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WordPress Plugin Compatibility Beta

Varghese — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:12:39 +0000

The number one reason people give us for not upgrading to the latest version of WordPress is fear that their plugins won’t be compatible. As part of our continuing efforts to make WordPress core, plugin, and theme upgrades as painless as possible, Michael Adams developed and launched a beta of a new “Compatibility” feature in the plugin directory, powered by your votes. When viewing a plugin in the directory, select a WordPress version and a plugin version from the drop-downs. If there has been feedback about this WordPress / plugin version combination, we’ll show you what percentage of responses marked that combination as compatible vs how many marked it as incompatible.

If you log in, you’ll be able to help us gather this information! Just select a WordPress version / plugin version combination and click the “Works” or the “Broken” button. Please note that this shouldn’t be used to report minor issues with a plugin. You should mark a plugin as “Broken” only if its core functionality is truly broken when run on the specified WordPress version.

Right now we’re just in information gathering mode. So get out there and vote! Don’t just vote on… Read More

Source: WordPress Development Blog

How to handle Blog Comments?

Varghese — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:15:45 +0000

In order to create a successful impression on a blog, comments are very important. So always encourage readers to give valuable comments for the post on your blog. Once you submit a post on you blog, you certainly expect comments for the post and you can’t predict the comments from the readers are positive or negative criticisms. A blogger should know how to handle the comments for post on the blog. Also try to create an online community of those who are posting valuable comments on your blog.

Reply to comments should be qualitative.
Don’t respond if you receive “smileys” or any sort of non-alphabetic as a comment.
Respond to both positive or negative criticisms.
Never write any comments thats is going to hurt the one who commented on your blog.
Always treat you the readers well who commented, because they are the promoters / fans of your blog.
Always your comments should entertain them to come to your blog again and read your post.
If you receive any spam, remove it immediately. Use Aksimet to block spam.
Analyse each comments you are receiving and try to find the taste of the readers who comment, so next post you can write what the readers are interested to read.
If you receive any irrelevant comments, remove it immediately. No one like to view or read irrelevant comments in a blog.
Finally always start the reply to the comments with a ‘Thanks’.

Business Blogging Tips

Varghese — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:51:12 +0000

Business Blogs or Corporate blog are the voice of a company. So while blogging be careful about what you are posting in the blog. A good business blog create loyal customers and build trust. Always keep in mind that your business blog have to bring new customers and not make your rivals. Listing below some tips for business blogging.

Host your blog on your own hosting space or server. Don’t host it on free hosting platforms.
Don’t copy any post / articles from any other blogs, if you have to do that put the URL / Website name from where you took the article.
Try to avoid personal stuffs from business blogging. For example CEO vacation etc cannot be on a corporate blog.
Don’t use your business blog to downgrade you competitor or anyone.
Avoid religious or political issues from a business blog.
Welcome positive and negative comments for your post on the blog.
Reply to comments will be in a professional way, same like the way you talk to your customers.
Don’t fill you blog with lots of advertisements and banner it will gives less prominence to your posts.
Don’t start a blog if you don’t have a designated person to manage it.
A good business blog will be always updated with new post.

WordPress.org and WordPress.com

Varghese — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:39:19 +0000

WordPress has two option for bloggers.

Both of them can be downloaded from respective websites for free, but WordPress.com is hosted for free and WordPress.org have to hosted independently.

For starters WordPress.com is the best place, because you can start blogging with out paying anything for hosting your blog. And once you are satisfied with the blogging platform you can shift to the paid hosting one. The free hosted blog (WordPress.com) have all the blogging features like the payed hosting one (WordPress.org), but it won’t allow you to place any of your ads in your blog.

WordPress.org is free to download from www.wordpress.org and only you have to pay for the hosting only. You can select your own domain name like what i selected (www.brandcultivator.com) for you blog. But before booking any hosting services for you blog, check if it supports wordpress or PHP / MySql.

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WordPress – The perfect choice for Blogging

Varghese — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:56:57 +0000

WordPress – Father of Blogging platform.

I recommend WordPress as a blogging platform because of it simplicity, doesn’t mean other blogging platforms are not good. WordPress is my personal choice.

More over WordPress blogs are search engine friendly, so the chances of listing your blog on the top list of many search engines are high. If you are new to blogging start with WordPress, administration of the blog is also simple.

Main Features of WordPress are:

Search Engine Friendly.
WordPress blogs are W3C compliant(www.w3.org).
Customisation is very easy.
WordPress gives option to create non-blogging pages, like Home page, contact page, feedback page etc.
Lots of plugins available to enhance the look and functionality of WordPress blogs.
Large number of free and premium themes available.
URL customisation is a good option in WordPress.
Support for WordPress blog through forms and other blogs are awesome.

An introduction to Blog.

Varghese — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:27:07 +0000

A blog is a best known form of social media. Blog is short for weblog.

Blogs are online journals, with posts (articles) appearing in a reverse chronological order. That means the recent (new) posts are displayed first.

We can also call blog as a website, where items (articles) are posted on regular basic. Each post on the blog has a section for readers to comment.

Starting a blog is so simple; it doesn’t require much more experience on programming. That’s why blogging become so popular.

There are different blogging platforms available for blogging.

are some of them.

But i prefer WordPress because of its more flexible compared to all other blogging platform.

The activity of updating a blog is Blogging. The person who updates or writes post on the blog is a Blogger.

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