Articles for 'Tutorials'
How To Display Your Total Number Of Followers
by Jerome
June 22 nd
If you are starting to be a rock star blogger and have 100 and 100′s of followers and subscribers, why not show to the world how many followers you have from your feed subscriber and Twitter followers. Of course you could use Feedburner or TwitterCounter script but why not create your own with just few [...]
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How To Share A Blog Post Without A Plugin
by Jerome
June 7 th
If you don’t want to use any sharing or bookmark plugins to help you share your latest blog post, I have come up with a list of the most popular sharing website links that you can drop at the bottom of your post. The examples are simple text links but of course you can add [...]
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How To Optimise Your WordPress Ping List
by Jerome
May 28 th
I came across a lot of blogs not touching their default list of “ping” URL. Blogger’s need to pay more attention to their Ping list. Ping helps you to inform Ping inform search engine and blog directories when you have updated your blog by sending XML-RPC ping each time you create a post. Of course [...]
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How To Add A Favicon To Your WordPress Blog
by Jerome
May 13 th
“Blog Icons” is one of my favorite plugins created by Joost de Valk. This is a very simple plugin to use. It lets you easily add a favicon to your blog URL. Once you have installed the plugin go under Setting => Blog Icons and upload your favicon throught the plugin options area. Blog Icons [...]
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How To Create Your Own TweetMeme Button
by Jerome
May 8 th
For a few weeks I was using the Tweetmeme button on my blog to put my posts on to Twitter. It worked great and was really easy to implement with just few lines of javascript. But one thing was really bugging me. Everytime someone retweets a message to Twitter, Tweetmeme were adding their own Twitter [...]
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How To Display The Number of Comments On Your Blog
by Jerome
April 29 th
If you have a popular WordPress blog with lots of comments, you should promote how popular it is by displaying the total number of comments you have since you started blogging on your header or sidebar. Thanks for PhpMagicBook for coming up with an easy way of showing the total number of comments. Drop the following [...]
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Best Podcast On WordPress
by Jerome
April 21 st
As you are a WordPress enthusiast like me, I want to share all my favourite podcasts with the WordPress community that I listen to every week on my long commute to work. After much research on iTunes and the web I have found that unfortunately there are not too many quality WordPress podcasts out there. [...]
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Optimizing The WordPress Permalink Structure
by Jerome
April 18 th
By default WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and page ID numbers http://www.pimpmywordpress.com/?p=123. WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URL structure to be more search engine and user friendly by changing the link structure. I personally prefer to use /category/post-name/ to for example http://www.pimpmywordpress.com/wordpress-themes/10-beautiful-dark-colour-wordpress-themes. To apply this setting, go under [...]
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