WordPress, Joomla and Drupal: Which CMS is Best?

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WordPress, Joomla and Drupal: Which CMS is Best?

WordPress, Joomla and Drupal are three of the most popular free content management systems on the Internet, but they also generate numerous debates about which one is better.

Let’s take a brief look at each one and offer positives and negatives from the experience of a webmaster who has built sites on all three systems.

WordPress

Positives:WordPress was created with blogging in mind and is ideally suited for small Web sites that require limited features and capabilities. It is easy to install and set up, there are many free templates available for people who don’t have strong design skills, and plugins are readily available at the core site of WordPress.org.

Negatives: The software is designed mainly for blogging, which leads to limited functionality. A site that grows beyond something small in nature will soon find that the limitations may make using it easy and simple, but those same limitations inhibit the ability to add extensive functionality.

WordPress is recommended for anyone with light technical skills who is launching a site on their first CMS.

Joomla

Positives: Joomla is justifiably popular because of its simple and visual interface — one of the same favorite traits of WordPress. The core site at Joomla.org has an extensive list of plugins, and the forums are populated with users who seem quite willing to help out newcomers. One template can be used to display every page on the site, which makes templating a simple task.

Negatives:The plugins don’t always install correctly, and security concerns seem common. Like the limited functionality of WordPress, the limited templating system of Joomla is a challenge as well.

Joomla is recommended for anyone with moderate technical skills and some experience in managing Web sites.

Drupal

Positives:Of the three major systems, Drupal is the most technically advanced and well-regarded for its efficient design. Plugins integrate efficiently with a high success rate. The core site has an extensive list of available plugins.

Negatives: The Drupal interface is not intuitive and requires extensive usage to understand the complete set of site features and functions. Although free templates are available, any changes require a more advanced knowledge of PHP than Wordpress or Joomla. In addition, the user forums at Drupal.org are not as responsive as the forums for WordPress or Joomla.  

Drupal is recommended for anyone with advanced technical skills.

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6 Major Reasons Why You Should Use Wordpress

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6 Major Reasons Why You Should Use Wordpress

WP was conceived out of a need for a well-designed personal publishing system built in PHP and MySQL. Its functionalities have made it undoubtedly popular that it is not only being used by bloggers but by almost all business small or large; creating websites, designing WP templates etc.

For so many reasons, you cannot find a simple and suitable solution like WP to manage your content. Here are some advantages why you should use WP as CMS.

1.    It is user friendly: Beginner or starting clients need not worry about the lack of programming skills. Other content management systems are with complicated features that the key aspect of being user friendly is lost. Using WP is very easy to pick up. It is SEO friendly and it features clean permalink structure. It allows you to assign different categories to articles; supports articles and posts tags.

2.    It is free: You can use it for free whether you are running a personal or commercial website. Its developer is continuously making improvements and security fixes so there is nothing to bother. To start with, you only need a domain name and compatible hosting account. Your website can be customized according to your needs. A WP developer can start things for you and after that you can do it on your own.

3.    It is versatile: if you need a portfolio website, online gallery, ecommerce photo blog, magazines, news or article libraries, WP can do it easily and it is used by companies worldwide not just for blogging.

4.    It is simple to use and can be trusted: satisfied WP users cannot keep their mouth shut. It is always the talk in the web; frequently discussed for its simplicity and ease of use. That builds a multitude of followers because of its abilities to customize. Everybody can say that it saves a lot of time and effort using WP from the beginning.

5.    Updating is fast and easy: constant updates are made. As bugs and security problems are discovered, they are fixed to make the software secured. To upgrade WP all you need is a click of a button to keep updated, it is that fast and easy. The latest release was the 2.8 series.

6.    Many Themes, Templates and Pulgins are available for free: there is an endless line of choice.

*   Themes/templates are free and you can download from different sites like: http://topwpthemes.com/, http://www.freewptheme.net/.

*    Plugins: you can expand further than the features offered by this platform by the integration of plugins which increase functionality. WP plugin community values SEO, without good SEO chances are you won’t have any visitors at your site. So learn about the important and best plugins WP can offer at: http://www.onextrapixel.com/2009/05/07/20-must-have-wordpress-plugins-for-you-to-get-started-effectively/.

If you are currently planning to create your blogs, WP is the key start. It is used by millions of websites; still growing everyday and has become the largest, most competent blogging platform in the World Wide Web.  

