How to Setup Your Own Blog with WordPress

March 9th, 2010

What is a blog?

Blog or weblog is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. It is a frequently updated, personal website featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles on other Web sites. Blogs may contain a single category such as web development, electronic gadgets, love and relationship or it could be a combination of two or more.

Common sections found in blogs

A main content area with articles listed chronologically, newest on top. Often, the articles are organized into categories.
An archive of older articles.
A way for people to leave comments about the articles.
A list of links to other related sites, sometimes called a “blogroll”.
One or more “feeds” like RSS, Atom or RDF files.
Now that you have a basic idea what a blog is, let us talk about how to setup a wordpress for your blog. But first lets see the requirements.

Below are the prerequisites before you can use WordPress

1. Your web host must support PHP scripts. WordPress is written in PHP so you should see to it that your host have PHP installed. Check also the version of the PHP against the recommended PHP version that your WordPress will use.

2. Database. See to it that you have at least 1 MySQL database. All your blogs/contents will be stored in tables inside the database.

3. Optionally, it is preferable to have your host run Apache on Linux. Although WordPress runs on other web servers, you have many more options on how you can configure the structure of your site and the links (or “permalinks”) to your pages if your site runs on Apache.

How to Install WordPress

1. Download the latest WordPress software and unzip it if it is a zipped file.

2. Locate the wp-config.php or wp-config-sample.php if the former is not present. Then look at this set of codes.

define(’DB_NAME’, ”);
define(’DB_USER’, ”);
define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ”);
define(’DB_HOST’, ”);

DB_NAME = name of the database
DB_USER = Mysql database username
DB_PASSWORD = Mysql database password
DB_HOST = Mysql hostname

You may ask assistance from your web host tech support to get the values needed above. After modifying those lines, save the file as wp-config.php

3. Upload all the files to your web host. This will take long specially if your internet connection speed is slow.

4. After uploading all those files open your browser and go to www.domainname.com/wp-admin/install.php. Change “domainname” to your own domain name.

5. Follow the instructions that you will see on each page.

Congratulations, you have successfully installed WordPress. You can start posting to your blog by going to www.domainname.com/wp-login.php, logging in in with the “admin” user name and the password supplied to you earlier and following the instructions given on that page.

Few Blogging Tips

Post regularly, but don’t post if you have nothing worth posting about.
Stick with only a few specific genres to talk about.
Don’t put ’subscribe’ and ‘vote me’ links all over the front page until you have people that like your blog enough to ignore them (they’re usually just in the way).
Use a clean and simple theme if at all possible.
Enjoy, blog for fun, comment on other peoples’ blogs (as they normally visit back).

More tutorials can be found at Shoutbux

The author is a web developer and a blogger. Visit his blog at Shoutbux

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Benefits of using wordpress as your website

March 9th, 2010

It’s not just for blogging (a web diary)…it’s a great content management software, meaning, once it is set up and looking nice, you can log in to the backend and update it yourself with new articles, pages, etc. Wordrpress can be a whole website, but with the added advantage that you can update your own content.

Wordpress provides interactivity. Built into the software is the ability to make comments on all the articles you post or pages on the site. If you are worried about spam attacks or people making comments you don’t like there is also the ability to approve the comment first before it is posted. You can customize a wordpress blog to look like a website..(with a little help from a web designer like me!) Original continual content is a great way to get to gain more traffic and a blog is a good way to easily post your ideas, articles, and pictures without knowing how to design a website. It works like an email editor and is just as easy. Using a free service like Feedburner, you can have people subscribe to your blog for updates. Whenever you post a new article an email goes out telling the people that subscribed and it’s available. In the backend part of the software, you can do all kinds of cool things like look at your stats and see who clicked on what link to get to your blog/site, what phrase they used in the search engines…add plug-ins like some of these.

All in all, wordpress is a good way to add interactivity and manage your own content. As a web designer, I am more than happy to update your website, but there are people out there who want to do it themselves, and this platform makes sense!

