WordPress, the #2 blogging platform grew 310 percent from last year with 12 million visitors
Posted on December 20, 2007 - Filed Under Wordpress | Leave a Comment
MySpace.com is #1 social networking site in the US, with nearly 57.4 million unique visitors last month.
Google’s Blogger rests is #1 for blog site rankings with 33.6 million visitors and 49% more than last year with 33.6 visitors in November.
#2 social networking site, Facebook is keeping double digit growth rates compared to last year. The [...]
10 steps to better blogs: creating a blog is easy. Making it great requires a plan
Posted on December 10, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging Tools and Services | Leave a Comment
MORE AND MORE HIGHER ed institutions have started using blogs to engage prospective students or alums; inform current students, faculty, and staff; promote events, and even communicate with project stakeholders. Blogs can be powerful channels for institutions, but it’s not always the case.
There is a big problem with blogs: They are too easy to create. [...]
Just How Important Are Technorati Tags And Wordpress Categories
Posted on December 5, 2007 - Filed Under Wordpress | Leave a Comment
Taking into account that search engines are currently the principal means for accessing blogs in the Internet, having one’s blog listed among the top result of a search query is paramount in order to drive traffic to one’s blog. To help boost your blog’s ranking for search engine, here is a tip that any webmaster [...]
Read More..>>Debunking Wordpress Comment Spam
Posted on December 5, 2007 - Filed Under Wordpress | Leave a Comment
If you are a blogger, you are definitely familiar with those annoying comment spams. Imagine having to delete hundreds (not an exaggeration) of spam each time you log into your account. It is such an irritating task. You have to manually check which comments are spams and then delete them. If there are five or [...]
Read More..>>The Latest On WordPress Themes
Posted on December 5, 2007 - Filed Under Wordpress | Leave a Comment
As WordPress and blogging become more and more popular, the list of customization options continues to grow. One can attribute that to each user wanting his or her blog to be unique or very much personalized. Who knows, one day a theme can be just as unique as the blog’s author! The following is an [...]
Read More..>>Moving Your WordPress Blog
Posted on December 5, 2007 - Filed Under Wordpress | Leave a Comment
Moving a blog can make it unreachable for 24 – 72 hours, unless the new domain name has fully propagated around the Internet. It is just the way it is and WordPress doesn’t have anything to do with such limitation. Moving is best done when you have the time or have planned ahead.
Moving Towards a [...]
The Wordpress Plugin Repository
Posted on December 5, 2007 - Filed Under Wordpress | Leave a Comment
WordPress is a great open-development community that encourages its users to innovate. But a few years ago, it started getting hard to keep up with those innovations. That’s when the WordPress Plugin Repository was born (currently hosted at http://WP-plugins.org).
The repository is a place where all WordPress plugins are pulled together and shared with the community [...]
When Wordpress Permalinks 404
Posted on December 5, 2007 - Filed Under Wordpress | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Read More..>>What Can Wordpress Plugins Do For You?
Posted on December 5, 2007 - Filed Under Wordpress | Leave a Comment
The function of WordPress has opened up endless possibilities recently, taking it to a new level no longer limited to a blog site. With a huge range of WordPress plugins already available, and many more being added constantly, website owners can put up custom designed pages in a few minutes with a little help.
WordPress plugins [...]
What You Need To Know About WordPress Podcasts
Posted on December 5, 2007 - Filed Under Wordpress | Leave a Comment
WordPress is a blogging platform that has podcasting support. A podcast is a pre-recorded audio program, very much like a radio program that is listened to on the computer. Podcasting is distributing audio or video content via RSS 2.0 or atom as WordPress creates all the necessary links for the site.
Using WordPress for Podcasting
WordPress works [...]