Wordpress 2.5.1 Released
written by Anthony Dinh
Wordpress 2.5.1 is now available for download. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements and one critical security patch which is highly recommended, especially if your blog has open registration enabled.
The entire release boasts over 70 fixes, here are some highlights:
Don’t leave your blog vulnerable and susceptible to these security holes, download and upgrade your installation today! Before you do anything, don’t be foolish, remember to backup your installation files and MySQL database. For more details and documentation, you can read the full story here.
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Moms Cash Blog Sold - Goodbye Krysti, Hello…JJ?
written by Anthony Dinh
YEP, you heard it here folks! It’s official, ownership of Moms Cash Blog has changed hands, effective Monday, April 28, 2008, 72hrs after the sale was announced. Krysti, aka “Mom”, received over 100 bids and after interviewing a few prospects, she finally settled on a buyer. Although the sale price has not been disclosed, Mom states that she could have made out a little better monetarily, but that finding the right candidate was of utmost importance.The new proud owner, JJ, is a middle-aged woman who has been trying her hands on blogging and making money online since January of this year, but without much success, according to Krysti.
Moms Cash Blog started out as a hobby, Krysti says, but it has evolved into a cash cow in the 6 months that it has been operational. Still an infant in terms of web years, the blog has a Google PR4 ranking, and is ranked at 152,000 on Alexa. Having already established a loyal following, there’s still some great potential for Moms Cash to make some huge profits in the future. Currently, the blog generates a generous income through affiliate links, PPC, Google Adsense, videos and tutorials, to name a few. With this purchase, the new owner will receive 1 year of paid hosting, established affiliate connections and Krysti’s own secret money makers.
The motivation to sell, Mom says, is here daughter who is going through an important stage in her life. I bid Mom farewell, and wish her all the best in her many other online ventures. JJ surely has some big shoes to fill, let’s see if she’s got what it takes to nuture Moms Cash into its toddler stage, or will it languish at the inexperienced hands of its newbie owner and eventually disappear?
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To Follow, or Not To Follow, That is the Question
written by Anthony Dinh
By default, the rel=”nofollow” attribute is enabled in Wordpress for pingback, trackback and comments to prevent spamming of your comments section. With this enabled, you will also in effect, be denying other bloggers the ability to place a link in your comments section when they link to one of your posts.
So, instead of penalizing readers who actually leave comments worth reading or who have legitimately linked to your post, why don’t we reward them for their time and for contributing to your blog traffic by showing them some link love? If your blog is moderated and you have spam filters such as Akismet enabled, then you should feel at ease that your blog is well protected.
To enable DoFollow, download the plugin from Kimmo.Suominen.com and save it to your wp-content/plugin directory. Next, enable the plugin through your admin panel. You should now see a DoFollow subpage under the settings tab. From here, you can configure how you want this feature to behave by limiting it to comments that older than x days, or by visitor or registered user. Additionally, you can configure these settings at the post level as well if you wanted to get that granular.
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Slick Way to Boost Your RSS Feed and Quadruple Quality Backlinks - MLM Style
written by Anthony Dinh
I just stumbled upon an ingenious way of increasing your RSS readership while improving your Technorati ranking via quality backlinks on Infectedbybugs.com, an SEO/SEM/blogging site with great content authored by the young and intelligent, Shannon Lilly. This MLM style of backlink building was initially “patented” by our friends over at JohnCow dot Com back in July 2007, so if both of these authorities endorse it, I’m definitely going to try it and I hope you do too!
To achieve this, simply follow these 3 easy steps and watch as your RSS subscriptions and backlinks skyrocket!
STEP1
First, copy the list of URLS and RSS subscription links below.
STEP2
Then, write a post similar to the one I’ve written here, and paste the copied list.
STEP3
Next, add your own URL and RSS links to the top of the list along with those of a few of your friends’ blogs.
Imagine, if just 5 of your friends followed this same steps, and then 5 of their friends did the same… you would get quality backlinks for sure the next time the list was posted, and you may also gain some new subscribers as well! Before you know it, hundreds of people are subscribed and linked to your blog, thanks to a little system called MLM.
Remember, more RSS readers and backlinks = more traffic and higher ranking! These two combined = more $ making opportunities (reviewme, payperpost, sponsoredreviews, private ad sales, etc.)!
LINK LOVE LIST (this is my personal list, feel free to add/delete as you like)
- Subscribe to DiariesOfABlogger
- Subscribe to Shoemoney
- Subscribe to InfectedByBugs
- Subscribe to JohnCowdotCom
- Subscribe to TylerCruz
- Subscribe to ProBlogger
- Subscribe to JohnChowDotCom
- Subscribe to 454n5
- Subscribe to Uberaffiliate
- Subscribe to CourtneyTuttle
- Subscribe to SmallFishBigMoney
Not in the list? Don’t worry, you can grab it, publish it and if we get a pingback, we’ll add you to this list too! Once a day we’ll check who joined and add you here.
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Archive Index Page, How do I Make One?
written by Anthony Dinh
Your blog has been up and running for awhile and your posts are growing by the day, so now you would like to create an archives page to neatly list your previous posts. Here’s a quick tutorial on how you can create an archive index like mine at http://www.diariesofablogger.com/archives. It nicely lists your previous posts by category, by month and the most recent N posts of your choice as shown below.
If you are using a free template that you found at one of the infinite Wordpress resource sites, then you may already have the template in your wp-content/themes/yourtheme folder, so check there first. If it doesn’t already exist, here’s how you can create one.
1. make a copy of your index.php page and save it as archives.php
2. prepend the following code to the top of your newly created file
<?php
/*
Template Name: Archive Index Template
*/
?>
3. replace everything in between the existing “while loop” code with the following code (the loop starts with
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> and ends with <?php endwhile; ?>)
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h4>by Categories</h4>
<ul>
<?php list_cats(0, ”, ‘name’, ‘asc’, ”, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0,”,”,”,”,”) ?>
</ul>
<h4>by Month</h4>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_archives(’type=monthly’); ?>
</ul>
<?php endwhile; else: ?><?php endif; ?>
This will list all posts by category and by month. Here’s a breakdown of the list_cats arguments that can be passed in the querystring:
<?php list_cats(optional, ‘all’, ’sort_column’,
’sort_order’, ‘file’, list, optiondates,
optioncount, hide_empty, use_desc_for_title,
children, child_of, ‘Categories’, recurse,
‘feed’, ‘feed_img’, ‘exclude’,
hierarchical); ?>
If you wish to list the N most recent posts, then replace the loop with
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php
$myposts = get_posts(’numberposts=100&offset=0′);
foreach($myposts as $post) :
?>
<li><?php the_time(’m.d.y’) ?> | <a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><? php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<? php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<?php endwhile; ?>
You can change the numberposts=100 and offset=0 variables to anything you’d like.
4. upload archives.php to wp-content/themes/yourtheme folder
5. create your archive index page from the admin panel->write->page
- give your new page a suitable name like Archive Index
- leave the page content area blank
- in the Page Template section, select the Archive Index Template from the drop-down list, and save your changes
- you should now see a link to your archive index in your pages list along the top of your page, or the pages widget in your sidebar. alternatively, you can access your archives page at http://yourdomain.com/index.php?pagename=archive-index and verify that it’s working correctly
That’s it! Now that wasn’t so hard was it?
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