WordPress How-To

How To Display Links / Blogroll in WP Sidebar

August 28th, 2009

Every blog by default has some blogroll / links in the sidebar. This comes in handy when you want to link out to your friends / family blog’s or reciprocate a link back to another blog. If you’re list of links isn’t showing in the sidebar of your blog, this video will show how you can make it visible.

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WordPress for iPhone 1.2

August 27th, 2009

Introducing the only iPhone app that lets you write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress.

View of the tryping area on iPhone:

WordPress on iPhone

Watch the video presentation on WordPress.tv:

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From where can I Download Free WordPress Themes

August 25th, 2009

Since WordPress is the most used blogging software, naturally there are thousands of themes available on the net to jazz up your blog. No matter what your blog topic is… be it personal, cars, dating or seo… you will be able to find the right theme and that too for free.

The best place to begin your search for a WordPress Theme is the WordPress official Free Theme Directory. They have close to a 1000 themes available which have been downloaded over 7 million times.

Once you have downloaded your theme, you can follow the instructions here to upload and activate WP Theme.

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How to Install WordPress with FTP

August 20th, 2009

We at SpeedHost.in provide you with the option for Custom WordPress Installation when you order hosting from us at just Rs.500 (one time). In case you want to set up wordpress yourself using FTP, the video tutorial below will prove to be very helpful.

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Twitter Friendly Short Links Plugin

August 20th, 2009

Most of the time when you want to shorten your blog url to use it on Twitter, you would use tinyurl.com or tr.im or zi.ma etc. but this has various problems. First they are not search engine friendly and are simple redirects, second… they are hard to remember. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have your own tiny url service to use with your WordPress blog? Now there is, a plugin by Konstantin Kovshenin, which does just that. With this plugin, you can even post directly to your Twitter page.

Download the plugin: http://kovshenin.com/wordpress/plugins/twitter-friendly-links/

Check out the video below for more information:

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