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Video Tutorials To Learn WordPress Development, Designing and Blogging

Nur — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:34:23 +0000

If you think that visual learning is better than reading, this is the list of well explained video tutorials which help you to develop your WordPress skill. These tutorials are very helpful if you are a WordPress Theme Developer as well Bloggers those using WordPress.

WordPress theme development

Designing for WordPress

WordPress is a hugely popular CMS for blogging. The blog section of CSS-Tricks is run on WordPress and I am very happy with it. By popular request, we are going to walk through designing for WordPress. Also check out part 2 and part 3.

Creating a WordPress Template

Here’s a tutorial series (also see part 2 and part 3) for creating a WP template using a variety of free tools such as MAMP (for local machine development) and TextWrangler(a text editor).

Hodgepodge of WordPress Tricks

It’s WordPress Week here at CSS-Tricks, so I wanted to so a WordPress-themed screencast and cover a lot of mini-tips that haven’t made it into previous WordPress screencasts.

WordPress as a CMS

Learn how to create a WordPress site that’s more of a fully-featured content management system (like Drupal or Joomla) rather than a blogging platform using a few tools at your disposal such as the SimplePie WordPress plugin.

How to Modify WordPress Theme

This video tutorial is showing how to work with some WordPress theme codes, that is how to add autoresponder code to the blog sidebar, how to put banner in the single post and similar things that can help you to modify the theme and blog to your needs. You’ll learn about some Theme Template tags in WordPress.

Add a Twitter Field to Your Form

Instructional video on how to install and configure the wp-twitip-id plugin for WordPress blogs. 5 minutes and you can include a field for your commentators to add their twitter ID.

How to put a Custom Header in your WordPress Blog

WordPress Kubrick Theme, the default theme for WordPress blogs, has a very ugly header graphic. In this easy to follow video tutorial you’ll learn how to change it to a great custom image in just 3 minutes!

Create your first widget

This video tutorial shows you how to create a theme widget for WordPress.

How to make a WordPress plugin

Learn how to create a WordPress plugin that follows the WordPress plugin development guidelines.

WordPress Plugin Development Tutorial (Video & Reading)

WP Tutorial: Your First WP Plugin

Here it is, a video guide to creating your first WordPress plugin (in under 5 minutes!). The tutorial assumes you have some very basic PHP knowledge… syntax, function declarations, etc. Click here to watch

Writing a Plugin

WordPress Plugins allow easy modification, customization, and enhancement to a WordPress blog. Instead of changing the core programming of WordPress, you can add functionality with WordPress Plugins.

How to Write a WordPress Plugin – Introduction

For any WordPress user, plugins are essential. WordPress Plugins allow those with little to no programming skills to extend the functionality of their blog.

Create a Custom WordPress Plugin From Scratch

This tutorial will describe the implementation of a WordPress plugin starting from scratch. The plugin will connect to an external OSCommerce database and display random products on your WordPress site.

Anatomy of a WordPress Plugin

This tutorial will guide you through every step of building a simple, widgetized WordPress plugin with settings.

A Crash-Course in WordPress Plugin Development

Despite an extensive codex, many WordPress users remain unfamiliar with how to create their own custom plugins. In today’s screencast, we’ll start from scratch and build our first usable plugin.

WordPress Plugin Tutorial – Hello World

Learning to develop a WordPress plugin can be both fun and rewarding. In this Tutorial we will go over how to make a simple Hello World plugin that you can create.

The Ultimate Guide to Building a WordPress Plugin

There are often plugins created for basic extended functionality, but what happens when you can’t find the perfect plugin for your needs? It might be easier to just create the plugin yourself.

WorPress Plugin Development with PHP

Nice video tutorial on plugin development.

Tips to Speed Up WordPress Plugin Development

Anyone can create useful WordPress plugins without being a hacker.

Seven Reasons to Write a WordPress Plugin

Listed below are seven reasons why a WordPress user should consider writing a WordPress plugin.

WordPress Plugin Actions

An example of an action would be that you want a execute some code after a user has published a post or left a comment.

WordPress Plugin Filters

WordPress filters allow to you modify virtually any kind of text displayed and are extremely powerful.

Constructing a WordPress Plugin Admin Panel

This tutorial will go into what it takes to successfully create an admin panel for your plugin.

Constructing a WordPress Plugin User’s Panel

This tutorial will go over the steps to add in your own User’s Administration Panel.

Using JavaScript and CSS with your WordPress Plugin

This portion of the series will cover how to load JavaScript and CSS files for your plugin.

Using JavaScript and CSS with your WordPress Plugin

This portion of the series will cover how to load JavaScript and CSS files for your plugin.

