate it to LambdaTest Azure DevOps for bug tracking.
Early WordPress 5.9 Look: The Road Toward Deeper Responsive Block Design
Gutenberg project lead Matías Ventura announced the Preliminary Road to 5.9 on the Make Core blog earlier today. He covered several big picture items, including several sub-points for each. He also linked to a GitHub issue with specific tasks and tickets that need work.
The post covers notes on block patterns, navigation menus, the theme.json interface (global styles), design tools, and editing flows for block themes. There is a lot of information to take in and enough areas to cover various interests.
The most exciting focus of 5.9 might just be going deeper into responsive design at the block level, whether this is under-the-hood code or block options available via the UI.
“One of the biggest points of friction for pattern and theme builders are the lack of responsive tools available at a block level,” wrote Ventura. “This needs to be solved in a way that doesn’t disproportionally increase interface complexity.”
Intrinsic Web Design With Blocks
It is easy to become disgruntled at the slow progress toward responsive block options over the last few years. I am not entirely unhappy with it because I want the team to be methodical and approach this in a future-proof way, at least to the extent that it can.
Far too often, what we have seen with requests and even third-party plugins is the use of viewport-based media queries for controlling how blocks respond to different devices (e.g., desktop, tablet, and mobile). While such controls can sometimes be the right tool for the job, they are not always the correct path for component-based design.
Media queries tend to favor holistic design methodologies. However, component-based design is the modern face of the web. Blocks are just another component, and because developers or even users can place them anywhere in the overall design, we must approach how they respond to their surroundings more so than the browser viewport.
“The block model is a good case to apply some intrinsic design principles, since a block can occupy a place in many different layouts and containers, for which prescriptive media queries that don’t take context into account are inflexible,” wrote Ventura.
A simple example to look at is the core WordPress Columns block. We could easily add media query options for when each inner Column block breaks. However, how should the typography respond for three columns vs. four and at different widths? That is a function of the container’s size rather than the viewport.
And, how do such media queries work when Columns are nested within another Column? This becomes a more complex problem to solve if you are putting layout controls into the hands of users. Pushing the fast-forward button on responsive block options might feel good at the moment, but it could also create legacy baggage that will be hard to drop when a better solution rolls around.
Even something as seemingly simple as a basic website header can become complex when designing for user input. For theme designers, there is no way to know how many characters are in the site title, for example, or how many items are in the nav menu. The block system can complicate that further by allowing end-users to drop in other unknowns.
“Each block area should be intrinsically responsive allowing blocks to compose together, wrap, stack, and organize themselves to fit the different spaces and screens,” wrote Ventura. “For this to work well, container blocks need to absorb more layout controls.”
He also mentioned container queries as a possible expansion point when they are fully supported by browsers in the future. Chrome Canary currently has a support flag to enable the feature.
Container queries are a bit of a Holy Grail for designers. As web designer Ethan Marcotte wrote four years ago:
Maybe I’ll start here: in the last few years, my design work has focused much more on patterns, and less on “pages.” Instead of treating a responsive design as a holistic, unified thing, where every part of the layout changes and adapts at the same rate, it’s more helpful to break a responsive layout down into smaller, reusable bits of design, including things like “masthead,” “footer,” “image caption,” and so on.
In other words, my design process involves looking at a responsive design as a network of small layout systems. Each of those components are basically little responsive designs themselves, with their own sets of breakpoints.
Sound familiar? Yes, the WordPress block system is built on that same foundation of small layout components.
Anything that WordPress does today at the UI level needs to account for the container queries of the future. Or, at least make use of existing tools that could replicate the feature in some ways, such as the min(), max(), and clamp() CSS functions.
The trouble is figuring out which features should be exposed as block options vs. being handled under the hood. The development team must strike a balance between the user experience and flexibility for designers. Some things should “just work” out of the box, and others should be configurable on a case-by-case basis.
This should be one of the more interesting, complex, frustrating, and rewarding problems to solve in the WordPress 5.9 cycle. For those looking for a challenge, it might be the perfect entry point.
