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WordPress, straight out of the box, comes ready to embrace search engines. Its features and functions guide a search engine through the posts, pages, and categories to help the search engine crawl your site and gather the information it needs to include your site within its database. There is a lot to learn about search engine optimization and site submission. Here are just a few plugins, which help you to improve your SEO.
WP Calculator is a free simple calculator for your blog. Originaly developed from http://www.bmgadg.com/calculator.php script. Continue Reading
You have probably seen this function on different message boards. It allows to simple paste the comment author username in comment textarea and qoute some text from his/her comment with one click. I think it’s quite necessary feature. It will make commenting process more comfortable and encourages your users to comment on your posts.
A feed is a function of special software that allows feedreaders to access a site, automatically looking for new content and then posting the information about new content and updates to another site. This provides a way for users to keep up with the latest and hottest information posted on different blogging sites.
There are several different kinds of feeds, read by different feedreaders. Some feeds include RSS (alternately defined as “Rich Site Summary” or “Really Simple Syndication”), Atom or RDF files. Now I’ll review top 5 rss plugin for wordpress.
Wordpress doesn’t allow you to change your username by default, so you have to use “admin” as your username on your blog. However it is possible to change it. If you don’t want to use any plugin for it, follow this small tutorial. I show how to change admin username on Wordpress, using phpmyadmin. It’s quite simple and fast. Continue Reading
You’ve probably seen this done on blogs, comments by the author have a different background colour to differentiate them - it’s handy when you’re scanning comments to see the authors own response. Now you can have the same on your blog. Just follow this tutorial.
To refresh your memory, Gravatars are little user images from Gravatar.com that are displayed against your comments in the theme (if the theme is built to support Gravatars). A lot of WordPress themes are built without the support of Gravatars. So, here is some help for you to add Gravatars in your theme.
With newer versions of WordPress being released with widgets, it is no longer necessary to download widgets from Automattic and install the plugin on your current Wordpress install. Modern versions of WordPress already come widgets ready. However, there are some situations where you find a WordPress theme that you really like, but soon discover that its not widgets ready. This article will teach you how to Wigetize a WordPress theme so that you can enjoy all the neat and robust features includes with Wordpress widgets. Continue Reading
Wordpress plugins are the one of the important part of this CMS which make wordpress popular more than its other features. Plugins can enhance wordpress features and can perform many things during the page or post display time. Writing a wordpress plugin is not as much harder as it looks like. If you know a little bit knowledge of php and html/css you can do that on your own. Here is a very basic tutorial to write your own plugin.