Releasing and Promoting Your WordPress Plugin

After you have finished writing your awesome WordPress plugin, there are a few things to consider before releasing and promoting your WordPress plugin.

WP Screencasts WordPress Video Tutorials

The primary target audience is blog authors and editors using WordPress to manage their web-based content.

CSS-Tricks WordPress Video Tutorials

iThemes WordPress Video tutorials

Siteground WordPress Video Tutorials

KillerSites WordPress Video Tutorials

Installing and configuring WordPress (covers WordPress 2.3, Installing 1 video, configuring 8 videos)
Customizing the WordPress Text Editor
Introduction to building WordPress themes ( How to build WP theme from scratch)
Building a WordPress Template Part 1 of 3
Building a WordPress Template Part 2 of 3
Building a WordPress Template Part 3 of 3

Likoma WordPress Video Tutorials

WordPress Training Video Tutorials

Weblog Tools Videos WordPress Tutorials

ScreenCastCentral WordPress Video Tutorials

Faq.WordPress.Com Screencasts

Youtube WordPress Video Tutorials

Create Project Management WebSite on WordPress

Nur — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:41:45 +0000

Are you a WordPress Developer or Designer and looking to work on a project to create a Project Management Website? This is fact that Project management is one of the business world’s most in-demand skill sets. It’s also among the fastest growing professional disciplines.

WordPress is already a powerful website management system that not only allows you to manage your content, but have others interact as well. Now you can use WordPress as a Project management tool by implementing WordPress plugin or by using specific theme like GTD Theme from Templatic.

Project Management By WordPress Themes:

After installing the WordPress, you need a perfect theme to run a Project management site. Theoretically any theme will do the trick, but there are a few themes that have been designed specifically with this concept in mind.

P2 WordPress Theme

P2 is a free WordPress theme, with this theme you can update post from the front page of your blog. Users have the ability to embed images, audio files and videos all from a Twitter-like update box.

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GTD Templatic

If you are looking to collaborate with a small team or, you need a private blog where only your team members can view, share files and write the content without going to backend, this is the theme you’ve been looking for.

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Prologue

Prologue theme contains very simple option, means you can update limited text from the front page.

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SuperCMS

The SuperCMS WordPress Theme is a super-charged CMS (Content Management System) type WordPress theme with the focus of providing you with a solid platform and set of tools to base your new company website upon. This is not just another blogging theme, but comes equipped to handle Portfolios, Testimonies, Images, Blogs, and any of your business or company needs.

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Evento – Event Management WordPress Theme

The new Conference theme lets you add an unlimited number of events. Each event can have its own program, presentation, speakers, sponsors, etc.! Simply archive old events and have displayed a new conference on your front-page.

Evento is an event management WordPress Theme suitable for any type of events:

conferences,
exhibitions,
conventions,
trade shows,
seminars,
workshops
and business meetings.

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MultiToool – WordPress Theme FrameWork

The intuitive visual user interface makes designing WordPress Themes a breeze. MultiToool provides you with the ability to control every pixel of your website without knowledge of any script- or programming language.

It goes without saying that you never need to touch any template files, because there are none in MultiToool. No worries, of course you can use external JavaScripts or stylesheets, we have a file management built in for this.

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Little Smile Multipurpose WordPress Theme

This theme is extremely flexible and user friendly. TurboEditor is advamced tool allowing unexperienced user create rich content pages in WordPress engine without a line of coding. Below is a screenshot of the admin panel

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United – Corporate, Business Portfolio WordPress Theme

United is a clean, modern and ultra-readable Premium WordPress Theme. It comes with a lot of features and intuitive options. It includes 6 Custom Widgets, 5 Color Schemes, 3 Custom Portfolio Layouts, Featured slider with around 30 Transitions, sitemap template, and much more..

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Project Management By WordPress Plugins:

There are lot of tutorials published about using WordPress as a project management application you can find on following list and there are Plugins for that.

Using WordPress as a Project Management App
How To Use A Self-Hosted WordPress Blog For Project Management
Project or Task Management in WordPress with CollabPress
Project and Task Management for WordPress and WPMU

CollabPress Plugin

The CollabPress plugin builds basic project management, such as task assignments and due dates, into
the dashboard screens. The plugin includes e-mail notifications for newly assigned tasks, and it places a widget on the Dashboard displaying recent activity.

