Change The Admin Color Scheme of Your WordPress 2.5
April 3, 2008
To do this, simply go to your dashboard, click on “Users” and on your own user profile. Then, you can choose between the “Classic” or “Fresh” admin color schemes.
Here’s the default look, and the alternate look you can switch to. You can get the “old” predominantly blue color but it’s just the colors; you cannot get the same layout as you would in WordPress 2.3 or earlier versions.
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What is the Deal with the WordPress Theme Viewer?
April 2, 2008
The theme viewer is essentially a place where WordPress theme designers can upload their themes, and users can download themes. It is a feature-rich website, so you can filter your research with several parameters, leave comments, rate themes and so on.
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Sleek Graydient WordPress Theme
April 1, 2008
Features:
- Graydient is a two column theme
- It is widget ready
- Sidebar is on the right hand side
- Fixed width
WordPress 2.5
March 29, 2008
User Features
Read moreWhat Are Tags and How To Use Them in WordPress
March 28, 2008
Tags are descriptive keywords used to label something.But here’s the “correct” definition according to Wikipedia: Read more
20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider
March 28, 2008
1. About Page - perhaps one of the most common uses of the ‘page’ function on WP is the good old ‘about page’. Having an about page is essential in my mind as it gives new readers to your blog a snapshot of who you are and why they should subscribe to your blog. This is the page that I go to every time I hit a new blog - if they don’t have one it decreases my chances of subscribing significantly. Read more on adding an about page to your blog.
2. Contact Page - I’m amazed how many bloggers don’t have any way of contacting them on their blog. While I understand the temptation not to have one you could be missing out of wonderful opportunities by not giving readers, potential partners, press, other bloggers a way of contacting you. Read more on Why your blog’s readers should be able to contact you.
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A Year Ago on DBT: March 28
March 28, 2008
- 7 Ways to Promote your Site with a Bit of Money: Some time ago I wrote an article titled “Are you marketing your blog?” where I argued that there is a myth around the Internet that bloggers and webmasters should not spend money on advertising. The myth comes in great extent from the success stories of people that managed to create popular websites without spending a dime on advertising or other paid promotion techniques.
- Always install Wordpress on the root directory: Unless your blog is a secondary part of an existing website you should always install Wordpress on the root directory. When I created my first blog I used an automatic Wordpress instalation that my web hosting company offered, but the standard installation was done on “www.domain.com/blog”.
- Speed Up Your Site: Use a slash on your links: When a server opens a link in the form of “http://www.domain.com/about” it will need to figure what kind of file or webpage is contained on that address, wasting time on the process. If instead of using that link you include a slash (”/”) at the end like “http://www.domain.com/about/” the web server will already know that the link points to a directory, reducing the time to load the page.
- Avoid tricks when placing ads: When placing ads on your site do not try to trick the reader. By trick I mean any technique that will deceive the reader into thinking that a link or image is not an advertising when it actually is.
- Post excerpts on the Homepage?: Lately some blogs are starting to display post excerpts instead of full posts on the Homepage (e.g. Pronet Advertising). There are both advantages and disadvantages with this method.
- Are you marketing your blog?: There is a myth around the blogosphere that bloggers should not spend money on advertising for their blogs. It is founded on the success stories where established bloggers affirm that they achieved thousands of dollars in monthly revenues without spending a dime on advertising or other marketing techniques.
- Customize the Feedburner Chicklet: This tip is easy to implement but it can be very useful if you are trying to customize the text on your Feedburner Feed Count Chicklet. Just look into the HTML code that Feedburner provided you for the Chicklet and locate the address of the image.
Author Exposed WordPress Plugin
March 23, 2008
The way it works is that the author name is still displayed as a link below the post title. But now instead of clicking out onto the authors site that is linked to the profile with the_author() tag, it will pop up this box as seen above.
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Easter Release Link Love
March 22, 2008
Plugins Update: Wordpress v2.5 Compatible
March 18, 2008
