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Individuals desiring to create a membership web site, when using the WordPress platform, are now able to implement it with the aid of the wishlist member software. It works on either newly created or active weblogs. This particular powerful script easily combines with WordPress to create a complete featured membership site, in just a little while. The only thing that is required to get started is unzipping and importing the software, itself. It?s as basic as that.

WishList Member program is much more affordable than similar packages and offers a no questions asked money back guarantee. Technical information isn’t essential to create a membership site with success. Acquiring the software also entitles end users to totally free improvements and updates, when they are published. WishList Member staff members also advocate other WordPress plug-ins they feel could make a regular membership website all that it can be. Customer service and satisfaction is of the utmost importance, to the company.

Script characteristics contain but they are not restricted to: membership level choices, step by step content distribution, secure RSS feeds, sign in redirection, subscription duration management and shopping cart integration compatible with PayPal, Google Checkout, 1ShoppingCart and ClickBank. Content material protection is essential, whenever building a membership website. That?s the reason why WishList Member software presents a lot of options to those choosing to make use of the software. This software has the comprehensive capability to enable usage of specific pages and posts, determined by a person’s membership level. So there is no need to worry that readers may access info that has not already been bought.

Site builders get access to a wide variety of support video tutorials, which makes it actually less complicated to set-up a membership site from beginning to finish. Video lessons consist of: preliminary WishList Member setup, PayPal integration, member administration, Aweber integration, error web page development, modification of the membership registration web page, membership blacklist, e-mail broadcasting plus much more.

There’s also general tutorials for those who are new to blogging and also the WordPress platform. This includes duties such as installing and selecting alternate WordPress styles. With WishList Member software, making a membership web site has never been easier or more reasonably priced. The reputation of membership websites is steadily escalating. There actually is no greater time to enter on the action than right now.

For information, stop by and read our wp wishlist review.

Have you been checking you sites lately? Are you wordpress-based sites or pligg-based sites losing visitors for no reasons?

If you web sites relies on database to run, for example,you are running WordPress, or perhaps Pligg, and your sites suddenly does not load for no reasons, and if you are on Hostgator, well, I have the solution for you!

No thanks to Hostgator, who AFTER MY COMPLAINT, informed me they “migrated the server my sites are on to MySQL 5.1″.

Apparently, this version of MySQL supports 7 characters or less for the username (and no, I found it out myself, they did not tell me a thing!), so if you are encountering database connection like I did, you can try to edit your config file to change the usernamer to a shorter one (7 characters or less).

Hostgator did not even send out an announcement on this “update”. My sites (including this one, in total about 15) which relied on databases were all not running for at least a week, and if it had not been one of my users who informed me via my private email, I would probably still be kept in the dark.

Double thumbs down to you, if I have the time to relocate all my sites, I would definitely have moved out from your service.

If you have been using WordPress for your blog, you will know how troublesome it is to do upgrades when new versions are released.

This tool call “WordPress Automatic Upgrade” has been released for quite some time. I was just speaking to one of my friends the other day and are quite surprised he did not know about it.

I decide to introduce this tool to the public, just in case you are not aware of it.

This tool not only checks for you and offer you to upgrade your WordPress to the latest version, it also back up your current files if you choose to, automatically! Nice plugin I would say.

All you need to do is to click on buttons/links and your WordPress is automatically upgrade without pain or hassle. So far I have not encountered any bugs on all my blogs, so I reckon it is very safe to use.

It is one of the MUST-HAVE plugins when I put out any new blogs nowdays. Go try it, I bet you would love it.

Click here to get the plugin.

Many people hunger for the opportunity to turn their blog into a profitable enterprise. Unfortunately before this can happen, there are a few simple rules that have to be carefully investigated before a blog can in fact become profitable. Bellow you will find ten easy steps that will help accomplish this goal.

Write for people not machines

1 -Many people will start a blog with the prefabricated idea that only search engines (SE) can provide good traffic. The end result is that these blogs become cluttered with long posts or articles that do not appeal to the average reader. When writing, be it a short post about the resent events in your life or a complex tutorial about “10 crucial steps to developing a good blog”, you should always think of the readers first.

