How cool when you look up Google map to see if there are any wordpress fans near your location? The site is called WpWorldMap. It used Google map with draggable windows that contains name and your information like First Name, Last name, .. and your role like User or Developer, etc. and leave your marker where you are staying now.
Su.pr is a new URL shortening service developed by Stumbleupon that allows you to post your Blog post and message Twitter and Facebook via your Wordpress. Su.pr has a feature that update automatically to Twitter and Facebook whenever you publish new blog post.
Su.pr has customization options allow you to customize posting to Twitter or use the default setting. If you check on the first option “Post to Twitter”, you will see extra option in New/Edit post page. Another great feature from Su.pr is that you can use url shortening with your own domain name. (example: http://yourdomain.com/abxr instead of http://su.pr/abxr).
Currently Su.pr is in invite beta but you can sign up by using invite code “suprbeta”. API key is required to use for your wordpress plugin. You can find API key in setting page.
Wordpress 2.7 is available for download at Wordpress.org site.The features I like most from this version are revamped Admin panel, Comments enhancement in theme function, Quick press (Easy to publish post from Dashboard) and new layout arranged in Post editor enables me publishing blog posts more quickly. Well done, Wordpress Team!
Liz Strauss Comment Counter is a wordpress plugin to show off the number of comments your blog has. You can configure color and text which is very similar to the Feedburner subscriber counter, in setting.
Glenda Watson Hyatt known as left thumb blogger shares her blogging expierence with Wordpress and how Wordpress has enabled her to communicate with the people. It is an inspirational video from YouTube!
It is really important that you should change your password immediately when you logged in your wordpress panel for this first time after fresh installation of your Wordpress. To change your password, click admin link next to “Howdy” text message in upper right corner of your Wordpress panel Or type yourblogaddress.com/wp-admin/profile.php in browser address bar.
You can change Color scheme of your admin panel, First name, Last name, Nickname, Display name which is used for author name is blog post, contact information, etc in Profile section. This is a Wordpress newbie series. I will keep posting like this tutorial in future.
Many of us are using either wordpress’s default permalink structure http://yourblog.com/?p=343 or http://yourblog.com/2008/09/03/your-post-title. We might probably lose visitors from other sites or bookmarks that links to our posts or even Google ranking after we changed the permalink structure from default. If you are going to change the permanent link structure of your wordpress blog, you should consider to use this plugin called Permalinks Migration Plugin. This plugin will automatically generate 301 redirect when your visitors or crawler when they visit your old permalinks and redirect them to new permanent address. This is a way to tell the search engine that your posts has moved and old address should be replaced by the new one. This doesn’t affect you search engine rankings like Google PR.
New version of wordpress 2.6 includes Image captioning feature that automatically adds caption under your images like in BBC and CNN news site. It is pretty good if you like. But what if you don’t want to put little caption under your image? Here is a very simple trick.
After successful logged in your wordpress, you’ll see the wordpress dashboard. Wordpress Dashboard includes Write, Manage, Design and Comments panel.
Write panel where you can write new post, page and link (blogroll).
Manage panel where you can manage posts, pages, categories, Tags, Media, Importing posts from wordpress xml file or other blogging system.
Design panel where you can change or edit your themes uploaded in your server under wp-content/themes folder.
Comments panel where you can handle all the comments such as deleting, editing and marking comments as spam for your posts.
The rest are Setting, Plugins and Users. Wordpress dashboard displays all the information like Recent comments, Incoming link, News feed from Wordpress Development blog, popular plugins from Wordpress plugin directory and other wordpress news.
I have been using Akismet, a free tool that can prevent spam comments, trackbacks and pingbacks for your blog, since I start blogging here. Last couple of months, I noticed that Akismet failed to prevent spam comments, trackbacks and pingbacks for my wordpress blog. Then I switched to Typepad Antispam as a test. I’m very pleased that it does pretty well and probably does better than Akismet.
Typepad Antispam is a free tool to prevent comment spams for your blog just like Akismet. It is developed by Six Apart. It is available for Movable Type and Wordpress blogs.
