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:
Watch the video presentation on WordPress.tv:
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.
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.
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:
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