Download: CollabPress | Author Homepage

ProjectManager

This plugin is a datamanager for any recurrent datasets. It can be used to manage and list a DVD collection, to to present portraits (e.g. athlets of a team), simple tabular calendar or anything you can think of. Below is a least of features

Features

add as many different projects as you want to
widget for any project, controlled via admin panel
adding of form fields (text, textfield, e-mail, date, url, selection, checkbox and radio list) for each project independently
simple search of any form field and category names
template system to easily customize frontend display
Ajax enabled editing of datasets
easy adding of shortcodes via TinyMCE Button
change colorscheme for output tables via admin panel
dataset sorting by any form field
import and export of datasets from/to CSV file
hook projects into user profile
manual drag & drop sorting of datasets

Randy Hoyt created a Screencast on the usage of ProjectManager.

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Ndizi Project Management

Ndizi lets you select a front-end page of your site, where your clients can authenticate and view their details, invoices, projects (including time totals for each, but not the individual time reports), and each task (with status) assigned to their projects. They can also add new tasks, which are then added to the back end for you to modify, clarify, and assign as-needed

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WP-Project

The WordPress administrative interface is friendly and comfortable. For web designers and developers, there is no better place to spend your time. Instead of having to visit several disparate websites to manage your projects and project progress, why not do it from the WordPress interface?

WP-Project provides many of the capabilities you’d expect to see from any standard project management solution. Currently, these capabilities include the following:

Track clients
Track projects by client
Track tasks by project
Track time per task with dynamic timer like Harvest

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Other Resources:

Premium WordPress Themes
Genesis Framework for WordPress
WordPress for Project Management
Using WordPress for Project Management
8 Steps to Using WordPress for Project Management
Can WordPress Be A Project Management App?
15+ Amazing Project Management and Collaboration Tools
WordPress for Project Management: It’s much easier with WordPress 3.0+
The Thesis Theme framework is a premium template system for WordPress that is designed to serve as the rock-solid foundation beneath any kind of website.

How to create a WordPress Blog with your own Domain

Nur — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:14:48 +0000

One of my friend run a Sports blog (www.facebook.com/fcmanu) since last 2 years but no success, Now he asking me what to do? Here is the steps he should take to run a Successful blog.

Why choose a WordPress? First of all you no longer need to worry about knowing the code,
because the WordPress blogging software does the code part for you. When you log in to your WordPress blog, you have to do only two simple things to publish your thoughts, reviews and ideas about sports:
1. Write your post.
2. Click a button to publish your post.

You can not say a blog is a website because, There are three key differences between traditional website (homepage) and blog:-

Blog is extremely easy to add information to it. A blog is like an online journal, so you just log in, type what happened today, post it and it is done.
You can add a simple little feature that automatically tells a whole bunch of other website that you have made an update to your blog – every time you make a change.
There is a “comments” system like others blog systems that allows bloggers to have “conversations” with their readers by allowing visitors to post their own comments or views on the topic of discussion.

Blogging is now an important tool for YOU to earn online.

Following are the reason to run online blog with WordPress to make money:

It can provide a wider audience
Boost your revenue
Generate better search engine ranking
Develop relationships with your audience through open communication
Build a community of interested followers.
Establish yourself as a leading expert in your industry
Blogs offer easy-to-use, cost-effective web publishing and content management tools.

Why Purchase own Domain Name and Avoid “free” Domains?

Blog’s address on the Internet would be your identity, so it is crucial that you choose the right one. A domain gives the public a hint of what they will find at your site. If the domain name relates to your or your company’s name or brand, it makes your site that much easier to find.That is why you MUST get your own unique domain name, like www.[YourName].com. If you get it free from a web hosting company, your domain name will includes the company’s name. I don’t encourage you to use “Free” domain unless your objective of creating a blog is just tocreate a platform to share your journal with your offline friends.

Theses are reasons to avoid “Free” domain and started with your own domain are:-

Your domain name is easy to remember.
Your customers always know how to get to your site.
It can entice people surfing the Web to visit your site before someone else’s. You can easily move your site to another host while keeping your domain name.
No web host company’s advertisement on your website.
You can easily customize your look and web template at your wish.

You can get Free domain name from these hosting website with the purchase of web hosting:

How to Create Your Personal Blog:

Choose And Register A Domain Name One of the first steps of designing and building a website/blog, you have to check if your domain name is still available before you can register it. You can check here: Lunarpages, Host Gator, Blue Host and Host Monster .

After selecting your domain name now select you hosting plan.

Choose the Web Hosting Services Plan

There are many companies provide web hosting service. When you choose a web host provider, the service is always the key factor you should look at. I have done a lot internet research before I chose these web hosting site provide the best hosting services from beginners to advance users: Host Gator, Blue Host, Host Monster and Lunarpages.
The reason I choose them because of their reliable services, they have great customer service available 24 hours a day. Their uptime is 99.98% and they have super fast connectivity and made my webpages were loaded quickly. Secondly, their price is also compatible.

