Blogspot / Blogger, Free for Web, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
If you haven’t noticed, I just switched from Blogger to WordPress about a week ago. Both are excellent services however I do enjoy WordPress a lot more now that I am finally using it. Now let me break down what I’ve found.
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Blogger
Blogger was a great, easy to set up service..
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WordPress
WordPress is also pretty great. It does require a few extra steps to get started but everything is very well documented..
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Full article: http://www.jonbishop.org/2008/05/blogger-vs-wordpress/
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Indexed in July 2008
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Free for Web, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
WordPress 2.6 has been released (download)The new version of WordPress includes some new features and improvements, such as post revisions, posting bookmarklet, theme preview and as well as support of Google Gears.
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What’s new in WordPress 2.6?
Post revisions — ever miss the editing records of your blog post? WordPress 2.6 now included the wiki-like tracking for blog edits. It allows you to view who made what changes when to any post or page through a super-easy interface.
Blogging bookmarklet — drag the “Press This” bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmark bar. Then, whenever you see something interesting to blog about, just click on the bookmarklet..
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Full article: http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2008/07/wordpress-26-new-features/
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Indexed in July 2008
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Maintenance Web, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
The latest version sports in myriad of features, some of which were really missing in the previous versions. The upgrading took me only 15 minutes and was an (ultra soft) piece of cake (thanks to wordpress codex). The whole system is refreshed and now breaths an air of life & enthusiasm.
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Things to note:
- Make sure that the theme you use, is compatible with Wordpress 2.5..
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Full article: http://aravindjose.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India
Indexed in July 2008
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Maintenance Web, Tools, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
If you use WordPress probably I do not think I need to tell what is a database. But everyone should know that every database must be saved periodically. I’ll speak about a plugin very useful and that any blogger should have installed, the WordPress Backup Database, which helps you to make and schedule your backups automatically..
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It leads you to a page in which you see the progress of the process. At the end you should have a new directory for backup files in /wp-content/. If there is something wrong and it can’t create it maybe you have to change the directories privileges on your server..
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Full article: http://www.binaryant.com
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Indexed in July 2008
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Promoting Website, SEO, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
Basically, keywords can do a lot of magic to your blog in terms of traffic through search engines. It is because search engines understand your blog through keywords. When someone tries to search for a certain keyword through Google, Yahoo, or MSN, it will show results of the sites they have indexed containing the word that someone is looking for. Depending on the keyword consistency of the page and the site as a whole, the search engines display their results according to the authority of the site on that particular keyword from the strongest to the weakest; where traffic, most of the time, is exclusive only to those who are displayed on the first to the tenth results page. By using keywords effectively in your posts, theoretically, you’ll increase your traffic from search engines because you’ll get your site displayed on the first five or ten search result pages of your keywords. At the same time, you’ll have audience who are interested in what you have to say or offer because you appeared in their searches.
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Find the hottest keywords
Sometimes, you might want to fight fire with fire rather than build things slowly because the keywords you’ve been brainstorming about don’t get a sufficient search volume which you could call a boost in traffic. And one way to get that hot traffic is to get highly searched keywords into your blog..
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Full article: http://ulupongdotcom.blogspot.com
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Indexed in June 2008
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A lot of new bloggers want to include advertising on their site, but find the idea of adding an advertisement to their sidebar daunting. If your blog runs on WordPress software, it’s a simple matter of using your text widgets to show ads. In this post, we’ll show you how.
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Rather than change designs now, a simple approach is to use the standard WordPress Text Widget to show image ads. Once you have had experience with displaying ads, you can then decide whether it is worth changing your theme to accommodate the ads.
What is an ad?
When you sign up for ads, typically via an affiliate program, you will be provided with a username and password which will allow you to login and select the ads you wish to run on your blog.
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How to put an image ad into a text widget
The simplest thing to do is to display one ad per text widget.
Within the Design - Widgets section of your WordPress Dashboard, add a new Text Widget.
- Do not enter a title for the Text Widget (the single line edit box at the top).
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Full article: http://blog-well.com
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Indexed in June 2008
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Themes or Templates, Web Design, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
If you have been using WordPress you probably know that there are thousands of very nice and freely available themes that you can use to skin your WordPress blog. What you might not realize, though, is that you should take a look under the hood of a theme before you put it into live duty on the blog that you have worked hard to build. Here are some things to take a look at:
1. Sidebars - Widgets or Hardcoded
The drag and drop nature of the WordPress Widgets are much easier for the casual blogger to manage but many power users prefer the old fashioned hard coded sidebar system. If the theme you are considering is not widget ready and you would like to use widgets you will need to add the necessary code to activate the widget system. Here are a couple of useful links for making a non-widget theme widget friendly.
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3. Page Navigation for sub-pages
If the theme generates the horizontal navigation links for your site automatically you may also want to know how sub pages will be handled. Depending on the way the navigation is coded and how the CSS stylesheet is constructed you may either find your subpages listed on the same level as your top level pages, listed as CSS dropdown menus when hovered over, or completely omitted from the horizontal navigation.
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Full article: http://daisyolsen.com
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Indexed in June 2008
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Custom Programming, Promoting Website, SEO, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
You may be aware that the Internet is becoming very crowded. Google will attempt to help you get where you want to go, but is having increasing difficulties. Part of that is Google’s doing. Their methodology depends on links from other web pages, so naturally, everyone is producing web pages. Indeed, some use computer software to generate thousands of web pages to influence their Google ranking..
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Tags To Bring Order To The Cyber Sphere
Tagging certainly seems to be something that has real potential in helping us all navigate our way through the World Wide Web. Tags do of course come in two flavors. You can take a body of text and use a computer to determine what are the most frequently used terms. That is one way and it may be the route that Sir Tim is following..
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Making Your Very Easy WordPress Tag Cloud Web Page
Displaying the full set of tags generated for a blog is clearly inappropriate for a sidebar display. What is much preferable is a web page displaying the full set of tags..
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Full article: http://www.staygolinks.com
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Indexed in June 2008
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Elements of a Web, Free for Web, Web Standards, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
WordPress is very good about supporting standards and producing valid markup, and at least when I started using it, it had a link in the standard theme to proclaim the validity of its pages and prove it to you by taking you to the W3C Markup Validation Service. A lot of people never pay this any attention and promptly produce a bunch of non-complying pages, all the while shamefully leaving the boastful link in the sidebar or footer of their site.
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WordPress XHTML Validator Plugin
I considered making a WordPress plugin to give me a button on the edit screen which would let me send the preview page source HTML directly to the W3C validator. Then I could perform a quick verification after composing a post..
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Full article: http://www.movingtofreedom.org
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Indexed in May 2008
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Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
I have read quite some tutorials which show how WordPress can be built using certain frameworks in a couple of days or in a matter of seconds. They are quite good, and I personally believe that it helps to write a blogging engine if you want to learn Web programming. Unfortunately these tutorials also lead some to believe that this is all there is to WordPress and ignore its capabilities which are the differentiators, and in my opinion, makes it suitable for much more than just blogs. Of course WordPress is about publishing on the Web, but it offers some capabilities that makes it extremely usable and flexible.
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Rewrite API
WordPress sports a usable Rewrite API. A lot of frameworks and applications today provide user friendly URLs, but WordPress makes them configurable..
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Full article: http://ifacethoughts.net
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Indexed in May 2008
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