Wordpress Plugins
No Old Spam Links Plugin: Easily add NoFollow on Paid/Text Links
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008The Google punishment in the form of Google PR drops, due to paid links created a buzz in the blogosphere. Many had been affected, and that includes me. And I want to get my PR back. Probloggers advised to add a rel=nofollow on all paid links but it maybe too cumbersome, especially if you have posted quite a number of paid reviews.
I found a WordPress plugin that will help me to easily put nofollow in all the paid links in this blog without manually adding rel=nofollow to the links. No Old Spam Links plugin will automatically do it for me.
What does the plugin do?
- It add “nofollow” to all links on any domain on a blacklist. The “nofollow” is applied in posts and comments.
- Specify one white list “all links dofollow” category which overrides the blacklist.
- Specify an “all no follow” category that adds no follow to all links after a specified number of days. It will be easier for you to add no=follow to all paid links especially if it’s under one category.
Download the plugin here.
Tags:Anti Spam, Blog, Blogging, Google, Google Adsense, Internet, Tips, WordPress, Wordpress Plugins
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I’m switching to a magazine-style WordPress theme!
Friday, December 21st, 2007Using magazine-style WordPress themes is the new trend in the blogging community. These themes enhances the CMS capability of WordPress.
Why is it better to choose a magazine- or newspaper-style theme?
1. It’s “pro-looking”. One of the ways to drive traffic and persuade readers is making your layout professional. Because these themes can be taking a lot of knowledge about coding, most of them are designed by professional designers.
2. You can maximize the space on your blog. You have a lot of space for advertising and other widgets.
3. It is best for multimedia. Magazine-style themes are best for video blogging and podcasting.
4. You can have featured posts highlighting a certain notable post.
Here are some of the best-looking magazine-style themes available for you!
1. Structure
A theme for news/magazine sites with a blog-friendly option too. It includes built-in video and image features that easily allow you to customize your site. There are content blocks that you can place virtually anywhere on the page.
2. Mimbo is a magazine-style Wordpress theme which makes extensive use of WP’s template tag system to create a non-traditional layout. It contains no images and only minimal CSS styling. Mainly it exists as a clean, grid-based starter layout for designers to install and style to their own liking.
3. Visionary. A theme for news/magazine sites. It includes built-in video features that easily allow you to add videos to your site.
4. Jello Wala Mello WordPress Theme is a news / magazine-styled WordPress theme created for multi-media sites. It requires WordPress 2.3 to work properly.
Tags:Blogging, Internet, Webmasters Tools, WordPress as CMS, Wordpress Plugins, WordPress Themes
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Firefox 3.0 First Beta is already available for download!
Saturday, November 24th, 2007Mozilla has released the new and improved Firefox 3 on its beta version. How will Firefox 3 improve on things?
- Performance improvements, including over 300 memory leak fixes, perennial problems with Firefox since the beginning and an issue that plagues it badly today
- Firefox 3 does seem quite a bit speedier than version 2.
- With its intuitive search, users can auto-scour their surfing and browsing history and bookmarks for visited URLs and even page titles, making it easier to find “lost” pages as you type.
- Bookmarking is easier to do (just one click) and organization of bookmarks is also improved.
- Security improvements
- Several other features found on their development blog.
Firefox 3 Beta 1 is freely available for download, it’s not recommended for general users at this time. There are still plenty of bugs in the system, some pages won’t render right, and, most importantly, very few Firefox 2 add-ins work with Firefox 3 at all (not even toolbars).
Source: Yahoo Tech
Tags:Internet, Mozilla Firefox, Webmasters Tools, Wordpress Plugins, WordPress Themes
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I am now on a paid host!
Saturday, November 24th, 2007My domain and other sites, has been hosted since its birth in the blogosphere by Ejam Hosting through its post-to-host program for FREE.