Install the WordPress3.2+

WordPress is recognized as one of the most popular and powerful blogging tools.It is an “open source” application that anyone can download for free. But the best way to install the WordPress follow these guidlines;

Login to Web hosting control panel by using your username and password
Go to “Control Panel” “Go to cPanel” “Fantastico”
Select auto – install software and choose WordPress
It will create mySQL database and will provide you user name and password to login into your WordPress admin panel.
After login go to setting and change according to your requirements.

Choose a WordPress Theme to Design your Blog

WordPress Theme is a way to “skin” your blog. After you installed your WordPress, you can login to your WordPress at www.[YourName].com/wp-admin, Select the Presentation subpanel. You can find the default WordPress theme. Free theme you can get from Free Themes Directory, Free Sports Themes, 20 Specialty WordPress Themes, World Cup Free WordPress Theme and Sports Themes.

For unique design of your blog I recommend these premium themes.

Premium WordPress Themes for Sports Blog:

Premium Football – 32 in 1

Premium Football is for sports fans, online magazines, affiliate marketers and everything in between. This theme features alternate color skins for all 32 NFL Football teams (American football). Even though the color schemes were specifically chosen to match those teams, the theme can easily be used for non-sports related websites too.

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SOCCER2010 – 33 countries in 1 theme

This soccer blog is a clean and elegant solution to blog about the World Championship 2010. This theme contains thirty three different color schemes/countries.

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MediaFlux Magazine WordPress Theme

MediaFlux is a great magazine wordpress theme for news, community or personal blogger with clean designed and neat coded. The rich theme admin panel and widgets enable you to control over your content, manage your advertisment, show your latest tweet, video, photos and much more.

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Sports Weblog

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WordPress theme Ticket Online

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Sport Web Templates and Sport Flash Templates

Here you can find designs for different sport clubs and organizations: golf courses, regattas, yacht clubs, soccer teams, sporting goods stores, online sports equipment, sporting instruction and bulletin boards, fitness centers, tennis courts, polo clubs, martial arts, running clubs, biking, ballooning, skateboarding, race tracks, auto racing, basketball, horse riding stables or racing, water sports, diving, weightlifting, aerobics, bodybuilding, skiing, surfing, paintball, yoga, football, baseball and many others. Each template is themed to feature a particular kind of sport.

WordPress plugins for Sports Blogs

Smart SEO – WordPress Plugin

The easiest way to optimize your wordpress website for search engines!

Settings – Here you have:

Autocheck current post
Autocheck timing – in seconds
Title separator (default – )
Seo title position – in admin post listing
Show smartSeo score
On plugin deactivate – remove all current settings on plugin deactivate. Reset to default.

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Event Espresso – Plugin for Event Registration

Event Espresso is the premier events registration and management plugin for WordPress. This premium plugin for WordPress allows you to turn your existing blog or website into a fully featured event management website.

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England World Cup Countdown

This widget shows a countdown to the next England World Cup game. It automatically switches to the next game after the previous game has started. Show your support for the England team with this widget!

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wp-football

Administer football (soccer) championships.

Features

Complete table of the World Cup 2010. Built to activate the plugin – in Portuguese or English according to the language defined in WP;
The League table or part may be published through widgets or posts / pages. See how in the item “Frequently Asked Questions”;
In the Templates submenu you can configure the fields to be displayed so you can fit the layout of your theme. Currently are available the templates of the Cup and of two widgets – compact and extended versions. The templates are created in the activation of the plugin;
Has uninstaller, developed based on WP-Email plugin of Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan;
Automatically calculates, from the classification criteria, classification of teams per group when is informed the result of a match.

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World Cup Predictor

This plugin is designed to collect users predictions for each of the matches in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Users predict the score for each World Cup match in the group and knockout stages and are awarded points based on the accuracy of their prediction.

Match results may also be displayed using this plugin.

Detail | Download

Sports News RSS Feed

Adds a customizable widget which displays the latest sports related news from all over the world. It can be integrated anywhere in the blog. This newsticker shows up the last five or more Sport related news posts from sone of the worlds most popular sports sites. This is a very nice solution for all those wanting to share breaking sports related news and for all the sports blogs out there.

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Cricket Scoreboard Widgets Plugin

Get the latest cricket scoreboard for your website.

Demo | Download

Top Sports blog on WordPress

Why WordPress has few Android Apps?

Nur — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:50:18 +0000

There are many WordPress apps for iOS available in the market, as the WordPress get popular among the mobile technology. But there are very few Android apps out there for WordPress. I tried to find just very few Android apps for WordPress. Than I came to know the reason behind this, which java errors. When you try to connect to self-hosted WordPress site, it will give you java socket errors. If in case you got success in installation then again some errors may appear while publishing the post.

