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First post from my Android

Waikhom — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:21:56 +0000

So, I was playing around with my new HTC desire HD. And I found this cool android app with which you can virtually do anything with your WordPress blog. It’s called WordPress and its from Automattic inc. With this app, you can view and moderate comments, posts, pages and even view your wp stats.

Well, this is my first post from my android phone using this cool app. And even though you cannot manage your whole blog with this, there’s almost everything that you need everyday. Well, I think you should also try it out and share what you think about it.

Top 25 Essential WordPress Plugins for wordpress 2.7

Waikhom — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:55:35 +0000

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:

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.
Akismet: WordPress’s spam protection plugin. Checks comments to your blog for spams.
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.
Feedburner FeedSmith: Redirects all your RSS subscribers and Links to your feed at feedburner thereby increasing your feedburner rss subscribers’ count.
Get Recent Comments: Lists recent comments with fully customizable template.
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.
MyAdManager: Ad manager for selling 125×125 adspaces in your blog with paypal payment form.
My Page Order: Adds a drag and drop feature for arranging the order of pages in your blog.
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.
Plugin Central: A very useful plugin which can directly install any plugin provided its name or link to zip file is known.
Revision Control: Limit or manage the revisions of your posts.
runPHP: Allows the user to add a PHP code within the post and run it dynamically.
Simple Tags: A complete solution for tag management with features like mass tag edit, auto tags, tag suggestion from yahoo, etc.
Subscribe To Comments: Adds a check option for subscribing to comments in a every post.
Top Commentators Widget: Displays the top commentators in your blog.
Viper’s Video Quicktags: A very useful plugin for integrating youtube, googlevideo and many other video features to your blog.
WordPress.com Stats: Displays your blog statistics from wordpress.com in real time.
WordPress Automatic Upgrade: Allows automatic upgrade of your wordpress version.
WordPress Database Backup: Back up your database and download the backup or configure it to send regular backups of your blog to your email.
WordPress Thread Comment: Adds a feature of replying to comments made by other people.
WP-PageNavi: Adds a page navigation to your wordpress blog.
WP-Polls: Enables you to add polls to your post with WP-Polls.
WP-PostRatings: Adds a star rating feature into your blog.
WP Super Cache: Caches the posts and pages into static pages for faster loading.
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

How to Install many wordpress plugins at once using plugin central!

Waikhom — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:04:56 +0000

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:

Log into your wordpress admin control panel.
Goto Plugins->Plugin Central.
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.
Now, goto plugins page and activate all the plugins by using the bulk update feature.
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.

MyAdmanager – Free Ad Manager WordPress plugin

Waikhom — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:47:50 +0000

Making money online with blogging is much easier if you have an ad manager through which advertisers can directly buy ads from your blog. This feature was added by many bloggers by customizing wordpress but it costs a lot of money if you pay a programmer to customize your blog. So, Michael finally made the free wordpress plugin for managing ads in your wordpress blog. Although the plugin is only for 125×125 sized ads, it works quite well and is user friendly. You can customize a lot of features of this plugin and this makes this plugin a great and important plugin for wordpress. I recommend this plugin to every pro-blogger for it is the best solution to managing ads for free.

Features of MyAdmanager wordpress plugin

Variable number of 125×125 sized image ads both in rows and columns.
Customizable padding between ads.
Monthly and weekly options for selling ads.
PayPal payment form with IPN and instant activation.
Transaction Log table displaying recent transactions.
Home and outside ad feature with which you can add your own ads which will be replaced if an advertiser buys a new Ad.

Below is a snapshot of the Options page of Myadmanager wordpress plugin.

MyAdmanager Configuration Page

Download MyAdmanager wordpress plugin

You can read more details about this plugin or download this plugin at its plugin page.

WP Super Cache wordpress plugin

Waikhom — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:54:56 +0000

Another important plugin for your wordpress blog is wp super cache wordpress plugin which is a caching plugin for wordpress. This plugin caches the pages and posts of your wordpress blog including categories, tags and search pages and speeds up your blog’s access times. Without this plugin, the wordpress blog is somewhat slow and consumes CPU resources. But with WP super cache, lots of CPU resources will be saved and will make the blog faster.

This plugin is a very important plugin and I would recommend every owner of a wordpress blog to use this plugin. This can help you and your visitors in many ways. You save your server resources and your visitors will take less time to open your blog.
The options available with this plugin are very useful and easy to use. Some of the features of this plugin are:

Features of WP super cache plugin

Very fast caching of home, post, page, categories, tags…
A link for deleting cache at the left top corner after the “dashboard” link.
Option to clear all cache files when a post or page is published.
Super Cache Compression
Exclude urls from caching in a general mode (with exceptions)
Disable cache for User agents like bots, spiders, crawls etc.
Lock down – When this is enabled, new comments on a post will not refresh the cached static files.
Directly cached files.

Configuration page of wp_super_cache wordpress plugin

Download WP super cache plugin

For downloading WP super cache plugin or to view details, visit WP super cache plugin documentation.

