Recently, I’d been searching for the strumming pattern of “knocking on heaven’s door” by Avril. Incredibly, I found this video which is the best video tutorial I’ve ever seen. I think this is the best guitar tutorial for a beginner.

Top 25 essential wordpress plugins or Top 20 wordpress plugins or wordpress plugins have always been a topic of question for many bloggers using the wordpress platform. At this moment there are around 3550 wordpress plugins out of which you wouldn’t possibly use more than 40 at most. But which 40 plugins will you choose amongst these numerous plugins will depend on your blog’s nature and topic. However, there are a few plugins which are needed by almost every pro blogger. I know that such lists have been made by a number of bloggers before too but here I’m sharing a list which is much different from those existing ones. Here, I have taken into consideration a number of factors – importance, generality, usefulness, easy to use, functionality, etc. Besides, maybe this list is the first list of wordpress plugins which will all work with wordpress 2.7. So, if you are using wordpress 2.7, you can install these plugins with ease.

And lastly, I’ve given a very easy way to install these plugins one at a time. No need to download each and every plugin. Just read the instructions given at the bottom of this post and you will be able to install these plugins within 5 minutes.
Now, let’s have a look at the top 25 essential wordpress plugins:

1. Adsense Manager: An Ad Manager which saves the codes of all your ad networks like Adsense, Adbrite, Commission Junction, CrispAds, ShoppingAds, Yahoo! PN, WidgetBucks, Bidvertiser, or any HTML code. It is easy to use and adds an ad selector in your blog’s text editor. The ad codes can be easily called within posts or in template files.
2. Akismet: WordPress’s spam protection plugin. Checks comments to your blog for spams.
3. All in One SEO Pack: Adds options for customizing the title, meta description, meta keywords, etc. of your blog or posts or categories or tags pages for SEO.
4. Feedburner FeedSmith: Redirects all your RSS subscribers and Links to your feed at feedburner thereby increasing your feedburner rss subscribers’ count.
5. Get Recent Comments: Lists recent comments with fully customizable template.
6. Google XML Sitemaps: Creates a dynamically created google compliant Sitemap of your blog. Any new post or page created will be automatically added into the sitemap. Good for SEO.
7. MyAdManager: Ad manager for selling 125×125 adspaces in your blog with paypal payment form.
8. My Page Order: Adds a drag and drop feature for arranging the order of pages in your blog.
9. NextGEN Gallery: A highly advanced Gallery. User can add a number of galleries with images which can be easily viewed through its own slideshow widget and picture viewers.
10. Plugin Central: A very useful plugin which can directly install any plugin provided its name or link to zip file is known.
11. Revision Control: Limit or manage the revisions of your posts.
12. runPHP: Allows the user to add a PHP code within the post and run it dynamically.
13. Simple Tags: A complete solution for tag management with features like mass tag edit, auto tags, tag suggestion from yahoo, etc.
14. Subscribe To Comments: Adds a check option for subscribing to comments in a every post.
15. Top Commentators Widget: Displays the top commentators in your blog.
16. Viper’s Video Quicktags: A very useful plugin for integrating youtube, googlevideo and many other video features to your blog.
17. WordPress.com Stats: Displays your blog statistics from wordpress.com in real time.
18. WordPress Automatic Upgrade: Allows automatic upgrade of your wordpress version.
19. WordPress Database Backup: Back up your database and download the backup or configure it to send regular backups of your blog to your email.
20. WordPress Thread Comment: Adds a feature of replying to comments made by other people.
21. WP-PageNavi: Adds a page navigation to your wordpress blog.
22. WP-Polls: Enables you to add polls to your post with WP-Polls.
23. WP-PostRatings: Adds a star rating feature into your blog.
24. WP Super Cache: Caches the posts and pages into static pages for faster loading.
25. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin: Displays a number of posts related to a particular post/page.

Now, you have the list of the top 25 essential wordpress plugins but would you waste 5 minutes for installing each of these 25 plugins manually? No, you can install these plugins all at once with one easy step. To install the plugins at once, read How to install many plugins at once. After you have installed Plugin Central, copy and paste the following list of plugin names and urls in the specified field in plugin central’s options page and your installation of the above plugins will be completed within a few minutes.

