Finish uploading the wordpress.org files to Godaddy MySql database using Filezilla, which is a free FTP client. masteryofleverage.com This is part 1 of this video: www.youtube.com Upload and installing wordpress files is not as difficult as it may first seem. Following this tutorial and you will see how easy it is to build a website for practically zero cost. You’ll learn how to activate your first plugin (akismet) to prevent spam comments being using on your site by spammers and also how you input your API key from WordPress.com. Then in future videos, you will learn how to build and completely set up a WordPress.org website, including keyword research, correct plugings to use and how to install themes and edit (hack them…Ssssh!) to improve the performance of your SEO (search engine optimization) for the site, so you generate visitors, leads and make money.
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Shutter Reloaded
Extensions, or plugins, are used to give your site or blog more functions and extend its usefulness. They also make it more interesting and more convenient for you, the blogger, and may even draw more readers to your blog! This article will list a few basic WordPress plugins that will definitely improve your blogging experience.
Starting off the list is Shutter Reloaded, a plugin that makes your photo-viewing experience a better one. It uses the Lightbox effect, which is a script that enables images to overlay the existing page you’re on. It is very cool and definitely enhances your image-viewing experience. And because it doesn’t use an external JavaScript framework, it’s very light. That’s always a plus!
Another item on the list is the Google Custom Search plugin. The default search capability that comes with the WordPress page is limited to searches within your posts only. This powerful search capabilities can expand your search to the whole of your website and will be able to return more relevant results to your users.
Third on the list is a very interesting plugin called Akismet. What it does is that it blocks automated spam, which is the type that is sent by automated bots. Akismet eliminates spam by scrutinising the method of delivery, instead of the message itself. Installing this plugin will mean virtually no comment spam, as it is commonly delivered by bots. Automated bots, beware!
Another plugin that would up the convenience level of your WordPress is the Query Posts. It compiles a list of pages similar to the one you’re currently viewing, by way of a calculation of a page’s similarity in terms of title, content and tags. There are a lot of options that you can choose from for you to find related posts.
I’m sure your readers would like leave comments on your page, right? Well then you should install Subscribe to Comments. It enables your commenters to choose if they’d like to be notified of recent comments on your page. When this plugin is installed, a checkbox will appear for your commenters to tick whether or not they’d like to be informed via email of new comments.
Last but definitely not least is the WordPress Automatic Online Backup, an automated backup program that’ll save you the hassle of manually backing up all your databases. As you should already know, it’s crucial to have backups, especially for important data. WordPress Automatic Online Backup sends database backups to your free account at its website, but also does it on-demand. It will delete any old backup as soon as it receives a new one. You can also determine which backup version that you do not want to be deleted.
In conclusion, all the plugins listed are basically plug-and-play, so no hassle of long-winded installations; they are also compatible with WordPress 2.7; not to mention LEGAL and licensed under GNU GPL. They’ll make your WordPress experience a million times better!
#003 – 15 FREE WordPress Plugins For Your Niche Site
www.freevideoset.com This is part 3 of Outsourcing Your Niche Site and inside this video I share with you 15 FREE WordPress plugins that will help you increase your traffic to your niche website. For more videos and resources like this visit: www.tyroneshum.com
Anyone can be a publisher an editor a writer
online blogging makes it all possible. There are ample of blogging software in the cyberspace and they all offer the same service, which is a portal for us to express our ideas. Well, in a tough market, one would have to find his way to surpass his competitions. This is where plugins come in! Plugins are usually used to further enhance and extend the functionality of your blog. As one of the leading blog service, WordPress offers more than hundreds plugins, with some really brilliant function and some not-so-useful features. Eventually, it is still up to the blogger to decide which plugins are useful and which are not.
Extra protection is always welcomed. Akismet is one of the popular plugins offered by WordPress, where it filters all the spam comments against the Akismet web service, ensuring that this is no junk in your blog. Very useful and effective against those dreadful bots!
While with Get Recent Comment, you will see a sidebar featuring all your latest or tradeback comments. You will have complete access to the appearance, whether to show the comments by corresponding post or simply by date. The plugin also allows you to filter unwanted pingbacks, ignore unwanted comments and etc. Plus, it works as a widget too.
Then, there is Google sitemaps which allows blogger to complaint XML-Sitemap of their WordPress blog with Google sitemaps. Google sitemaps supports all pages generated by WordPress, including the custom ones. All major search engines that carry sitemap protocol such as Google, YAHOO, MSN Search will be notified of every update you make to your WordPress blog. Doesn’t it sound really high-tech?
Flexible Upload, a WordPress plugin that intend to enhance basic upload functionality. Blogger can resize their pictures to a specify the size and also affix a watermark signature in all the pictures. And then we have WP Super Cache, a plugin that will help in speeding up your WordPress blog efficiently. This plugin works by generating html files, which are served by Apache without having to go through relatively troublesome PHP scripts.
Advertisement on blog is nothing but a common norm. Easy Adsenser intends to provide an effortless method to insert Goggle AdSense code into your WordPress blog. You will have a widget displaying all the ads in your sidebar, along with a Google Search box. Easy Adsenser is most definitely the first plugin that allows you complete control over everything related to Adsense.
twitME, an absolutely convenient plugin that lets blogger automatically post their new posts on twitter website. Besides, WP-GravatarWOrdpress Popular Posts will show the most popular posts in your blog by listing it out on a sidebar. Blogger is free to customize the widget according to his liking.
The lists go on and on. At the end of the day, it is still up to the blogger, whether to enhance their WordPress blog with Goggle Sitemap or WP Super Cache, or perhaps both. We all know how cool it is to have a blog that have more than just words.
Art of Blog – 9. Best WordPress Plugins
In this video I cover some of the best WordPress plugins out there. I cover what they are and what they do. They include: Contact Form 7 Akismet Infinite Scroll Photodropper Popular posts and Similar posts Viper Video Quick Tags Amazon S3 W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache Tweetmeme retweet button Facebook Share Disqus Amazon Affiliate Linker Google XML Sitemap generator All in One SEO pack