Wordpress by Examples

Google Code Lab has come out something wonderful again, this time is Google AJAX search.
Place a search bar to your sidebar, user search result will be appear in your sidebar neatly without needed user to switch to other search result page. It is convenient for user who read the post halfway and wants to search for keywords and read it later.

Check out AJAX Search API Blog, tried out the google AJAX search yourself. In order to bring the search to your blog, you need to register for a API key from google, so register now.

Is it any widget ready wordpress plugin available for Google AJAX search?
Yes, thats the purpose of this blog post, Get the plugin from dancemeron.org.

Technorati Tags: google ajax search, wordpress widget plugin

We may have already familiar with Wordpress functionality as a blogging platform or to a lesser extent - a content management system, but do you know that you can write a book with Wordpress?

Producing a book using blog is not a new thing in the internet as the first blook (as it is called) was produced by Tony Pierce in 2002 when he compiled a collection of blog posts as a book.

Since then Blook has been recognized as a way of producing books using blogging platform. The first blook award was sponsored by Lulu.com (Lulu Blooker Prize) in 2006 to encourage quality written blooks from bloggers.

You can refer to the links below for more information on how to write books using blogging platform :

• How to write a book - Wordpress.com
• Making People Read - Novelr

Technorati Tags: writing, books, blogging, blogs, book, wordpress, blogger.com, blogger

Seems my announcement about the new Wordpress release 2.2 was a bit premature. Wordpress team has announced that the latest release will be delayed as far as June.

Meanwhile, if you’re using Wordpress 2.0.x or 2.1.x), it is advisable that you upgrade the installation to the latest bugfix release (2.0.10, 2.1.3) to avoid your site from being compromised. Trust me, I heard about compromised Wordpress installation all because the owner refuse to upgrade to the latest release.

Technorati Tags: wordpress, blog, blogging, blogs, vulnerability

I have read the long tail, understand that every single post of a blog have its potential of readers. In order to encourage your reader read more about you stuff, it is good to provide links to related post. As you have reduce the research cost of your readers, at the same time, you improve your web traffics. Why reduce the research cost of your readers? Your readers may searching for some information, with your related post link, he gets what he wants in one short instead of having to queries at search engine.

If you have using wasabi related post plugin, I am here to introduce you a variant of wasabi related post, its call aizatto’s related post.

What is so special about this plugin?

related_posts(5, 10, '< li >‘, ‘< /li >‘, , , false, false);

If you are using wasabi version, you need to do this manually, with aizatto’s version, It does for you automatically.

ALTER TABLE `wp_posts` ADD FULLTEXT `post_related` (
`post_name` , `post_content`
)

This is cool, as I have a lots or RSS readers. This is one of the reason why my web traffics increases.

Aizatto suggest me that I should change the css style instead of change the codes of the plugins. But why not? Its open source anyway, and the codes is not so difficult to read.

That is the best parts, It improves web traffics and consequestly improves adsense income.

Seeing is believing
I am here to shows you few examples of blog post that uses aizatto’s related post plugins.

Drag all the way down, you can see the related post links after the post, and continues with adsense links. With the fine tuning of your related post and adsense outlook, both of them looks really native to the post.

I recommend you to try it out, this is one of the great plugins I ever have.

It’s just another 3 days worth of waiting for the latest major wordpress release to come out. The Wordpress 2.2 will spot :

The much awaited ATOM 1.0 feed support
• ATOM API support (much like blogger.com ATOM API)
• Improved comment editing
• PHPMailer integration for performance and reliability of SMTP mailing feature
• New XML-RPC API for pages
• Widgetized default themes

Feels like earlier this year since Wordpress made the last major release of its popular blogging platform (2.1 Ella). Oh no wait, it is earlier this year! Boy, wordpress team is so much productive compared to other open source cms projects.

Wait for the official release of Wordpress 2.2 on 24 April 2007.

Technorati Tags: wordpress, blog, blogging, blogger, blogger.com, atom

Blog comments isn’t always the best way for a reader to contact you. This is because the nature of blog comments itself that available for public viewing. Readers sometimes like to contact you directly in private to ask questions or gives feedback about your blog.

There are two ways to do this,

1. Lists your email address and hope that it doesnt end up in the hand of spammers
2. Put a professional looking contact form

The choice is obviously no 2,

In order to do that, you need to download Wordpress Contact Form plugin and install it on your blog.

After that, create a Wordpress page titled “Feedback” or “Contact” and click “Insert Contact Form” in your wordpress editor.

Save it, and you’ll have a professionally looking Contact form on your blog, just like the contact form in Wordpress By Examples.

Technorati Tags: wordpress, contact form, contact

Darren Rowse the problogger has written an article about the importance of making your RSS feeds pops out.

This is vital because an easily identifiable RSS feeds can quickly catch the eye of a casual reader, effectively increasing your readers base.

What makes RSS feeds pops?
RSS feeds that pops is a syndication feed which has extra bling on it, such as extra styling and images achievable through the use of clever css/xsl stylesheet and images.

These will sufficiently make your RSS feeds different from others and will be one of the factor that attract them to subscribe your feeds, which will increase your readers.

Here’s the link to the related howto make your Wordpress RSS feeds ‘POP’ :

• How to Make your RSS Feeds Pop in Wordpress
• WordPress Feed Styler
• how to make your RSS feeds POP

Hope you will find it useful…

Technorati Tags: rss, feeds, darren rowse, wordpress, atom

Color is been a very critical issues when your really into web design. Mixing colors of matching fore color and background color is a non-trivial matter and must take serious care.

Hex Hub HTML Color Codes gives a very convenience way to help you choose your color. It list the color with html codes, and color names as well with difference series.

For example, if your blog is about technical articles you will like to choose color from “warms“.

While there are not many people using PDA or smartphone to surf blogs, it is nice to have your blog can reach other internet users too, no matter how they access them.

Handheld device such as smartphone or PDA has a limited display screen and relatively slow internet access speed. They might be turned-off by the full styling and template of your Wordpress blog that isn’t suited for small-screen display.

Luckily somebody has created Wordpress PDA plugin, a relatively simple and small plugin can make your blog PDA friendly. Please read it from Makes your Wordpress Pocket PC PDA-friendly, for more information about the plugin.

Technorati Tags: mobile, phone, pda, pocketpc, palm, windows ce, smartphone, wordpress

One of the things that I like about Spam Karma 2 compared to Akismet, that SK2 is extensible so you can write new SK2 plugins in order to filter out new spams tailor made for your blog/language.

Here’s some of the additional plugins I write for Spam Karma that you might find useful to in addition to the default spam karma 2 plugins, the Fishy User Agents and Blacklisted IP Address Checker.

Installing these plugins is simple, you just need to uncompress the zip file and copy it into the sk2_plugins inside SK2 folder in your Wordpress plugins directory.

Then check the status of the plugins in Manage->Spam Karma 2->General Settings.

What’s new about these plugins ?

Fishy User-Agent -
A relatively weak plugin, but useful for filtering up dumb bots or browsers that has been infected with spam bots. It checks for known malicious user-agent, and spank it.

Blacklisted IP Address RBL
Checks IP address for open proxy using RBL services from sorbs.net. Blacklisted IP will receive huge spanking.

Hopefully these plugins will help you keep those annoying spammers away from your blog

Download zip file at.
papit_sk2plugins.zip