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Add Blogger Blog to Google Webmaster Tools

October 1st, 2009

Nobody can deny that Google is the best search engine. As google is used by most users so it is a great way to get new visitors to your blog. Adding your site to google webmaster tools increases your blog’s visibility in search engines which means more traffic. Here’s how you can add your blog [...]

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Backing Up your Blogger Posts and Comments

October 1st, 2009

If You lost your content and there is no way to retrieve it, but what if you had a backup of all the posts and comments? Then you have nothing to worry. Even if you lose any data, you can always retrieve it from the backup.

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6 Tips to get Traffic to your Blog

October 1st, 2009

1. Twitter as a Blog Marketing Tool: In my opinion twitter is a really good platform to showcase your blog posts, mainly because of it’s popularity and also because many other fellow bloggers and potential readers are using it on a large scale to share links and information. This doesn’t mean that you just keep [...]

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How To : Insert Ads Only After the First Post

October 1st, 2009

Have you ever tried to insert advertisements (or any bit of code really) into the WordPress post loop, then found that it will insert the banner after each post?   It really depends on what you are going for, but this usually will not be an ideal solution to placing advertisements between posts on your homepage.   If you’d like [...]

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Adding an Email This Button to Your Blog

October 1st, 2009

Today I wanted to give you the javascript code you need to create an Email This button on your WordPress blog. Before getting to the code, I wanted to first say that this code is designed to allow readers to click on the button and have it open up their default email software and create [...]

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WordPress Hack : Creating a Two-Tiered Navigation Menu

October 1st, 2009

If you’ve been following the recent trends with premium WordPress themes, you’ve probably noticed that the two-tiered navigation menu has become extremely popular. An example of this is the popular Revolution WordPress themes. This style of menu can be used in a variety of ways, but the most common seems to be to display your children pages [...]

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How To: Converting Your Category Pages to Display Post Titles

October 1st, 2009

Many WordPress themes are setup to display their category pages in the same format as your blog’s homepage, making your categories useless to some. This can cause duplicate content problems, as well as making your categories difficult to avoid. If this isn’t the case for you, then your theme is probably instead setup to just [...]

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Create an Ajax-Based Auto-Completing Search Field for your WordPress Theme

October 1st, 2009
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Why not helping your visitors to find what they’re looking for on your blog, by using a cool auto-completion on your search field? To do so, we’ll use WordPress tagcloud, php and ajax. Please note that even if this code is fully functional, this is an experimentation, and the SQL query isn’t really optimized. The [...]

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Change the WordPress Author Archive Permalink

October 1st, 2009

This guest post was written by John of The WordPress Expert, where he writes about WordPress tips, services, themes, plugins, and more. Say you have an author page on your WordPress blog; but what happens when you find that your author archive URL looks like this?

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WordPress Blogroll Code: Separating Your Categories

October 1st, 2009

I had a reader request for some help with their blogroll recently. The WordPress blogroll has gone through many changes over the past year, and a lot of the WordPress themes authors out there didn’t update their themes with the new code used to call the blogroll. The old code still works, but it doesn’t [...]

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