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Aug 6th
Aug 3rd
Cforms II is a Wordpress plugin which makes it easy for you to add a contact form to your website.
Once you install and activate the plugin, don’t get intimidated by the dozens of options available. It is pretty easy to set up. Click on CForms from your WP admin menu.
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Aug 2nd
You have to motivate your visitors to leave comments.
How do you do that?
By giving them a good enuff reason to do so.
Like they say there is no such thing as a free lunch.
We have already discussed one approach and that is by making your blog do-follow.
Another option is the CommentLuv Plugin.
This plugin searches the commentator’s RSS feed and adds the title of their last blog post to their comment.
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Aug 1st
I finally upgraded to Wordpress 2.6.
I first installed it locally to test it out and make sure that nothing was broken and the website was showing up fine. Good idea on my part.
Everything was totally mucked up. I couldn’t get the post pages to load. I was getting tagged headings on category pages and the rest were just giving a page not found error. Oops!
Am I glad I didn’t directly upgrade live!
But there is good news.
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Jul 31st
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Jul 21st
I joined Twitter a while but never bothered much with it. That is until I found this very simple to use Wordpress plugin.
This pulgin not only displays my last X twitters but also lets me add Twitters from inside the WP admin. Now that is a God send for people like me — what a time saver!
This can be called as a function or added as a widget. And that is the way all plugins should work. Give both options! You never know what might be needed.
Now I can tweet to my heart’s content and it is quite a lot of fun to do so, too.
For those of you who are still as yet unaware of Twitter, it is reminiscent of its name. Think of it as constant status updates of your life. It is the answer to one simple question: What Are You Doing? You can twitter away, let your friends and family follow your escapades or make new friends and see what they are up to.
Check out the My Twitter Plugin.
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Jul 18th
Wordpress, by default adds a no-follow tag to links in comments.
What that means in very simple terms is that a Search Engine Bot should not follow that link. Your commentator receives no link benefit from this and gets no page rank credit from Google. The reason why this is a default action in Wordpress is to combat comment spam, to stop people from leaving meaningless comments just to get a link back to their websites.
However, all this does is inconvenience the real posters who are genuinely contributing to the discussion. The no-follow tag has not served its pupose and has not stopped spam flooding your comments. Best option is to just use the Akismet plugin (comes with Wordpress) for that and be done with it.
So let’s come back to the people who are contributing effectively to a discussion on your blog. Why are they being punished? They are giving something, they should get something back. It is a fair exchange. And it is a win-win situation as you can be at the receiving end as well by posting comments on blogs that do-follow links.
So from today onwards, this blog is officially a DO FOLLOW blog.
You can use a very simple, set it and forget it plugin called Semiologic Do-Follow
You can add your do-follow blog to this list.
There is a list of more plugins as well as directories you can add your do-follow blog to. Check it out.
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Jul 16th
If you have tried using the NextGen Gallery Plugin (and mind you it is one of the best image gallery plugins out there for Wordpress) then chances are you might have run into the php memory limit problem.
What this means is that unless you increase the memory limit, you might have problems with automatic thumbnail creation.
There are a few options here:
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Jul 16th
While I was busy designing his blog, my friend Rob beat me to this announcement (as soon as I had given him the update on WP). Now I can either re-do the whole thing again or point you to his post so you can read about all the great new features. Oh and he has a video up as well.
And I just upgraded two of my websites to WP 2.5.1
Although some of the features (word count, post revisions, turbo blog) in 2.6 are tempting me to upgrade, I think I will wait a bit and make sure the plugin authors update their plugins to ensure compatibility with 2.6. I’m betting by the time that happens and I get on the 2.6 bandwagon, it will be time for 2.7 … not that I’m complaining 
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Explode and Increase Comments Using These Wordpress Plugins
I have already discussed a few techniques and plugins you can use to increase your comments. Here is a re-cap of some old and some new plugins I haven’t discussed before. All are must-haves if you want to explode your comments:
I am absolutely staggered that so many bloggers don’t use this one. Don’t they want their commenters coming back? When I comment on a blog, I really want to know when there is a reply. And subscribe to comments is the perfect plugin as it sends me an email whenever a comment is posted.
Without this option, your commenters may just get sick and tired of checking manually or not bother at all. Not everyone subscribes to the comments RSS feeds so make sure you provide this option.
I cannot stress this one enuff!
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