Adventures in Scale: Google is Tech’s Lewis and Clark
To call Google a titan of the tech industry would be an understatement. Their name has become synonymous with the internet itself. The very act of retrieving information from the internet - the core functionality of the internet and its most basic purpose - is known simply as “Googling” something. On their road to becoming the web’s biggest search engine and a moniker for the internet itself, Google also pioneered much of what it takes to grow a company at scale.
On the Dev Interrupted Podcast Google Senior Engineer’s Hyrum Wright and Titus Winters, shared their lessons learned from programming at Google with LinearB Co-Founder and COO, Dan Lines. Both engineers have a deep understanding of the principles behind software development: Hyrum is semi-famous as the "Hyrum" of Hyrum's Law; while Titus is responsible for 250 million lines of code that over 12,000 developers work on.
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I am trying to send emails to people in a list in excel. I created a loop to get the different email addresses and send the email to each addressee using gmail. it works fine if the list has 7 or fewer addressees, after seven i get an error that the transport failed to connect to the server.
OpenAI Announced Private Beta for Codex API
OpenAI has announced the private beta release of the Codex API, which provides partnering developers with access to the AI systems that power GitHub’s Copilot code suggestion engine. This API was built in collaboration between the two organizations and enables natural language to be converted to executable code.
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Unicode Arrows
Looks like… 253 of them. I love the little water ⥾ spout one. (U+297e). Because. And I like how it’s a fairly useful little site at a great domain and with a little business model behind it.
Reminds me of a little feature I like in Notion where if you type dash-arrow (like ->) it turns into → — but intelligently — like it doesn’t do that with inline code or a code block.
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Building a Cool Front End Thing Generator
Whether you are just starting out on the front end, or you’ve been doing it for a long time, building a tool that can generate some cool front-end magic can help you learn something new, develop your skills and maybe even get you a little notoriety.
You might have run across some of these popular online generators:
- The Hero Generator and CSS Grid Generator by Sarah Drasner
- Glassmorphism CSS Generator by Themesburg
- Text Shadows by Components AI (and they have a ton more)
I’ve had fun building a few of these myself over the years. Basically, any time you run across some cool front-end thing, there might be an opportunity to make an interactive generator for that thing.
In this case, we are going to make an Animated Background Gradient Generator.
Scaffolding the project in Next
A nice thing about these projects is that they’re all yours. Choose whatever stack you want and get going. I’m a big fan of Next.js, so for this project, I’m going to start as a basic Create Next App project.
npx create-next-app animated-gradient-background-generator
This generates all the files we need to get started. We can edit pages/index.js to be the shell for our project.
import Head from "next/head"
import Image from "next/image"
export default function Home() {
return (
<>
<Head>
<title>Animated CSS Gradient Background Generator</title>
<meta name="description" content="A tool for creating animated background gradients in pure CSS." />
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
</Head>
<main>
<h1>
Animated CSS Gradient Background Generator
</h1>
</main>
</>
)
}Animated gradients?
At the time I’m writing this article, if you do a search for animated CSS gradient background, the first result is this Pen by Manuel Pinto.
Let’s take a look at the CSS:
body {
background: linear-gradient(-45deg, #ee7752, #e73c7e, #23a6d5, #23d5ab);
background-size: 400% 400%;
animation: gradient 15s ease infinite;
}
@keyframes gradient {
0% {
background-position: 0% 50%;
}
50% {
background-position: 100% 50%;
}
100% {
background-position: 0% 50%;
}
}
This is a great example that we can use as the foundation for the generated animation.
A React component to describe an animated gradient
We can break out a few possible configurable options for the generator:
- An array of gradient colors
- The angle of the gradient
- The speed of the animation
To put in context, we want to provide these settings as data throughout our little app using a higher-order component, context/SettingsContext.js, along with some defaults.
import React, { useState, createContext } from "react"
const SettingsContext = createContext({ colorSelection: [] })
const SettingsProvider = ({ children }) => {
const [colorSelection, setColorSelection] = useState([
"deepskyblue",
"darkviolet",
"blue",
])
const [angle, setAngle] = useState(300)
const [speed, setSpeed] = useState(5)
return (
<SettingsContext.Provider
value={{
colorSelection,
setColorSelection,
angle,
setAngle,
speed,
setSpeed,
}}
>
{children}
</SettingsContext.Provider>
)
}
export { SettingsContext, SettingsProvider }For our generator’s components, we want to create:
- a control components to adjust these settings,
- a visual display component for generated animated gradient, and
- a component for the CSS code output.