The Latest On WordPress Themes

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The Latest On WordPress Themes

As WordPress and blogging become more and more popular, the list of customization options continues to grow. One can attribute that to each user wanting his or her blog to be unique or very much personalized. Who knows, one day a theme can be just as unique as the blog’s author! The following is an overview of the latest developments on WordPress themes.

WordPress Widgets

The blog software developer has recently come up with an edition of this plug-in for the full-version WordPress. A Widget here refers to those tools you can use to modify your site—its sidebar, design, or general layout—without having to know and use HTML codes. About a hundred Widgets are featured in the WordPress Widgets blog, and they are classified in categories such as photography, music, discussion, video, income, and links, among others. It is a fun and easy way of customizing your site, so that it features everything you care about, and nothing you don’t.

Not all themes are ready for these Widgets, however, and some modifications need to be done to include this fun feature in the sites that make use of such themes. http://Automattic.com gives full instructions on how to go about making your WordPress site Widget-friendly. WordPress is continuously adding to their already-vast selection of Widgets to suit their user’s whims and personalities.

Canvas Plugin

This blogger-friendly plugin has recently allowed blog users to create their very own theme for their WordPress blog. The good news is that this plugin allows users a pretty good level of customization without them having to study and use codes. The result: a site that looks very professional built within the range of a few minutes to a couple of hours. Even better news is that this plugin comes for free.

This stand-alone plugin opens up to a bare starting point, with a selection of blocks that you can include in your layout by drag-and-drop method. Among the many features of Canvas are Banner, RSS, Static Text, Feature, Digg, Flickr, Random Tagline, Comment, Category List, Asides, Archive, Description, Calendar, Search, Post, and Navigation functions. Meanwhile, an Ink tab gives the user the freedom to determine the styles to be used on the page, sans the need to check the actual stylesheet. This tab proves to be quite useful for beginners, because it features help links that corresponds to each theme component, the style of which you may be about to identify. These links load the template with an indication of the part in question, to give the user a clear idea of what effect the change will have.

“Being Moderated” Notification

It does not come as a surprise that some comments are being moderated by the recipient blog’s owner or moderator. However, it would be nice for you to let your eager comment writers know that you have received their comment, when the system is programmed to delay posting of comments on your blog until it has been read and approved by you. Without this notification activated, some of your readers may think that their comment just got lost and they’ll have to write their comment all over again, when in fact your blog has secured it and it’s only waiting for your approval. However, the blog author may need to be familiar with code to activate this feature. Nevertheless, it is one way to deter comment spammers from infiltrating your blog. Your may also word the notification in your liking. Here’s an example: “Thank you for your comment. It may take a while before your comment may be published. Please check back later.”

More Themes to Match Content

While it is all up to the blog author to decide, it would be quite useful to have a theme that will give first-time readers of your blog a pretty good idea of what to expect by simply looking at the design in use. For this reason, WordPress theme designers are coming up with more specific themes to match a variety of specific types of content. Experts say that the first several seconds spent by a visitor on your blog determine the impression they get of your site. So if your site fails to capture attention right away, then it’s most likely that you’re losing potential repeat readers or site visits.

When designing your site or choosing the appropriate theme, keep in mind that the first concern of a site visitor is whether or not the site has the kind of information needed by him or her. The visual elements, being much faster to grasp than the textual, will help in a big way. If the theme you choose does not correspond to the general content of your site, then attracting more followers will need more effort. Whether we like it or not, looks matter for a lot of people, as this is how beliefs and opinions are initially formed.

WordPress Theme Contests

To ensure your steady stream of new themes, WordPress and certain partners have organized theme contests to discover and recognize the best themes that have cropped up lately. Last year even saw several competitions that attracted theme creators and users alike. This year, however, the WordPress camp has witnessed a slowing down in the production of themes, perhaps due to the fading novelty of it all, not discounting the fact that a lot of those who submitted themes before did it for free.

Nevertheless, customization of WordPress blogs still holds quite a lot of promise, with the arrival of new customization features, such as the Canvas and Widgets plugins. It also promises more highly-customizable themes in the future. For now, you would already be missing out on a lot if you are not already trying out the latest WordPress customization plugins. You can also try modifying some basic features, such as whether your front page should show excerpts or the full blog entries, or changing the number of posts that will show up on your blog index, or both. Whatever you choose, there are hundreds of themes available and other options for you to use, to get as close as ever to your most desired look for your blog.