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Wordpress Mage Cash Back Bonus Only for Serious Marketers

March 9th, 2010

Coming in just 4 Days, Greg Jacobs will soon launch his (WP) Wordpress Mage system once again to the public for a very quick period of time. In fact, we don’t even know how long that may be… a few hours or up to 4 days! This new, revolutionary auto-blogging system, Wordpress Mage gives web marketers the power to produce extraordinarily deep content-rich blogs on just about any subject with literally the push of a button. It is the first ever Wordpress integrated product to provide totally automated generation of blog posts, affiliate products, supporting articles, videos, images, auctions and so much more. Another unique feature of the WP Mage system is it’s one-time only fee for a lifetime unilimited license and upgrades whereas other, lesser products charge monthly recurring fees and don’t have half the power of this unbelievable system.

Anyone involved in internet marketing knows that there are just so many hours in the day and “automation” seems to be the “holy grail” the just continues to elude us.   Where no system is ideal, the Worpress Mage system has one very key ingredient going for it: a strong community.  The “Mages” are tight and tend to rally around each other with an unbelievable degree of support and encouragement.  Greg Jacobs was clearly on the right track when he established his Mage Forum and encouraged community participation.

One of the Beta-Tester’s, Russell, declared: “I really like the Mage system and Kudos to Greg for creating the software and for putting the forum together. … I do feel that it is extremely generous of Greg to open the doors to his system and in doing so he has shared everything… all the videos and the pdf reports of which a lot of effort has gone into. Added to that is the free Affiliate-Mage tool that he really didn’t need to give away but chose to in what seems to be a genuinely gregarious spirit.”    Yes, it’s true.  Access to the Wordpress Mage “spellbook”, or manual, and training videos is absolutely free right now.  All you need to do to gain free access is visit here.

Tricia Abney with Rapid Response Marketing has been “sold” on this system so intensely that she has decided to market her first EVER internet marketing product. Not only that, she is putting her money where her mouth is by offering a $200 Cash Rebate as one of her bonuses. “I really am so enthusiastic about this software and this system.”, says Tricia. “Not only are these sites an absolute blast to create but I have sites that are getting traffic literally within 12-24 hours of launch.”   Is this product for everyone?   Probably not!  Serious marketers need only move forward because, honestly, anyone who plans to throw up one or two websites and then announce success or failure is in for a rude awakening.  The Mage System requires committment, not just to learn, but to execute.  Anyone who thinks they have what it takes is welcome…we’ll see you on the inside.

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The Thesis Wordpress Theme; Perfect For Beginners And Experts Alike

March 9th, 2010

Almost anyone who has ever set up a blog or tried to design a website will probably have used Wordpress at some time or other. It’s one of the most powerful, and popular, pieces of software to be found on the internet today.

Most people think that it’s just useful for blogs and they do little more than install a copy and add some content. However, if you search around the internet you will soon discover that Wordpress can d o much more than just act as a blogging platform. Its great popularity comes from its customizability thanks to the huge number of plug-ins and widgets that you can download for free. These add-ons enable you to configure Wordpress for almost any kind of website from simple sales pages to complete e-commerce stores complete with payment gateways and so on.

Its other great feature is the ability to change the look of your website at the touch of a button using templates, or as they are referred to in Wordpress circles, themes. Some themes offer little more than a change of colour or some extra graphics, but the better ones enable complete customisation of your website, right down to individual page level. Using such a template can really make your website seem individual and make it stick out from the crowd.

One of the best themes in terms of the level of customisation it offers is the Thesis Wordpress Theme by DIYThemes.com. This amazing template enables people with little or no web coding skills to completely customise the look and feel of their Wordpress installation. Non-techies can adjust a whole range of parameters from right inside the Wordpress control panel itself without ever changing a line of code.

There are 3 different ways to alter the look and feel of the Thesis them. These are listed under 3 menu options named Thesis Options, Design options and Custom File Editor from inside the control panel. The Thesis Options menu allow you to change things such as the layout of your navigation menus, add analytics and stats tracking code and gives you a fine degree of control over the display by tuning the headers, the posts, comments, sidebars and even tags that are used. The next menu option covers the design aspects of the Thesis theme. Here you have a bewildering range of choices that allow you to change the colours and fonts of every part of the site individually. You can have a feature box, a multimedia box for displaying video and even drop in a custom stylesheet if you have one.

