Why You Should Learn Wordpress blogging

November 19, 2008

If you start your blog on the wrong platform, you are asking for trouble. Think about this: if your start your blog the wrong way, you could lose all of your search rankings and many of your readers when you try to change gears. Don’t let this happen to you! Start the right way, right from the start.

So “Which blogging platform is best?” I hear you asking. The answer is simple. After years of blogging and using platforms inside and out, it all comes down to WordPress being the hands-down winner. Here are a few reasons why. WordPress has an extensive theme directory. Themes are used to change the look and feel of your blog. You don’t need to know how to design or code a thing. There are thousands of free, premium, and specialty themes to choose from. Read more

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5 Must-have Plugins for Your Wordpress Blog

November 6, 2008

I’ve tested some of the following features and others I have only glanced at. So don’t blame me if you try any of these out and they don’t work! Try them at your own risk!

To activate them, you need to unzip them and then place them in your “wp-content/plugins” folder by firing up a FTP program and moving things from your PC to your blog (FileZilla is an excellent choice). Often, there are written instructions inside the folder you must follow for it to work. Like everything else, this is all trial and error. If it doesn’t work, keep fiddling around with it until it does work.

  • Recent Comments - one of the things I like most about Wordpress is the ability to highlight recent comments on the front page. It’s only natural for readers to get a kick out of seeing their name on the page and this encourages them to come back and comment again. It’s also good for the blog owner to get a brief overview of any new comments that have come in. Read more

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    10 best Adsense plugins for your blog

    July 6, 2008

    Listed below are 10 best Adsense plugins which help you work smarter with wordpress.

    • Adsense Deluxe - offers advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. Easily switch all AdSense ads to a new color scheme across the entire site.
    • Adsense Injection - inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog. Takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts adsense code. It does one per story on multi-post pages (home, archive, category) and let’s you pick how many to show on single post pages. Read more

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      50 best plugin for wordpress

      July 2, 2008

      The wordpress plugins are arranged broadly by category of usage. As
      far as I know, all these plugins are compatible with the latest
      WordPress version. Please feel free to suggest great plugins in
      comments that I can add to this list.

      Manage WordPress Comments

      • Subscribe To Comments - Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
      • WP AJAX Edit Comments - Allows users and admins to edit comments on a post inline using AJAX.
      • Close Old Posts - Closes comments on old posts without any DB queries.
      • WP Grins - allows you to put clickable smilies on your post and comments forms.
      • WordPress Paged Comments - allows comment paging. Useful for those very popular blog entries receiving many comments.
      • Live Comment Preview - the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site.
      • Show Top Commentators - Encourage more discussion from your readers, by displaying their
        names and number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar.
      • MyAvatars - shows MyBlogLog’s alvatar in your comments
      • Comment Relish - Sends a thank you e-mail to your first time commentators.
      • Favatars - displays the favicon associated with the commenter’s website.
      • Brian’s Threaded Comments - adds a ‘Reply to this comment’ link to every comment. Makes it easy for people to reply to comments and discuss better. Read more

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        Wordpress Plugin Update One-Click Automatic

        June 29, 2008

        You always wanted to upgrade wordpress plugin automatically. Wordpress 2.5 has brought along its share of goodies which let you upgrade plugins in one click. Now updating plugins need not be an arduous task as before and new wordpress bloggers will find this particularly easy.

        Earlier upgrading plugins was tedious. Once you realized a new version was available, it required deactivating the plugin, downloading, unzipping and reading the upgrade instructions (in case some new tricky modification required), then uploading the plugins php files to the wordpress plugin directory and reactivating the plugin and hopefully all will work out well.
        Fast and Quick Wordpress Plugin Upgrades

        Wordpress 2.5 introduced the much requested feature for easy one click plugin upgrades. I received a notice that my Google XML Sitemaps Plugin needed an update. This time it had an “Upgrade Automatically” link beside it

        I simply clicked the “Upgrade Automatically” link and in a few seconds it was all done…Wordpress Plugin Update Read more

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