If you have created many posts in your blog, you might want to highlight your most popular entries to your readers. The purpose is that hopefully your blog readers will read more of your blog content.

There is a plugin that can help you. It is known as Wordpress Popular Posts.

This plugin allows you to decide the term “popular” either by the most comments, total views or average daily views. You can set it at the setting screen which I will show you later.

Then you need to go to Widget and drag the Popular Posts widget and paste at the sidebar of your choice.

Installation
•    You need to download the plugin from wordpress-popular-posts plugin
•    Unzip the files in your PC
•    Upload the files intoyour blog’s plugin folder.
•    Then you need to go to your blog’s plugin and look for Wordpress Popular Posts.
•    Click on activate.

Configuration
Click on Settings->Wordpress Popular Posts.

The configuration screen appears. You may follow the guide on the screen and configure accordlingly or you may change it to your likings.  Then click on update settings

Widget
Select Appearance->Widgets
Select the sidebar where you want the Popular Posts to be displayed.
As for my blog, it has a sidebar_top( Note: This differs for different wordpress theme)
Drag the Popular Posts widget and place it there.
You are done!

You can see my Popular Posts Widget at my blog’s Right Column

Cheers

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Most of blogs that I visited have serious look. Very business like.

A typical blog will have words only. At a glance it looks boring.

Some try to enhance it by putting static pictures or images in their postings.

There is nothing wrong with that. In fact I also capture images and included in my postings.

One of the ways to liven up your blog & to make it friendlier are to have active smileys that can move.

People tend to be attracted to things that move.

I have found a plugin that have active smileys known as Wp-Monalisa.

You can down it here at http://www.tuxlog.de/wordpress/2009/wp-monalisa/

Steps to download & install

Download the Plugin into your PC.

Unzip it and upload to your blog’s plugin folder.

Go to your blog’s plugin and look for Wp-Monalisa.

Click on activate.

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When you go to Add New Post you will see the smileys at the right column.

Following are the samples of the smileys.

These smileys can be pasted, depending on your choice, in posts, pages or comments.

Hope this will help to inject a little bit of humor & remind your readers to smile a bit.

Hey! Life is meant to be enjoyed. Don’t take things too seriously!!!

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When I say, go and look at Archives articles on the blog. Where will you look first?
Most of the people will look at the right or left column of the blog with the title Archives there, right?

There is another way to allow your readers to search for your Archives content in a unique and refreshing view.

One of the ways is to use Snazzy Archives Plugin.
You can get it here. http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/snazzy-archives

Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts. Your archive page will never be boring again!
Snazzy Archives simply lets you express yourself and your blog. You can select different layouts and special effects, Snazzy archives will make sure your content stands out.

Snazzy Archives Plugin allows you view the Archives content at the tab at the top.

The thing I like about Snazzy Plugin is that it allows you to present your previous blog contents in an interesting arrangement together with pictures.

It also has some other arrangements that you would like to view before you use it on your blog.

You can view the sample here:
http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/snazzy-archives

In order to use this plugin you need to download the plugin from
http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/snazzy-archives

Steps to install & configure
Download the Plugin into your PC.
Unzip it and upload to your blog’s plugin folder.
Go to your blog’s plugin and activate it.
Click on Settings->Snazzy archives.
The configuration screen appears. You may follow the guide on the screen and configure accordlingly. If you not sure, use default settings.

Next, you need to go to Page->Add New.

At the top, give it a name, eg Archives

At the content, you need to key  exactly as per screenshot below.

Save the page.

That’s it. You may go to blog’s home page. At the tab you will see new page that you just created.

Cheers!

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In order to increase traffics to your blog, you need to optimize the keywords in content and also in images.

Many people use keywords to search for information. As such it is important to optimize the blog with correct keywords in order to ensure your blog is displayed prominently in the search results page.

But there are other people that search for images or pictures. Therefore it is encouraged to have picture or images in your blog posting. Do you know pictures attract readers more than words?

In order to optimize the images or pictures into SEO friendly, you need to ensure the ALT & TITLE attributes are correctly done.

As I am not a programmer by profession, I have difficulty in checking the HTML programming lines and update the ALT & TITLE correctly.

Enter the SEO Friendly Images plugin that really makes my day. If you are seriously in increasing traffic to your blog, you really need to activate this plugin in your blog.
Once you have activated the plugin, it will automatically update all the images in your blog with ALT & TITLE. You can double check it by looking at the HTML codes.
It really makes your life easy. Now who says automation is bad?

SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.

ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a user searches for a certain image this is a key determining factor for a match.

TITLE attribute play lesser role but is important for visitors as this text will automatically appear in the tooltip when mouse is over the image.

You can download the plugin at seo friendly images

Installation & Configuration
Download the Plugin into your PC.
Unzip it and upload to your blog’s plugin folder.
Go to your blog’s plugin and activate it.

Click on Settings->SEO Friendly Images.
The following appears.

You can change the parameters for ALT & TITLE or you can take the default settings. After that click on Update Options to save it.

It will then update all of your blogs images with ALT & TITLE attributes.

Cheers

Alwin Chuah

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Are your Feedburner readers receiving emails with the same name of your blog or some other text that you specify as your email title every time you update your blog?
Similar to the list of emails below? If it is, then you need to improvise it. Otherwise, they might not read the email. They might think you are sending the same item over & over again.

You need to make some changes in the Feedburner to send your blog post title instead of your blog name.

1)    Go to http://feedburner.google.com and sign in .
2)    Click on the Feed Title.
3)    Click on Publicize Tab
4)    Click on Email Subcriptions
5)    Click on Email Branding
6)    At the Email Subject/Title , key in the following ${latestItemTitle}.

Click on Save at the bottom of the screen
See sample below

After you make the changes, the email will look like this with the blog posting inserted as the email title.