Finally, you have the custom file editor. This utility allows even the most hardcore technical wizard full control over every aspect of the themes design. There is literally nothing that you cannot customise as long as you are familiar with Wordpress and PHP.

The Thesis Theme is amazingly versatile, as can be seen by some of the showcase blogs that are demonstrated on its homepage. If you are en expert you can play about with it to your hearts desire but if, like most of us, you never want to see a line of code, then you can still change almost every aspect of the design. You can really allow your creative juices to flow without your getting your hands dirty, making the Thesis Wordpress Theme one of the best available on the market.

ZK is an internet marketer and blog coach, he blogs on web marketing web marketing , his blog runs on the the Thesis Theme thesis theme

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Wordpress Goldmine – 3 Reasons Not to Buy

March 9th, 2010

Wordpress Goldmine is an internet marketing programme created by an English guy, Mark Thompson, who has been making a living online through blogs for the last 4 years.Unlike many programmes of a similar nature his does not promise that you will get rich quick or make $10,000 next month by throwing up a few ill conceived blogs that die a quick death.

Mark’s programme involves setting up a series of blogs and marketing and selling products, physical and electronic, in various nices. The only way to generate sales online is to firstly generate traffic.And the method that Worpress Goldmine encourages and employs is through the use of article marketing.When this works, and it does, you develop  sustainable long term traffic through ranking well in the search engines, particularly Google, which likes ezine articles and ranks them very well as it provides a steady stream of unique content for Google, which is what Google loves.

Reason 1

Uniquely this programme involves not just a downloadable ebook packed with the tips and resources which Mark has employed in his successful online business but you get lifetime membership of his forum where he provides an enormous amount of videos and follow up question answering.

The forum is incredibly active and helpful with people of varying levels of experience chipping in with their experience and information on various tools that they have used in their online businesses.

So why not buy? Because I want it to be kept a secret.Because of the understated sales page and hype free approach to his product Wordpress Goldmine has stayed under the radar compared to many other hype driven programmes promising you a fortune by next month/week.

Reason 2

This programme will involve work if you consider writing short and to the point articles of about 300 words work. It is not a get rich quick method but it is clear that it works and when you consider that all of the traffic you get from employing these methods is free traffic and it will be sustainable long term traffic as a result of ranking well on the search engines then it is a no brainer. But no you will not get rich overnight and yes you will build long term sustainable businesses..lots of them which will be pretty much maintenance free.

Mark’s programme tells you in step by step detail how  employ this strategy, how to write the most effective articles and how to market and promote your blogs properly.

Reason 3

Google’s AdWords and the other pay per click programmes won’t love you. Because you won’t be spending/wasting money getting instant quick unsustainable spikes of traffic which disappears like snow off a ditch as soon as you stop spending.

In summary I guess the most important reason I would ask you not to buy is that I and others like me don’t want the whole world and his uncle discovering that there is a way to build a successful online business..not just yet anyway.

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Bruce Dillon is a full time internet marketer who makes his living from creating profitable blogs.
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081229 SBS Gayo – Wonder Boy – Kissing U + Nobody

March 9th, 2010

The wonder boys are back!! Credits : kpopasia.wordpress.com

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Wordpress Tags — What Beginners Need To Know

March 9th, 2010

Wordpress tags can be a very simple but effective way of making your blog posts more search engine friendly.  You often reads about SEO, or searach engine optimization, and by using the Wordpress tags built in tool with your blog posts, you can make your blog more search engine friendly.

Whenever you make a post to your blog there are three requirements to do so, a title, the text of the post, and which of your categories you want your post inserted into.  But there is one more item that you can utilize when making your posts and this is ‘Tags’.  And these ‘tags’ require very little effort on your part.

So what are tags really?

Very simply, they are one or two words, that very briefly describe what your post is about.  They are descriptors.  Please don’t try to load up your tags with juicy internet marketing buzz words.  They do need to correspond with what your post is about.

What do tags do?

Tags help the search engines index and categorize your posts.  Because remember, every post you make is treated as its own web page in the eyes of the search engines.  This is a very good thing.  