Let’s start with a Controls component that contains the various inputs we used to adjust the settings.
import Colors from "./Colors"
const Controls = (props) => (
<>
<Colors />
</>
)
export default ControlsWe can add our SettingsProvider and Controls components to pages/index.js:
import Head from "next/head"
import Image from "next/image"
import { SettingsProvider } from "../context/SettingsContext"
import Controls from "../components/Controls"
import Output from "../components/Output"
export default function Home() {
return (
<>
<Head>
...
</Head>
<SettingsProvider>
<main style={{ textAlign: "center", padding: "64px" }}>
<h1>Animated CSS Gradient Background Generator</h1>
<Controls />
<Output />
</main>
</SettingsProvider>
</>
)
}Our SettingsProvider begins with the three colors from our CodePen example as defaults. We can verify that we are getting the color settings via our SettingsContext in a new Colors component.
import React, { useContext } from "react"
import { SettingsContext } from "../context/SettingsContext"
const Colors = () => {
const { colorSelection } = useContext(SettingsContext)
return (
<>
{colorSelection.map((color) => (
<div>{color}</div>
))}
</>
)
}
export default ColorsLet’s use the Colors component to display individual color swatches with a small button to delete via our SettingsContext.
import React, { useContext } from "react"
import { SettingsContext } from "../context/SettingsContext"
const Colors = () => {
const { colorSelection, setColorSelection } = useContext(SettingsContext)
const onDelete = (deleteColor) => {
setColorSelection(colorSelection.filter((color) => color !== deleteColor))
}
return (
<div>
{colorSelection.map((color) => (
<div
key={color}
style={{
background: color,
display: "inline-block",
padding: "32px",
margin: "16px",
position: "relative",
borderRadius: "4px",
}}
>
<button
onClick={() => onDelete(color)}
style={{
background: "crimson",
color: "white",
display: "inline-block",
borderRadius: "50%",
position: "absolute",
top: "-8px",
right: "-8px",
border: "none",
fontSize: "18px",
lineHeight: 1,
width: "24px",
height: "24px",
cursor: "pointer",
boxShadow: "0 0 1px #000",
}}
>
×
</button>
</div>
))}
</div>
)
}
export default ColorsYou may notice that we have been using inline styles for CSS at this point. Who cares! We’re having fun here, so we can do whatever floats our boats.
Handling colors
Next, we create an AddColor component with a button that opens a color picker used to add more colors to the gradient.
For the color picker, we will install react-color and use the ChromePicker option.
npm install react-colorOnce again, we will utilize SettingsContext to update the gradient color selection.
import React, { useState, useContext } from "react"
import { ChromePicker } from "react-color"
import { SettingsContext } from "../context/SettingsContext"
const AddColor = () => {
const [color, setColor] = useState("white")
const { colorSelection, setColorSelection } = useContext(SettingsContext)
return (
<>
<div style={{ display: "inline-block", paddingBottom: "32px" }}>
<ChromePicker
header="Pick Colors"
color={color}
onChange={(newColor) => {
setColor(newColor.hex)
}}
/>
</div>
<div>
<button
onClick={() => {
setColorSelection([...colorSelection, color])
}}
style={{
background: "royalblue",
color: "white",
padding: "12px 16px",
borderRadius: "8px",
border: "none",
fontSize: "16px",
cursor: "pointer",
lineHeight: 1,
}}
>
+ Add Color
</button>
</div>
</>
)
}
export default AddColorHandling angle and speed
Now that our color controls are finished, let’s add some components with range inputs for setting the angle and animation speed.
