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How to Add Homepage-only Links to WordPress

Posted by admin in Wordpress Tips, Wordpress Tutorials

If you are trying to add a link to your WordPress blog which will only show up on the home page and are frustrated by the fact that WordPress does not have built in support for doing doing so look no further. There is a simple and quick way to accomplish this.

By using several lines of PHP code in your WordPress theme file you can easily add a link or any other content (such as a widget or photos) that you only wish to show up on the home page of your blog. Here it is:

<?php if(is_home() && $post==$posts[0] && !is_paged()) { ?>
{HOMEPAGE-ONLY CONTENT HERE}
<?php } ?>

Getting this script to work is very easy. Simply add the link code instead of “{HOMEPAGE-ONLY CONTENT HERE}”. Then use the “Theme Editor” to put it into the theme files, wherever you want it be.

Please note that this script will not work if placed in the “widgets” area because PHP code is not executed in the “Widgets” section. However this too can be easily accomplished by installing the Exec-PHP plugin. Enable the plugin then configure it and add the above php code to a text widget.

How To Stop WordPress Self Pingbacks

Posted by admin in Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Tips, Wordpress Tutorials

When you are writ­ing an arti­cle on your WordPress blog, and link­ing from that article to another article already on your site (which you should be doiong for SEO reasons) you may start get­ting ping­backs from your own blog. This is very enoying and needs to be deleted. If you are like me and are sick and tired of manually deleting WordPress self pingbacks each time you link to your own articles, fear not, there is a simple solution. Just install a WordPress plugin called No Self Pings written by Michael D. Adams and forget about ever having this problem.

Installing The Plu­gin

All you need to do is visit this web­site: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/no-self-ping/

Down­load the plu­gin, unzip it, upload the php file to your plu­g­ins direc­tory, go to set­tings -> plu­g­ins -> and acti­vate the plu­gin and you’re done!

Alternatively, you can go to the plugin section of your WordPress administative section, click on “Add New”, type “No Self Pings” into the search box, hit “Search Plugins”, click “Install”, then activate the plugin and you’re done.

Enjoy!

NextGEN Gallery Plugin

Posted by admin in Wordpress Plugins

The NextGEN Gallery Plugin and Widget for WordPress is the perfect solution for adding a picture gallery to your WordPress blog. It has a ton of options such as it’s slide show feature, and it looks very slick. NextGEN Gallery is definitely a much better way to manage and display photos on any WordPress blog.

Here are some features of NextGen.

Overview / Functions

• Sortable Albums : Create your own sets of images
• Upload a Zip-File with pictures : Upload pictures in a zip-file (Not in Safe-mode)
• Watermark function : You can add a watermark image or text
• JavaScript Effect: Use any available popular image effect : Thickbox, Greybox or Lightbox
• Multiple CSS Stylesheet : Use a nice shadow effect for your thumbnails with your own CSS file
• Slideshow: Full integrated flash slideshow
• Sidebar Widget : Show a random picture at your sidebar

Requirements

• WordPress 2.7 or above
• PHP 4.3.7 or higher
• GD 2 Library
• Freetype Support (for Watermark)
• Safe-Mode Off (for more function)
• Memory limit should be 16MB or more

Download NextGen Plugin

SEO Smart Links – WordPress Plugin

Posted by admin in Blog SEO, Wordpress Plugins

Bloggers often like to link a particular post’s content to a previous post which has relevant information. This is good both for your readers and the search engine like it as well. But it can be quite a time consuming task, as you have to search through your older posts to find relevant content to link to.

Finally a new WordPress plugin has emerged that will simplify this task quite a bit. It offers a better way to interlink your posts to key pages deeper into the you site. The SEO Smart Links plugin will automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags. All this is done seamlessly without your intervention.

The SEO Smart Links plugin looks at your keyword phrases which match the title of your posts and pages. There is also an option to enable categories and tag matching as well. These keyword phrases are then turned into links which refer to related posts. All of the matching is case insensitive and the original case is preserved.

For example, if the WordPress Theme Installation Guide is mentioned, which is the title of a previous post, it will be automatically converted into a link. All this happens in a totally transparent way, and you can always edit the options from the administration settings panel.

Let’s take a closer look at some of the key features of this very useful plugin:

• Lets you link the keywords in your posts, pages and comments to your other posts, pages, categories and tags.
• Gives you full control with customizable options.
• An incorporated ignore list for keywords you don’t ever want to link.
• Gives your WordPress blog a good interlinking with no effort on your part.

Installation:

1. You can download the plugin from here.
2. Upload the plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Query caching – set define(ENABLE_CACHE, true); in your wp-config.php file.
4. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
5. Use the Options page to change your options.

Try this great WordPress plugin for yourself, I am sure you’re going to love it!

Displaying Google Adsense in Feedburner RSS Feeds

Posted by admin in Wordpress Tutorials

If you are using Feedburner for your WordPress blog’s RSS subscriptions, you should hopefully know by now that you can have your Adsense advertisements display within your Feedburner RSS feeds.

This is fairly simple to do. Just login to your Feedburner account, select your feed, then click on “Monetize” and a page will come up requiring you to enter Google Adsense account information, such as:

• Your email address for the Adsense account
• Your postal code (for added verification)

As soon as you have entered your AdSense details, Google will send you a verification email, which you need to verify by following a link. At this point you will be taken to a page where you need to give access to Feedburner. This will allow your AdSense and Feendburner accounts to send information back and forth.