Anyways I have hunt following few good Android apps. Although there are more apps available, those are not worth to include in the list. If you know any good Android apps for WordPress do inform us in comment.

WordPress for Android

This is what you need to run WordPress from Automattic. WordPress for Android is an Open Source app that empowers you to write new posts, edit content, and manage comments with built-in notifications. Download it now and get blogging in no time.

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PostBot

PostBot is an open-source WordPress client and It also supports multiple images in a post with thumbnail previews, you can share images directly from Camera and Picture apps, can edit exist posts, save drafts locally, add categories to a blog, and multiple blogs.

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WP Stats

Easy and fast access to your WordPress traffic statistics!

Watch your live WordPress blog traffic stats (charts, page views, referrers, search engine terms & clicks) collected by “WordPress.com Stats” plugin (self hosted & WordPress.com blogs).
Much faster and comfortable way for loading stats than mobile web browser!
To use this app you will need your free WordPress.com API key!

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Express App

Express is an iPhone app built to quickly and effortlessly publish images/links/notes and short posts, on the go, to your WooThemes powered WordPress website.

If you need any help regarding WordPress Android apps, must visit this forum: Android Forums

Premium Android Apps

Obox Mobile – WordPress Mobile Framework

Obox Mobile is a Mobile Framework that will seamlessly convert your WordPress site into a mobile friendly experience when people visit it via their phones.

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My Mobile Page V2 WordPress Theme

My Mobile Page V2 WordPress Theme is a unique wordpress mobile theme with some amazing new features, 100 % customizable, fluid layout, automatically resized to every mobile resolution, auto device orientation resizable, custom admin panel.

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Tablet Commercial

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Android Uploader for Amazon S3

The Android Uploader for Amazon S3 provides code for a Service that uploads files to Amazon S3 buckets.

Developers can quickly add the upload component to their applications by following the included instructions.

Knowledge of Amazon S3 is required. You need to know basic S3 functionality, such as how to create buckets and bucket policies.

COMPATIBILITY

Works with Android API Levels 4+

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Android Startup Application

Dimovdaniel have made Android Startup application (ASA) to help developers skip common android development problems. I incorporated part of my android knowledge to solve this everyday problems.

How to use the new Facebook SSO
1. Implementation (find the correct hash)
2. Access Token reuse
3. Avoid user re authentication
Load JSON data from external server
1. Parse that data with already available methods from the Facebook SDK
2. Load that data asynchronously
Load image from external server
1. Load image from external server
2. Without reloading
3. Using local cache
Using Google Maps
1. Display multiple Items with different icon
Make Android gallery from external images
Using the network and GPS provide to find current user location
iPhone style TabHost navigator (using radio buttons)
Use Android Preferences to store user data
And some other features and functions you find useful

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Android Share Social Network plugin

This project is a plugin for sharing on social network. It allows you to share on Facebook ,Twitter, email and SMS .

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Android Map Geolocation

This project gives you the ability to use a map geo location witch shows your current position and some others fixed in an xml file. It also allows you to annotate your map overlay items with an information bubble and gives you the ability to navigate to your annotation activity detail.

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More about Android Books

WordPress for Newbies

Nur — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:09:31 +0000

If you run a blog or site, it can be difficult for beginners to know exactly where to start. There’s so much conflicting information out there and you have all of these programs at your disposal and no idea where to start. WordPress has proved to be one of the most influential resources for bloggers and web sites across the web. This open sourced publishing is used by some of the biggest web site but knowing where to start is everything. WordPress is just one of those tools, such as SEO or quality content, that should be applied. Bloggers should learn more about anything that would make their efforts more productive and fruitful.

The simple fact is that users tend to employ too many superfluous plug-ins, most of which are redundant. Beginners aren’t to blame because they’re probably just unaware of what’s already built in to the system. Knowing how to use it to better effect is essential and one of the most important things to know if you’re starting a WP blog knows about Permalinks. This is the “url” structure of your posts, which is customizable. This is one of the basics behind WordPress. The reason why it’s been so helpful is because you can make changes to code and customize your site without changing core operations. This customizable options has made WP an incredibly versatile create and is useful outside of the world of blogging.

Other things you can use WordPress for include:

Directory Building:

This is simply a listing of sites or categorized in some way. Some blog directories employ this

Create an Article Archive:

If you have a lot of articles that have been online and you want to have a single place for all of them you can use WP to get scripts and programs and set one up. You can use your plug-ins and create an article directory from WP, which is a standard function.

Image Gallery:

Even if you’re not a tech guy you can take a bunch of old family photos or you’re a professional photographer running an online business selling your services. Many photographers pay huge fees for online photo managers when they could be doing the same thing for free by using WordPress. There are great plugins that are designed for showcasing and displaying images.