The Best Wordpress Plug-ins for Online Marketers

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The Best Wordpress Plug-ins for Online Marketers

In the online business world, Wordpress is one of the most recognizable names. Wordpress, for millions of bloggers, is the most favored content management systems (CMS) around. But of course there’s no implication that it’s only for people who blog. Regardless of the type of site, or purpose, Wordpress can be used for it.

It is often used by IM marketers for regular monetized sites, affiliate sites, sales pages, etc. It’s even used as a straight squeeze page, or landing page, and other marketing applications. There are millions of choices for a theme – and a kid can probably figure out how to customize it. What’s more, using the right plugins you can pretty much make it do whatever you want. So with that in mind, here are just a few plugins online marketers will like.

You may not understand why, yet – but make sure you install the Google XML Sitemap on your blog plus read-up about using it. There are not many that are must-haves, but this one is absolutely one of them. You’ll need an XML sitemap so Google can properly index your site and crawl it most effectively. It’s important to help Google maintain an accurate account of your site, so you should create/build a new sitemap at a regular interval depending on how often you add content. However, manually trying to create it can be a challenge if you’ve never done it before. But it’s no problem because your sitemap will update by itself whenever you add new content.

The Similar Posts plug in does exactly what it sounds like it does. When you use this plugin, after you make a post the plugin will find other similar-content posts and insert a link at the end of each post. Ok, so it’s pretty obvious why this is a good idea; it will try to interest your visitors in other posts, etc. This technique has been shown to work with keep readers on a site. The idea is pretty much to what you need to do to keep them there.

The next plugin, SEO Smart Links, will take your links and make them presentable for the search engines – this will help your SEO efforts. It will optimize your site links so the search engines will recognize the keywords/phrases you want your site to be indexed and ranked for. It will add links to your site by finding your important phrases, and then it finds other instances where they’re used on other pages and links to them. It’s up to you to determine if you prefer links to categories, pages, tagged words, or even posts. It’s very clear that Wordpress as a CMS is extremely versatile, and the plugins only add to that. What’s really unbelievable, but true, is that it’s all completely free to use. Regardless of what you want to do with it, you’ll never need to spend anything on it. You’re free to add any plugins, adjust code, or change themes whenever you want. It’s great for beginners because there’s no need for previous experience, or programming skills, or web design skills, etc.

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How To Prevent a WordPress Disaster

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How To Prevent a WordPress Disaster

You’ve probably heard it a million times – you NEED to backup your data or you risk losing it all forever. This is no less important when you are using WordPress. In fact, it may be more important given that open-source applications like WordPress are more susceptible to hacker attacks. I can tell you from personal experience how important it really is.

It’s not been too long ago that I went to the homepage of my own site to discover it wasn’t my homepage anymore, but rather had some images I’d prefer not to be associated with! I thought it was a mistake at first, but soon discovered that I’d been hacked. Thankfully, I had a backup system in place and was able to quickly recover my site. If I hadn’t – I would have had to recreate my entire site over again – not at all a pleasant thought.

To effectively protect your website you need to 1) Have an automatic backup system in place, 2) Secure your WordPress installation to make it much harder to hack into, and 3) Keep WordPress updated so that you have all the latest security patches.

The good news is that WordPress makes it easy to take all three steps. Some of the steps are quickly accomplished with a plugin while others are built straight into WordPress. You will be protected in any situation, whether your site is hacked, your hosting company disappears, you make a mistake, or your database gets corrupted.

In this first of a three part series we are going to look at the most important step, getting a backup system in place. This step alone gives you full recover-ability should disaster strike and is the absolute minimum every single WordPress user should do to protect themselves.

What You Need To Backup

There are two main components to a WordPress website or blog, the database that contains all of your setting and content, and the files that make up WordPress including your Plugins and Themes. You’ll be able to recreate your entire website/blog using these two items.

Backing Up Your Database

Keeping your database backed up is most critical as it changes constantly. Every word, image, comment, and setting on your site is stored in this database, so it is being updated continuously and needs to be backed up routinely.

The easiest way to backup your database is to use the WP-DB-Backup plugin. This free plugin will automatically backup your database and email you the file. You choose the frequency of the backup and which tables you want to backup (I back them all up).

