Wordpress Tutorial

Full Feed Vs Partial Feed: The Debate Continues

December 25th, 2007 • Althaf • 5 comments • Related • Filed Under

This was once a very hot topic. As a blogger, what should you offer you subscribers in their Reader? A full feed to read from their desktop or online reader, or a partial feed with a “Click More” option to visit your blog and lap your article up.

Why should you offer a partial feed?

  1. If you offer a partial feed, your readers have to visit your blog every time they want to read your article. This counts towards Alexa average and pushes your blog up in ranking.

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Closing Thoughts – The Success Quotient

December 11th, 2007 • Althaf • 2 comments • Related • Filed Under

Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Winston S. Churchill. Speech given at Harrow School (1941-10-29)

The above is a very famous quote from the Prime Minister of Great Britain during the World War II. It is one of my favorites. He is one of my favorite personalities. An iron man indeed.

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How to install Plugins and Themes for Wordpress – Part 5

November 24th, 2007 • Althaf • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

In our last part of the series, we learnt about the essential Plugins that enable a blog to be a complete solution for online publishing. I am sure many of you have gone ahead implemented it, but for those of you who are pondering “How do I install a plugin?” read on as this part covers it all up.

To start off, you need a tool called FTP. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and connects your computer with your WordPress hosted server. I personally use SmartFTP, but you can use any of the available softwares in the market. For the sake of this chapter, I will be using SmartFTP.

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Essential Plugins for your Wordpress blog – Part 4

November 22nd, 2007 • Althaf • 4 comments • Related • Filed Under

If you want to enhance your blogging experience, you should consider using certain Plugins. Plugins are, simply put, extensions that enhance the way WordPress works. Every plugin has certain function that is not available with the default version of WordPress.

There are a million Plugins out there and everyday new Plugins are created by programmers and developers. While you cannot use each and every plugin, you can and should use a certain handful of them. Today’s chapter will cover the recommended and popular Plugins in the blogosphere. Click on the name to visit the respective sites to download the plugin.

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Advanced Internal SEO for WordPress – Part 3

November 19th, 2007 • Althaf • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

In this part of the series, I will discuss with you a tool that will cover all the internal day-to-day SEO you need for your blog. This tool, properly utilized will help you gain good rankings in the Search engines. Best of all, it is free and takes 5 minutes to install and activate.

It is called All-in-One-SEO. It is a WordPress Plugin. You can download it here.

Extract the plugin from the zip file. Upload it to the Plugins folders using your FTP program. You can find the Plugins folder inside the wp-content folder. I will cover this part more in a later part in the series.

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