After completing these steps, you will then the be taken to a page like the one below in your Feedburner account in the “Monetize” section:

Click “Activate” to activate the service, and setup your AdSense ad format and colors as you would normally do when putting Adsense into your website or WordPress blog. If you have multiple RSS feeds you will need to activate this setting for each feed separately, you can use the same account settings.

Please note that Custom Channels and Custom Palettes will not show up in Feedburner. You have to sign-out and sign-in again for these to work properly.

Once you have created your AdSense ad, you’ll be given an ad code to paste into your WordPress theme files, the instructions given on how acomplish this are very clear. If you are already using Feedburner FeedFlares on your site, Adsense will show up automatically and you don’t need to do anything else.

There are some limitations with this service however:

• Ads can only be displayed in the 468×60 and 300×250 formats.
• You cannot choose to show only text ads, it will default to the configuration you’ve set in your Adsense account itself.
• After the ad code is inserted Adsense ads who up on both your blog and your RSS feed, you cannot choose to display in your RSS feed only.

Is the All In One SEO Pack About to Lose it’s Place at the Top?

Posted by admin in Blog SEO, Wordpress Plugins

The All In One SEO Pack has been the most popular WordPress SEO plugin for quite some time now. But now there’s a new player in town. The recent release of a plugin known as Platinum SEO Pack is now threatening the superiority of the All In One SEO Pack plugin. The new Platinum SEP Pack appears to be an improvement of the All In One SEO Pack having all of it’s features and am impressive array of new features

Here are a few new features this new plugin boasts:

• Ability to add index, noindex, follow or nofollow, noodp, noydir meta tags to any post or page
• Automatic 301 redirect if you change your permalink structure
• Choose to block indexing (using noindex tag) on RSS feed pages
• Nofollow external links on front page
• Nofollow links to archive/category/tag pages

Some of this stuff might be considered “SEO overkill” although all of these are options in the backend.

We have started using it on several of our blogs and have had no issues what so ever with it. So far it is livving up to its promise. If you would like to try this great new plugin you can get the plugin here.

Let us know what you think about this new plugin by sharing your thoughts in the comments.

WordPress Theme Installation Guide

Posted by admin in Wordpress Tutorials

So you would like to try a new look and feel for your WordPress blog but are not 100% sure how to do it. Luckily WordPress makes it very easy to switch themes. Here is a quick and simple tutorial for you to guide a beginner through uploading and installing a new WordPress theme. Assuming that you already have WordPress installed on your web host.

To add a new theme to your WordPress 2.6+, follow these simple steps:

1. Download the WordPress theme
   Download the WordPress theme that you want to use and save the .zip file to your hard drive. Extract the theme files from the .zip file. The zip file contains one folder who’s name is the same name as the theme.
2. Upload the theme directory to WordPress
   Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Navigate to where WordPress is installed and locate the /wp-content/themes/ directory. Upload the theme folder to this location. For example, a theme named MyTheme should be in wp-content/themes/MyTheme
3. Activate the new theme within your WordPress admin panel
   Login to WordPress, select Design -> Themes. Then click on the theme you would like to activate. On the top right side of the theme, click Activate “Theme”
4. You are done. Enjoy the new look and feel of your blog!

7 Reasons to Use WordPress

Posted by admin in Uncategorized

WordPress (WP) is the most popular of all the blogging platforms but it is also a very popular Content Management System (CMS) as well. Not only can you run your blog on WordPress but you can also use it as a CMS for a recipe site, an article site, an image gallery and much more.

Here are some reasons why you should consider using WordPress

• Thousands of free WordPress Themes
  There are thousands of free WordPress themes that you can download. There is no limit to what you can do with all these free WordPress themes. You can give your blog any look and feel that you want with so many free themes to choose from.
  
• Thousands of free WordPress Plugins
  There are thousands of free WordPress plugins available for download. These plugins extend the functionality of WordPress giving you more control of your WordPress blog.
  
• WordPress is Easy to Use and Install
  WordPress is extremely easy to use and setup. Many web hosts offer automated WordPress Installation from their control panel. If your web host does not offer automated installation it is very easy to install WordPress yourself in just several minutes. In the event that you get stuck there are free WordPress support forums at the WordPress website.
  
• Great for Bringing in Organic Traffic from Search Engines
  WordPress is optimized to be search engine friendly. WordPress has many built in search engine friendly features like the ability to use .htaccess to create static URLs called permalinks, blogrolling and pinging. There are also many third party plugins that extend WordPress’s search engine friendliness to the next level.
  
• WordPress is 100% Free
  It will cost you absolutely nothing to download and install WordPress. Given the fact that in today’s world you usually get what you pay for, it is very nice to see something that is free and yet of a very high quality.
  
• WordPress is Very User-Friendly
  More robust and feature-filled CMS’s tend to be weaker in user-friendliness and high on complexity. It is much easier for a beginner to learn to use WordPress. This particularly applies when running a community site with multiple contributors who are likely not very experienced using a CMS.
  
• WordPress is Very Widely Used
  The popularity of WordPress is no coincidence and the points mentioned above are a big reason why WordPress is such a popular blogging and CMS platform.

Nothing is perfect, including WordPress, so don’t just take my word for it. Download a copy of WordPress and then get your free WordPress Themes. Try it for yourself and see how you like it. Good Luck and have fun!

Making WordPress Search Engine Friendly

Posted by admin in Blog SEO

Here are some interesting tips for making WordPress more search engine friendly.

I hope that you will find these WordPress tips usefull.

Images in Posts

Posted by admin in Uncategorized

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