Link To Full Story: www.catswhocode.com
Thematic
Being a WordPress fan, I really love the concept of Theme frameworks. For those who doesn’t know what it is, Theme frameworks are WordPress themes which contain lots of functions and styles. You can extend both in looks and functionality by adding a child theme.
For example, my other blog Cats Who Blog is using the Thesis theme framework that I extended using my own styles and functions.
Many commercial frameworks are availables, but Thematic is 100% free. A definitive must download if you’re into WordPress!
» Visit Thematic
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Link To Full Story: www.onextrapixel.com
Why Write Guest Articles?
Why would anyone want to write a guest article? Good question! Depending on who you talk to, there are many different reasons as to why you may want to consider writing a guest article. Perhaps it is for the publicity, or maybe it is for the good of the community and to lend a helping hand. Either way, there is no right or wrong answer. Let's take a look at a few reasons you may want to think about writing a guest article.
Contribute to the Community
One of the biggest reasons for wanting to participate in writing a guest article is to give back to the web design and development community. Think about everything you know about the subject today. Would you be where you are today if it was not for others that were willing to share what they know and have learned over time? Be thankful to the community and embrace the opportunity to give back.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Link To Full Story: www.smartpassiveincome.com
Income Breakdown
GreenExamAcademy.com Product Sales:
- Ebook Only: $1198.00
- Audio Only: $15.00
- Ebook + Audio Package: $1,468.35
- Total: $2,689.35
- Last Month: $2,979.10
- Difference: -$289.75
- eHow Earnings:
- Total: $131.09
- Last Month: $135.03
- Difference: -$3.94
- Affiliate Earnings:
- Total: $4,997.75
- Last Month: $4,957.78
- Difference: +$39.97
- iPhone Applications:
- Total: $2,448.44
- Last Month: $1,927.84
- Difference: +$520.60
- Gross Total in January: $10,266.63
- Last Month: $9,999.75
- Difference: +$266.88
A wonderful month, finally breaking the $10k mark once again. As far as how much time I spent in total to earn this amount, the iPhone apps and the eHow earnings took zero hours of my time and my product sales from GreenExamAcademy took about 1 hour of work (answering emails and responding to comment on the blog). It’s hard to determine the exact time I spent on my affiliate earnings because the time I spent promoting the Smart Passive Income Blog does have an effect on that total, although it’s not a direct correlation. I’ll just ballpark it and say 5 hours total.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Link To Full Story: www.viperchill.com
If you’re wondering why guest posting isn’t working for your site or why you can’t seem to get past 100 visitors per day, this is for you. If you are desperate to get your feed count past 1,000 subscribers then, this is also for you. If you’re looking for an A-list blogger to mention you work and put you on the radar, then guess what? This post is for you as well.
Let’s begin, shall we
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Link To Full Story: www.onextrapixel.com
Change Default "Admin" Username
Every default WordPress installation will create an account with a default Admin username. This is wide spread knowledge, everyone who uses WordPress knows this. However, this can be a security issue because a hacker can brutal force your WordPress admin panel. If you can change your default “Admin” username, you will give your WordPress admin panel additional security.
Solution:
1 | UPDATE wp_users SET user_login = 'Your New Username' WHERE user_login = 'Admin'; |
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Link To Full Story: www.wolf-howl.com
OK now that we’ve got the duplicate content issue resolved, why would anyone want to use tags in the first place? Can’t you achieve the same results with categories? Yes and no. Here’s an example of how I would use categories and tags: let’s say you have a celebrity website with categories like “baby bump,” “fashion,” “news,” “rumors,” etc. You are also going to have celebrities who are always in the news like Paris Hilton or Britney Spears. What I would do is create tags for each celebrity and, whenever I did a post about the celebrity, I’d tag it with his or her name.
Another example. You have a travel website with categories like “adventure travel,” “family travel,” “skiing,” “cruises,” and so on. I would set up tags for countries, states, or cities, like Bahamas, France, or Colorado. You could have a white water rafting page in the adventure travel category tagged with Colorado. You could have a Skiing in Vail post in the skiing category also tagged with Colorado. You can also have a family travel article about visiting the Museum of Science and nature and Botanic Gardens in Colorado. Those three separate articles would be interconnected by using the Colorado tag.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Link To Full Story: www.skelliewag.org
Shared by JohnH
Exactly!
But in this post, I want to talk about how we can learn what not to do from the evolution of popular blogs. Because they’ve learned from their mistakes, we have the opportunity to learn without ever having to make the same mistake they did. I’ll show you how, here.
This set of stages shows how the business-side of many popular blogs has evolved over time:
Stage 1 - Begins with fixation on advertising income. Provides the initial excitement of earning some income for blogging. Then the blogger realizes it scales poorly: most blogs reach a natural ‘growth cap’ where traffic begins to plateau at its maximum level. Without more traffic, advertising income can’t keep growing. It’s also inconsistent - a Google pagerank reshuffle or the loss of a major advertiser throws the blogger’s earnings into disarray. Ad-blindness decreases the return you can provide to advertisers. So, the blogger moves on to stage two.
Stage 2 - Focus shifts to affiliate income. By the time Stage 2 is reached, the blogger has developed a large audience of fans who trust what he or she says. The blogger begins to experiment with affiliate recommendations and is surprised by the results. The blog’s earnings begin to increase again. This is a long stage for many blogs, as the negative effects can take some time to manifest themselves. Eventually, affiliate sales slowly drop, and some readers become disenchanted with the blogger. There is only so much selling they can take. Earnings are still good, but no longer growing. The blogger begins to wonder what would happen if they sold their own work, instead of someone else’s.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Link To Full Story: buddypress.org
Shared by JohnH
You don't need MU anymore!
Now alive and ready for testing is the beta version of BuddyPress 1.2.
This version will work with both WordPress 2.9.1 and WordPress MU 2.9.1 or higher. We especially need standard WordPress installation testers to put BuddyPress through its paces. Installation instructions can be found in the readme.txt file.
If you’d prefer to not download and install the beta version, you can always help with testing by registering on our testing community site. This always runs the bleeding edge version of BuddyPress.
You can find a list of known issues and a place to post bugs via the BuddyPress Trac installation.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Link To Full Story: net.tutsplus.com
Have you ever seen sites that offer some kind of "color-switcher" within the header section? Want to know how easy it is to replicate? I'll show you in 200 seconds, using jQuery.
Hi, I'm Jeff. I'm the editor of Nettuts+, and the Site Manager of both ThemeForest, and CodeCanyon. I spend too much time in front of the computer and find myself telling my fiance', "We'll go in 5 minutes!" far too often. I just can't go out to dinner while I'm still producing FireBug errors...drives me crazy. During my free time, I sporadically write articles for my own personal blog. If it will keep you in the good graces of the church, follow us on Twitter.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
