Blogging

MiniMeta Widget Plugin

Posted in Blogging, Plugins, WP CMS on February 6th, 2010 by Icd – 1 Comment

The MiniMeta Widget Plugin gives you complete control over your Wp Meta Widget. It’s great when you have a user driven WordPress blog and want your users to be able to login from the frontpage. You can see it in action in our sidebar.

Plugin includes :

  • Different logon types (Form,Link)
  • Uses redirection for logon/logout
  • All standard WP Links can enabled/disabled
  • Additional Admin Links (from Plugins too)
  • Display Blog Links
  • build in style sheet support

Download it Here – http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/minimeta-widget.4.2.4.zip

Part of the WordPress CMS Series

Free BuddyPress Theme – CosmicBuddy

Posted in Blogging, BuddyPress, Free Themes, elgg, elgg themes on February 4th, 2010 by Icd – 1 Comment

BuddyDev.com launched a new BuddyPress theme entitled CosmicBuddy. It’s still in beta, but is safe to use. The theme is inspired by Orkut and looks amazing.

cosmicbuddy_theme1

cosmicbuddy_theme2

You can see the full demo here – : http://bpthemes.buddydev.com/comicbuddy/

Download it here – http://buddydev.com/http//buddydev.com/public-download/cosmicbuddy.zip

See the official release here -  http://buddydev.com/buddypress/cosmic-buddy-the-free-theme-to-turn-your-buddypres-to-orkut-style-site/

Free Elgg Theme – Orkut

Posted in Blogging, Themes, elgg, elgg themes on February 2nd, 2010 by Icd – 3 Comments

Orkut is one of the latest and freshest fully functioning Elgg themes available for download. The theme is provided by Webgalli, who specializes in the design, coding and hosting of Elgg powered sites. It follows a farm fresh theme,  is compatible with most plugins and the latest versions of Elgg.

Free Elgg Theme Orkut

Free Elgg Theme Orkut

 You can dowload it straight from Webgalli - http://webgalli.com/?download=Orkut%20Theme

New Blogging Social Network

Posted in Announcements, Blogging, BuddyPress Theme, Marketing, Real People Traffic, Themes on February 2nd, 2010 by Icd – Be the first to comment

A while ago I started testing social networking scripts, but mostly got stuck on Elgg. I even setup a test site where I displayed different Elgg themes and plugins.

I recently decided to clean out the old files and database and replace it with a new fresh theme and settings. In the process a new Blogging Social Network developed, aptly named, SonOfaBlog (SOB),  running on Elgg and a free theme  from Webgalli.

If you would like to join a community, which I believe can contribute to the success of your blog and other’s , please visit www.sonofablog.info .

Social Network Includes blogging, networking, communities, collecting of news using feeds aggregation, social bookmarking and media sharing.

WordPress Cms Series

Posted in Announcements, Blogging, Plugins on February 1st, 2010 by Icd – 1 Comment

More and more people want to use WordPress as a complete CMS, but because of certain limitations and the lack of a “Complete CMS Wp Plugin”, many tend to shy away from the headache their efforts will lead to.

Fortunately WordPress and the WordPress community is always busy making new things to fix YOUR problems, with the click of a button. Most of them even do it for free. If you do some searching on the net you’ll come across thousands of WordPress plugins who fulfil certain requirements.

If you spend even more time you’ll be able to find everything you need for a complete CMS. Most of us don’t like searching for hours on end and prefer if someone just gave us all the links right now. Well, that’s what I’m going to attempt. Over the next few weeks I’ll add posts explaining the greatest and most sometimes most under appreciated plugins the Wp community has to offer.

So stick around.

Useful Plugins :

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1. MiniMeta Widget

Blog Setup or Static HTML Website Under 150$

Posted in Announcements, Blogging on January 31st, 2010 by Icd – 1 Comment

PurpleHazard offers the following two options for those who would like their own websites.

1. Blog Setup

We will setup your domain, your hosting and a WordPress blog with the theme of your choice.

Price : $100

(Excludes premium theme)

2. Static Site

We will setup your domain, your hosting and a static 5 page HTML driven website. Theme designed as you require.

Price : $100

All packages include three months of free maintenance.

Extra’s

Hosting : 40$/per year

Premium WP theme : 25$-100$

Other Coding : 10$ per Hour

Graphics : Pricing per project.

Blogging Up, Knowledge Down

Posted in Announcements, Blogging, Real People Traffic on December 14th, 2009 by Icd – Be the first to comment

It seems a strange thing the blogging sphere, always growing but always declining. A bit contradictory you think? Not so. A world of possibilities opened with the introduction and expansion of blogging platforms such as WordPress. Yes, more and more people open blogs to share their knowledge, but for every knowledge giver there’s a few hundred profit seekers.

Open up a free blog with generic content, use free services to drive traffic and voila, you can have yourself a money making, knowledge killing machine in a few days. It’s all over the web. “How to make money blogging, but do nothing.”

It’s as if knowledge or useful information is being deluded one cent at a time. It’s not that I’m complaining, I’m sure I’ve contributed my own bit to deluding useful information in my futile attempts to generate some profit, but fortunately, I’ve learned.

My blog went offline for about a week. When I got it up again, my hits, naturally, dropped to about zero. But in a few days the hits increased to a natural number. This natural number was due to people I know and converse with on the internet. My pagerank climbed up one spot and I was happier than ever.

All I could wish for is some kind of way to verify a real blog, some service that can provide you with a big old yellow ribbon stamp saying : “This is a real blog, managed by a real person, providing real interesting and useful information.”

Now wouldn’t that be nice?

Post Free Classifieds

Posted in Blogging, Job Board, Marketing, Real People Traffic, elgg on November 17th, 2009 by Icd – 1 Comment

Looking for a job? Offering a job? Need to advertise your website or find a specific one? Browse our classifieds or just post yours for free.

We currently have 8 categories you can post in:

Finally A New Adsense Interface

Posted in Blogging, Monetize Your Blog, Optimum SEO on November 8th, 2009 by Icd – 2 Comments

Adsense users will be happy to know that the Google team is currently testing a new interface to make ad publishing that much easier, and that much prettier.

It’s a sad fact that the biggest contextual ad provider online still utilizes, one of the ugliest user interfaces in the world. Think ad formats, think reports, even though it works and we’re all used to it by now, it’s about time Google did some cleaning.

Below is a screenshot of the pruposed interface, which is currently being tested by by a small group of publishers

The new interface plans to improve certain features which include :

1. Helping you to manage your account more efficiently.

2. Putting you in charge of what appears on your site.

3. Give you a more detailed insight about your ad performance, which will help you make better decisions.

You will be notified via e-mail if you’re included in the new beta testing crowd.

Adsenseinterface

If I was still using Adsense I might have been really happy. Now hopefully the decline in performance will stop… I think not.

Rss Feeds To Post

Posted in Announcements, Blogging on November 3rd, 2009 by Icd – Be the first to comment

Yes, this is possible in WordPress, but I’m not here to tell you how, but why. I recently installed a plugin, which allows me to input certain Rss feeds, which will then be transformed into blog post, on a certain timeline. If you want to know which plugin it is, please make a comment.

What I’m going to do with the plugin is give bloggers out there a chance to have excerpts of their most recent blog posts appear on this blog on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. If you want to take part in the competition, you have to mention this blog in one of your posts and then tell me!