I’ve been blogging using wordpress for more than a year now. I noticed that I didn’t test too many plugins that appeared every weeks from Weblog Tools Collection and other blog sites which are related to Wordpress. Here I have make a list of plugins which are currently using for my site and really useful for me.
Add Meta Tags, This plugin automatically adds Description and Keywords META tags to your site. While browsing particular post or page, it generates summary of your blog post as Description and categories as keywords.
With Adsense-Deluxe you can embed Google Adsense ads script code inside your post because Wordpress tinyMCE doesn’t allow you to put script!
Akismet, a built-in plugin that prevents from spam comments. You need to have wordpress.com API key to use.
Feedsmith, this plugin automatically redirects from your blog feed link to your feedburner link so you don’t miss RSS subscribers.
Full Text feed, that can prevent from showing Read more in your feed.
Google Analytics, this plugin will insert your Google Anatlyics javascript to your wordpress head section.
Google XML Sitemap, this plugin generates sitemap xml of your wordperss blog which is sitemaps.org compatible. It can notify your site changes to Google, Ask, Yahoo and MSN Search whenever you update or publish new entries in your blog.
Subscribe to Comment allows your visitor to receive email notification of new comments by email that are posted on an entry. So they’ll come back again!
Wp-Cache, this plugin stores your dynamic page as static page and shows your visitors requested from the file instead of loading the dynamic page from database. That makes more improvement in response of your site.
Wordpress implemented tags feature since wordpress 2.3 came out. Wp 2.3 Related Post plugin generate the list of related posts from tags of your blog posts.
Which plugins do you use? Please share your experience with it. I want to hear from you.
I really wanted to use new wordpress 2.5 version for this site since I’ve been testing RC1 release in my local. Because of new database changes, new refreshed admin panel, improved post editor (image uploading, gallery and full screen editing, etc.), ability to upgrade plugin automatically and much more in Wordpress 2.5. Today, I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 for my site and it was successful without having any problems. As my experience, I download the latest release from wordpress site, and I disabled all the plugins i’m using for my wordpres. After that I upload all the files from wordpress zip files. Then I run upgrade.php file from wp-admin folder. It upgrades automatically. Then I enable plugins again. Here are the simple steps you can upgrade wordpress 2.5 from ealier version.
This is really important for your blog!. Backup your wordpress by using both exporting your wordpress method and downloading database files from your MySql database method.
Download the latest release from Wordpress site. And extract that zip file into your local machine.
Go to the plugins page and mark the active plugins which are currently using for your blog. Then diactivate them.
Upload the Wordpress files from your machine to the your site using FTP program.
type your site url and /wp-admin/upgrade.php . (example: http://www.example.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php). If you installed wordpress different from your home page, Use something like this (example: http://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade.php)
After successful upgrading, it will redirect to new interface login page.
You disabled your plugins before you upgrade. So you must activate them again inorder to run your wordpress without any problems.
My site was featured in WeLoveWp.com, a gallery of blogs powered by Wordpress. You can see my site at there and give rating for my site.
Wordpress 2.5 is officially released. You can download it from Wordpress.Org. Wordpress.Org site has been changed to new look too!
If you’re blogging in wordpress.com for long time and what if you want to blog in your own hosted blog ? This is one of the biggest problems every blogger face while we’re moving to our own. Backing up your wordpress blog by using export feature in wordpress or using third party web app like BlogBackupOnline does not mean complete backing up your blog. They only backup our blog posts and comments without posted image in our blog posts.
Michael Sync created an application that can download all of your images which you posted in wordpress.com or your self hosted wordpress.
I noticed that there is no way to bulk-download all of my images from Wordpress account to my local disk. I didn’t want to copy each and every images manually so I wrote this tool that can scan each and every urls from my blog and create the directory based on the URL. And then, download them into my local harddisk.
WP Bulk Image Downloader is written in C# and source code are available for download. You should check out !
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My name is Myo Kyaw Htun. I was born in Mandalay, Myanmar. Although I created this myokyawhtun.com web site for my personal portfolio site on April 2007, I finally decided to create a blog that focus on web development, technology happened on internet and some other stuffs like “Blogging”. Read more about me ...
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