The Power of WordPress Themes Starting and maintaining a blog is not easy. One must think of ways to expose his blog in order to gain more audience and fan following. Aside from that, blogs usually contain articles, but articles are not enough to attract visitors. One must be able to have an interactive blog that keeps the visitor stay and read the blog. A blog that has lot of contents and eye catching designs are also one of the ways to keep the audience entertained and recommend the blog to other people. In order to do this, one must have such software that will manage his or her blog without delving into too much technicalities. A blog with a WordPress theme is very advantageous when it comes to its creation and management. WordPress is an open source CMS, content management system. What does this mean? This means that one, WordPress is free and will always be free. Second, a community of programmers, web developers, and enthusiast protects WordPress from any potential hacks and security lapses. Third, these people regularly try to develop WordPress and its plug-ins in order to improve its functions and features. A CMS is a content management system solely developed for websites, blogs and web pages so that they won’t have to hard code every aspect of their website. Why use a CMS? Better yet, why use WordPress among the other CMS? Here are some reasons:• It is free, has open -source licensing, has lots of WordPress themes available for download• It has lots of available plug-ins, widgets, and applications that can go with one’s web design• It is easy to use, outputs great end product, and gives you freedom in one’s design• Powered by PHP and MySql, WordPress has the ability to create and manage a website while at the same time, it has the ability to support and integrate a database to the website.• WordPress won the best open source CMS award on 2009 because of its excellence in the field of CMS and web development. Now, these are the reason why WordPress have an edge over other CMS. WordPress themes are available for download and it can be used in one’s web site, blog, or web page. This way, you will no longer worry about its core designs; WordPress themes would do it for the user. Of course, one would have the option to change or edit the WordPress them if it would not satisfy his tastes. By using WordPress one can hasten the design process while at the same time the quality of the site won’t be compromised. Web development takes a lot of time, WordPress however is a development tool made for blogs and websites that does not need too much abstraction but at the same time it has the elements of art and beauty. By using a CMS to manage one’s blog, it gives the user simple clicks here and there to update or change his blog without going into too much trouble. WordPress is here to make designing, creating, and maintaining a site easy. The Power of WordPress Themes
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How to Become a WordPress Expert Overnight
By Randy R on February 12, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes
How to Become a WordPress Expert Overnight!
Blogging is here to stay and one of the best platforms on the Internet for blogging is off course WordPress. Blogger, another blogging platform offered by Google, is also popular but it lacks the flexibility needed to create professional-looking interactive websites. WordPress has taken the blogging world by storm and millions of blogs are now powered by it. Its success stems from its vibrant online community and support not to mention the hundreds of plugins that exist for the sole purpose of extending its use. It is now possible to create virtuially any kind of website, whether blog, or static website or e-commerce website or even a newspaper or online magazine. Many people are struggling to learn WordPress. Many are making progress but only a few know how to utilize the full potential of this powerful and awesome blogging platform.
Who needs WordPress?
Personal bloggersMore people now have personal blogs. They may not have any specialty topic or niche, but have a passion for writing and sharing ideas. Others simply love the attention that comes with being able to put out personalized content on the Internet. Even more use WordPress for photo galleries especially to showcase baby pictures.
Online marketers and entrepreneursOnline marketers and entrepreneurs use WordPress heavily. This is because search engines love blogs and they want their blogs to be indexed quickly so they can sell their products. People with regular websites have also discovered that they need blogs to attract traffic and to appear interactive to their target audience.
WebmastersWeb designers and programmers need WordPress first and foremost to showcase their skills. We have mentioned that blogs attract better traffic than regular sites due to their interactive nature.
Become an overnight WordPress proIf you are a personal blogger, an online entrepreneur or a webmaster, you have everything to gain by learning the insider secrets of WordPress. For webmasters, learning WordPress by means of video tutorials is extremely profitable because it lessens the learning curve of having to go to web design school. Webmasters can also extend their skills tremendously.
Online marketers and entrepreneurs also need WordPress video tutorials because they need to be able to put out niche websites quickly and cheaply. Online marketers can save on the costs of hiring a webmaster to create and troubleshoot their niche blogs. With the help of video tutorials showing step-by-step how to master WordPress and become a professional almost overnight, anyone can be on the road creating extremely professional-looking blogs and websites even with zero xhtml/css or php/mysql knowledge.
Are you looking for high-definition WordPress video tutorial guides?
5 Reasons To Use WordPress As Your Blog System
By Randy R on July 29, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes
5 Reasons To Use WordPress As Your Blog System
I have tried many blogging system to hold my blog. Starting from free blog systems like blogger.comto open source blog programs.
It is not until I found WordPress and settle down with it. There are 5 reasons for you to choose WordPress as your blogging system, in the order of their importance.
