Category: Blogging Tips

How To Crop And Resize Images In WordPress

I just noticed lots of people visit this blog for wordpress related keywords, so I really thought I would do some couple of wordpress tutorials today which most people would want to know at some point after using wordpress for a while. One of the things which people might want to know is how to crop and resize images. Many people like me feel lazy to get the pics up in photoshop or any image editing software to do the job, because it takes your time away in achieving something as simple as resizing and cropping images, I don’t like to waste my 5 or 10 mins on a simple task such as that. So here is how you can crop and re-size images right from your blog admin panel.

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Dec 23, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

5 Tips On How To Decide On Your Blog’s Niche

Many people find it difficult to choose a niche for their blogs, Here are some useful tips that will help them to decide on a niche that they will be comfortable with.

1. What Is Your Field Of Interest:
Before starting a blog, just take time to think on what you are really interested in, are you passionate about health related topics or politics or celebrities or whatever it may be, just make sure to know yourself a bit to decide on what is your field of interest. That’s the basic step you really need to take before starting a blog.

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Dec 14, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

5 Useful Tips For Amateur Bloggers

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If you are new to blogging world and have no idea how to start up with a blog, then these tips will be little helpful for you to guide your way to basics of blogging.

1. Deciding On your Blog’s Niche:
Before starting a blog you need to know, what are you going to blog about, one of the big mistakes many people do is that they tend to blog on lots of stuffs in the same blog and want to cover almost all the topic in the world. Just don’t blog that way make sure that you are focusing on some particular and more focused topic and blog about it.

2. Whom Are You Focusing On:
Another important aspect you need to know is, who are your audience, what would be there average age group, what are they looking for in a blog. Researching a bit on youtube videos might well help you a lot to find out the age groups of people who would be interested in your blog.

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Dec 14, 2009 | 1 comment | View Post

Easy Guide On How To Install Plugins In WordPress

Installing plugins is a lot easier, you are no more required to use your ftp access each time you want to upload a particular plugin, you can directly install any plugin you need right from your wordpress admin panel. Here is how you can do it.

Step 1:

Under plugins option in your wordpress admin panel just click on add new option.

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Step 2:
Choose the upload option at the top and upload the zip file of the plugin and install it.

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alternatively you can also search for the template and install it directly without the need to download and upload the zip file, making the job a lot easier.

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Dec 10, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

How To Secure Your WordPress Blog From Hackers

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Wordpress is one of the most popular blogging platform with large number of users in the whole world now, on the one had its a great news, but on the other hand as the more number of users who run this software on their server to run their own blogs, there are also hackers on the other hand who want to take advantage of the unknown loop holes in the script.

Here is a very simple yet very effective way to protect your wordpress blogs from hackers.

All you need to do is copy and paste this code in your .htaccess file located in your /wp-admin folder

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Dec 10, 2009 | 2 comments | View Post

Easy Guide On How To Install WordPress Themes

WordPress made things easy on so many ways, the way which you can upgrade the software, install plugins and install themes as well. Today we will see how you can easily find and install themes in your wordpress blog practically without any serious effort.

Most people feel lazy to unzip their theme files and upload it to appropriate directory in order to install a theme, that’s a long way round out there. But wordpress really reduces you work in this aspect, you are no more expected to unzip and upload the theme files through your ftp software. Just follow the steps below to ease your installation of wordpress themes.

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Dec 09, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

How To Add Image In To Your Blog Post Using WordPress

I always like to read posts that has pictures in them, it makes the post look good, and not only that pictures makes your entire blog look really nice and pleasant, unless you have plans to run an adult blog of course. Adding image to your blog post is really easy and fast using wordpress and we will see how you can do it now.

1. Once you get to the add new post section in your wordpress then you need to click on the small square box that appears at the top of your default toolbar.

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Dec 04, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Understanding HTML Editor In WordPress

WordPress by default comes with two editor options to make your posting options easy, I personally prefer using HTML editor, reason is its simple and also it produces more cleaner posts for search engines over visual editor and not only that HTML editors are really easy to use and very simple. I am sure many webmasters do prefer HTML editor over Visual editors in wordpress.

To choose HTML editor you can simple click on HTML by the side of Visual in the Add New Post area in your wordpress admin panel. Once you are through with HTML editor you will see the following editing options available to you.
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b: It helps to make your text look bold.

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Dec 03, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

How To Insert Hyperlinks In To Post In WordPress

You might have came across many pages having hyper links to other posts or links leading to some other site in a blog post, today we will see how we can achieve that in our own blog post and successfully create a hyperlink in our posts to other related posts in our own blog and also posts related to our topic in some other blog.

Once you get to your Add New Post section in your wordpress blog where you will type in the contents of your article, you will be able to see a tool in your visual editor like a small link of chain as show in the picture below.

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Dec 03, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

How To Use The Hidden Toolbar In WordPress?

Many bloggers are not aware and in fact I came across one of my friend who was blogging for almost two years and he is not aware that there is a hidden toolbar in wordpress visual editor which can be used to for advanced formatting options. Yes This tool is called kitchen sink tool and its button looks like the one shown below.

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Once you click on it then you would be able to see a new row of advanced tools reveals itself.
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With this new tool bar you can do advanced formatting options such a formatting text color, changing the size of the text, use special symbols, copy and paste texts out of your word file, underline texts, justify the texts etc..

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Dec 03, 2009 | 1 comment | View Post
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