This will definitely attract &  encourage your Feedburner readers to read the emails.

Cheers. Hope this will help to improve your blogging knowledge.

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There are many ways to optimize your blog in order to speed it up.

One of the way is to optimize the MySQL database of your blog..

The reason you need to optimize the database is that over a period of time and usage, the database will be fragmented.

I have read in a couple blogs on how to optimize the blog. When I saw the commands, programming codes and lengthy steps required to optimize the database, I froze. I told myself I am not going to use those methods. I knew that all it takes is one wrong move and my blog’s database will be corrupted.

I have search around and found a useful plugin that allow optimizing your blog database safely and efficiently.

It is known as Optimize DB.
You can download it here at http://yoast.com/wordpress/optimize-db/

Installation
You just need to download the zip file from the above site.
Unzip the file
Upload the file to your blog’s plugin folder.

Usage
At the Manage Plugin screen, go to the Optimize DB plugin and select Activate.

At the Optimize DB’s plugin, select Optimize.

It will read your blog’s database and display a similar list. You just need to click on Optimize Now.

Once it finished optimizing, it will display below.

Simple isn’t ?

I hope the above article is useful to you.

Regards
Alwin Chuah

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As you add more & more articles, pictures, links to your blog or you have quite a lot of visitors to your blog, you will notice that it takes longer time to fully load all the items. Well, depending on the visitors bandwidth speed. For those that are using a slower speed bandwidth, it will take a while for your visitor to start reading the blog. Blog readers are an impatient lot. They will not wait if it takes longer than usual to fully load.

Therefore if you want to maintain goodwill with your visitors, you need to improve the access time, your visitor can start to view your blog.

That’s where WP Super Cache comes in.

This is how it works:-

In laymen term

- This plugin makes your site download much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests.

In technical term

-WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

When WP Super Cache is installed, html files are generated and they are served without ever invoking a single line of PHP. How fast can your site serve graphic files? That’s (almost) as fast it will be able to serve these cached files. If your site is struggling to cope with the daily number of visitors, then this plugin is for you.

You can get it at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

You just need to download the files, unzip it and upload to your blog’s plugin folder.
Then you activate the plugin.

Go to Settings -> WP Super Cache

Tick on the “On WP cache and Super Cache enabled” & other items that are helpful for your blog. Just follow the instructions on the screen

I find that it improve my blog download speed. It works well with Internet Explorer & Firefox.
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If you do not like other people from copying content & pictures from your blog, you can copy protect it.
One of the ways I found it is easily setup & effective is to use plugin.
The plugin is known as WP-CopyProtect.

Installation
Firstly, you can download it at http://www.thechetan.com/wp-copyprotect/

Then unzip & upload it to your plugin folder

Settings
Go to Settings ->WP-Copy Protect
Tick at Disable right mouse click & Disable text selection
You can also add a message ( at the box just below the check to activate)
Then just save it.

However the disadvantage is that your reader might not be able to perform a right click on the links to open at new tab( For firefox)  or New Window ( for Internet Explorer)

In order to overcome it, you have to ensure all your links can open automatically at a new tab or new window when the reader performs a left click at the link.

You can read it from the below article

link that open in new tab or window

I hope this article can improve on your blogging knowledge.

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If you like to provide your Twitter readers with information coming from your blog & different sources, now you can do so automatically.

This save you time.

You just need to go to http://twitterfeed.com

Create account

First you create an account.

Then you log in.

Create Feed

At the Dashboard, click on Create New Feed.

At Step 1, select Twitter. Click on Connect your feed to Twitter account

At Step 2, at the Feed Name, key in a name &

paste the RSS Feed URL.

Note: This can be any URL that you like. It will be display at your twitter account.

Click on Create Feed

You can have multiple RSS feeds to the same twitter account.

Edit Feed

Once your feed has been created , at the Dashboard, you need to click on Edit Feed

Make sure the Update Frequency is changed to 24 hours or more. If not, you might be block by Twitter. They might suspect you are spamming.

At Post Content, ensure it is title & description.

At post link, you can shorten the link using any of the dropdown list.

That complete the setup. You might want to check at your Twitter account the next day to ensure the posting is coming correctly.

I hope this will help you in improving your blogging journey. Cheers.

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When we talk of blogging, people will be focusing on content & traffic. Hardly anyone talk about security. I feel equally important is security.

Just imagine, you woke up one morning, login to your blog and suddenly found yourself cannot access to it. Or suddenly you found someone has mess up your blog. These 2 incidents will be the worst nightmare for a blogger.

Therefore between content, traffic & security, I feel security is the most important.

There is a security plugin known as Wp-Security Scan that will help to scan your blog and provide some recommendation.

You can download the plugin at:-

http://semperfiwebdesign.com/plugins/wp-security-scan/

Once you have upload to your blog’s plugin folder, you can go to the dashboard.

At the bottom of the dashboard you will see a lock symbol. Click on the lock symbol

You will see a few selections like Security, Scanner, Password tool, Database & Support

If you select Security, it will scan you blog and check the following:-

System Information

• Operating System

• Server

• Memory Usage

• My SQL Version

• Items related to PHP

Wordpress Version- It will hide your wordpress version

Database

Wordpress ID- It will provide recommendation

If you select Scan, it will scan your blog and display the following

It will display your File/Directory location, Need Chmod & Current Chmod

To change the Chmod setting, you need to launch your FTP Software.

Browse to the Permissions column, it will display the value of the existing Chmod.

Highlight the relevant item, right click and select File permissions. At Numeric value, key the number as recommended by Wp-security Scan.

If you follow the recommendations provided in Security and Scan , it will definitely tightened your blog’s security

Now you can sleep well. Cheers.

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