Enough with the ads already
2 –This is the first phrase I say when visiting most blogs. Over crowded blogs with banner ads popping out from every corner annoy most readers and discourages them from ever returning. Please understand that in most cases these banners will never earn a single cent, so give it up already.

Communicate
3 -Communicate with the audience, don’t turn your blog into a one way information stream that does not promote interactivity. Most blogs on my daily must visit list are excellent at communicating and always engage us, the reader, by promoting feedback and interactivity. This can be easily achieved by asking for opinions and responding all question or suggestions made.

Leave comments on blogs

4 –Bloggers respect and appreciate readers that leave good comments on their blogs. A comment is seen as retribution to the hard work invested in writing a good post and will motivate them to visit your blog and return the favor.

Write about other bloggers

5 – When I say write about other bloggers I am talking about any service, plugin, themes they might have developed or released. Write a post describing the product offered and link to the original blog so that your readers can download whatever might be on offer. I have developed many friendships and benefited from a lot of services provided completely free of charge from bloggers, merely because I wrote a review and linked to their blog.

Stick to what you know
6 –Stick to a topic you dominate, currently there are enough marketing blogs on the blogosphere already. Starting any project on a theme you do not understand is very complicated and in most cases dictates imminent failure. This is also a very good way to be branded a complete idiot seeing as the content offered will obviously lack the needed knowhow.

One is always better than two
7 –Some people wrongly assume that maintaining a few blogs is the best solution since it provides a better chance of succeeding. Just because you make $100 per month on one blog doesn’t automatically mean you will earn $200 with two blogs. Most people have found that it is easier to make money from only one blog than from a few less active blogs. This goes double if you are an extremely occupied individual that finds it hard to maintain an active blog.

Develop a routine

8 –People like to know what to expect and love to be part of a routine. Cleverly build a routine on your blog and watch has the readers pour in. A blogger can easily create a routine by organizing the publication of new content to coincide with a particular day of the week.

Be unique

9 –Every single living soul on this planet is unique and has something exceptional to contribute. Trying to copy, duplicate or mimic other popular blogs is a clear demonstration of laziness and little imagination. Contribute with your own unique experiences and create something that stands out from the crowd.

Have fun

10 –The last crucial step is in my opinion the most important because it will dictate the continuity of your blog. The best bloggers are the ones that have fun and enjoy what they do. Don’t fall into the trap of starting something just for the financial gain, I can guarantee that in most cases failure is the end result. Have fun with your blog will prosper and so will you.

Creating a better, more professional blog is easy but it does require some hard work and perseverance. Apply the 10 steps mentioned above to maximize the potential of your blog and notice has the readers start to flock in.

[tags] blog, blogs, plugin, search engines, tutorial [/tags]

Good news for all you Wordpress fanatics, it seems that Justin Tadlock managed to do it again, only this time he really surpassed is previous achievements by releasing the new Visionary Newspaper Wordpress Theme. If you’ve been keeping up with all my previous posts about Newspaper themes, you would know that although there are some nearly perfect solutions, none provide the true feel required to create a full-scale newspaper or magazine.

The Visionary theme changes all that and is in my humble opinion the only true newspaper or magazine theme available. Well organized, exceptionally thought out and impressively functional, the Visionary theme shows what the Wordpress Blogging CMS can really do.

This theme really promises and I can’t wait to give it a try on one of my blogs. One of the many features I really liked was the latest video module and the intuitive navigation provided for searching the archives, latest post, most popular posts and sections (categories).

The Visionary theme

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Download | Demo

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[tags] Wordpress, themes, Visionary, newspaper, magazine, CMS, blogging [/tags]

rss.gifThe automated blog has arrives and with it came the disguised steeling of content combined with a new wave of spam that promises to clog the internet with useless rubbish. Just when we thought that normal spam was under control out comes another even worse replacement to satisfy the hunger of lazy, third class webmasters.

These blogs are generally created using the Wordpress blogging CMS and an easily obtainable plugin. Let me just start by saying that if you expect me to link to this plugin I’m sorry but this will not happen since this sort of scheme doesn’t create any value, just steals content (feeds) from other blogs.