I have been satisfied with their hosting because I am getting the features of a paid host for FREE and so far, Ejam has satisfied my qualifications for a free host. Unfortunately (or fortunately), since this blog has been widely visited these past days, I have to upgrade my bandwidth limit and storage capacity.
Although I was satisfied with the hosting, my fear of losing my website was still there. Because it’s a free hosting, I was afraid of instability in the future. I’ve experienced this dilemma with my previous free hosts. AhPlace, my first host, for example, has been one of the most-trusted free hosts but due to hacker attacks, click frauds, spammers, and several other instabilities, it has to close down losing all the data of its hosted members. I still highly recommend Ejam, though.
Some free hosts are only supported by members donation and the activity of its members, so financial instability can be a problem in the future. This was the reason why I shifted to a paid host. I was thankful that Paypal is now available with full feature (send and receive) in the Philippines that I can pay for the hosting.
Webhosting Buzz is now my host under their Budget Hosting Silver Plan. I didn’t have a problem with the transfer because their ever supportive and reliable team did it for me - the backups, the transfer and everything. I also got one domain for free as long as my site is kept hosted by them.
This is now my second day under their server. So far I am satisfied with the uptime and support.
Tags:Blogging, Free Domains, Free Hosting, free tld, Free Top Level Domains, Internet, Technology, Webmasters Tools, WordPress, Wordpress Plugins, WordPress Themes
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WordPress Upgrades and Problems: What should you learn
Monday, July 9th, 2007For several days, this blog was off line; all because of my carelessness. I tried to upgrade my WordPress installation to 2.2.1 through Fantastico, without trying it first with my test blog. The upgrade ruined everything. The pages suddenly were not accessible. I was desperately looking for ways to make this blog work again but I always failed. Fortunately, through exploring my cPanel and using several articles and help topics available on the web, I was able to find the solution to my problem. But of course, I had some lessons learned, I want to share so you can also avoid careless mistakes:
1. Never use Fantastico in upgrading your WordPress installation. Chances are, there might be bugs or changes in the server you might be unaware of that may cause problems in the upgrade process. A manual upgrade is highly recommended.
Although Fantastico is the most convenient way to upgrade your installation through its one-click install feature, you are not assured that the installed version is working properly. To avoid this, you can create a test blog to work all your changes before applying them to your blog.
3. Do not forget to back up your currently working database before upgrading. I am re-emphasizing it because it seems that many users forget this very important step. I take myself as a very good example.
4. Do not immediately upgrade a working installation of WordPress to a newest released version. Chances are, some plugins might not be compatible with the latest version.
5. Check all the possible causes of your problem before making any drastic moves such as deleting or removing your database out of frustration. Solutions are always available, you only have to find out how. Be patient. Find answers through help or support topics available on the web that may serve as your guide.
6. Always ask help. Post a support topics at the WordPress support forums or at your web host support forums (if any). Members always have good suggestions.
Tags:Blogging, Internet, Online Tips, Tips, WordPress, Wordpress Plugins, WordPress Themes
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Theme Support: Jammed and Green
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007I’ve received complaints from several users about my Jammed and Green theme breaking their WordPress installation. They get an “odd”error when they try to login to their Dashboard
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by
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/home/simplypr/public_html/contents/wp-content/themes/
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If you downloaded the latest version of the theme at the WordPress Theme [...]
New WordPress Theme: Jammed and Green
Sunday, March 18th, 2007Ever since I started making themes for WordPress, I’ve already contributed a total of 8 themes at the WordPress Theme Viewer. It’s quite a fulfillment for me seeing that most of my themes were appreciated by hundreds of WordPress users.
I aim to continue creating more themes for all WordPress users. It’s also one way [...]
New WordPress Theme: Grayed
Monday, March 12th, 2007After days of fixing it, because I have to admit that I am not adept with PHP language and coding, more so with CSS, I finally finished the theme! I tried to fix some issues before I made it available for downloads at the WordPress Theme Viewer.
This Theme is under GPL License.
How to install:
1. [...]