Around the blogsphere: 01 Feb 2008

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Blog struggles: How often should I blog

There is a longstanding discussion around the blogsphere as how often a blog should be updated? Every bloggers has different responses to that question.

If you don’t have anything to say, don’t post anything.
The most important variable that would bring you success is the quality of your content, that contains original ideas, clear instructions, breaking news, etc…

You should publish something only when you have something to say. Your loyal readers will subscribe to your RSS feed.

January 30, 2008 | 3 Comments | Read More »

Wordpress plugins: 25 Jan 2008

WPListCal
WPListCal allows you to list upcoming events on your blog in a list or table format. It plugs straight into the Wordpress admin pages to let you keep track of events just like posts and pages.

PrefPass Universal Login and Registration
This plugin lets users register and log in using IDs including Facebook, OpenID, and Yahoo via PrefPass.

WP-Spam-Hitman
WP Spam Hitman is based on set of rules and concept of hitpoint. With right set of rules and hitpoint level you can eliminate most or even all of the spam on you blog. It works in 3 modes - Delete, Moderation, Spam and is quite customizable. It allows to set unlimited set of rules - both - simple words and regular …

January 25, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »

Around the blogsphere: 24 Jan 2008

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Custom error pages using .htaccess

There is a huge list of things that you can do with .htaccess file like protecting folders with a password, redirecting your visitors, custom error messages, banning certain IP address or only allowing users with certain IP address, to stop directory listing, etc… In this article I am going to explain how to create your own custom error pages instead of using your host’s error pages or having no page.

Custom error pages
The 404 error message is an HTTP response indicates that the server couldn’t find what the client requested. You may want to redirect your visitors to error message that you created. This can be done by adding the line below into your .htacess file.

January 24, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »

Blog struggles: Welcome to the blogworld

Its very common to see newbie bloggers who have just entered into blogging world and set unrealistic expectations from the very first day. As a new blogger, you need to put a lot of efforts into the blog to achieve your goals. Do not forget that, there is a long way that you need to move on and your priorities should always be content along the road.

Lets start with a basic principle as having your own domain. I believe that branding and having freedom (no-limitations) is very important. So, you have decided to blog, but you dont have any experience. And you think that it’s not so important to host your blog under a free service. Well, you are wrong. Do not use free blogging services. Blogs hosted under a submain (e.g. Blogger, Wordpress, etc…) are under the mercy of site administrators. There are number of things you are required to comply while keeping your blog under of their service. Failure to comply causes suspensions. To get your own domain gives you more freedom. And you are no longer responsible to any site admisitrator but to your readers and to the hosting company

January 23, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »

Backup guide for bloggers

No matter what you are doing, it is always very important to backup your data. If you have ever lost your work, you probably know how bad it is, to start over again to take same steps.

Same goes for your blog. If you are blogging, you have probably heard the saying “content is king“. So, how do you protect your content against a server crash*? Nothing is more valuable than your content. Thus, it is a good idea to periodically back up your posts. In this article I am going to explain how to back up your blog entries

January 22, 2008 | 11 Comments | Read More »

Protect your Wordpress installation

Matt Cutts, works for the quality group and he leads Webspam team in Google. Cutts got in to search in 1999. He is well-known in SEO community and he is one of the co-inventors listed upon one of the most well-known patent filings from Google, involving search engines and web spam.

As well as being known as head of Google Search team, he also appears a lot in webmaster world with his articles in his blog and interviews. Few days ago he wrote a post

January 21, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »

4 useful applications

It’s that time again folks, the weekend is right ahead and I’m looking forward to have some fun. Regular readers of gabfire have probably noticed that I don’t post much on weekends. But what about you? Do you keep posting or you only prefer to put an eye and check if everything is alright on weekends?

Here in this post you will find 4 applications that might be very useful those are Xenu’s Link Sleuth, Bodocus (a comprehensive lis of online doc movies), eSnailer and SkreemR

January 18, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »

Wordpress plugins: 18 Jan 2008

Random Image widget
Display a random image from a directory located on the web server.

Level2Categories 2
Allows you to create a relationship between User Levels and Categories, so only users with a defined level will be able to post on a chosen category. Its useful if you want to reserve a category only for Editors or Administrators (or whoever you choose) to post on.

jQuery Lightbox
Used to overlay images on the current page.

IP City Cluster
The IP City Cluster Plugin generates a geographical cluster map based on where from people access you website (or to be precise: based on the IP they got from their provider).

kPicasa Gallery PHP4MOD
This plugin displays your Picasa Web Galleries in a post or in …

January 18, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »
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