AdSense Manager
Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
cforms
Get Recent Comments
Google XML Sitemaps
MyAdManager
My Page Order
Revision Control
runPHP
Simple Tags
Subscribe To Comments
Top Commentators Widget
Viper’s Video Quicktags
WordPress.com Stats
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
WordPress Database Backup
Wordpress Thread Comment
WP Super Cache
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nextgen-gallery.zip

http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-pagenavi.2.40.zip

http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-polls.2.40.zip

http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-postratings.1.40.zip

There are many wordpress plugins out there which you might be interested in. But installing them all might be a big problem – download and then upload and then activate. Today, I’m here to share a technique which will allow you to install all such wordpress plugins at once. Using the plugin central plugin, you can install many wordpress plugins in one simple step provided you know the plugin name or plugin url. And I’m going to teach you how to do that. But first of all you need to install the plugin – Plugin central and activate it (If you don’t know how to install a wordpress plugin, see how to install a wordpress plugin!). Once you have installed this plugin, you are ready to install the many plugins in a few simple steps:

Steps to Install many wordpress plugins at once using plugin central:

1. Log into your wordpress admin control panel.
2. Goto Plugins->Plugin Central.
   
3. In the Plugin Central Options page, enter all the names or urls of the wordpress plugins you want to install int the field provided and click install.
4. Now, goto plugins page and activate all the plugins by using the bulk update feature.
5. If some plugins can’t be installed enter their download urls and the plugin will be installed.

And that’s it! Any number of plugins can be installed at once by following the above steps. Well, hope that helps. And if there’s any problem you got there, feel free to leave a comment here. Cheers.

Making money online with proxy sites is easier if you have a good keyword(s) for which you can optimize your site. The most important reason you should optimize your site for search engines is because search engine traffic is much better than traffic from other sites. Your ads will be clicked more and you will earn more. But if you are running a proxy script and not a proxy related site (e.g. Proxy list, proxy server list etc.), then I recommend not to go for SEO. Because proxies get blocked with time and one day, yours will be too. That day, you will have to start with a new domain but all the efforts you put in your old domain in SEO will be wasted. Now, if you are running a site which gives information about proxies, then the best thing to do is optimize your site with one or more keywords.

There are many proxy keywords which are searched in hundreds everyday but the problem you will face is that in many of these keywords, high PR websites have topped the list and therefore, it will be hard for you to get a good Search Engine Ranking. So, finally the problem comes down to finding a good keyword(s) for your proxy site. If you choose the proxy keyword wisely, it would be much easier to top in the search engine results page thereby maximizing your revenues.

The search for good keywords is the tough part. Many people are even selling good keywords for high price. This is because searching keywords takes time, skill and many more. But today, I’m going to share some keywords that I searched for my own proxies. Just so you know, I have been searching a lot about proxies and I’m going to use these keywords for optimizing my sites. But the thing is that there are still places and positions in the results that you can occupy – maybe better or worse than mine. Now, let’s see the keywords listed below.

• Proxy sites
• Proxys
• School proxy
• URL Proxy
• Proxy bypass
• Proxy site
• New Proxy
• Free proxy server
• Free proxy list
• Anonymous proxies
• Free web proxy
• Free anonymous proxy
• orkut proxy
• proxy host

* The above list is arranged in DESCENDING ORDER of SEARCH VOLUMES as per details given by Google adwords keyword tool.

** Clicking them will show the Google search page for that keyword.

From the comments from my readers, it seems many people are having problems finding drivers for their Compaq Presario Laptops. Considering this problem, I’ve finally decided to write up a post on drivers for Compaq Presario laptops. Finding the drivers for Compaq laptops is certainly a problem for most of the customers. I myself had faced this problem once but a after a little digging up, I found a way to find the drivers. And here I am – sharing that technique with you.

How to find the driver for your Compaq Presario laptop drivers?

Just follow the following steps to download the drivers for your Compaq Presario laptop:

1. Go to www.hp.com.
2. In the countries list, click the link to your country. (If your country is not in the list, click the link to find United States –English).
3. In the new page, click the link “Software and Driver Downloads”.
4. Enter your MODEL NUMBER (product number) in the box for product name/number. E.g. Compaq CQ45 112au. Click the button with “» »” sign or press ENTER.
5. In the new page with title “Select your operating System”, click the link to your operating system from the list. (If your operating system is not listed, HP does not currently have software or driver downloads available for your product for that operating system, or they are not available in the language you have chosen. To look for a driver in another language, change the software/driver language by clicking the “Change your software/driver language:” link on this page to see what drivers are available for your operating system.)
6. The new page will contain all the drivers for your laptop and the operating system you chose. Click each link and you can download the drivers one by one.

Still can’t find the drivers for your Compaq Presario laptop

If you are still unable to find the drivers for your laptop after following the above steps, you can contact hp customer service or post your model number in the comments box below. I may be able to help you unless your laptop is a “HP doesn’t have support for this product”.

November 2008 has started and along with that namecheap’s old coupon code – FIRSTSNOW won’t be working anymore. You need a new coupon code to buy your domains at reduced prices. Once again, I’m sharing this coupon with you. This coupon will help you buy your domains at a reduced price of $8.41 instead of its original price of $9.29. The coupon code for july is given below:
Coupon code: THREEKINGS
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Hope this helps you guys save your money while buying your domains from namecheap. Cheers .

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