Here’s the code for AngleRange, with SpeedRange being very similar.
import React, { useContext } from "react"
import { SettingsContext } from "../context/SettingsContext"
const AngleRange = () => {
const { angle, setAngle } = useContext(SettingsContext)
return (
<div style={{ padding: "32px 0", fontSize: "18px" }}>
<label
style={{
display: "inline-block",
fontWeight: "bold",
width: "100px",
textAlign: "right",
}}
htmlFor="angle"
>
Angle
</label>
<input
type="range"
id="angle"
name="angle"
min="-180"
max="180"
value={angle}
onChange={(e) => {
setAngle(e.target.value)
}}
style={{
margin: "0 16px",
width: "180px",
position: "relative",
top: "2px",
}}
/>
<span
style={{
fontSize: "14px",
padding: "0 8px",
position: "relative",
top: "-2px",
width: "120px",
display: "inline-block",
}}
>
{angle} degrees
</span>
</div>
)
}
export default AngleRangeNow for the fun part: rendering the animated background. Let’s apply this to the entire background of the page with an AnimatedBackground wrapper component.
import React, { useContext } from "react"
import { SettingsContext } from "../context/SettingsContext"
const AnimatedBackground = ({ children }) => {
const { colorSelection, speed, angle } = useContext(SettingsContext)
const background =
"linear-gradient(" + angle + "deg, " + colorSelection.toString() + ")"
const backgroundSize =
colorSelection.length * 60 + "%" + " " + colorSelection.length * 60 + "%"
const animation =
"gradient-animation " +
colorSelection.length * Math.abs(speed - 11) +
"s ease infinite"
return (
<div style={{ background, "background-size": backgroundSize, animation, color: "white" }}>
{children}
</div>
)
}
export default AnimatedBackgroundWe’re calling the CSS animation for the gradient gradient-animation. We need to add that to styles/globals.css to trigger the animation:
@keyframes gradient-animation {
0% {
background-position: 0% 50%;
}
50% {
background-position: 100% 50%;
}
100% {
background-position: 0% 50%;
}
}
Making it useful to users
Next, let’s add some code output so people can copy and paste the generated CSS and use in their own projects.
import React, { useContext, useState } from "react"
import { SettingsContext } from "../context/SettingsContext"
const Output = () => {
const [copied, setCopied] = useState(false)
const { colorSelection, speed, angle } = useContext(SettingsContext)
const background =
"linear-gradient(" + angle + "deg," + colorSelection.toString() + ")"
const backgroundSize =
colorSelection.length * 60 + "%" + " " + colorSelection.length * 60 + "%"
const animation =
"gradient-animation " +
colorSelection.length * Math.abs(speed - 11) +
"s ease infinite"
const code = `.gradient-background {
background: ${background};
background-size: ${backgroundSize};
animation: ${animation};
}
@keyframes gradient-animation {
0% {
background-position: 0% 50%;
}
50% {
background-position: 100% 50%;
}
100% {
background-position: 0% 50%;
}
}`
return (
<div
style={{ position: "relative", maxWidth: "640px", margin: "64px auto" }}
>
<pre
style={{
background: "#fff",
color: "#222",
padding: "32px",
width: "100%",
borderRadius: "4px",
textAlign: "left",
whiteSpace: "pre",
boxShadow: "0 2px 8px rgba(0,0,0,.33)",
overflowX: "scroll",
}}
>
<code>{code}</code>
<button
style={{
position: "absolute",
top: "8px",
right: "8px",
background: "royalblue",
color: "white",
padding: "8px 12px",
borderRadius: "8px",
border: "none",
fontSize: "16px",
cursor: "pointer",
lineHeight: 1,
}}
onClick={() => {
setCopied(true)
navigator.clipboard.writeText(code)
}}
>
{copied ? "copied" : "copy"}
</button>
</pre>
</div>
)
}
export default OutputMaking it fun
It is sometimes fun (and useful) to add a button that sets random values on a generator like this. That gives people a way to quickly experiment and see what kinds of results they can get out of the tool. It is also an opportunity to look up cool stuff like how to generate random hex colors.
