Jan
12
2010
WordPress 2.9.1 has just been released. After over a million downloads of version 2.9 and lots of feedback from users all over the world, they are finally releasing WordPress 2.9.1.
This release addresses a handful of minor bugs as well as a rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosting services. If any of these issues is affecting you, I suggest to give 2.9.1 a try. Download this release directly from their site or upgrade automatically from your dashboard (Tools -> Upgrade menu).
Jan
6
2010
Canonical links are also known as “preferred links”. When search engines have to deal with duplicate content, they have to choose which link should be favored over all others that contain identical page content. Matt Cutts, Google Engineer, defined canonicalization on his blog as: “Canonicalization is the process of picking the best URL when there are several choices“.
Content duplication is one of the most common issues(or challenges) webmasters and site owners must face. There are many different ways to deal with content duplication. The canonical link element is one of the methods used to resolve this issue. The canonical link element was recently endorsed by Google, Yahoo! and Bing.
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Jan
1
2010
Happy New year everyone! I hope you had a great week! 2010 is here and it will be a great year for Wordpress and everything involving this amazing Content Management System that is here to stay and to make the web a better place. As you may know, Wordpress was first thought as a Blogging platform. However it is now applied to E-commerce sites, business portals, personal sites, video, photography and tube websites, hosting sites with wpmu, just to name a few.
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Wordpress is no longer known as “just a blogging platform”. The job of theme designers is to style Wordpress for everyone and to make Internet sites look great and easy to browse. Amazing Free and Premium Wordpress themes will be released in 2010. Version 1.6.6 of Patagonia includes excerpts in the category and tags pages which shows a resume of each post and a link to the full article.
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Dec
25
2009
Directories are a very good place to submit your blog. These sites will send you targeted traffic and give you Authority. Web directories contain a collection of sites organized into categories and sub-categories and classified by niche.
The main difference between directories and search engines is that search engines use software (spider/crawler) with an algorithm to automatically index the web pages. However in a directory, web sites are organized into categories by people. If you have ever submitted to at least one directory and have checked the traffic to your site, you would have noticed that it is negligible comparing to the traffic coming through search engines. The advantage is that directories bring targeted traffic.
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Dec
21
2009
Great news today! WordPress development team just announced the immediate availability of WordPress version 2.9. This version is named “Carmen” in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae. You can upgrade easily from your Dashboard by going to Tools -> Upgrade, or you can download the ZIP file from WordPress.org. You can also check a short video summarizing some of the cool things about the new version here.
The coolest new additions to this version are:
1.The first addition is amazing. It’s a global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete one of your posts or comments you can bring them back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete…
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Dec
16
2009
The Google Sandbox has been the subject of much debate during the last few years. The existence of a sandbox has been written about but not confirmed by Google. Most experienced webmasters agree that new sites have a hard time trying to reach the top rankings on search engines.
The theory is that Google puts new sites in holding period until they’ve aged enough to warrant consideration. First of all, this is definitely not how it works, but it’s quite possible that new sites are “untrusted” at first. Many sites get a page rank quick. However to get trusted, it takes a lot longer and hard work.
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Dec
9
2009
Are you looking to install a forum on your site or Blog? bbPress is a very good option for those who want something simple and easy to use. I recently installed bbpress on Wp Themes Planet and I can fully recommend it to everyone. The requirements are basically the same as wordpress (PHP version 4.3 or greater and MySQL version 4.0 or greater), so if you are running a wordpress based blog, you are good to go. Just download bbPress and unzip it. When you upload bbPress, you need to create a folder in your Wordpress installation.
For example, if you want bbPress to display on “yourdomain.com/forums”, you should create a folder called “forums” in the root directory. Take a look at the graphic below of the FTP folder created with the name “forums”.
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