03 Dec 08 Get your wordpress updated to 2.6.5

Well, wordpress 2.6.5 is available to download now. I have just updated to 2.6.5 today as well.
so, all wordpress lovers, it’s time to download and upgrade here.

Don’t forget to view installation guides or upgrading guides on wordpress.com if required.. 

Thanks for reading.

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03 Dec 08 Content of your blog – 5 basic tips bloggers have to know before blogging

For your audience, content is the most important element for bloggers. For search engines, content is the most important media for bloggers. For information distribution, content is the most important object for bloggers. Bottom line, Content is the king.

There are several mistakes bloggers make. They deliberately spam keywords on their posts for search engines, that is absolutely wrong. Yet they will complain why my site is not indexing well or not good in organic search. It is because many bloggers intentionally insert unnecessary keywords in their posts, often known as keywords spamming. So, the main thing is to give your audience your true opinion and honesty, not to let readers to read the paragraph as search engine spiders and bots. 

Here are a few tips that bloggers should know before they decide to blog.

1. Never write long entry. It bores your audience. Nobody wants to read a novel of your own. Remember blog is started as journal entry. I suggest you to use less than 500 words.
2. Add a human feeling. Write and imagine as you are talking about particular topic with your personal friend. Of course, Sense of humor would help your readers more or less.
3. Avoid addressing your readers as plural. Simply put, you are not giving public speech, you are giving personal one way conversation with your readers, once they comment on your blog, there will be two-way communications.
4. Always read your comments, in order to keep two ways communications, you should read and reply to your comments, nobody writes comment just to get back-links, sometimes, your readers would like to add some more useful information.
5. Do not stop blogging once you start it. Okay, sometimes, you are busy, sometimes you have many other things to do. But at least, once a week, post something on your blog. That will create your visitors to become regular. Nobody wants to come to deserted blog.

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27 Nov 08 Fantastic WordPress Plugin – Clean Archives Reloaded

I would like to introduce an awesome little plugin for your wordpress. In default setting, wordpress does not have archival function, and I sincerely think it is very important that you have archive function on your site, not only it will help you index your posts faster, but also your readers can see the chronological order of your post entries and complete list of your creation. 

There are about 3-4 plugins for wordpress archive process, but I picked this one because It is very easy to install and absolutely effective to view. Thanks for the author viper007Bond for this fabulous script. You can download the plug-in here. According to viper007Bond,

Clean Archives Reloaded generates a list of all of your posts, sorted by month. It’s enhanced with Javascript to allow collapsing and expanding of months.

It’s highly efficient and won’t kill your server with tons of MySQL queries.

I’ll quote directly from the installation page, so that you will have no error to intall this fantastic plugin.

Installing The Plugin

Extract all files from the ZIP file, making sure to keep the file structure intact, and then upload it to /wp-content/plugins/.

This should result in the following file structure:

- wp-content
    - plugins
        - clean-archives-reloaded
            | readme.txt
            | clean-archives-reloaded.php

Then just visit your admin area and activate the plugin.

See Also: “Installing Plugins” article on the WP Codex

plug in install

Here is my example screenshot from my blog. Enjoy your plugin.

Thanks for reading.

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