Monthly Archives: March 2007
Pleased with progress
Site News Whilst BloggingTips.org is still a relatively new site, im pleased with the progress it has made. The BT Dark Green theme has been downloaded more than 200 times in less than 2 days….more than double other themes uploaded on the same day. Im a bit dissapointed ive not had more feedback about it but im sure that will come in time Im heading off this weekend so there will be no major update this weekend. However, i have started on the ...
Continue readingUsing pageslug in WordPress
WordPress A feature that wordpress has and is sometimes forgotten about is the postslug feature. You can use it in posts but its probably more applicable to pages. The postslug gives you the option of having nicer urls for popular and important pages within your blog. Take for example our users online page. The page is called ‘No. of Visitors currently viewing blogging tips’ however the url address of the page is ...
Continue readingBlogging Tips Dark Green WordPress Theme
WordPress Themes Im very pleased to announce BloggingTip’s first theme for wordpress which is now available for download. I hope you like it – please leave some feedback if you can as it will help me with future designs etc. Terms of Use 1. We do not force you to keep the copyright links in the footer however we do appreciate the link back. 2. Feel free to spread the word about these templates however if you do please link to this page – ...
Continue readingA huge free WordPress Themes List
WordPress Themes There are hundreds of great wordpress themes on the web which kind hearted designers have released out of the goodness of their hearts. awwwww….aren’t they nice!!! Here is a collection of dozens i found tonight when looking for good templates. Remember, please contact us if you know of any good themes you want to share with everyone else. Im a huge fan of free themes. By downloading several themes and looking at the code you can ...
Continue readingThemePorter
WordPress Themes i came across this site today. The guy has spent time porting over free css templates to wordpress. Good job i say! http://www.themeporter.com/ At the moment the following themes are available but more are to come. Atomohost WordPress Theme Differential WordPress Theme The Rag Blog WordPress Theme ACME Group WordPress Theme Desert Sand WordPress Theme Red Business WordPress Theme Historical WordPress Theme 3 Quarter WordPress Theme 606 WordPress ...
Continue readingText Link Ads
Making Money It’s about time i wrote about one of my fave affiliate sites, Text Link Ads. I’ve been using them for nearly a year now and my income from them is currently around $700 per month but its increasing every month. Web developers have been screaming out for a site like Text Link Ads for years. How many times have you seen content sites advertising completely unrelated items through amazon. This probably wasn’t because the webmaster ...
Continue readingInternal or External Stylesheets
CSS Cascading style sheets can be used internally or externally – ie. you can can add your style code to your page directly or place it in a seperate style code and link to it. Its a very basic concept but since not everyone is familiar with CSS and since nearly all blogs use it, i thought it would be worthwhile posting about it. Internal Stylesheet Here is the basic code for an HTML page. <html> <head> ...
Continue readingBlog stats and users online
WordPress Plugins i addded two new plugins today to the blog. Ive been looking at various plugins and found both of these from the same author – namely, Lester Chan. WP UserOnline The useronline plugin shows users online on your sidebar and on its own dedicated page. You can see the seperate page here. WP Stats The second plugin is called WP Stats. You can see the stats it displays for us here. The stats page shows loads of things including post stats, ...
Continue readingWordPress Plugin Directory Launched
WordPress Yesterday wordpress finally launched their own plugin directory. Im sure that this will end up becoming the main place to get your plugins. Fingers crossed it encourages more quality plugins to be developed Check it out at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/Â
Continue readingMy favourite File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Software & Programs In order to transfer files from your pc to your website you need to either use an online file manager (not practical for a lot of files) or an ftp. There are a lot of ftps out there. Before i told you about my favourite text editor so now ill tell you about my favourite ftp. Over the years i had used a lot of ftps but the ones i used most often was leech ftp and netfile ftp. Leech is a decent ftp but ...
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