WordPress How-To

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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Using Robots.txt for WordPress Blogs

August 18th, 2009

Robots.txt file is very important for any website and especially for WordPress. Robots.txt helps search engines know what which content, file, directory is to be indexed and which is not. This helps avoid duplicate content on your blog.

Robots.txt for WordPress Self-Hosted blogs. This is just an example, you can customize it according to your blog.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /comments
Disallow: /category/*/*
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: */comments
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /*?
Allow: /wp-content/uploads

# Google Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow:
Allow: /*

# Google AdSense
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
Allow: /*

# Internet Archiver Wayback Machine
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

# digg mirror
User-agent: duggmirror
Disallow: /

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
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