Blogger Tips And Tricks

Is it possible to convert a wordpress blog into a digg like social voting site? Oh yes! You may be able to do this using plugins like TDO Mini Forms and Vote It Up. But there is a great chance of having errors and it may not be easy to manage. If you badly need a ready theme for this purpose, you can go for WordPress Nominate Theme.
Nominate is a premium wordpress theme with great built in features to create your own social voting site like digg. It allows your site visitors to create accounts, submit articles, and vote on them.

Main Features of Nominate Theme

• User Accounts – Users can register, vote and submit articles to keep your site content fresh with only little input from you.
• Automatic Website Thumbnails – Thumbnails are automatically generated when posts are submitted which saves you time and effort.
• Full Spam Control – Includes a variety of spam and moderation rules to stop people from abusing your site.

Other Features

• Built in post submissions, with no plugins required.
• Custom control panel options to control column size, typography, navigation and more.
• Four widgetized regions for flexibility.
• Animated multi-level dropdown menus.
• Support for all standard WordPress features.
• Breadcrumb navigation.
• Custom Login and Registration form.
• 3 Color Schemes.
• Custom admin bar for dashboard shortcuts and user profiles.
• Image thumbnail resizing.
• Support for gravatars, author comment highlighting, threaded comments and paged comments.
• Additional customizable content areas via action hooks.
• Custom widgets for popular posts, social networking, Twitter updates, related posts and more.

It sounds great to own a digg like voting site have decent visitors. If you are interested, you can grab the basic copy for $79.99 and developers copy for $169.99
[Purchase WordPress Nominate Theme]

Bloggers prefer magazine style themes to give a professional touch to their blogs. Following are some of the best premium magazine-style wordpress themes which are free to download:

1. Channel

   
   
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2. Aristo

   
   
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3. Falcon

   
   
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4. Scarlett

   
   
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5. The Web News

   
   
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6. Render Magazine

   
   
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7. MegaNews

   
   
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8. Wise Business

   
   
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   (Also include other free premium themes)

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9. The Original Premium News

   
   
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   (Other free themes from WooThemes here)

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10. Wire News

    
    
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11. Blue News

    
    
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12. Masigasig Black

    
    
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13. ZinePress

    
    
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14. Small Magazine

    
    
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15. WPBoxedTech

    
    
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16. Simplex

    
    
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17. NovaScotia

    
    
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18. StudioPress

    
    
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19. Arthemia Free

    
    
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20. FREEmium

    
    
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You can turn your wordpress into a photoblog using some wordpress photo gallery themes given here or using some photo gallery plugins for wordpress. Following are the top wordpress photo gallery plugins to convert your wordpress blog into a photoblog.

1. NextGEN Gallery

   NextGEN Gallery is the most popular and widely used photo gallery plugin for wordpress. It helps to create a full integrated image gallery in wordpress with a flash slideshow option.
   Top Features:
   
   • Templates : You can add custom templates for your theme.
   • Media RSS feed : Add the Cooliris Effect to your gallery.
   • Role settings : Each gallery has a author.
   • AJAX based thumbnail generator : No more server limitation during the batch process.
   • Copy/Move : Copy or move images between galleries.
   • Slideshow : Full integrated flash slideshow.
   • Sidebar Widget : Show a slideshow, random or recent picture at your sidebar.
   • Tag support for images : Append related images to your post, create a image tag-cloud.
     Demo | Download

2. Yet Another Photoblog

   Yet Another Photoblog is an yet another top wordpress gallery plugin! Using Yet Another Photoblog plugin, you can convert your wordpress blog into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time.
   Top Features:
   
   • Easy image upload – All wordpress post-features can be used.
   • On the fly thumbnail generation – Use multiple thumbnail sizes where and when you need them: Thumbnail generation gets controlled by the theme.
   • EXIF data processing and output.
   • Self-learning EXIF filter – Your own cameras tags can be selected to be viewed.
   • Ping additional update-service-sites when posting a photoblog entry.
   • Nearly every WP-theme can become a photoblog in virtually no time.
   • Out of the box configurable “latest images” sidebar widget.
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3. Flickr Photo Album

   If you are using Flickr, Flickr Photo Album plugin will suit you the best. It allows you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your wordpress blog.
   Top Features:
   
   • Display your Flickr photo sets and Flickr videos as albums on your site.
   • Search engine friendly URLs.
   • Complete control over the look and feel.
   • Show or hide your photos that have been marked ‘private’
   • Flickr notes and Flickr comments are supported
   • Adds a new Flickr icon to your media bar which allows you to easily add Flickr photos to any blog post.
   • Use WordPress shortcodes to easily insert photos from an album into a post (and also Flickr videos).
   • Supports WordPress Widgets: Pull in your recent photos into your sidebar.
   • Use a popup overlay to display your photos.
   • Allow your visitors to leave comments without leaving your blog (via third party commenting services).
     Demo | Download

4. Flickr Gallery

   Another Flickr based image gallery plugin which allows you to quickly and easily incorporate your Flickr photos into your wordpress pages and posts.
   Top Features:
   