import React, { useContext } from "react"
import { SettingsContext } from "../context/SettingsContext"
const Random = () => {
const { setColorSelection, setAngle, setSpeed } = useContext(SettingsContext)
const goRandom = () => {
const numColors = 3 + Math.round(Math.random() * 3)
const colors = [...Array(numColors)].map(() => {
return "#" + Math.floor(Math.random() * 16777215).toString(16)
})
setColorSelection(colors)
setAngle(Math.floor(Math.random() * 361))
setSpeed(Math.floor(Math.random() * 10) + 1)
}
return (
<div style={{ padding: "48px 0 16px" }}>
<button
onClick={goRandom}
style={{
fontSize: "24px",
fontWeight: 200,
background: "rgba(255,255,255,.9)",
color: "blue",
padding: "24px 48px",
borderRadius: "8px",
cursor: "pointer",
boxShadow: "0 0 4px #000",
border: "none",
}}
>
RANDOM
</button>
</div>
)
}
export default RandomWrapping up
There will be a few final things you’ll want to do to wrap up your project for initial release:
- Update
package.jsonwith your project information. - Add some links to your personal site, the project’s repository and give credit where its due.
- Update the
README.mdfile that was generated with default content by Create Next App.
That’s it! We’re ready to release our new cool front end thing generator and reap the rewards of fame and fortune that await us!
You can see the code for this project on GitHub and the demo is hosted on Netlify.
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40+ Best Blog Examples of 2021 – Successful Bloggers to Follow for Inspiration
Are you looking for the best blog examples to help you get inspired?
WordPress is used by a lot of the biggest brands and most successful blogs in the world. By checking out successful blogs, you can get inspiration and follow in their footsteps.
In this article, we’ll share some of the best blog examples that you must check out for inspiration.
Why Do the Most Successful Blogs Use WordPress?
WordPress is the most popular website builder and content management system (CMS) in the world. Over 42% of all websites on the internet use WordPress.
With WordPress, you can set up a new blog quickly without writing any code. Most popular bloggers use WordPress for its flexibility, easy-to-use admin panel, and thousands of themes to customize the design.
There are also thousands of free and premium WordPress plugins available to extend the features and functionality of your blog.
That being said, let’s take a look at the best successful blog examples to follow for inspiration. Hopefully these blog examples will help you in starting your own blog.
You can use the quick links below to jump to your blogging niche of choice.
- Best WordPress blog examples
- Best marketing and social media blog examples
- Best business blog examples
- Best lifestyle blog examples
- Best food blog examples
- Best parenting and mom blog examples
- Best health and fitness blog examples
- Best travel blog examples
- Best fashion blog examples
- Best tech and gaming blog examples
- Best career blog examples
- Best DIY blog examples
- Best photography blog examples
- Best finance blog examples
Best WordPress Blog Examples
WordPress blogs offer tips, tricks, and tutorials that cover the ins and outs of WordPress. They help to answer common WordPress questions and show readers how to make the most out of their WordPress websites.
Most WordPress blogs make money with affiliate marketing, and selling their own products like themes, plugins, and more.
1. WPBeginner
WPBeginner is the largest free resource for WordPress tutorials to help beginners master the basics and beyond. You’ll find over 2,000 different WordPress tutorials to help you get started with WordPress.
2. IsItWP
IsItWP is another top WordPress blog that also offers a collection of helpful WordPress tools. You’ll find a WordPress theme detector, speed test tool, and even a WordPress security scanner.
3. WPForms Blog
WPForms is the best contact form plugin for WordPress. There’s also a WPForms blog that will help you get the most out of the plugin and learn tips to grow your WordPress business quickly.
Best Marketing and Social Media Blog Examples
Marketing and social media blogs teach business owners how to get more customers, improve their WordPress SEO, get more social media followers, and more.
Usually, these blogs are monetized with online courses, recommending affiliate products and software, and selling digital marketing services.
4. OptinMonster Blog
OptinMonster is the best WordPress popup and lead generation plugin. The OptinMonster blog is filled with valuable tips to help you optimize your website for conversions and make more money.
5. Social Media Examiner
Social Media Examiner is one of the top social media blogs. The blog covers nearly every topic related to social media and how to grow your followers.
