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Take us for a test drive!

Considering RVblogz for a free travel blog account? Well, try it. You just might like it!

Kick the tires, look under the hood, and take RVblogz for a spin with our new Test Drive Blog! Simply log in using the following details, and you will have access to the same WordPress dashboard you’ll see when you sign up.

  • Username: Guest
  • Password: RVblogzTE5T!

Publish a post, edit comments, upload a photo, change the theme … see how easy it is to blog about your travels. Then, sign up for your own free travel blog!

Please Note: Username and password are case sensitive. Any posts, comments and media added to this sample blog may be deleted periodically and settings may be restored. If we experience excessive abuse from this test drive account, it will be closed to public access. Please use it, don’t abuse it!

Invite your friends!

Send friends and family invitations to create their own free travel blog account for your RVblogz dashboard.

Invites is found under the User tab.RVbloggerz can now easily send invitations for friends and family to create their own free travel blog here. Under the Users tab in your RVblogz dashboard, just click on Invites to customize your invitation message and enter email addresses.

You can invite as many people as you like with one message. Simply separate email addresses by commas. Not a member yet? No problem. Sign up for your free travel blog now. Its fast and simple. Then invite all your road-tripping friends!

New Support System Online!

tech support catAll RVbloggerz will now notice a helpful new feature in their blog dashboard. We have just launched a comprehensive Support System to help you make the most of your blog. Simply log in to your RVblogz account and click on the Support tab to the left to access our new FAQs and Support Tickets.

We have tried to answer the most common questions regarding RVblogz account management, blog settings, options, themes, and much more. If you see an issue that isn’t answered, just send us your question or submit a new support ticket.

Support Tickets are our new way of providing direct technical support for your blog account when needed. Tickets are not intended for how to tips, but rather to address any specific issues you may have with your blog. Submit a ticket if you believe something is broken or are having technical difficulties with your blog. You will be notified by email when when we respond to your support ticket. You can then click the link provided to see the ticket and respond if necessary. All assistance will provided within the RVblogz  Support Ticket system – not via email – for clarification and archiving purposes.

The new Support tab in your dashboard is just another step in our continuing efforts to make your travel blogging experience easy and fun. And it is not to be confused with the Supporter tab where you can upgrade your RVblogz account to increase your upload space quota and enable enhanced features.

We’ll get those spammers!

One of the biggest challenges to having a blog is battling the insane amount of comment spam. We’re doing our best to put an end to that here at RVblogz.com!

RVbloggerz may have noticed the reCAPTCHA image verification plugin we recently installed which required commenters to enter validation words before posting comments. reCAPTCHA is an amazing project that is actually helping to digitize old texts from the internet archive by having words OCR can’t recognize deciphered by blog commenters. But some consider any captcha an inconvenience.

So, we’re trying a different method now. It’s transparent to your readers but fools spam-bots, so it should stop all automated spam comments. Please let us know if its working on your RVblogz.

What’s that you say? You haven’t signed up for your own free travel blog yet? Get your free travel blog today, and we’ll make sure you no spam gets through it … one way or another!

We are building community here.

RVblogz announces new Communities and Privat Messaging features for members.

RVbloggerz will now notice two new features in their admin dashboard – Communities and Inbox.

Our new Communities feature allow RVblogz members to create a community with a message board, Wiki pages, and news items. In fact, multiple communities can be created. They can be public or private. Simply search for existing communities that may be of interest or start your own. Make it private if you only want members you approve to join. Or, make the community public and everyone can join the fun!

But wait, there’s more. The Inbox feature is our new RVblogz private messaging system. Simply enter any RVblogz user name and send them a message. It will immediately appear in their in box and they’ll be notified by email. Notification emails can also be turned off.

Just a couple new enhancements we’re proud to announce in our continuing efforts to build community here at RVblogz.com. Join the fun today!

Please welcome the kzcrazy clan!

We’re happy to announce our newest RVbloggerz … the kzcrazy clan! This young family has just ditched the stick house life and moved into a 43′ KZ Inferno. They’ve kicked off their adventures with a new blog at kzcrazy.rvblogz.com. Drop on by and give them a big full-timer welcome!

Don’t have your free travel blog yet? Sign up for RVblogz today! It’s fast, fun, easy, and free.

RVblogz adds tutorial videos!

Get your own free travel blog!To help new RVbloggerz get started with their travel blog – and to convince visitors that RVblogz is the best way to start blogging about their travels – we’ve just added a bunch of helpful tutorial videos.

Watch these short videos if you have any questions about how your free RVblogz account works! Stay tuned to the blog here for more videos about advanced topics.

Supporters get Grunions!

Supporter RVblogz get grunion contact form plugin

grunionNo, not the fish. As an RVblogz Supporter, you can easily add a simple contact form to any post or page of your blog. Just like they do it at WordPress.com! Simply activate Grunion in the plugins tab of your dashboard.

You can add a contact form to any post or page just by inserting the simple tag [contact-form] into the post wherever you want the form to appear.

It will work like this …

[contact-form]

Readers and visitors to your blog can then send you messages directly. Emails will be sent to the post’s author. Your email address is never shown, and the sender never learns it (unless you reply to the email).

What’s a Grunion?
The plugin was written in Southern California, home of an unusual fish called the Grunion. There’s apparently  no correlation between fish and contact forms; it’s just a fun sounding word that’s geographically apropos.

Anyone can put whatever they want in the name and email boxes. How can I know who’s really sending the message?
If a logged in RVblogz member of your site sends you a message, the end of the email will let you know that the message was sent by a verified user.Otherwise, you can’t trust anything… just like a blog comment. Anonymity is both a curse and a blessing 🙂

My blog has multiple authors. Who gets the email?
The email is sent to the author of the post with the contact form in it. So each author on your blog can have his or her own contact form.

Great! But how will my visitors know who they’re sending a message to?
Just make the title of your post “Contact Mary” or put “Hey, drop John a line with the form below” in the body of your post.

Not a supporter? Visit your RVblogz dashboard and upgrade for immediate activation. Not yet blogging on RVblogz? Sign up for your free account today.