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Effective Use of WordPress

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:34:38 +0000

IntroductionWordPress has become one of the most popular blogging packages on the Internet; this is largely due to its ease of use and its object oriented design which allows the user to easily extend its capabilities in the form of WordPress Plugins. The WordPress plugins repository is a high-availability set of development tools — a wiki, version control using Subversion, and bug tracker — that aims to nurture the active WordPress development community.PluginsPlugins are tools to ... Read the rest

New Features in WordPress 2.3

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:25:16 +0000

WordPress 2.3 was released Monday 24th September, bringing major advances to the engine that powers many millions of blogs. Slated as a release candidate, this version has been thoroughly tested and is already featured as the latest stable download.This release isn’t just an incremental update with security patches, it includes a host of new features such as native tags, core and plugin update notifications, enhanced entry management and improved handling of draft entries, native support ... Read the rest

Strategies to Get More Traffic With WordPress

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:01:10 +0000

Blogs have become very powerful and can do fantastic things for a business. Because they are very Search Engine friendly they can work to increase traffic to your website very quickly.A blog is simply an easy way to share your thoughts, ideas and even promote your products or services. People are on the internet searching for information that interests them and once they find a site that provides good updated content about their interests they will most likely keep coming back for moreImplement ... Read the rest

How to Install WordPress

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:50:27 +0000

You have chosen your domain name and your hosting company (and they may well be one and the same). The next part of your journey in “getting started with your blog” is to install WordPress. It may be that you have decided to have your blog hosted on a “blogging platform”, like Blogger.com or WordPress.com. If you are happy to go down that road, great. I have a blog on both these platforms and they serve their purpose well. But for the majority of users involved in web ma ... Read the rest

Top WordPress Plugins to Help You SEO Your Blog

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:28:02 +0000

WordPress first appeared in 2003, is now on thousands of websites. This is a simple open-source blogging tool that in two ways, both hosted option or download free software option.WordPress offers many additional features that might otherwise know as a WordPress plugin. This WordPress plugin allows you to create your blog to both the public and the gender of your site.There are many WordPress plugin to choose from, if you are new to blogging is not possible to know what is best for you. Here is ... Read the rest

How to Get Free WordPress Training to Build Blogs and Websites

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:42:31 +0000

If you want to build blogs or websites then you must seriously consider using WordPress to do this, but don’t forget to get some free WordPress training before you start.There are many free tutorials and in some case whole websites that provide free training in WordPress including the latest version 2.7WordPress is just so easy to setup, use and maintain that you would be crazy not to use and of course this software is also Free!To be honest there really is no reason to pay for your WordP ... Read the rest

WordPress Goldmine Review And Unconventional Bonus

admin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:58:49 +0000

Is WordPress Goldmine an unconventional SCAM? It’s perhaps one of the weirdest sales pages I have ever seen in the world of Internet Marketing. The sales page has the following headline…“This is No Coventional Sales Page Because This is No Conventional Product”Then, followed by a 7 minutes video telling you WHAT exactly you’re going to get inside the WordPress Goldmine package, an unconventional way of accessing and downloading the package after your purchase, and ... Read the rest

When WordPress Permalinks 404

admin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:54:09 +0000

The 404/Not Found error message is one of the most hated screens on the Internet; it indicates that though you, the browser, were able to communicate with the server, the page you need was not delivered either because it was not found or because the server for some reason was configured to not fulfill the request (which is happening in some countries with pages containing illegal content).The page you actually see is not generated by your computer; instead, it is a special page on the server yo ... Read the rest

Essential WordPress 2.3 Plugins

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:20:49 +0000

With the addition of the Plugin Update Notification into WordPress 2.3, it is now more important than ever before that plugin authors maintain and update their plugins on a regular basis. Failure to do so may see their plugin dropped from wordpress.org while user’s migrate to other more up-to-date plugins.Some of the most popular WordPress plugins have already been tested and listed as WordPress 2.3 compatible plugins. Sadly many will never be compatible as their authors have given up dev ... Read the rest

Three Different Ways Of Getting A WordPress Blog Up And Running

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:29:47 +0000

The purpose of this article is to outline three different ways of getting a WordPress blog up and running. WordPress is a free blogging software, has many benefits and is supported by a large community of users and developers.A “blog” is abbreviated from the term, “web log” which is a form of online diary or journal.Since its advent a few short years ago, blogs have found numerous uses. Just to name a few, these include:- teenagers putting their thoughts and ramblings on ... Read the rest