15 Dec 08 WordPress 2.7 new look and great features

I am so impressed with wordpress 2.7, because it changes a lot of things. The design is very nice and easy to browse.

You may be amazed to know that wordpress has changed interface and its functions. The best thing I like about is to be able to update everything easily and one click install for plug-ins. Isn’t that cool?

Now it will take less than 1 minute to install usual plugins that would take about 10 minutes and now no hurdles at all.

All the drop down menu on the right has given users to browse and make changes easier than ever.

This wordpress 2.7 will save you time and efforts to set up and upgrade in the future. That’s the best thing I like about. The version upgrade will be now like plugin upgrade and you do not have to worry about database backup and etc.

Another fantastic thing is Ajax interface for comment management that administrator can now easily manage the comments that are being waited for moderation.

Of course, it will not be enough if I don’t mention easy breezy Admin control panel’s new look that will give you maximum satisfaction of being a wordpress blogger.

So, don’t wait and upgrade your wordpress to 2.7. Thanks for reading

Tags: 2.7, best, functions, nanda linn aung, new version, plugins, SEO, wordpress

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.

Tags: archival, archive, clean, example, index, nanda linn aung, News, plugin, plugins, Website, wordpress

16 Oct 08 Adding Tell-A-Friend WordPress Plugin to Generate Traffic

If you are SEO (Search Engines Optimization) oriented person, you may already know the essence of Tell-A-Friend script. Many tell a friend scripts are available, but for wordpress users, this is the most comprehensive and fantastic one available, I have been using this and so should you. 

Tell-A-Friend script is very effective way of gettings more readers, I am always happy to have many readers on my blog because it will make me energy to write and share with you all more. It is a great feeling as well. I also subscribe to real great material websites as well. As long as you are getting some knowledge instead of emails that are trying to sell products or services. Tell a friend script will help you gain even higher readers for your blog, or visitors for your website. 

I would like to introduce you with Tell A Friend plug-in from wordpress. It is so powerful, you can use many well-known email providers, and it is not spamming because you just don’t suggest to random address, rather, you would email to the persons you know. Moreover, this one has optional social bookmarking sites that will also allow visitors to have complete freedom of what they want to do. Better yet, you can also use at “add to favorites” function. 

Thanks to the author and you can download Tell A Friend script here.

Here are the installation steps (Reference to wordpress extend page).

1. Upload the folder /tell-a-friend/ to your WP plugin folder /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. The path must look like this: /wp-content/plugins/tell-a-friend/
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress admin
4. You are ready, check the ‘share this post’ button after your posts. If you see this icon photo below, it means you have successfully installed the Tell-A-Friend plugin . That’s all and your plug-in is up and running.

Tags: blog, Blog-HowTo, comments, how to, massive traffic, plugins, SEO, setup, traffic

13 Oct 08 Social Bookmarking Sites and Your Website Traffic

Lately, I am very intrigued by the fact that social bookmarking is beginning to hit as a big topic. Granted, it has helped a lot of traffic to numerous websites as well. To be honest, I actually installed social bookmarking plug-ins last month and I was hoping it could generate fair share of traffic to my site. In fact, I come to realise that it is actually bigger than you expected.

(Courtesy of youtube and leelefever), here you can have a basic idea about social bookmarking. And yes, leelefever has several fantastic video clips that you can take a look. It is very educational and fun to watch.

What is Social Bookmarking?

It is basically enabling Internet users to manage, view, store their bookmarks online. There are several social bookmarking websites available and I used some of them. These websites allow you to add your particular page or article, so that it will somehow reach to public easier as there are many people sharing their posts and articles on these social bookmarking sites.

Advantages

• your web page got indexed easier. 
• draw major attention from several sites and finally pointing back to yours
• potentially building the backlinks without tricks
• can also rank a page on how many people have online bookmarked therefore, creating extra credit for your web page/blog
• easy to share among Internet surfers

After I have made a couple of posts, they will definitely be linked to sites such as stumble upon, facebook, digg, live and slashdot. So, here are the lists of social bookmarking sites. If you are using wordpress, don’t forget to install sociable plug-ins, so that you can create more traffic by promoting your own and of course your readers will love to bookmark some of the posts that are useful to them.

Social Bookmarking Sites Index

Please download the socialbookmarking PDF file (source: socialmarker 2008), and you can actually see the each website after you click on their links. But I prefer you have a social plug-ins, so that you can select more over 50 social bookmarking sites and submit your posts and articles easily. Moreover, any fan of yours can easily add your post as their favourite with just one click.

Any comments and suggestions welcome. Thanks for reading

Tags: blog, bookmark, massive traffic, plugins, SEO, social bookmarking, Website

09 Oct 08 Adding Google XML Sitemap to your WordPress

When it comes to search engines, top 3 search engines always come to our mind. Of course, they are Google, Yahoo and MSN Search. So, the Internet search world become very common from these 3 search engines. And it’s very important that your website is indexed to those big 3. Some may argue that ask.com is equally important.

Yes, you could say so.. If you believe google, yahoo, msn and ask.com are your main search engines.. This wordpress plug-in will just solve all your problems all at once. Because thse XML compliant site maps will create, update, modify and send update request to google, yahoo, msn and ask.com as soon as you have composed your article/post. 

All the credit goes to Arne Brachhold, who is a creator of this plug-in.  You can download the XML Sitemaps plug-in here. To quote what Mr. ARne Brachhold’s installation instructions, the list can be seen as below. Most important thing is, when you do the ftp, please make sure you use the program that can do “change mode” functions. Some ftp do not offer “chmod” commands for security reasons. I will use the direct reference from original page, so that your installation will go smoother.

Upload the full directory into your wp-content/plugins directory

Use your favorite FTP program to create two files in your WordPress directory (that’s where the wp-config.php is) named sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz and make them writable via CHMOD 666. More information about CHMOD and how to make files writable is available at the WordPress Codex and on stadtaus.com. Making your whole blog directory writable is NOT recommended anymore due to security reasons.

Activate the plugin at the plugin administration page

Open the plugin configuration page, which is located under Options -> XML-Sitemap and build the sitemap the first time. If you get a permission error, check the file permissions of the newly created files.

The plugin will automatically update your sitemap as soon as you publish a post. So, you have been successfully completed getting index in major search engines.

 

 

Tags: blog, google, massive traffic, msn, ping, plugins, SEO, setup, sitemap, spam, stats, traffic, wordpress, XML, yahoo