I also recommend setting up a Gmail account and having the backups sent to it. This way, you don’t clutter up your regular email with the backups and it’s unlikely that you will ever run out of storage space for the backups as Google now offers of 7GB of storage space and is increasing it all the time, yet database backups are usually relatively small files.

Just set-up the WP-DB-Backup plugin, have it email to a dedicated Gmail account and you will well-protected against a complete loss of your website content.

Backing Up Your WordPress Files

This part is a little more tricky, but isn’t as important as backing up your database unless you make a lot of changes to your theme and plugin files directly (you probably aren’t).

To backup your files, you generally are going to need to use a FTP program, which lets you see the files on both your own computer and your server (ie your hosting account) and to easily move files from one to the other. All you need to do is set-up your FTP program, create a folder on your computer to store your file backups (create a new folder for each backup), and then download the folder on your website called “wp-content”.

The “wp-content” folder is generally located in a “www”, “htdocs”, or “public_html” folder, though can vary depending on your hosting company. You may also have to drill down a little further into the folders if your WordPress isn’t installed in your root directory. For instance, if you access your WordPress via a URL like www.mydomain.com/myblog/, then the “wp-content” folder will be within the “myblog” folder, which in turn will be inside one of the folders listed above.

Doing It All Automatically

There is also now a plugin called “Automatic WordPress Backup” that automates the entire process of backing up both your database and your files – and storing the data with industrial reliability supplied by the Amazon S3 service. With this plugin, you can “set it and forget it” for the most part (you should double-check things periodically), but there are some drawbacks.

Mainly, the plugin doesn’t work on all hosts, though it does on most. To find out, you can visit the plugin site and view the “web host compatibility” link to see if your host is supported. It’s also a little more involved to set-up but the developer offers some good instructions/videos on how to get it running.

The other drawback is that you have to use Amazon’s S3 service, which isn’t free and requires a little set-up. The service is super-cheap however for a typical WordPress website and will only rarely cost more than /month. Having your backup on a separate system adds another layer of security to your backup routine is beneficial as well.

It seems that some people aren’t able to get the plugin to work correctly either, but it’s clearly better to have everything backed-up automatically and “off-site”, making this plugin a good choice if you are able to use it. Just Google “Automatic WordPress Backup” to learn more about and download the plugin. You can verify it’s working by checking your Amazon S3 account and ensuring the backup files are there.

Conclusion

Regardless of how you set-up your backup system – make sure you get one set up! It’s definitely worth hiring a professional to help you if you aren’t comfortable setting it up yourself, or if you just don’t have the time. Just be sure to get it done one way or the other before disaster strikes and you lose all your hard work.

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Wordpress – Why and How to Use It

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Wordpress – Why and How to Use It

Wordpress is one of the most used publishing platforms on today’s web and there are many reasons for that. I will try and explain some of them and get into the process a little bit deeper. I hope this will help potential clients get a better understanding of the power of Wordpress and how it can be used to take your business to a higher level, increase brand awareness and help you position yourself better than the competition. On the other hand, for all of you starting a web design venture of your own, it will clear up a few things and hopefully help you with choosing the right tools for the trade and the means to handle them without losing valuable time.

Today’s living and working pace is definitely hard to keep up sometimes and thus you don’t want to lose time over things that you can do faster and more effectively. One of the most important things in that sense is a web presence. I am not going to go into all of the reasons why it is like that – there are many articles around the web that explain this in detail. It is a fact that small and big businesses alike need an effective way of creating and updating their website – keeping their name and thoughts alive in the virtual world – and this is where things have changed over the past couple of years. Static HTML websites are the thing of the past. Dynamic, engaging content took over the web by storm. One of the most important things that made this possible is the very existence of Content Management Systems – software for managing large amounts of HTML and other data. Basically, a Web CMS is the backend of a website. It allows you to manipulate content, categories, tags and add new features to site to make it even more interactive.

Blogging platform or a CMS?

Woprdpress started out as a mostly blogging platform, but in time, due to it’s ease of use and powerful free tools that can be implemented, gained momentum as a CMS for creating any kind of a website, large or small. First of all - it is completely free - all you need to do to try it out is to get an account at wordpress.com, take a few minutes to set things up and youre ready to start writing! If you know how to use Microsoft Word or any other similar product, making an article on Wordpress is going to be a piece of cake.