There’s a huge amount of things you can do in WordPress. It’s just another tool you should be using so if you’re not familiar with it, you might be amazed at what it could do for you and your blog.

How and Where to add AdSense to WordPress blog

Nur — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:13:24 +0000

Now bloggers do blogging to make money. And the first thing they want to do is to put Google AdSense on their blog. Embedding or placing Google AdSense on your WordPress can be accomplished in a variety of ways. Here is a WordPress guide that gives you different options for integrating Ads into your WordPress blog.

Google Adsense in a Sidebar

The easiest way to add adds in sidebar is to use WordPress widgets. Adding Google Adsense code to your sidebar and moving them into the order you want is easily achievable by simply dragging and dropping. You can also add anything you want including HTML code into a text widget.

The latest version of WordPress is integrated with widgets. If you are using old version which does not support widgets, than you can grab the Sidebar widgets plugin. Keep in mind that not all WordPress themes are “Widget Ready” so if you don’t see the widget option in your dashboard then you will need to Widgetize your theme.

Even more information

How to use Widgets: For bloggers: how to install and use Widgets on your own blog
Widgetizing Themes: For designers: how to make your themes work with widgets
Widgetizing Plugins: For developers: how to make widgets for WordPress blogs

AdSense Code Into A WordPress Theme

With WordPress Plugins like AdSense-Deluxe, you can place Adsense code on any post or page. If you don’t want to use Plugin even than you can place to add your code in the main index template (index.php), also be placed in the single post (single.php), page template (page.php), archives and if your theme has one the 404 template. Open one of the files and place your code just above the post content, so place the code above like this:

Your Code Here

Other places to place the code are:

Below the post, above or below the comments:

You can experiment with many different places, just be sure to backup any file you are attempting to edit, and that the AdSense code or banner fits in the area and that all HTML or script tags are properly closed. It would also be wise to view your changes in different browsers and different size windows to make sure it looks right.

Best WordPress Plugins for Google Adsense

WordPress allows bloggers to easily integrate Google Adsense inside wordpress using plugins.For AdSense within a post I recommend following WordPress Plugins for Google AdSense.

Adsense Deluxe – probably the most popular and perhaps the best AdSense plugin out there, AdSense Deluxe lets you automatically insert ads (it works with Yahoo ads, too) into your posts or pages. Very configurable and yet simple to use.

AdMan – integrates ads directly inside your blog posts. Compatible with AdSense.

AdSense Manager – a fully featured AdSense manager. Use the latest version only, as older versions had some issues with the AdSense terms and conditions.

AdRotator – AdRotator rotates (doh!) your AdSense ads, and combines them with other advertising programs.

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.

Google Ad Wrap – show that pesky Google spider what content on your blog is really important

Adsense Beautifier – places images next to your AdSense ads, which should increase the clickthrough rate. Be very careful with this one, as there’s some controversy over whether this violates the AdSense T&C.

Author Adsense – split revenue between several blog authors on the same blog.

AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System – another revenue sharing plugin for AdSense on WordPress. Also shows you your earnings in real time.

Adsense Earnings WordPress Plugin – always be in control of your AdSense earnings, right from the WordPress Admin panel.

WhyDoWork AdSense Plugin – Thie plugin will help you to insert adsense ads on your blog with out modifying template with useful options. It’s depend on you that what kind of different adsense ads wanna show on page. As you can insert ads 468×60 ad at the start of a article, or same on below of article in your wordpress blog. It’s better way to add ads in blog with out working on template.

WP Simple Adsense Insertion – This plugin will help you to add google adsense ds to your blog post, pages and also in sidebar. There are so many plugin will help you to insert google adsense ads in post, but this plugin will help you to show ads in pages and sidebar too. Whenever you want to show ads in sidebar, need to using trigger text or calling the php function, it’s simple and easy way to do.

Easy AdSense – This plugin will help you to insert ads into posts, sidebar and add a google search box. it’s very easy to do, and it will give you complete solution for everything adsense related. You can customize google search with adsense. whenever visitor will earch it will show google ads too.

Adsense Ready WordPress Themes

Robust-5 in 1 Business & Portfolio WP Theme

Robust is a premium wordpress theme that will suite any project you can think off thanks to the fresh look and clean design. The theme comes with 5 color skins that are sure to impress any of your site visitors and will suite to your company’s needs.

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BVD-Beautiful Website Design-Wordpress

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Egg Theme – Personal WordPress Blog theme

2 column, Traditional widget ready theme, Special styled head post and custom widgets to fit the blog design.

