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WordPress Blogs made Easy – In Five Simple Steps

September 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Angela Booth

Although WordPress is rightfully popular as a blogging platform, many bloggers are wary of installing it because it seems complex. It’s not. Discover how you can create your own perfect WordPress blog in five simple steps.

The major benefit of WordPress is that it’s a complete Content Management System. No matter how large your blog grows, WordPress will manage it for you. WordPress also has many plugins which will extend the functionality of your blog.

Another huge benefit of installing WordPress on your own domain is that you have complete control over your blog. Continue reading “WordPress Blogs made Easy – In Five Simple Steps” »

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Free WordPress Blogs – Looking for the Right Host

July 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Joy Sheila -

One of the worst things that can happen to a blogger is to open their page and they get a lot of spam or viruses which would not be appreciated by the followers. It is therefore very important to be able to find a host which could carry the blog site.

If you wish to find the right domain name for your blog site you need to choose a name that will grab the attention of the readers. This should give your site a chance to be known online. So if your site is categorized under ecology, then you should sign up a name which can best describe your site and would you need it the key of the readers an idea on what your site is all about.

Free WordPress Blogs can get your blog visible online. They can even suggest the perfect name which can best describe your site. If you use hosts which do not meet the required standards for WordPress you may find out, too late, that your site is not getting the traffic that you expected to get. WordPress by itself is the heavy on resources but it does have its own unique requirements and you’d need a host which can fulfill the requirements. To find out if you have the right services you should start looking out for links which can direct you to their customers. Try clicking on the link and monitor the downtime. If the downtime is low then it is good for your site but if it is very high try looking for some other services.

Check out the service through the eyes of the customers. Check out the reviews and feedback and find out if the service is effective and functional. Watch out for reviews which do not offer any negative comments. You will know that the service is good and effective if they are not hesitant to post negative comments. This shows everyone that they are confident in their services for their customers.

Once you find a different hosts and services that can cater to WordPress, start comparing the fees against each other. Also compare against each other the features of the services they offer. This should give you clues on how much you’re about to spend and what services to expect. Try to avoid those plans were the features offered are those which you really do not need. Only pay for the package which features you can use for your blog site.

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Cloning WordPress Blogs

July 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Stephen Winship -

WordPress has become the world’s most popular blogging platform in recent years. Software and script developers have been creating and releasing various products for use with WordPress, such as themes and plugins. Recently there have been a few products developed to clone existing WordPress blogs.

What is cloning a blog, and why would you want to do it? To put it simply, cloning equates to duplicating not just the appearance or the contents but the entire functional infrastructure of a blog. In other words, cloning re-creates a complete working blog, and lets you put it in another location on the internet.

When I say the clone is fully functional, I also mean that the database and all plugins – and their current configurations – are duplicated exactly and in working order.

Cloning could come in very handy for ensuring you have a functional copy of your blog in another location, perhaps another web hosting service, in the event of a disaster at its original location. A working copy in form, fit and function of your blog could be used almost instantly by simply changing the DNS info of your domain name to point to the new location.

While it’s true that you can create a backup of your blog at any time using the internal function provided by WordPress, cloning a blog differs in one important respect. A backup has to be re-installed, while a clone is already up and running. This can be a great time saver.

If there is a drawback, it is in updating content on the clone to match the original. However, that should be a simple matter of copy and paste – as you add to the original, you can add to the clone. A backup would be only as current as the last time it was created, anyway.

There is another, perhaps more exciting, aspect to the concept of cloning, though. It lies in the possibility of creating multiple blogs with a single theme and a common set of elements. Think of it as being able to create one template, with your favorite theme and plugins installed and configured. Include other elements, like images and standard pages you want on all your blogs. Do this once, without any posts or topic-specific content, and save it as a clone. You can use that template-clone to install new WordPress blogs anytime you need, ready to fill with content, without re-installing and re-configuring all the common components.

That, it seems, would save hours and prevent a lot of headaches.

Stephen Winship is a blogger and software enthusiast, and has been maintaining the PCValuWare Blog since 2008. He samples and reviews various types of software, and offers tips and suggestions on computers, the internet and software in general, providing helpful information and video demonstrations where possible.

