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2009

Top 10 Firefox Add-on for WordPress

Article Last Updated: 15^th Dec 2009
Posted by Ruhani Rabin in Software, Wordpress on December 15, 2009 | Comments

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WordPress is the most popular blogging tool and Firefox is the most amazing browser. Now what would happen if these two powerful tools work together? It will simplify the job being an active blogger. If you are a web designer who needs to install WordPress blogs daily or a blogger who loves creating new blogs then these Firefox extensions would make your work much easier. It could be simply posting comments or creating new blog posts. Nevertheless this post will introduce with top amazing Firefox extensions that works hand to hand with WordPress. This is a guest post by Raz Barr from Kuwait. (more…)

Lazy Blogger’s guide to Super Charge WordPress with 100+ Plugins

Article Last Updated: 1^st Nov 2009
Posted by Ruhani Rabin in Articles, Resources, Wordpress on October 31, 2009 | Comments

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Ask yourself a question, “Are you a Lazy Blogger?”. Even if you are not, these plugins will bring you to next evolution for your WordPress blog which will change the way you do blogging.

“Why do you need these plugins?”. Because, WordPress is the best and the most expandable blogging platform in the world, the plugin architecture simply gives you the power to add engaging features, improve communication and build a strong relation between you and your blog readers. Savvy? No?

Blogging is about writing great content and if your spend all your sweet time modifying your blog by hard coding then “When will you find the time to write the great content?”. Makes you think? By the time you reach over this post, you might be so proud of yourself that you have actually 23 plugins installed on your WordPress and you begin to think like you are getting professional. Well my friend, I can tell you one thing -

“Quality matters over Quantity”

Today the mission of this post is to guide you to discover the most useful, smart and efficient plugins for WordPress. These plugins will let you concentrate more about writing your content rather than spending time over managing the blog.

Carefully hand picked and incredibly handy WordPress plugins to power up your blog are included in this list. Among some popular WordPress plugins you also will discover new, not so well known or underrated but extremely useful WordPress plugins.

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Ultimate Wordpress SEO Tools and Plugins Resources from WordCampUK

Article Last Updated: 5^th Aug 2009
Posted by Ruhani Rabin in Resources, Wordpress on July 20, 2009 | Comments

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I love Wordpress and today I’m here to present you with an ultimate list of Wordpress SEO Tools and Resources that you’ll ever need to know. This is a must read presentation and transcript for any wordpress fan. It’s written by Nick Garner and presented at wordCampUK. I’m merely sharing the awesomeness of these resources. (more…)

How to add a tweet this button with auto TinyURL or Bit.ly shortening

Article Last Updated: 5^th Dec 2009
Posted by Ruhani Rabin in Wordpress on March 11, 2009 | Comments

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How to add a Tweet This button to your wordpress posts without using any plugin or widget? Well there are few sites allow you to do that. But for instance I want the control to be in my hand and it’s pretty much no point of using a plugin or widget to do this kind of job. Why? because each time a plugin/widget loads, it takes away cpu and ram resources from server. So let me show you a nifty simple way to add a cool Tweet This button to your wordpress posts including automatic creation of TinyURL/Bit.ly url for your post. The automatic TinyURL creation for wordpress post already published at WPRecipes website but it was not implemented in their Tweet This post options. Additionally I’ve added Bit.ly API usage code by my own. Bit.ly dynamic creation of urls offers statistics and usage information (free registered account). Let me show you the implementation of that in a more useful manner. (more…)

How to style the latest post in wordpress

Article Last Updated: 15^th Dec 2009
Posted by Ruhani Rabin in PHP, Wordpress on January 25, 2009 | Comments

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You will often find blogs that shows the latest post in a different color or applied different CSS tags. Basically you need to Inject some code inside wordpress post listing generation loop. The Loop is used by WordPress to display each of your posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each of the posts to be displayed on the current page and formats them according to how they match specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code placed in the Loop will be repeated on each post. So we need to find the latest post and define a specific attribute to that post such as a different CSS class. (more…)

WP-Optimize Database Cleanup and Optimization Plugin for Wordpress

Article Last Updated: 3^rd Nov 2009
Posted by Ruhani Rabin in Wordpress on January 21, 2009 | Comments

I use wordpress solutions in a day to day basis. Wordpress comes with a very extensible framework that allows you to add comprehensive and powerful functionality to your Blog system. WP-Optimize plugin is written to simplify your daily wordpress works and make it simpler. WP-Optimize is a wordpress 2.7++ database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn’t require PhpMyAdmin to optimize your database tables. It allows you to remove post revisions, comments in the spam queue, un-approved comments within few clicks. Additionally you can rename any username to another username too. Here are the details.
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