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Avura – Elegant Magazine Theme

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Hugo – Minimalistic Portfolio WordPress Theme

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Must WordPress Setting for New Installation

Nur — Sun, 29 May 2011 18:30:33 +0000

One of my friend Rai Niaz Ahmad have installed WordPress 3.1.3 and asked for help to set up. After providing him all guidelines, There are some important settings to change in WordPress installation, which are very helpful for WordPress Tweaking and “Must To Do Settings” to improve site performance and very essential changes you should make.

WordPress General Setting:

You must take account following WordPress General settings to effect immediately after installation.
1. Site Title
2. Tagline
3. Email
4. Set time zone

WordPress Reading Settings:

This option give you choice to select Front page displays options. Its all depends upon your theme, or If you want to use your own created page to display as a Home Page, then select “A Static Page” option, which will give you more option to display as a Home page. Select your page and click “Save Setting” button. Otherwise use your latest Post to be display on home page.

WordPress Discussion Settings:

Here you will find bundle of setting, don’t be panic. Because these setting are very useful which allow people to post comments on new articles. These setting will help you handle with spammers, As well you can Stop spam with reCAPTCHA. You can encourage visitors to comment by following these steps: How to Enhance and Encourage to Comments.
Under Discussion Settings, you can choose your own Avatars along with your own comments on your blog.

WordPress Permalinks Settings:

Choose a permalink structure that you feel comfortable with and that fits your blog. The suggestions made by WordPress work well, especially the following structure:
/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

and %category%/%postname%/

Privacy Settings:

Confirm that you have select the following option “I would like my site to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Bing, Technorati) and archivers”.

WordPress Plugins:

Thanks to the WordPress for modification through thousand of the Plugins available. It doesn’t matter what you want to accomplish on your blog, here is the fuel for excellence that will give you an edge over other blogging platform, these WordPress Plugins are the key for the birth and success of blogs. Every Blogger from beginners to more experienced webmaster can modify blog and can get access through highly sophisticated and powerful publishing tool and by implementing these WordPress Plugins you blog will get more success and power.

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WordPress ping list settings:

On installation WordPress pings only have one ping site. |You should tell Google to index your site as soon as you write a post, so you have to extent this ping list.Here is my most working ping list of 2011.

Here is the result (just copy and paste this list into Options > Writing > Update Services):

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://ping.weblogs.se/

http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

http://coreblog.org/ping/

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php

http://ping.myblog.jp

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/

http://xmlrpc.blogg.de

http://1470.net/api/ping

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

More Resources on Ping:

WordPress Compressed All-Inclusive Ping List
Setting Up Your WordPress Ping List
My WordPress ping list
7 Most Essential Setting not to ignored for a newly installed WordPress Blog

WordPress Contact Page:

Contact Form play a very important role to make connection between Website users and owners. Specially if you are running an e-commerce, social networking or multi user website. Even that if you are running a personal blog, you need a contact form for advertisers to contact you for their advertisement.

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How to manipulate image sizes to speed up WordPress blog load times

Nur — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:50:05 +0000

Loading time of web site directly impact users and ranking position. As compare to text, images take more time to load and search engines indexed those web pages which have less load time and user spend time that give good impression to search engines.

To load your image fast, you will have to optimize images by manipulating their size. I recommend you to use compression of images to light up your sites’ load. To load quickly your web pages images, make smaller image in size. Here are a few simple rules— they will help you minimize image sizes and will reduce the loading times. More about Image file formats.

Image File Formats:

Never use BMP file, because there is no space on web page for them now.
GIF formate is the most best if you are not using photograph in your image, because GIF support few colors and photographs need thousand of colors.
JPG is the best option, if you have large image. You can control its quality and its copression property. So compressed it as your requirement. Open and Save your JPG file in Paint will reduce the file size.
PNG format is ideal for both solid colors and photographs. They display abetter image quality than JPG files.

With Adobe Photoshop always use its feature called “Save for the web”, it will reduce the image size and load time substantially. An other open source alternative Gimp, you can get high-quality images that look identical to the big master files. As well, you can try the Online Image Optimizer or JPEG Wizard for free optimization of your images on the internet!

Images for Search Engines:

Search engines special Google Image Search is the most efficient tools to drive more traffic and more leads to your website. By using the following techniques you can increase the ranking of the images on your websites, that ultimately will increase your web site traffic.

Always use Appropriate Images: Use your own or try to search on Google according to your requirement and image must be relevant to your post content. Ask permission if needed.
Optimize your images as explained above
Give the proper name to your image and better to use keyword as a name.
Do not forget to provide Descriptive text for your images.

I am sure by using these quid lines, your web site can achieve better ranking in images search.

