Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress’
Why use WordPress?
Written by Jai on April 19, 2008 – 11:45 pm - 1,302 views
If you are new to WordPress and looking for reasons to use WordPress as a CMS (content management system) in your new website, let me give you some.
Open Source Software
WordPress is an Open Source software which allows it to be used free of cost. You can use it on any kind of personal or commercial website without have to pay a single dime for it. It is built on PHP/MySQL (which is again Open Source) and licensed under GPL.
User Friendly
You don’t really have to be experienced to use WordPress on your website. Nowadays most of the hosting companies provide the ability to install WordPress on your site at a single click of the mouse. The administration section is easy to navigate and its even easy to add articles/content to your website.
Themes Support
You will never run short of templates when using WordPress. If you don’t like the themes that come with the default installation of WordPress, you can hunt on the Internet and you will find thousands of free themes that you can download and use for your website. There are themes which can even make your website look like a regular site instead of a blog.
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Written by Jai on April 8, 2008 – 5:35 am - 2,920 viewsSay hello to the first WordPress 2.5 compatible Premium theme - Modblogger. I am releasing two variations of the Modblogger theme - Modblogger-News & Modblogger-Tech. I had been working on these babies for the last one week (also the reason I could not post for the last two days) and finally they are out. Guess what! The results have been pretty :). But I will leave it to the blog audience to judge that fact.
The above picture is the splash page to the sub-domain where you can buy both these themes. I have tried to keep it simple for the prospective buyers 
. Keep reading to get a preview of both the variations. Read more »
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Written by Jai on April 5, 2008 – 10:30 am - 914 views
Congratulations to the admin of 2PhatGeeks.com for winning the Free Trueblogger Theme Contest. Please tell me your e-mail address so that I can forward the free copy of the premium WordPress theme to you.
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Written by Jai on April 2, 2008 – 4:32 pm - 1,991 views
A lot of people wanted to know the technique for adding a Drop Down Menu to their WordPress themes. So, here is a quick way to do this. This tweak will let you create menus, sub-menus and sub-sub-menus and it applies to your pages, categories and archives.
Step 1
Download the Suckerfish Dropdown Menu for WordPress. Even if you have installed WordPress 2.5 recently, this plugin works perfectly. Extract the plugin and put the files in your wp-content/plugins folder. Activate the plugin from your wp-admin section.
Step 2
Now, open your existing theme folder which you have applied to your WordPress installation. Most probably, you already have a navigation menu in the theme (most themes have it in the header.php file). So, just replace your existing menu code with this command :-
<?php suckerfish(); ?>
Save and close the file.
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Written by Jai on April 1, 2008 – 6:23 am - 1,270 views
Today, I am going to talk about that part of the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) process, which an ordinary blogger does not know of, or tends to forget while building his blog. Normally, if you are using WordPress as your blogging platform, a bit of SEO is already done for you, thanks to the WordPress development team. But here are some very important key points that you should remember while running your blog. Let us start from the basics and move on to some advanced techniques.
Title Tag
You should never ignore the importance of your <title> tag. The keywords for your blog/website should be included in the title tag and the length of the title tag should fall between 60-90 characters. The search engine spiders always look through your titles while looking for relevant content. In WordPress, the title tag is usually formed by the name of your blog which can be found in Options menu of the wp-admin section.
URL Keywords
Make sure that your keywords are also prominent in your blog links. WordPress saves you from the hard work by providing custom permalink feature, which allows you to choose the suitable link structure as per your requirements.
Keywords in Heading Tags
This is another place where your keywords play a major role. When using WordPress, these tags are commonly used in the post titles (<h2> tags). Remember that your post content should also have those particular keywords that you used in these titles.
Keywords in Image Tags
When using images in your documents or posts, always specify the alt text for the same. Search Engine spiders cannot see the images but they can index their textual descriptions specified in the <alt> tags. This process is also used for validation purposes.
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Written by Jai on March 27, 2008 – 3:34 pm - 1,273 viewsTired of looking for content to post in your blog?
Recently, I came across an article at Techcrunch.com about a Firefox plugin called Zemanta which can ease your life by suggesting relevant links and related content to your post. This plugin integrates with your WordPress, Blogger or TypePad installations and helps you by providing links as and when you are creating a new post.
Let’s take a look at how it works.
When you start writing a new entry in your blog, it surfs the Internet for news based on your keywords and after every 300 characters, provides you with a list of related news links. You can then enter those links in your post by the simple click of a mouse button (you can see them at the bottom of this post too) or you can visit the particular website where that news has been published. Moreover, the extension also automates the process of adding tags to your posts.
Zemanta also has the ability to pull images from different sources based on your post keywords and lets you include them in your post in the same way like the news links. I am sure that this feature will save a lot of time for bloggers who have to hunt the Internet for relevant images to publish in their posts.
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Written by Jai on March 12, 2008 – 2:51 pm - 5,312 views
All right guys and gals! Once again it’s the lucky draw time on Blog Oh! Blog . Today, I am offering a free copy of one of the premium themes available here called - Money Blogger. Basically, the lucky winner is going to get the Premium WordPress theme absolutely free of cost which is worth $49.99.
In order to be one of the lucky contestants, all you have to do is blog about this entry on your blog(s), and that will entitle you to win this very customizable WordPress theme. The contest will run until March 25, 2008 and I will declare the winner on that date.
On a sidenote, a little birdie just told me that Wpdesigner.com is up for sale here. If you got $65K, buy it here! It’s a shame to see competition dying out like this, but anyway, if you gotta go, you gotta go my friend!
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Written by Jai on January 21, 2008 – 5:20 pm - 1,487 viewsContest Closed. Winner : Daniel
Are you a true WordPress fan? Can’t wait to show the world about your online infatuations? Apart from your god-like blogging skills, here is your chance to win a classic unisex drawstring sport hoody made by American Apparel, screen printed with a shiny WordPress logo. The hoody costs £16.00 GBP and it is being sold at the WordPress official shop right here. How are you going to get this hoody? Well, I am going to buy it for you and have it delivered at your doorstep See..I am so nice.
To win this contest, all you have to do is blog about this entry and write about it in a comment on this post. The most creative entry will win this hoody so this is not a lucky draw :). If you are creative enough, you can get to wear the WordPress logo this winter and of course, beat the cold too! The last date to participate in the contest is February 5, 2008.
Check out some pictures of the Hoody in action.
So, what are you waiting for? Get blogging, bub!
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Written by Jai on January 16, 2008 – 8:53 pm - 1,670 views 
I have been busy designing the new theme for this website and the result is in front of you. Blogohblog [dot] com has got a brand new theme for itself (I call it bob on fire!). Hurray!
I have made the layout of the website more organized with more compatibility for IE 6.0 and for people working on the 1024×768 resolution. Also, you will see the last five WordPress themes on the top in a slideshow (jQuery). The plugoo chat was inevitable, so had to create space for that too on the left side. The logo has changed a bit, and yes, I think it looks much better now. I have put also pagination on the bottom for easy reading of the posts. And finally, added a little fire to make things hot!
I will be tweaking some more stuff while you browse the website so just bear with me. And yeah, let me know what you think of this new template!
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