25 Sep 08 Sociable plug-in for wordpress
Bookmarking sites are extremely popular nowadays. Yes, they sure are. Every blogger talks about social bookmarking sites. So, why shouldn’t you?
Many surfers/blog readers have several bookmarking sites login such as de.li.cio.us, digg.com, blinklist.com, etc etc. The list goes on and on.
So, when someone likes your site and wants to bookmark yours, it’s very important that you have the necessary tools for readers to facilitate to enable them to bookmark your particular article. My guess is, if you are truly writing an original article for yourself, Like me, I don’t see any reason why your article would not be bookmarked.
For wordpress, the plug-in name “sociable” is fantastic to assist you with very easy installation steps.
The plug-in is a courtesy of wordpress and Joost de Valk.
You can download the “sociable wordpress plug-in here“. The installation is pretty easy. So, I will just quote from the original installation instruction because I think it is explained best.
Download, Upgrading, Installation:
Upgrade
- First deactivate Sociable
- Remove the
sociabledirectoryInstall
- Unzip the
sociable.zipfile.- Upload the the
sociablefolder (not just the files in it!) to yourwp-contents/pluginsfolder. If you’re using FTP, use ‘binary’ mode.Activate
- In your WordPress administration, go to the Plugins page
- Activate the Sociable plugin and a subpage for Sociable will appear in your Options menu.
Tags: bookmark, free stuff, plugins, traffic, wordpress
23 Sep 08 Keep track of your wordpress comments
Communication is a key to success
I would repeat this over and over again, because it is forever true. When you have a blog, you are most likely to have visitors, in order to gain visitors, i will later publish more information about website submission and promotion.
Back to the topic, communications with your readers/visitors are always important. You create a blog, you are responsible for creating a sense of community, therefore, it is critical to get to know your readers.
This is a courtesy of wordpress and Mark Jaquith
Subscribe to Comments is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address!
You can download “subscribe to comments” here.
The installation procedure is
- Put subscribe-to-comments.php into [wordpress_dir]/wp-content/plugins/
- Go into the WordPress admin interface and activate the plugin
- Optional: if your WordPress theme doesn’t have the comment_form hook, or if you would like to manually determine where in your comments form the subscribe checkbox appears, enter this where you would like it:
<?php show_subscription_checkbox(); ?> - Optional: If you would like to enable users to subscribe to comments without having to first leave a comment, place this somewhere in your template, but make sure it is outside the comments form. A good place would be right after the ending
</form>tag for the comments form:<?php show_manual_subscription_form(); ?>
- Log out of WordPress
- Leave a comment on an entry and check the comment subscription box, using an e-mail that is NOT the WP admin e-mail address or the e-mail address of the author of the post.
- Leave a second comment using a different e-mail address than the one you used in step 2 (it can be a bogus address).
- This should trigger a notification to the first address you used.
I’d like the subscription checkbox to be checked by default. Can I do that?
Not anymore. But the checkbox status will be remembered on a per-user basis.
My subscription checkbox shows up in a strange place. How do I fix it?
Try unchecking the CSS “clear” option. Beyond that, you’re on your own with CSS positioning.
Any comments and suggestions welcome.
Thank you for reading.
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Tags: blog, comments tracking, how to, plugins, subscriptions, wordpress
22 Sep 08 Adding Akismet plug-in in wordpress
What is Akismet?
It is a plug-in for wordpress for controlling spammers on comments. Without Akismet, you might have problem managing your valuable posts. Because 87% of wordpress comments are known to be spams and you would not want any of spams on your wordpress blog.
Where I can get it?
It is actually built-in your wordpress 2.0.xx or later. You just login as an admin, go to plugins, activate the Akismet.. As I have stated how to add google analytics in your wordpress post, you should have wordpress account created when you decided to start making money on blogging. 
Once you have your account created on www.wordpress.com, you have to activate via email to validate, as soon as you are validated, you will receive an email including the API key that is required for Akismet plug-in. Alternatively, you can login to wordpress.com and go to your profile and view the API key.
Under plug-in configuration of Akismet, all you have to do is enter API key and you are good to go. It is that easy.
What else besides wordpress?
Don’t feel disappointed that I am only talking about wordpress, you may also use Akismet in many other applications. So, if you have any other applications mentioned below, you may also want to integrate and administer Akismet.
- Drupal Module
- phpBB Mod
- Blojsom blogging software
- Bloxsom blogging software (code link)
- Geeklog module
- Serendiptity spam protection includes Akismet
- Nucleus Plugin
- b2evolution Plugin
- Spam Karma + Akismet (WordPress plugin)
- PunBB (forum software) mod
- Expression Engine
- Coppermine (photo gallery) mod
- Akismet for MT by Stepan Riha
- Lifetype blogging software
- Simple Machine Forums
- Phorum
- tDiary (Japanese)
- MyBulletinBoard
- PostNuke
- Joomla by Walter Cedric
Tags: akismet, comments, how to, plugins, protection, spams
22 Sep 08 Adding google analytics to your wordpress
Good day again..
Adding google analytics to your wordpress
Today, I will talk about setting up the wordpress on your website, it is mostly very easy to most of the webhosting, or if you are using wordpress.com blog or blogger.com blog.
From my experience, it is easy to edit blogger.com blog account to set up google analytics and i will not go into details (you can edit the html and insert the google analytics codes and you are done). However, my main focus is to earn money by using wordpress. I am actually using blogger.com to mirror all my postings there as a backup as well… So, I will sometimes include the use of blogger as well.
What is wordpress?
The website you are looking at now, http://infomm.com is created with entirely wordpress materials. It is important to register as a user at www.wordpress.com to get an account active. More information related to having an account at wordpress will be revealed later.
Most hosting services (PHP hosting) will have wordpress auto-installer, commonly known as Fantastico installer, with Fantastico installer, you can install wordpress blog in a couple of minutes.
Otherwise, if you would like to install manually, you will have to visit www.wordpress.com and download the zip or tar ball file, manually install on your server.
What is google analytics?
Google analytics are tools that you can basically find out what’s going on with your website, it is a free service and fantastic stats you can learn for your website. I will quote a bit from google.com’s explanation.
“Google Analytics shows you how people found your site, how they explored it, and how you can enhance their visitor experience. Improve your website return on investment, increase conversions, and make more money on the web.
With over 80 reports, your free Google Analytics account will track visitors through your site, and will keep track of the performance of your marketing campaigns“
In order to sign up an account, you just create/need one with your Gmail address, Google Analytics and you are ready for one.
How much does Google Analytics cost?
It costs absolutely FREE, Yes, It is free, But this FREE service offers a great source of web-stats you will ever experience to gather information about your website. Moreover, if you are generating money from AdSense or promoting your website as AdWords, you will also need to know how it works. Formally, as of today, AdWords advertising campaign has built-in Google Analytics.
Now, you got google analytics ready. It’s time to add wordpress plug-in into your wordpress.
Acquiring Google Analytics plug-in for WordPress
First download the file and read the instruction here.
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
- Delete any existing
gappfolder from the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Upload
gappfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Go to the options panel under the ‘Plugins’ menu and add your Analytics account number and set the settings you want.
Tags: free account, Google Analytics, plugins, setup, stats, wordpress
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