How do I benefit from using tags?

If you can make it easier for the search engines to find your posts, then when people use those search engines they will have an easier time finding your material.    

Where do I put these tags?

When making your post, on the right side of the screen, near where you select your category, there is a little box for tags.  You enter your tags here.  If you wish to use more than one tag, you can separate them with a comma.

So that’s it. Tags are simple, easy to understand, and easy to use. So much so that anyone can make use of them.

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http://www.InternetMarketingforBeginnersBlog.com. There you will find resources for people just starting their web business journey.

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Advantages Of The Use Of Wordpress

March 9th, 2010

We know for fact that blogging is a business where aside from your skills money is also a part of your investments. Not only you sell blogs, you also buy these blogs. And for that, we tend to seek for ways on how we can make great utilization of our business in order to assure our selves that we are going to get our capital back and to earn the expected amount of profit we assume we will earn. One of the best ways in order to do this is to make sure that your websites are managed by a content management system or CMS. This is because we can get some good features from such CMS that will help us greatly in making our websites the best of what they can be. Wordpress is one CMS that will ensure you of this thing. You know, if there is one thing about its features that I will like, it will be the features of this wordpress that provide free plug-in and the like, even themes. There are themes provided by wordpress that are free. With that, if we can make full utilization of these free features, it will help us to save money for capital and we will earn the intended money we want to earn. Being wise is always a part of being a businessman and for that matter, wordpress helps us a lot.

Among the advantages of wordpress, I can say that the offering of free features is the best. Well, basically, at great times like these when the need to be wise and practical comes to use in order to keep up with the competition, we must learn to utilize everything that we can exploit to our advantage. It will be the only times when we can tell that we really are businessmen that are willing to do anything that will help us make our business soar high. Exploiting something that is free that is sure to help you is the wisest thing that you can do. With that wordpress helps a lot. Unlike any other CMS, wordpress tends to serve people for free at some point. For that, naturally, wordpress would really gain a lot of users and that is it. That is the name of the game. They help you, you help them. It is just like a pure give and take relationship. You don

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RENT10 – Today 4 U

March 9th, 2010

Today 4 U at RENT10 concert Available for trade at jrbplease.wordpress.com

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Best Affordable Blog/Wordpress Hosting: Top 3 Blog/Wordpress Web Hosts

March 9th, 2010

Looking for best affordable web hosting plans including Blog/Wordpress? First take a look at some important features which must be considered when choosing your web hosting company:

Reliability and uptime: Hosting uptime refers to the percentage of time the host is accessible via the internet. It is very important your service be uptime (functioning and available for use). It means you can access your account whenever you want to update your web pages, and users can enter your website whenever they refer to your site address. If your hosting service is not uptime it can be catastrophic!

Disk space: Web hosting space is the amount of room that the web host provides to store your HTML, graphic, video/audio and other files. This figure is most commonly stated in gigabytes. If you don’t know how much space you need for your website, you can choose a web host with unlimited disk space, which allows you to build as many web pages as you want.

Bandwidth: Bandwidth (or data transfer) refers to the amount of data that is accessed by your visitors. Web hosts define bandwidth as the total amount of data access from your server over a month’s time. This figure is most commonly expressed in gigabytes. If you don’t know how much bandwidth you need for your website, you can pick a web host with unlimited data transfer, which allows you to support as many visitors as you want.

Ease of Control Panel: It is important that the control panel is easy to use and all information can be accessed easily.

If you are a beginner it is generally hard to you to pick the right web hosting service. There are many websites which display a couple of web hosting companies as the best and leave people confused without being helpful. To make things even more confusing, some hosting companies are cheating and lying to their customers!

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All Web Hosts Presented On ThreeHosts.com Include Blog/Wordpress:

Threehosts.com is a reliable website to help you make the best choice. Their experts have been evaluating web hosting service providers for years, and now they provide you with the most reliable results. They present the information in an easy to understand format that helps the consumer make the best choice within just a few minutes. This is their purpose, to help you make the right choice the first time.

There you can reach the three reputable companies that are leaders in the web hosting industry. They are all easy-to-use and affordable.

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