Wether you like it or not, facebook is one of the most used and viewed applications on the web and it might be a good idea to promote your blog on Facebook among your friends and people you know who are likely to care about what you have to say to this blogsphere.
Of course you can post manually a link to the new entries you write or you can have it automatically done by using an application called “My Blogs”
All you have to do is add the application to your Facebook Account and then you can start adding your blogs to the application, when u post something new to any of your blogs, the application will write on your wall and it will show in the Feeds a link to your post you just created.
Here is a Sample :
Mireille posted a new blog entry Geeky Animation - When Computers fall in Love : Mic a Mac. - Comment - LikeUnlike - Show Feedback (2)
then your friends can like or un-like your posts and comment in Facebook giving you some type of feedback and making THEIR friends want to visit YOUR blog
The Cool thing also is that when the user clicks on the link, he goes to your blog in the browser , unlike the regular links u post in facebook where the user stays inside facebook but sees you page.
Here is the Link to the Facebook Application : http://apps.facebook.com/allmyblogs/
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After updating my other blog adidap to wordpress 2.7 I have noticed that the Lightbox 2 plugin stopped working on my older posts but was working well on any new post I created.
After a few hours of research I found the answer in the comments of the plugin it self, so the credits of this finding goes to Mymoto I am just documenting it, and applies of version 2.02 of the plugin.
- Open the Lightbox.php file in the plugin editor
- Find function lightbox_wp_head() {
- Now find if ($lightboxoffmeta == “false”) { (should be on line 48)
- Comment out this line
- Add directly beneath it if ($lightboxoffmeta == “false” || $lightboxoffmeta == ”) {
- Save lightbox.php
You’re function should now look like
function lightbox_wp_head() {
global $lightboxpluginpath, $post;
$lightboxcolor1 = get_option("lightbox_color1");
$lightboxlb_opacity = get_option("lightbox_lb_opacity");
$lightboxlb_resize = get_option("lightbox_lb_resize");
$lightboxoff = false;
$lightboxoffmeta = get_post_meta($post->ID,'lightboxoff',false);
// if ($lightboxoffmeta == "false") {
if ($lightboxoffmeta == "false" || $lightboxoffmeta == '') {
What everybody does right after finishing their Wordpress installation upon setting up their blog, beside posting, is to install some plugins to add more functionalities to their blog, and there are actually thousands of them out there that fit everyone’s needs.
In addition, we tend to try plugins that other recommend, no? But, our life gets harder as we have to upload each plugin and update it whenever necessary.
So there’s one plugin out there that will make our life MUCH easier whenever dealing with plugins, and we really mean it! Check it out.
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Content theft is the ugliest thing that you may encounter throughout your blogging experience. You spend few hours researching on a topic you’re witing about, and the very next day you see a copy of your post published somewhere else!
This can easily happen to you if you have enabled full RSS feeds on your blog, RSS scrapers would then have the chance to pull your copyrighted contents and republish it on other sites.
One obvious solution to this problem would be to turn off full feed. But if you are using Wordpress and want to keep your full feeds, check out this nice plugin to stop feed scrapers from stealing your content.
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More and more people are connecting to the internet nowadays using their mobiles, and chances are they might try to browse your blog, but unfortunately it will look “ugly” on phones’ small screens.
One good solution to give access for your readers to your blog wherever they are is to build a mobile version of your website (WAP) which carries the same content as your original website but without the heavy downloads in addition to the fact that the formatting is made to suit small displays.
However, you do not need to create that mobile version from scratch since we will tell you about a couple of tools that can easily do this for you regardless of what type of blog you are using (Wordpress, Blogger, Live Journal, …)
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Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress, and there are tons of them out there to download.
Our favorite source for plugins is actually the official Wordpress Plugins Repository. But to save you some time, we have put together 8 plugins that we found quite useful and essential to every new blogger.
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We know how hard it is to choose a Wordpress theme when starting a new blog, we actually spent over a week to settle down on a theme for Zero Hour Sleep! (We’re picky, we know)
It’s also irritating sometimes to go over so many themes in so many different websites, and we believe no one would mind having one big collection to choose from in a single folder… no?
So here you go, 2400 Wordpress themes for you to download and pick one!
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Today’s trick applies for wordpress blogs, and it will allow you to set a post to appear automatically on a specific future date without manual intervention from you. Although it is pretty easy but I am sure a lot of people are not aware of it.
This is handy whenever you plan to go away from your blog for few days without losing your visitors. You can then write a series of post and set each one to be published on a specific date. Here’s how you can do it.
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We’ve been on entrecard for more than a month now and we’ve been getting some good traffic through them lately. I’m sure you’ve read about other blogs dropping the entrecard widget because they found it useless, like the most famous cow on the internet did, but who cares anyway! Don’t just go with the flow, keep it for as long as it is doing good to your blog.
At the time of writing this post, our price on entrecard is 94ec even though few days ago it wasn’t more than 35ec, knowing that we are listed in the “Computers and Internet” category. Anyway, here are some tips for you to make your way up in your category and maximize your use of entrecard like we did.
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Remember my post about robots.txt? Today I will provide with some tips in order to write a good robots.txt file for your wordpress blog. Now you might be asking why to bother doing it in the first place! Answer is easy, customizing a robots.txt for your blog serves in making it more search engine friendly by eliminating files and folders that are not relevant to neither search engines nor your actual blog content. One more reason to do it is to prevent content duplicates, since search engines can reach your posts from various locations (front page, category folder, feed, etc…).
So how can this be done?
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