Monthly Archives: November 2008
WordPress 2.7 Theme Enhancements II
WordPress Coding & Design Last week I explained about two of the three enhancements available in WordPress 2.7. This week it’s all about the new comment options. Before I continue however, there seemed to be some confusion last week from a comment or two. These changes are enhancements. Your existing themes will still work with WordPress 2.7, you will just not get the benefits or be able to use some of the new features until these changes are made. So don’t ...
Continue readingHow To Write Articles For Article Marketing In Less Than 12 Minutes
Writing Are you one among the many number of people who neglect article marketing only because it takes time? Do you sit for more than 30 minutes to write articles that you are submitting to article directories? If you answered yes to the above questions, continue reading the post. You should neither neglect article marketing nor spend hours writing one single article. The reason why you should not spend a lot time for writing articles is that the main ...
Continue readingBlogging Tips Forum Competition Comes To An End
Competitions Today is the end of our 7 week long Forum Competition. I hope you have all enjoyed it In addition to cash prizes at the end of the competition, forum members also picked up several great prizes over 7 weeks. Therefore, before moving on, I would like to give a huge thank you to all our forum sponsors. Much appreciated guys Daily Blog Tips Unique Blog Designs Performancing Metrics Branding David Max Blog Press ProBlogger Cash Prize Results At 12pm ...
Continue reading3 Types Of Blogs You Should Be Subscribing To
Blogging Yaro Starak confessed in his Blog Blazers interview that he rarely reads books and instead prefers to study ebooks and audio from experts. I have always encouraged BloggingTips readers to subscribe to good blogs within their niche but it really depends on what you are blogging about. For example, there is no need to subscribe to any blogs if you’re just posting on your personal blog but if you run a video games blog you should pay ...
Continue readingCSS Basics: The Background Properties
CSS Last week I briefly touched on a few selector properties when styling hyperlinks. I’m going to start to go into more properties. These properties can be used on any selector (although not every property will necessarily have an effect on some selectors). CSS Selectors Just to recap, a selector is the tag, id or class you’re targeting eg. [sourcecode language="css"]h1 { … } #idname { … } .classname { … }[/sourcecode] ...
Continue readingSEO & Security for Bloggers
Blogging Whether you just want to get your personal brand out there or make money as an affiliate blogger, you’re going to want to attract organic traffic. After all, new visitors means a wider audience and/or more potential buyers. If you’re using WordPress on your own domain, however, there’s a very good reason to make sure that you have the most up-to-date version. One of the things that Google takes into consideration when ...
Continue readingBlogging Jobs: How to Turn One Customer into a Repeat Client
Making Money In any business, repeat sales are the name of the game. When you have repeat sales, you don’t have to work as hard to make money. If you apply for blogging jobs, when you land one client, following are some steps to turn them into a repeat client. ATTN Bloggers and Freelance Writers: 3 Ways to Gain Long-term Clients Create Backend Sales: The first thing you have to do is have more than one product offering. How does this apply to freelance ...
Continue readingGoogle Says Gmail Hack was a Phishing Scheme
Software & Programs Yesterday I spoke about the security of domains names. In both cases it the domain hijackers gained access to the bloggers Gmail account and added some filters to direct their email elsewhere. GNUCitizen claimed that the hackers used a multipart/form-data POST to gain access to the Gmail account but yesterday Google claimed this wasn’t the case. Chris Evans from the Google Online Security team said : With help from affected users, we ...
Continue readingWin a WordPress Theme from Unique Blog Designs
Competitions Today is the seventh and final week of our $1,500 Forum Competition. This weeks prize is a full licensed copy of one of Unique Blog Designs WordPress Themes (worth $79), kindly donated by UBD. UBD themes are very easy to install and customise. The winner of this competition can choose what UBD design they think best suits their blog. Competition Details This weeks question is quite straight forward : “What niche would you like to see more ...
Continue readingWordPress 2.6.5 released to fix security problem
WordPress WordPress has just announced the release of version 2.6.5, which fixes one security problem and three bugs. According to WP : The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from the 2.6.5 release package. 2.6.5 contains three other small fixes in ...
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