6. Detailed
Detailed is an SEO-focused marketing blog that provides a lot of useful and unique information about what’s currently working in the world of SEO.
Best Business Blog Examples
Business blogs teach small business owners how to grow their businesses online. You’ll find topics related to making money online, getting more traffic, growing your email list, and much more.
Most business blogs make money by selling online courses and through affiliate marketing by recommending products and services they use.
7. BlogTyrant
BlogTyrant is the number one online resource for tips and tricks about growing your WordPress blog. The posts cover topics like getting started blogging, increasing your traffic, growing your email list, and making money online.
8. Neil Patel
Neil Patel is one of the top digital marketing blogs. It has blog posts on nearly every topic related to digital marketing, including content marketing, eCommerce, SEO, social media, paid advertising, and more.
9. Michael Hyatt
Michael Hyatt is the blog bearing the same name as the successful publishing CEO. This blog is dedicated to helping business owners become better leaders and succeed at work and life.
Best Lifestyle Blog Examples
Lifestyle blogs cover a wide range of different topics that speak to a specific audience. For example, you can have a blog aimed at women in their 30s and cover topics like food, fashion, and motherhood.
A lot of lifestyle blogs make money with display ads and affiliate marketing. As your site grows, you can bring on multiple authors and create a multi-author blog.
10. Wit & Delight
Wit & Delight is a lifestyle blog founded by Kate Arends in 2014. Since then, it’s grown to over 3.3 million visitors and has blog posts on topics like interior design, health and wellness, food, beauty, and much more.
11. Art of Manliness
Art of Manliness started back in 2008 and has grown into one of the largest men’s lifestyle blogs. It covers topics ranging from style, fitness, skill-building, and everything in between.
12. Camille Styles
Camille Styles is a very popular multiple author lifestyle blog. It covers topics like wellness, food, interior design, style, and travel. There’s also a unique shop page that’s monetized with affiliate marketing.
Best Food Blog Examples
Usually, food blogs are niche focused and tend to cover a specific diet or style of eating, like paleo, vegan, or simple 10-minute recipes. Food blogs are hugely popular and share delicious recipes with their readers.
Since recipe blogs get a lot of traffic, many food blogs make money with display ads or selling third-party cookbooks.
If you want to start your own WordPress food blog, then see our guide on how to start a food blog.
13. i am a food blog
I am a food blog is a food and recipe blog run by a husband and wife team. It combines travel and food to highlight unique recipes worldwide, along with stunning step by step images.
14. Smitten Kitchen
Smitten Kitchen is a popular food blog run by Deb Perelman for many years. The recipes are beginner-friendly and can be made with simple ingredients. The success of the blog led to publishing a popular cookbook.
15. Minimalist Baker
Minimalist Baker is a recipe blog that focuses on simple and fast recipes. There’s also a unique recipe index that lets you search through all the recipes on the site with ease.
Best Parenting and Mom Blog Examples
Parenting and mom blogs offer life advice and helpful tips for new parents.
The parent blogging space is huge, and most blogs that stand out take a unique angle. You’ll find niche parenting blogs for new dads, single moms, toddler raising, and more.
Blogs in this space are monetized with display ads, affiliate product recommendations, and even online courses and coaching.
16. Mommyish
Mommyish is a popular mom blog that offers all kinds of content related to being a mom. Including topics like childrearing, pregnancy, product reviews, and parenting hacks.
17. Imperfect Families
Imperfect Families is a parenting blog run by Nicole Schwartz, an online parent coach and professional therapist. The blog offers plenty of helpful advice for new parents and also offers online courses for sale.
18. Fatherly
Fatherly is a very popular online magazine-style blog dedicated to young fathers. It was even named one of Oprah’s favorite things in 2018. Articles range from advice for new dads, best gear posts, and more.
Best Health and Fitness Blog Examples
Health and fitness is one of the most popular and lucrative niches online. Most health and fitness blogs focus on a specific niche. For example, you have paleo, gluten-free, running, fitness over 40, and much more.
If you’re starting a health and fitness blog, then see our collections of WordPress themes for fitness blogs, yoga studios, and Crossfit gyms.