These blogs have been popping up like mushrooms and currently represent nearly all my incoming links. I don’t know if other bloggers have been experiencing the same thing but for the past month Trackbacks from such blogs have started to represent a big chunk of all spam caught by Askimet. I understand that many bloggers might even condone such practices because at the end they still get an inbound link and to be honest with you I still don’t know where I stand on this.

My problem with such blogs is that they really don’t create any value and only survive by leeching the hard work of others. We can all appreciate a link now and then but these are useless given that they boast nearly no value. I guess all we can do now is wait and hope this trend eventually dies.

[tags] automated, blog, Wordpress, CMS, plugin, webmasters [/tags]

The WP-Directory Wordpress Plugin is a very useful plugin that will create an extremely functional link directory on your Wordpress blog. Very simple to install and even easier to use this is one of those plugins I’ve always wanted to have but never found one that was so functional.

For a simple example of a site using WP-Directory Wordpress Plugin please visit OTTQ.com.

You can download the WP-Directory Wordpress Plugin from here.

[tags] Wordpress, Link Directory, WP, blog [/tags]

wordpress.jpgIf you’re an old time blogger and have been in the game for a few years, you know that after reaching the hundreds of posts a Wordpress blog will start to feel the heat. The blog will get slower and in many circumstances will become nearly inaccessible because of the time it takes to load. This is even worse if your blog appears on Digg.com, Slashdot, Stumbleupon or any other popular site that can generate a lot of traffic.

The solution is quite simple and it comes in the form of a very easy to use plugin. WordPress Super cache generates html files and serves them without ever invoking a single line of PHP. The plugin will also save a copy of all dynamically generated pages, and place them in directories that match the permalinks structure. You can read all the features on the official site. If your blog is showing these symptoms give this excellent plugin a try.

[tags] Wordpress, Wordpress Super Cache, Digg.com, Slashdot.com, Stumbleupon, PHP, blogger [/tags]

StupidFilter.gifJust like the popular saying indicates “there’s an idiot born every second” and according to StupidFilter, this goes double for stupid comments. The solution they are going to try create resembles in many ways the already widely used spam blocking system.

The solution we’re creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines. The primary challenge inherent in our task is that stupidity is not a binary distinction, but rather a matter of degree. To this end, we’re collecting a ranked corpus of stupid text, gleaned from user comments on public websites and ranked on a five-point scale.

As for information on whether StupiFilter will really work and a description of all its functionalities we will have to way until around December, 2007, date indicated for the official release. The good news is that the development team plans on releasing a fully implemented Firefox plugin and a Wordpress plugin which I’m sure will come in handy.

You can see my profile on Gooruze – Emperor.gooruze.com

[tags] wordpress, plugin, Firefox, stupidfilter, comments, software [/tags]

ghostbusters.gifYesterday I started using the MyblogLog community service on my blog. Well it didn’t take long before I wanted to take things to the nest level. Today I found a nice plugin that enables you to show MyBloglog Avatars next to comments. Basically when someone that has a MyBlogLog account leaves a comment his Avatar will display next to it. For a quick tutorial on how to download and install the plugin please follow the very simple instructions bellow.

Installing

The installation isn’t very complicated but you best follow my instructions because it will save you a lot of headaches.

1- First download the plugin here and then upload the entire archive to your plugin directory.
2- Now you may activate the plugin.
3- Go to Presentation -> Theme editor -> comments to paste the following code.

<?php if(function_exists("MyAvatars")) MyAvatars(); ?>

The code above must be inserted in the comment loop normally after

<?php $count_pings = 1; foreach ($comments as $comment)

If your like me, a very generous person that likes freedom and good sense, there is a way to deactivate the nofollow attribute that comes enables by default.

Open the Myavatar.php file using your favourite text editor or Dreamweaver and change where it says nofollow to dofollow.

<a rel="dofollow" href="<?php echo $mybloglog_URL; ?>" target="_blank" title="<?php echo $mybloglog_TITLE; ?>">

[tags] Wordpress, blog, Myavatar, MyBlogLog, Plugin, Avatars [/tags]