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How to Make Your WordPress Blog’s Comments Section More Appealing to the Commenter
Did you know that by default, your WordPress blog has the rel=”nofollow” attribute enabled by default? This means that anybody who comments on your blog will not receive a backlink from your website. It takes time and effort to provide an insightful comment, and many people who comment hope that your blog will in return provide a backlink to their blog for their efforts.
Have no fear! There are many plug-ins available to spruce up your comments section. The plug-ins suggested below will add a lot of functionality beyond the WordPress basic comments feature, and entice your readers to actually leave comments, rather than just read and move on. Continue reading
Adding an Artisteer Styled Template Button to the Content of Your Joomla Website
Artisteer is a very easy to use and professional template creator. The software can create custom designed templates/themes/layouts for popular CMS systems like Joomla! and Wordress. Within the template creator, you can customize your buttons that will used to display on forms, widgets, and the “Read More” link in Joomla!
This tutorial shows how a button can be added within a post/page/article wherever you want it to be. The only choices that need to be made, is whether the Artisteer template was created in version 3.x or 2.x, and whether the link opens in the same window or in a new one. Continue reading
How to Fix a Blank WordPress 3.x Dashboard
If you are one of those people just like I was yesterday, then you are staring at a blank WordPress screen, where your dashboard should be. That was me yesterday. There were a lot of tutorials out there about fixing 2.x installations, but they involved manipulating a plug-in database table, which did not exist in my WordPress 3.x installation.
So, here is the picture. I can’t get into my backend dashboard. However, I can see the frontend of my website. With nothing but my 10 years experience in computers, and my wits, I tackled the problem and won… Continue reading
What’s New in Joomla! 1.7 And Should You Upgrade
Web designers everywhere are still getting used to all the new added features of Joomla! 1.6, but now Joomla! 1.7 is here. Web designers who enjoyed all of the brilliant new changes like Access Control lists and multiple themes to a single template may be expecting the same amount of updates to the 1.7 version. They will be sorely disappointed. Joomla! 1.7 has a few changes but nowhere near the amount as the previous update.
It took 3 years to produce Joomla! 1.6 after 1.5, but only 6 months to come out with 1.7 which is supposed to be the beginning of a 6 month revision to revision cycle. The down side is less new features, but that boon is far outweighed by the ability to keep on top of security through more frequent updating. Continue reading
Top 5 Essential Plug-ins for WordPress
WordPress is world renowned for being a very easy to use, completely ready out of the box CMS system; ready to launch your blog in a matter of minutes. However, there are thousands of great plug-ins that are available to download for free and for a fee. Today we are going to take a look at the top 5 must have plug-ins that are not installed with WordPress, but can greatly improve your website, especially in the area of Social Media Integration. After all, isn’t that the whole point of blogging? All of these extensions are compatible with WordPress 3.0 or higher. Continue reading