Health and fitness blogs can make money in a variety of ways, including creating a membership site, and starting a podcast and getting sponsorships.
19. Born Fitness
Born Fitness is a popular fitness blog that makes improving your health and fitness simple. There are tons of articles related to getting in shape, eating better, and cooking.
20. Ben Greenfield Fitness
Ben Greenfield Fitness is a blog and podcast dedicated to helping people achieve the highest levels of performance in life. The blog features in-depth articles and interviews with industry experts.
21. Blogilates
Blogilates is a women’s fitness blog that features helpful fitness articles, workout calendars, and healthy recipes. There are also free workout videos and fitness challenges readers can join.
Best Travel Blog Examples
Travel blogs offer tips and advice for all kinds of travelers. Most blogs in this space are based on personal experience and offer trip recommendations, must-see destinations, and more.
They can be monetized with affiliate programs, Google Adsense revenue, and more.
For more details on starting a popular travel blog, see our guide on how to start a travel blog.
22. Nomadic Matt
Nomadic Matt is a budget travel blog that’s helped millions of people around the world travel affordably. It features in-depth travel guides, travel tips, destination guides, and more.
The blog’s popularity led to launching a New York Times best-selling book.
23. Adventurous Kate
Adventurous Kate is a travel blog for women interested in solo travel. It has many articles from years of solo travel and covers topics like travel destinations, best travel resources, and more.
24. Asher & Lyric
Asher & Lyric is a popular travel blog dedicated to helping families travel safer and smarter. There are in-depth travel and packing guides for most vacation destinations around the world.
Best Fashion Blog Examples
Fashion blogs cover fashion trends, style tips, and more. This style of blog is usually niche-focused, like men’s fashion, or affordable fashion.
Many fashion blogs make money with affiliate marketing and recommend their outfits and clothing items to their readers.
For more details on starting a fashion blog, see our step by step guide on how to start a fashion blog.
25. Dappered
Dappered is a popular men’s fashion blog that offers advice and fashion tips for men on a budget. The articles feature style tips, clothing reviews, and even a dedicated forum where readers can share style information.
26. The Style Fairy
The Style Fairy is an Ireland-based style blog from professional stylist Noami Clarke. It features fashion, beauty, and lifestyle tips. Plus, it highlights images from her popular Instagram account and includes an online store.
27. Jo-Lynne Shane
Jo-Lynne Shane is a women’s fashion blog that offers fashion advice and tips on the latest fashion trends. Articles also include recent sales, outfit suggestions, and more.
Best Tech and Gaming Blog Examples
Tech and gaming blogs cover the latest of what’s happening in the technology and gaming industry. Some blogs cover the latest news, while others provide in-depth game reviews, product reviews, and more.
A lot of tech and gaming blogs use WordPress magazine themes to showcase a wide range of content and authors.
If you want to start a gaming blog, then see our step by step guide on how to make a gaming website with WordPress.
28. That Video Game Blog
That Video Game Blog is a popular gaming blog that provides gaming reviews for nearly every console. The reviews are very in-depth and helpful. There’s also gaming lifestyle content and accessory reviews.
29. The Next Web
The Next Web is a popular tech and news blog that features articles and insights into the tech world, coding and development, AI, startups, and more.
30. Android Police
Android Police is a magazine style tech blog that covers everything to do with Android. There are articles about the latest news, deals and coupons, reviews, device features, and more.
Best Career Blog Examples
Career blogs offer advice and guidance for job seekers and employers to help them make the most out of their careers. These blogs are often monetized by personal coaching and selling online courses.
These blogs can focus on specific niches of careers, like creatives, corporate careers, and remote jobs, or take a more broad approach to careers and jobs.
If you’re looking to launch a graphic design career and build your website, then check out our list of the best WordPress themes for graphic designers and our picks of the best WordPress portfolio plugins.
31. 99u
99u is a blog from Adobe that’s a great career resource for graphic designers and other creatives. There are interviews, in-depth guides on inspiration, collaboration, portfolios, and more.
32. HR bartender
HR bartender is a career and workplace blog run by HR consultant Sharlyn Lauby. The blog covers many different topics related to the workplace like career advice, how to be a better leader, and more.
