If you use WordPress as a CMS for your clients’ websites, you’ve probably faced that issue: regular people find WordPress hard to use. Yes, it is quite user-friendly, but apparently not enough for people who double-click on links when browsing or worst, enter their website’s url in Google to get there. To make it easier for these people to maintain their own website, I would suggest the following tips.

1. Install an extended version of TinyMCE

This is one of the first things I realize that the person who will maintain the website is not… Read the rest

SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.

It is a perfect solution to get your blog posts interlinked or add affiliate links to other sites.

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chown daemon:daemon .htaccess

Unfortunately this resulted in a 500 Interal Server Error. Looking at… Read the rest

Earlier I had pointed to another excellent AdSense Deluxe WordPress Pluginthat lets you insert Google Adsense / Yahoo Ads into blog posts easily. But there were no random ads insertion and you decided where to insert the ads.

The new Adsense Injection wordpress plugin just takes a random paragraph break in your article and inserts google adsense code. It… Read the rest

.htaccess file:
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress

Fllow is my nginx’s rewrite rule for wordpress:
location / {
index index.php index.html;
if (!-e $request_filename)
{
rewrite ^/(.+)$ /index.php?p=$1 last;
}
}

Major New Improvements

First and foremost, 2.8 is way faster to use. We’ve changed the way WordPress does style and scripting.

The core and plugin updaters in previous versions of WordPress have been such a success we decided to bring the same to themes. You can now browse the entire theme directory… Read the rest

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

Installation:

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The release date for WordPress 2.8 has almost been confirmed, according to the latest blog post on the WordPress development blog, the target date for releasing WordPress 2.8 is June 10th.

However this is only a target date and may not end up as being the release date in the end, however it would be good to see it released soon, considering the good number of features it has.… Read the rest

Related Links:

• Plugin Homepage
• Changelog
• Plugin and sitemaps FAQ
• Support Forum

Download Url
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-sitemap-generator.3.1.2.zip

Install:

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