Create a Archive Page in WordPress

Posted on January 28, 2008
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If you have blogged for a while, the monthly archive list could be quite long. It may take big real estate in the side bar. The alternative is to create a separate page just for archives. Read more

Many Ways to Archive Contents in WordPress Websites

Posted on January 27, 2008
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Many WP themes provide monthly archive links in the sidebar. This display is realized by PHP code as:

<?php wp_get_archives(’type=monthly’); ?>

The monthly archive is not bad. The problem is, after your blog runs for many months, the archive list becomes really long, - it takes a lot of spaces and looks ugly. Read more

Changes of Database Structure in WordPress 2.3

Posted on January 27, 2008
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The new release of WordPress 2.3 has some major database sturcture changes. There are still 10 tables, - 3 new tables were added, and 3 tables were removed:

WordPress 2.2 tables: Read more

Can Slurg Work

Posted on January 21, 2008
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Talking about blogging to profit, bloggers want to do less (possibly do nothing) and make more. If that’s what in your mind, I don’t blame you, I want the same thing too.

To meet this desire, there comes many Wordpress plugins and tools to let you populate your blog sites with contents from other sites automatically. This looks like a great idea, but there is one problem, this approach is easy to be abused. In fact, it is now. This type of sites and tools behind it are call ed “slurg”, - blog spam. Read more

Pay Per Post Does Not Pay Off

Posted on January 19, 2008
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Pay per post gained popularity in blogging community. It sounds like easy money. Instead of posting your opinions, you post to promote an affiliate product/service with a link form pay per post providers such as payperpost.com, then you get commissions. Sounds good? It’s insane! Read more

How to Make Tag Work in WordPress

Posted on December 20, 2007
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Tagging, which is simply a different and better way to organize blog post, plays impotent role in blog SEO. WordPress 2.2 or earlier version does not include this feature, but there are plenty of plugs to make tag work in WP website. Read more

Optmize Multiple WordPress Websites Automatically

Posted on December 12, 2007
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If your WordPress blog is actively updated, you need to optimize its MySQL database constantly in order to keep the performance from slashing. When new posts are entered, you database becomes bigger and the query consumes more CPU and memory resources, eventually your site may get “run out of CPU quota” message and become unavailable.

The ultimate solution is to optimize your database very often. There are generally two approaches: Read more

Why Blogging is So Popular

Posted on November 20, 2007
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Name one person that doesn’t like to share his or her point of view, and you will have just named nobody at all. The point of the above exercise is to show the simple fact that everyone likes to talk about themselves, and what they are up to, even if they say that they do not like doing so. There is something about being human that makes us self involved to the point where we truly feel as if others want, or need to know what is going on with us. Blogs offer one a unique way to express his or her feelings on any number of issues, with a shield that only the internet can provide.

The most common use of a blog is that of a journal, or an opinionated piece of writing involving some aspect of the author’s day to day life. While some blogs are totally commercially driven, they are often masked as personal musing in order to entice visitors. This is something that just can’t be avoided, people love checking out other peoples blogs to see what’s going on.

The internet can be a cold and bare place for people to be at times, and the blog helps create a sense of community with its powerful reach, and ease of use. Many people want to share, or keep up with others, but simply don’t have time. Email has gotten to the point that people are overwhelmed just to deal with their regular inbox each day, nonetheless an email from an old friend, and thus checking someone’s blog is commonplace nowadays. In fact, there are millions of blogs out there, and most of them are intended to be read by family and friends.

Blogging is popular because it relates to community, family, and friends, and therefore it is in direct relation with what matters most in life. Blogs can be a powerful tool to communicate to others, as well as to market with, as they are so friendly to search engines in terms of keywords, and ranking. Just making a few blog posts can literally get you noticed immediately, and is something that truly can help you become a big player in the internet business game.

How To Build A Podcasting Site On WordPress

Posted on November 15, 2007
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The success of blogging is all about writing and posting. What if you don’t like to write, but good at talking? Then podcasting is a better choice for you. Podcasting is a way of sharing your blog in an audio format, which means you just record your voice on some topic and distribute it from your blog, no writing, just talking and posting. Your WordPress can handle this easily. Read more

How To Build A Planet On WordPress

Posted on November 15, 2007
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Don’t build a blog, build a planet!

A planet is a web content aggregator site that collects latest contents from different blogs having the same interest. Usually, these planet websites collect news from RSS feeds of very popular and renowned blogs and display their contents in a single page. So if you browse a planet. If you are not familiar with planet web site, take a look of the following planets to get a taste: Read more

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