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How to Host High Volume WordPress Blogs

July 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Calvin K -

When we initially set out to make our new website, we seldom have the thought that it will one day become a huge hit which will be popular with millions of people. After spending considerable time on a site though, when you see it start growing and making money, you do harbor thoughts like stated above. One fine day, you will wake up and see that your site has outgrown its current platform and you need to shift it to a bigger and better server. As soon as you start accumulation high traffic, you will need to a server that is capable of hosting a high volume WordPress blogs.

The static content which is hosted on your web server slows down the response time of your site for your visitors. This can be quite irritating for a visitor who is always on the lookout for sites that are blazing fast. In order to succeed with your website, you have to respect the needs of your visitors as they are the ones who make money for you.

You have a few options here. Firstly, you can choose to go with CDN servers (Content Delivery Network) which is immensely fast. A CDN server can handle huge traffic, especially static content without affecting the response time of your site. In fact it speeds up the process by seven times as far as statistics are concerned. The CDN server is basically a bunch of servers at different parts of the world which share the same data. When a person from Austria is searching for your website he/she will access the website from the server that is closest to him/her which makes the whole process extremely fast for the user.

People who can afford it should look to use CDN as it is way better than anything out there at the present time. People who have large sites which are accessed millions of times each day/week/month should look to shift to CDN servers as these cut the response time by seven times. The cost of CDN server depends not on the amount of storage that you require but on the bandwidth that you require for your website. It is quite competitively priced and definitely not out of reach for the sites which needs such a web hosting service.

Alternatively, you can apply for VIP WordPress hosting. It costs a bomb at $2500 for five sites and $500 for each site on top of that. There is also the set up fee of $1500 for each site that you put up. As the name suggests, this service from WordPress is currently aimed at only the most high profile websites and enterprisers. VIP WordPress hosting also makes use of CDN servers which can handle any amount of load that you are willing to put up on the site. There is a lot of security assistance along with maintenance tools that are very well designed. WordPress allows a considerable amount of liberty to the websites which use its VIP services at the present time. A website owner can concentrate more on his content and all the technicalities are taken care of by the WordPress VIP support team.

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Tips For Training On Blogging

April 30, 2008 By Leave a Comment

By Debbie Ducker

You will find when you decide you want to get a blog, training on blogging will be a necessary first step. Successful blogging, business or personal, will only come about by first figuring out a few things before you start.

In this article you will find a few answers to your questions about blogging.

How to get a blog – There are 2 top choices for getting a free blog:

Blogger
Wordpress

You can also download the latest wordpress blog software and install it on your hosted domain name. I personally prefer Continue reading “Tips For Training On Blogging” »

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WordPress Blogs – Seven Things To Avoid While Blogging

April 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment

The Top Seven WordPress Blogging Mistakes

Let’s look at the top seven mistakes new bloggers (and some experienced ones) make when setting up a new blog. I know all about these mistakes, because I’ve made them too.

Mistake One:  Not Hosting Your Own Blog Continue reading “WordPress Blogs – Seven Things To Avoid While Blogging” »

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WordPress Tip: Reorder your Title Tag

April 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment

WordPress, by default, creates <title> tags that look like this: <title>Yoursite » Your Post Title</title>.  Many people want to use <title>Your Post Title » Yoursite</title> instead, to give more importance to the mutable part of the <title>.  There are plugins to do this, but I’d like to show you how a simple change in your theme can accomplish this task. Caveat: this only works in WordPress 2.5 and above.

  1. Open your header.php theme file (if you don’t have one, open index.php or whatever one has your <title> tag)
  2. Look for:
    <title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> &raquo; Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
    (or something similar) 
  3. Replace it with:
    <title><?php wp_title('&raquo;', true, 'right'); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>

The first wp_title() argument is the separator character.  I like &raquo; (which looks like: »).  The second argument is whether to echo (print to the browser) the title, or to return it.  We want to print it, so we put true.  The final argument is where the separator should go… on the left or on the right. We want right, so we put "right". Simple enough!

Update: I got confirmation from Matt Cutts at Google that this is better for SEO.

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