SEO is one field, where you are never 100% done. SEO needs continuous efforts. Here is list of few basic SEO tips for all kinds of WordPress blogs. 1. Enable “I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Bing, Technorati) and archivers” in Privacy Settings. By default it [...]

Permalink settings is a great feature of WordPress which let you have custom url for your posts, pages etc. If you ask me the best permalink structure, I will recommend: /%category%/%postname%/ This will produce post url as: domain.com/category-name/post-title if you want something shorter, you can use: /%postname%/ This will produce post url as: domain.com/post-title

There are lots of tips and plugins to secure your WordPress blog. But we generally don’t follow those tips. There are many reason why we don’t follow those security tips. Here are few basic tips which all WordPress user must follow as security measure. 1. Always use and update to latest version of WordPress. 2. [...]

People want to design custom and unique theme for their WordPress blog. So, do we need to know complete php before starting to design a WordPress theme?? I will say NO, but basic knowledge of php is must. You should also have good knowledge of HTML/XHTML, CSS. You should also be good in graphics design [...]

Fantastico makes WordPress installation very easy and installation is completed within 1-2 minutes only. It just need 2-3 clicks. But fantastico don’t always have the latest version ready for installation. In those cases, we need to do manual installation. Manual installation is also very easy but can take time if your internet upload speed is [...]

After upgrading to WordPress version 2.9, few of my blog’s permalink settings or url re-write stopped working. I was getting 404 not found error message. I don’t know what was causing problem, but solution is simple. Login in WordPress admin panel, Navigate to: Settings -> Permalink. And click on “save changes” button. Basically you need [...]

You may have seen on many WordPress blog list of “Recent post” and “Related posts” at bottom of every post. I don’t know if there is any such plugin for this. To add 5 latests post at bottom of every post , open single.php from the theme folder. Find following codes: <?php comments_template(); ?> <?php [...]

Yesterday, when I logged in WordPress admin panel of this site, I saw the upgrade message. So, stable version of WordPress 2.9 is available for download now. I upgrade the main site and our theme demo site. Although WordPress admin panel has option of automatic upgrade, but I prefer manual upgrade. So, I followed the [...]

Udi is my next free WordPress theme. I have added a new feature to this theme, sliding login and Dashboard at top. General Features Two columns, Fixed width. Compatible and tested on major browsers: IE, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, etc Sliding Login form. Custom 404 Error page. widgets Ready Social Network Integration Ads-Ready , 4 advertisement [...]

I have released another great looking WordPress theme Sasson. I hope you will like the theme. Features Two columns, Fixed width. Compatible and tested on major browsers: IE, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, etc widgets Ready Social Network Integration Custom 404 Error page. Built-in archives.php template Ads-Ready , 4 advertisement slots available Google Adsense ready (in sidebar) [...]