1. Search Engine Optimization Built-in Feature
WordPress is programmed with Search Engine Optimization(SEO) feature. What I am talking about is the function of converting your blog article to URLs pointing to your blog article.
For example, if you blog has address of [http://www.YourBlog.com], you can have URLs like this, pointingto your articles:
[http://www.yourblog.com/your-article-title-here]
So, if your article title is “”Wordpress Private Tutorials”” then you can have this URL:
[http://www.yourblog.com/wordpress-private-tutorials]
Just imagine when search engine listed those URLs to their system. When people search something about ‘WordPress Tutorials’ or merely about ‘WordPress’, there are big possibilities they end up clicking your URL above. Thus, you will get traffic to your blog.
This SEO feature can be activated with only a few simple steps. Most people who use WordPress don’t activate this feature after installing their WordPress blog.
2. Ease Of Use
I’m sure you don’t want to get headache when using your blogging system, and concentrate on the writing part. That’s why WordPress is the right system to use, since the control panel’s user interface is beautifully built. Even if you are new to internet and blogging world, WordPress user interface can be used by you intuitively.
3. Rich Arsenal Of Plug-ins
WordPress ethusiast programmers are plenty. They are making good and great plug-ins you can use with your WordPress. There are so many of them that there are more than one plug-ins available to serve a single purpose.
Searching and trying which plug-in works for you can be a risky, tedious and time-consuming task. Here’s a tip: ask person whose blog you read and in his/her blog you find an interesting function at his/her WordPress blog.
4. Rich Arsenal Of Theme
Besides programmers, there are also many WordPress enthusiast web designers. They created plenty WordPress theme you can use for free. There are downsides if you use these free themes:
– You cannot modify them as you like
– You probably cannot find a theme that suits your need
– You look unprofessional since you are using a free theme.
Thing these risks when you are considering a free theme.
5. Familiar To Readers
Last but not the least, like they say, WordPress look is very familiar to blog readers. It is since the are many people are using WordPress as their blog system. Naturally, many readers became familiar with WordPress look. So, if you use WordPress, your readers can easily walk around your blog.
This is a great advantage that can keep your reader’s visit duration. ‘Visit Duration Rate’ is very important to determine how successful your blog is.
As a conclusion, despite a few disadvantages mentioned above, WordPress still your best choice of blog system. WordPress definitely will stay at the internet for a long time, and it is time for you to join the community if you have not yet.
How To Get A WordPress API Key For The Akismet WordPress Plugin
By Randy R on July 13, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes
How To Get A WordPress API Key For The Akismet WordPress Plugin
With the growing popularity of blogs and the ease to obtain links through comments on blogs, it didn’t take long for programmers to come up with automated tools to blast link packed spam comments to unsuspecting blogs.
Some just turn comments off for their blog but to me that eliminates one of the great features of making your blog interactive for your visitors. Comments can open discussion between the reader and the blogger. Your blog’s visitors can even subscribe to a post’s comments, getting notified of any new comments, keeping your readers coming back.
The WordPress plugin, Akismet checks comments posted on your blog posts against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
To activate Akismet from your WordPress blog dashboard, click Plugins, scroll down and click Activate next to the WordPress Akismet plugin. After you do that you will see a box near the top of the dashboard that reads:
Akismet is not active. You must enter your WordPress.com API key for it to work.
Click the link in the message, and then the Akismet Configuration panel will open. You should then see this in the middle of the screen:
Please enter an API key. (Get your key.)
On the top of that page click the Sign Up tab, fill in your information and if you have a self-hosted blog choose the Just a username, please option.
Be sure to use a good email address in here to get your login information and WordPress API key, click the box to agree to legal junk and click next.
Check your email and click the confirmation link from WordPress to activate your account. You should then see a page that reads, “”Your account is now active!”” Click the login link within the text of that page and login.
You should now be at the WordPress.com site, if so click the dropdown box on the very top right of the page and choose “”Edit Profile””, now you are in the Global Dashboard.
Within the WordPress Global Dashboard you can now see your WordPress API key on the right side of the page. Oh, and by now you should have also got the API key in an email from WordPress also! But you should still edit your profile while you are in the Global Dashboard.
Now its time to place the API key in the Akismet WordPress plugin; go back into your WordPress blog dashboard, click the link on the Akismet WordPress plugin warning box near the top of the dashboard. Paste the WordPress API key in the box and click update options.
If the warning box is not visible check to see if Akismet is activated, click Plugins and look for the status of the plugin on the right. You will notice that all activated plugins are highlighted green. When Akismet is activated you can configure it by clicking Plugins, and look for the Akismet subpanel (white text in the dark blue bar) directly below and to the right of then main panel menu.
Keeping comment spam out while allowing your blog visitors to comment, will not only keep your blog clean but more interactive and help generate more traffic.