All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin

Waikhom — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:20:41 +0000

Being an experienced webmaster for more than 2 years, I have learned a lot about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and I use it in each and every site I have. However, it is quite difficult to implement the SEO optimizations in a wordpress blog. In fact, wordpress doesn’t allow you to have a unique Meta description or a Meta keyword tags for each posts. This is quite a big problem for those who want to optimize their wordpress blogs. Also, even though you can put these Meta tags in the homepage, it should be done with the theme editor which needs a little bit knowledge of PHP and HTML. And therefore, this might be problem for bloggers who don’t know coding.

But with the All In One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin which I found recently, all the SEO stuffs are a lot easy and handy. You can insert description and keyword Meta tags for each post and easily add Meta in the home page too. Thanks to Michael Torbert for creating this plugin. Now, I would like to give a few features of this Plugin.

FEATURES OF ALL IN ONE SEO PACK WORDPRESS PLUGIN

Easily change the title, Meta description, Meta keyword tags of the blog’s homepage.
Change post title format, page title format, category title format, Archive Title Format, Tag Title Format, Search Title Format, Description Format, etc.
Insert additional headers to your blog’s home, post and page templates.
Option to enable no index for categories, archives etc.
Insert unique title, Meta description, Meta keyword tags to each post/page while publishing the post.

Well it really helps me optimize my blog and I recommend it to all bloggers who want to optimize their site for search engines. Here’s a snapshot of the plugin’s configuration page:

Snapshot of All in one SEO Pack WordPress Plugin

Download All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin

Click here to download All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin.

Best Related Posts WordPress Plugin

Waikhom — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:57:47 +0000

There are quite a number of related posts wordpress plugins available in wordpress.org. It’s great to have a number of plugins or options for a job we want to accomplice but when it comes to choosing the best, having a numerous makes it hard to find the best. So, I tried a the plugins available in wordpress.org including Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP), Similar Posts, WordPress Related Posts and finally come to conclusion that YARPP is the One based on how easy it is to install and the options available. So, go ahead and start using YARRP and that’s my choice.

YARPP or Yet Another Related Posts Plugin is a wordpress plugin which lists those posts related to a particular post. Developed by Mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine), the plugin has a number of options for customizing your related posts. You can change the template, number of posts, how the matching is done and many other options are there. Just to make it easier, here’s a snapshot of the plugin customization page.

YARPP - A Related Posts WordPress Plugin

Get YARRP related posts wordpress plugin

Read the documentation or download the latest plugin at YARPP plugin page.

Google Sitemap Generator – WordPress sitemap plugin

Waikhom — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:51:47 +0000

With the coming of Google webmaster tools, having a dynamic sitemap in the Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap has become one of the most important steps of Search Engine Optimization. But creating sitemaps manually for dynamic websites blogs can be very much uncomfortable. For the purpose, the Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for wordpress has been released. This plugin creates a sitemap.xml file in the web server and updates this file whenever a new page or post is created or whenever there is any changes in the blog. Also, every time you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

In other words, with this new plugin, the blogger no longer needs to update his sitemap as everything is done by its own. All the blogger has to do is install this plugin in the wordpress blog.

Where to Get the Latest Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for wordpress

You can read the documentation of Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for wordpress here.

Download Google Sitemap Generator v3.1.0.1

Akismet – WordPress’ spam filter plugin

Waikhom — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:49:29 +0000

Akismet is a free wordpress plugin which checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. This plugin is a free plugin and it comes with the wordpress package but you need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.”

How to activate Akismet plugin?

You need WordPress.com API Key to activate the free Akismet Plugin. You can get the WordPress API key by registering in wordpress.com. Once registered, log in and go to your global dashboard and then go to “profile”. There, you will be able to see the API key. It is a lettered word consisting of only numbers and alphabets. Now, In your wordpress blog’s admin panel, go to plugins and activate “Akismet”. It will then ask you to enter the Akismet key and you can enter the key you got above and it’s activated.

Akismet Is a very important plugin because of the increasing number of spammers. Without it, it is almost impossible to check all the comments you receive as a large number of them will be spams. You can also change the settings of Akismet under the Plugins tab > Akismet Configuration. You can set the Akismet to automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month by checking the check box.

In other words, Akismet is the most important and the first plugin that you need to install once you create your wordpress blog.

Get Latest Akismet Plugin

Click here to get information on the the latest Akismet Plugin or Download here.

Free Google Sitemap generator for wordpress blogs

Waikhom — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:10:32 +0000

Until recently, I had been using the free sitemap generator of xml-sitemaps.com. The sitemap generator works fine and is useful for getting your page indexed by Google. Specially for putting the sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools, the sitemap generated by this tool is great. However, the main problem with this tool is that it can’t create a sitemap with more than 500 pages if you are using the free version. You can definitely create a sitemap with infinite number of pages using the pro version but hey, who gets a paid one these days? Everyone’s looking for a free one.
But now with the new Free Google sitemap generator plugin for wordpress, your blog doesn’t need to buy a pro version. All you have to do is download and install the free plugin which is available here. With this new plugin, you will be able to dynamically generate xml sitemaps which are compatible with google and therefore can be much more useful and easy to use. With this new plugin, you don’t need to recreate the sitemap again and again. So, cheers to Arne Brachold who created this plugin. By the way, feel free donating him a few bugs if you really like this plugin.