Wordpress is also very search engine friendly. The whole system is setup with SEO in mind, enabling you to concentrate on what you do best. Whether it is writing or design, you can take care of your own work, and not worry too much about the things you’re not interested in, or don’t have the time to deal with. If you have quality content, WP will make sure that it is optimized to give you the best possible results and rank your site as high as possible. Of course, I am not saying that SEO can be done out of the box – but it is really helpful to be able to set some of the major things up with a click of a button and in a very intuitive way (like writing descriptions and excerpts in a text box of their own, setting up permalinks to a SEO-friendly, canonical URL, etc.). Search Engine Optimization is more and more important every day, and became a science of it’s own, so on-site SEO is just a part of it. More on on-site and off-site SEO techniques will be published in the future articles.

Free themes and plugins

Since its start in May 2003, more than 200 million websites are using Wordpress (data from Wikipedia). There is a large community with new Wordpress themes designed every day. In the backend of your website, it is enough to click a tab, go through the repository of available themes, preview and activate a theme in minutes. Or, you can upload a zip file downloaded from anywhere on the web and to the same.

Depending on the theme you choose, it will take some more time to set everything up just the way you want it, so it is a good idea to ask yourself: “What do I need a website for?”. Usability is a key feature of every website -whether it is going to be a one-page-contact-info site, a blog, e-commerce site or a multimedia magazine, you have to keep in mind the very purpose and choose the theme based on that. You don’t the bells and whistles that have no function for you or your business and even if it is top-notch state-of-the-art technology or a flashy animation, always think: “Does it add any real value to what I am trying to accomplish?”. It is a trap that one can be easily caught into. Trust me, when I started using Wordpress, one the most attractive things to do was go to the repository and preview all the possible themes, only to find out I lost more than a few hours testing and a previewing all sorts of different designs. And I didn’t even have any content!

There are two types of themes for WP – free and premium. More and more theme creators are turning to a free model with premium support and there are really nice themes out there.

Another important part of a good Wordpress-powered website are plugins. These are  extensions to the core functionalities that can be installed and manipulated independently and are used to improve the overall performance, design, tracking, etc. Wordpress plugins are also mostly free, but there are also premium plugins, although so far I have used only one or two premium plugins that were really worth the money (usually most of the premium themes and plugins cost below 0).

There is a real danger lurking in the background of the plugin usage, not just on WP, but also on other platforms. Do not overuse them. Only use the plugins you really need, or consider finding hooks or filters that are more light-weight and just the functionality you need. every plugin installed results in a longer loading time, more server requests and can significantly slow down your website. Users are not patient. They will go away and never come back again, if the load time takes a few seconds more then they expect.

Widgets

Another improtant part in wordpress development is the usage of widgets. Widgets are basically plugins used mostly in the sidebars or other widget-ready areas. They can be easily arranged through a drag-and-drop interface and usually have settings of their own, ao you can fine tune and improve the overall look and feel of you site.

As I am primarily a designer, Wordpress really filled in the gap that I needed desperately. Finally I am able to make the design and implement it quickly and effectively with all the features that I need and do it all with just the knowledge of HTML, CSS, wordpress conditional tags and the usage of Google for everything else I don’t know about.

The appearance of frameworks and child themes made this process even better and more exciting. Frameworks are basically themes that give you a lot of nice functionality and speed up the design and coding process. They make it easier for the developer to complete the repetitive tasks and keep the code clean and nifty at the same time. They give a nice starting point and usually have a large community ready to help out if you run into problems. Some of the best WP frameworks are: Thematic, Hybrid and Sandbox.

This is just the basic information that should be enough to get you started with using WP, or at least consider using it in the future. Please let me know your thoughts – I will be adding new article to the wordpress category on Atraktor Studio website, so any suggestions, questions and comments are welcome.

Turn WordPress Into Review Sites – Using WordPress Themes/Templates And Plug-ins

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Turn WordPress Into Review Sites – Using WordPress Themes/Templates And Plug-ins

A lot of internet marketers are using WordPress to build review sites now. But up to 70% affiliates are still apt to design HTML pages for review sites. What are advantages and disadvantages of these two ways to build review sites?

WP is more efficient than HTML pages. Normally you need almost a week to have a small review site up and running. What if you are not a good designer of html page? It takes more  time than you think. What is worse, when you finish it, you think it looks ugly.