   • A quick gallery of your recent photos, photosets and most popular photos.
   • Easy database caching.
   • Displays the photos from one photoset.
   • Displays all of a user’s photos with given tags.
   • Displays the results of a custom search.
   • Inserts a single photo into your content.
   • Embeds Flickr’s flash movie player for videos.
   • Authenticate to display your private photos.
   • Lightbox script makes it easy to browse photos without leaving the page.
   • WordPress MU Support.
   • Pagination in galleries.
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5. PhotoSmash Galleries

   PhotoSmash Galleries is another top gallery plugin which makes it easy to create photo galleries in your wordpress posts or pages. It has flexible and simple models for designing custom gallery and form layouts, utilizing your own custom database fields, html, and css.
   Top Features:
   
   • User contributable photo galleries – allow your users to upload images to galleries.
   • Media RSS is enabled, supports PicLens.
   • Link gallery thumbnails to various destinations including full-size image, related post, and WP Attachment Page when using Media Library integration.
   • Add images to the WordPress Media Library so you can use them in blog posts and even the Standard WordPress Image Gallery features.
   • AJAX photo uploads from within Posts and Pages.
   • Star Ratings for images.
   • Control who can upload images: admin only, authors & contributors (and higher), or registered users and higher.
   • Moderate images uploaded by registered users (Admins and authors are automatically approved).
   • Receive email alerts for new images that need to be moderated.
   • Integrates with popular image viewing systems like Lightbox and Shadowbox.
   • Create Custom Upload forms using simple tags and HTML.
   • Create Custom Layouts using simple tags and HTML.
     Demo | Download

6. PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin

   PhotoQ is yet another popular wordpress photo gallery plugin that turns your blog into a photoblog. With PhotoQ you can mass upload several photos at the same time.
   Top Features:
   
   • Convenient queue-based photo management.
   • Batch uploading of photos to your photoblog.
   • Hassle-free, fully automated posting of photo posts.
   • Compatible with virtually any theme; Auto-configuration for popular photo themes.
   • Compatible with WordPress Networks (formerly WPMU).
   • Photo Watermarking to protect your photos.
   • Possibility to add custom metadata to photo posts.
   • Automatic generation of thumbnails and alternative image sizes.
   • Integration with Lightbox, Shutter Reloaded and similar libraries/plugins.
     Demo | Download

7. Flash Photo Gallery

   It helps to create a Flash Photo Gallery like one provided in Adobe Photoshop CS2 Flash Web Photo Gallery templates.
   Top Features:
   
   • Compatible with WordPress and WordPress MU.
   • Create and manage multiple Flash Photo Galleries.
   • Customize galleries by specifying titles, colors, thumbnail size and a lot more options.
   • Uses the wordpress built-in media uploader to add photos to.
   • Multiple photo galleries can be added in any page or post using a simple short code.
   • Uses SWFObject for embedding swf.
     Demo | Download

8. WP Photo Album

   A simple wordpress photo gallery plugin designed to easily manage and display your photo albums within your wordpress blog.
   Top Features:
   
   • Manage and create albums.
   • Move photos to and from albums.
   • Adjust thumbnail and full view picture sizes (set default max sizes for each).
     Demo | Download

Hope you liked this post. Happy Photo Blogging!

1.Get XAMPP lite for Windows and install it. ( C:\Program Files\xampp )

2.Browse to C:\Program Files\xampp and double click setup_xampp.bat.

Now you can see the screen like this:



3.After that, double click xampp-control.exe.

xampp-control panel will open:


4.Now start the Apache and Mysql services.


5.Open your internet browser and type http://localhost/ and press enter.From the menu on the left column, choose your preferred language.

6.Now click on phpMyAdmin.


6.Enter "wordpress" (without quotes) in the "Create New Database" Field, and select utf8_unicode_ci in the drop down box in the next field.


Click on Create. The Xampp setup is now complete.


7.Download Wordpress and unzip it under C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs.


8.Now go to C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\wordpress.you can see a file named wp-config-sample.php. Open it in notepad or other text editor and replace the default values as below. Save the file as wp-config.php (under the same folder).

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'root');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', '');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

9.Open your browser and go to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php , follow the instructions and you are done.

1.Login to your WordPress account and go to the Dashboard for the blog that you'd like to transfer to Blogger.

2.Click on the Tools tab-->Export



3.Now download the WordPress XML export file by clicking on 'Download Export File'.



Now save this file to your local machine.



4.Now Go to Wordpress2Blogger,



Browse to that saved WordPress XML export file and click Convert.




5.After converting,save that file to your local machine. In this file will be the contents of your posts/comments from WordPress in a Blogger export file.

6.Then login to your blogger dashboard-->Settings-->Basic tab and click "Import" to import the converted file.



Now you are done.

It is very simple.Copy below code and paste it on your single.php file, within the loop:

<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Currently reading <?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" target="_blank">Share on Twitter</a>

By default WordPress uses URLs containg a question mark and numbers for your permalinks and archives such as “http://yoursite.com?p=123". In order to increase keyword density of your site for better SEO, You must change that setting to a custom permalink structure.

In your WordPress admin area, click “Options” and then click “Permalinks”.

Select “custom” in the Customize Permalink Structure area and in the box next to “custom” enter this:

/%category%/%postname%

This will create URLs for your permalinks and archives that would look like this:

http://yoursite.com/yourcategory/title-of-your-post

Click “Update Permalink Structure” to save above setting.

Now you are done.