References and resources:

Speed Up Your Site: Optimize Images
Using site speed in web search ranking
Optimizing Images to Top Image Search
How to Optimize Your Site for Better Loading Time
Speed Up Your Blog – Loading Times Are More Important Than You Think

Images: Search engine optimization company | PXL Soft

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Lucky Winners of Our WordPress 3 Complete and PacktLib subscription Giveaway

Nur — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:04:45 +0000

Last week, we had a pleasure of running our first giveaway thanks Duane Moraes (@Packt Publishing) from PacktLib. In our giveaway we were giving away WordPress 3 Complete eBook, and a PacktLib subscription, PacktLib is a online digital book library known as PacktLib which houses all books published by Packt.

This was a twitter exclusive contest where everyone was required to tweet about the contest, and the second guideline was that everyone must follow @wparena.

Jeff Rose is the winner that have already been notified via Twitter Direct Message.

We want to thank the PacktLib Crew, and WordPress 3 Complete‘s Authors for making this giveaway possible. Stay posted until our next contest.

Outstanding New features of WordPress 3.1(Reinhardt)

Nur — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:26:41 +0000

WordPress is not the only publishing platform out there, but it has an awful lot to recommend it. WordPress is a constantly evolving application. It’s never left alone to stagnate. The developers are working continually to keep it ahead of spammers and hackers, and also to evolve the application based on the evolving needs of its users.

In addition to having an extremely strong core, WordPress is also quite extend-able. This means that once you get started with it, the possibilities are nearly limitless. Any additional functionality that you can dream of can be added by means of a plugin that you or your programmer friends can write. In the following sections, I’ve mentioned most outstanding features of WordPress 3.1(Reinhardt).

The long-awaited fourteenth release of WordPress is now available. WordPress 3.1 “Reinhardt” is named in honor of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Version 3.1 is available for download, or you can update from within your dashboard.

Detailed feature list

1. Post Formats Support

The central activity you’ll be doing with your blog is adding posts. A post is like an article in a magazine. If a blog is like an online diary, then every post is an entry in that diary. A blog post also has a lot of other information attached to it, such as a date, excerpt, tags, and categories. An exciting new feature in WordPress 3.1 is the addition of Post Formats. Post Formats can be used by theme authors to customize the way a WordPress post is presented on the web. Theme designers can style the “link formats” to be displayed in a different way like Chris Coyier & Jeff Starr has for Digging into WordPress.

Other Resources about Post Formats WordPress 3.1

These are pretty good write-ups on post formats by core contributor of WordPress

WordPress Codex: Post Formats
Post Types and Formats and Taxonomies, oh my! by Otto
On standardized Post Formats by Andrew Nacin
Post Formats vs. Post Types by Mark Jaquith
WordPress 3.1 Post Formats Reference by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
Smarter Post Formats? by Dougal Campbell
What, Whys, and How to’s of Post Formats in WordPress 3.1

2. WordPress Admin Bar:

Most interesting part of WordPress 3.1 for any average WordPress user is admin bar which will make your work easier and one can easily use admin control from any page of your blog, once you are logged into dashboard.

Enable/Disable Admin Bar

If you like to disable this WordPress 3.1 features, You can turn the bar on or off in the dashboard’s “Users > Your Profile” panel. This bar has standard 5 parent menu items plus a search box on the right hand side.

3. Internal Linking in WordPress

This is by far the most exciting feature to get in to WordPress 3.1. And This Internal linking is great for WordPress SEO. What this will allow you to do is easily link to pages within your site. Instead of having to go to the page, copy the URL, and then paste it into an external link, you’ll be able to click the “Internal Link” button and related entries will show up and clicking on an entry will fill the link field with the correct URL.

For Thesis theme user, if you are upgrading your blog to latest 3.1, you will not face any compatibility issues.

4. Admin Ajaxification and Sortable Columns

Another great enhancement in WordPress 3.1 is the interaction with the WordPress admin. It’s no secret that WordPress doesn’t use Ajax much on the back end. Hopefully, this update should smooth out the pagination when we will browse posts in the admin. It should also provide advanced search and sorting functionality.

This project was a GSoC project of Cristi Burca, On “How to Create your own sortable columns“.

5. Search and Browse Installed Themes

This upgraded will make the way you browse and administer your WordPress themes much easier. The current system is a bit clunky, and they hope to do away with it completely and replace it with an improved version.

See the full list of WordPress 3.1 features,
and All above Outstanding changes demand that you should upgrade your WordPress.

References: Digging into WordPress.

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Detailed feature list

1. Post Formats Support

2. WordPress Admin Bar:

3. Internal Linking in WordPress

4. Admin Ajaxification and Sortable Columns

5. Search and Browse Installed Themes

References: Digging into WordPress.