33. Undercover Recruiter
Undercover Recruiter offers content about job and career development for employers and job seekers. The blog posts cover topics like hiring, preparing for a job interview, recruiting new employees, and more.
Best DIY Blog Examples
DIY blogs cover topics like home remodeling, decorating, and more. The articles are written in the “how-to” format and show readers how to complete similar projects.
This style of blog also has high quality images that show each project at different steps. Some DIY bloggers also branch out into YouTube, and get a lot of traffic from Pinterest.
For more details on connecting WordPress to Pinterest to get traffic, see our guide on how to verify your WordPress site on Pinterest.
34. I SPY DIY
I SPY DIY is a DIY blog run by a husband and wife team. The posts feature new projects, entire home renovations, and other lifestyle posts. Every post has step by step images showing you how to do the same thing.
35. Young House Love
Young House Love is a popular DIY blog running for over 14 years. There are over 3,000 DIY projects highlighted across the blog. There’s even a great before and after section that shows the progress that was made.
36. Collective Gen
Collective Gen is a DIY blog led by Geneva Vanderzeil and has millions of readers across the world. It has covers topics like DIY interiors, style, upcycled goods, travel, wellness, and more.
Best Photography Blog Examples
Photography blogs feature tips, tutorials, buying guides, and interviews for inspiration. They often make money by selling online courses, using display advertising, and affiliate marketing.
If you’re building your own photography blog, then make sure to see our picks of the best WordPress themes for photographers.
37. Flickr Blog
The Flickr blog is a companion to the Flickr photo sharing service. The blog features photos, interviews, and collections from around the world.
38. Digital Photography School
Digital Photography School is a photography blog with tips and tutorials for beginner to advanced photographers. It has over 5 million monthly readers.
39. PetaPixel
PetaPixel is a popular photography and camera news blog. It has articles about nearly every area of photography like camera reviews, photography website tips, in-depth guides, and much more.
Best Finance Blog Examples
Finance blogs help people earn more, save more, and spend less. Personal finance blogs can cover a single area of finance like paying off debt, reviewing the best software, recommending index funds, and more.
As finance blogs become popular and get more traffic, they usually branch out into related topics.
If you’re starting your own personal finance blog, then see our list of the best WordPress themes for financial sites.
40. The Penny Hoarder
The Penny Hoarder was founded in 2010 and has grown into one of the largest personal finance blogs on the internet. The articles cover topics like making money, budgeting, saving money, debt, retirement, and more.
41. I Will Teach You To Be Rich
I Will Teach You To Be Rich is the blog of best-selling author Ramit Sethi. It’s been running since 2004 and provides actionable personal finance advice and articles about starting a business, advancing your career, and more.
42. Mr. Money Mustache
Mr. Money Mustache is the blog of personal finance expert Peter Adeney. The blog takes a unique perspective on personal finance and has a large and loyal following of readers.
Building Your Own Blog with WordPress
Looking at all of these popular blogs, you may be wondering how you can start your own WordPress blog?
Luckily, starting your own blog is easy with the right tools.
You’ll need three main things to get started:
- A domain name: This is the address for your website (ours is wpbeginner.com)
- Web hosting: So you can store your website files, and visitors can access your site
- A blogging platform: Software that lets you simply build a blog without having to code
Normally, a domain name costs around $15-20 per year, and web hosting starts from $7.95 per year.
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When it comes to choosing the best blogging platform, we recommend choosing WordPress.
Now, there are two main types of WordPress blogs. WordPress.com is the hosted version and WordPress.org is self-hosted. For more details, see our guide on the difference between WordPress.com vs WordPress.org.
We recommend using the self-hosted WordPress.org version because it gives you all the features you need right out of the box (this is what we use at WPBeginner).
For more details, see our in depth guide on how to start a WordPress blog.
If you’re looking for even more creative inspiration, then make sure you check out our ultimate list of WordPress website examples.
We hope this article helped you find some of the best blog examples to get inspired. You may also want to see our guide on how to get a free email domain, or check out our comparison of the best email marketing services for small business.
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