But if you are using WP, it takes no more than half day to complete all the work. You just need to find a good theme/template and some plug-ins for your website. You can have professional-looking review site up and running in minutes!

WordPress is more easy to manage the website content. You can control everything on the WP control panel such as text, pictures, audios, videos and so on. But if you are using HTML, it is really a pain in the neck to maintain your website. You have to redesign it over again!

WP is backed up by numerous powerful plug-ins. Whatever functions you want your website to have, you can easily find a plug-in to meet the requirement. You can add flash, java scripts to your WP review site by using plug-ins. But if you use HTML pages, you will have to write them by yourself.

WordPress Review Site is real review site! If you use HTML pages, your have to add reviews by yourself and the reviews seem to be not very effective to convert prospects to customers. Because the reviews come from you not the community. WordPress review site enable your visitors to leave comments and reviews, and add ratings to the products you are promoting. You get the real reviews from the community! You have the real reviews, you get a better conversion rate!

WordPress has more advantages in building review sites. You can click here to find out how to  build WP review sites  of high conversion rate! Or click here to find out what kind of review site themes/tempaltes are suitable for your niches.

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Wordpress seo tactics that will bring loads of traffic to your blogs

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Wordpress seo tactics that will bring loads of traffic to your blogs

Drive traffic website by learning the way to do S.E.O

As a website owner, you likely need to get more traffic web site rating which will end in more income for you and your affiliates . Below are a few tips that you will find significant in making certain that you get more traffic than you currently have. One of these is use of correct HTML structure. While it may seem pretty basic to several webmasters, it’s still extraordinary what percentage of them have deserted the normal and very efficient way of guaranteeing their pages have the proper HTML elements and tagging. for search engines to understand what your pages are all about and index them accordingly, important tags should not be left out. These include the use of the title tag, the meta tag outline tag and the meta keywords tag. Many search engines will also focus on what’s inside header tags and will rank your pages with what is contained there.

you can also increase traffic website rankings by submitting your URL to the large three namely Google, Yahoo and Live. While this updating takes place exercise patience as it may take weeks or months before your site can actually be searchable on these search engines. Caution however is that frequently submitting your website may result in being banned. Remember also to have plenty of content since engines love sites with plenty of content, particularly Google.

Another common strategy that helps to ramp up traffic website is blogging. Initially used for online journaling, blogs are now used as many-making machines. Most sites are building their credibility by posting helpful information on relevant blogs to lure people to go to their site. In addition,blogs have also appeared as effective ways of building credibility which will finally increase traffic website. Many webmasters have learnt to generate tones of traffic thru effective blog commenting. However if not done right,it could be a waste of time.

Among the most important standards engines use to establish a site ranking position, especially Google, is through link renown. Google tries to discover how many different websites have a link back to your internet site. there’s more. The quality of the link is considered more important. So, to get more traffic website, you have to have relevant quality links from topical internet sites. Otherwise, Google will ignore links, without regard for how many if they are irrelevant to your website theme. If for example your internet site talks about stock investments, find sites related to investment and other money related sites and seek partnerships with them through link exchange.

to generate more traffic web site, consider also posting to message forums. By offering advice and answers to Problems, you may become and ‘expert’ in your topic or field and a link back to your site will most definitely result in boost traffic. Try out a few of these suggestions and you may be generating traffic to your internet site in almost no time.

having said that, I would strongly recommend you to start right away with your learning journey how to do a proper search engine Optimization of your wordpress blog in order to rank well for your niche. If you failed at doing proper S.E.O for wordpress blog, your blog will not rank, your wordpress site will not get the traffic it requires so please do check how Seo for wordpress will help you mor.

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Top Ten essential plug-ins for Wordpress

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Top Ten essential plug-ins for Wordpress

No matter how great your web design is, you website/blog is incomplete without plug-ins. There are different kinds of plug-ins that work for different websites and hence we have sorted out the top ten plug-ins that are indispensable to your Wordpress website.

1. Kaltura Interactive Video Player Plug-in
This plug-in allows the upload and import videos directly from the player as well lets others add their own videos. It is so flexible that users can add comments and annotations that can have text bubbles and subtitles and edit the videos as they like. Users are also allowed to report abuse to any offensive content, they can rate the video and these can be shared and embedded with any widget as well.

2. All in One SEO Pack Plug-in
This particular plug-in plays a key role in optimizing the blog you have on Wordpress. It does so in way that the posts written by you and the pages are indexed for the search ability of the search engines. The All in One SEO pack plug-in is so effective that it singles out pages individually and increases their visibility.

3. Wordpress Database Backup
Just like it is necessary to keep a back up of the data we work on, similarly it is important to save a back up of the database we work on. Say for example, you have installed a system where in your email allows the option of attachment along with it. Now, if you do not have a database backup plug-in installed for your website, you will lose this feature and you may have to re-install it which is time consuming.

4. Akismet
Your website just cannot do without this plug-in. The primary feature of this add-in is to filter all the spam/junk comments, links and keep them away from your website. It is known as Automatic Kismet.

5. Feedburner Feedsmith Plugin
This is a vital plug-in for your Wordpress website – the Feedburner Feedsmith Plug-in helps in redirecting the clicks made on your standard website to the feedburner RSS feeds that allows the subscribers.

6. Max Blog Press Unblockable Popup
This plug-in is very useful in letting people know about your latest updates through the newsletters. The best thing about this is that it comes as an unblockable pop up that obviously cannot be ignored. So, people are bound to notice it.

7. Google XML Sitemaps
The best way to navigate through your website is sitemap. Getting this plug-in means that no matter what changes you make in the website, addition/deletion of pages and this plug in informs Google about it and it gets updated automatically.

8. Wordpress Auto-Tagger
As the name suggests, whatever posts you put in your blog/website, the plug-in selects the apt tags for them by analysing the popular ones on Yahoo and other search results related to your website content.

9. Redirection
Redirection plug in comes along with Wordpress basically to take care of the 301 redirections, errors like 404 and basically manage any aspect that your website is lacking in. This plug in proves useful when you are trying to migrate pages from some old webpage.

10. RSS Includes Pages
If you want your pages to appear in the RSS feeds, simply go ahead and get this plug-in for your Wordpress website or blog.

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Using Wordpress as a Static ECommerce Site

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Using Wordpress as a Static ECommerce Site

Wordpress is one of the most popular blogging platforms available, however many people don’t realize that Wordpress can be customized to provide a great eCommerce website. This necessitates some changes to the default settings which come with Wordpress when you first set your account up, but they can be achieved relatively easily.

In this article we are going to look at some of the practical issues which you can follow to establish a static website appearance and why Wordpress provides such a cost-effective platform for your commercial web activities.

Creating a Static Front Page

The initial Wordpress setting is for the front page to show the latest in your string of blog posts Wordpress is a blogging platform first and this is what bloggers will usually want. For an eCommerce website you will probably want a fixed front page to avoid any confusion with visitors to the site.

The first thing to do is to produce your static, front page open Wordpress’ Dashboard, click on Pages and Add New you will open a screen of the draft page to which you can add graphics, company logo, any headline or welcome message and also add a list of product categories. Tailor the page to your requirements and then publish the page to the site.

We now need to set this page as the Default Page return to the Dashboard and click on Settings; below Reading Settings select the Static Page option but be careful that you also save a title for the page, e.g homepage.

If you activate the Wordpress eCommerce plugin, you will also get the option to have the static homepage automatically display your products; you can do this by choosing Products Page from the drop-down menu which is provided. This will also let your visitors see your products as soon as they visit your homepage.

Implementing Widgets

Widgets are also sometimes referred to as, sidebar accessories and are a very simple, quick and effective means of increasing the variety of content displayed in your sidebar. Widgets can be used to add or render changing graphics, text, web code (Java or HTML) and much more which adds to the visual attraction of the site as well as providing additional functionality for the visitor.

To use widgets, open the Dashboard again and select Appearance; next select Widgets which will unveil a long list of different widgets for you to use to customize the look and feel of the site. Wordpress uses a very simple, drag and drop system for you to add widgets to your site and it is extremely simple to change the appearance and position in the sidebar you don’t need any coding experience or knowledge whatsoever.

Text widgets are a popular tool in creating eCommerce websites using Wordpress because they perform a wide variety of functions and so easy to customize. Typical uses include:

creating a special offer or discount promotion;

highlighting a featured product;

creating drop-down menus for navigating to other parts of the site, especially for other product pages;

displaying customized images and graphics for different products or product ranges; and

automating changing content.