WordPress new version 3.3 is now available.

New WordPress 3.3 looks excellent and there are many added features to it. The new added feature will make blogging so easy.

New Features
Not only in terms of looks but in terms of features also wordpress 3.3 admin area has lot to offer.

1. Only one upload option for all media.
2. Flyout menu for easy navigation.
3. Header now has more enhanced tool bar.

Many other features too – but the one added feature this time is – wordpress will tell you every time you post or update anything that what feature they have upgraded. By sticking short snippets to the updated tools.

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Many exciting features in new WordPress 3.3 – Update Now!

We have seen that there is a sudden rise in the hacking attempts of blogs and websites – which are on wordpress platform.

With reports that hackers are getting in to wordpress sites/blogs through the plugins – as there are some plugins which have bugs and hackers utilize it – to get in to the site.

Therefore, it is always advised to keep your plugins up-to-date, so that hackers don’t get a chance to utilize the bug. But despite of all the efforts – hackers still get in to the wordpress sites and host their malicious and vulnerable codes.

Protect Your WordPress
I have tried every thing – updating plugins and installing new plugins – changing frequent passwords – but guess these all are of no help.

Then I tried the ultimate idea of changing the file permissions and bingo it helped – till now!

With File Permissions – you changed the permission so that no one can over-write it and this is what needed to protect your wordpress sites.

With no writing permission – no one from outside can edit those files.

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Therefore, if you are struggling with regular hacking attempts on your wordpress platform sites – then change the file permissions – but don’t forget to update your plugins – as they are equally important.

WordPress can be customized in various ways and this makes it the best CMS for blogging. Also, with wordpress you can do fast blogging if you have set everything before.

Hyper-linking the keywords on blog post is always recommend – making the navigation easy for the reader to click and visit and also makes the post interesting.

But it is not always possible to remember the hyperlinks and not recommended to search every time for the hyperlinks.

SEO Smart Plugin Easy Solution
This plugin makes the blogger’s life easy as it harvests all your desired keywords and hyperlinks.

With easy installation – you can get started. Just type in your keyword and your hyperlink and save it.

Now, every time that keyword comes in the blog post it will automatically get hyperlinked to your desired destination. Erasing all your worries to keep a track of hyperlinks.

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You can use the SEO Smart Plugin for linking to your affiliate keyword – facebook page – twitter account and most importantly to the inner pages of your site.

Just make a single list of keywords and hyperlinks and enter in to the SEO Smart Plugin.

Download: SEO Smart Plugin

If you are thinking of updating to wordpress version 3.2 or if you have updated – just keep a check on the following if you are witnessing something like.

WordPress 3.2 Error
This is common error and pretty much all are getting this – as you update your wordpress to version 3.2 – Admin sidebar goes missing. This is quite frustrating.

Easy Solution
This is the error because of “WP Insert” plugin – as your sidebar is missing you cant navigate to the plugins page – just following the following:

Navigation to the Plugins Page URL: yourblog.com/wp-admin/plugins.php

Just deactivate the “WP Insert” plugin and your admin sidebar will be live again.

Permanent Solution
Since the above is temporary. If you really want to have this plugin then you should update it to version 1.7.4

As, you update “WP Insert” plugin your admin sidebar will be visible again.

After your update also, if you witness this error – then just clear your browser cookies – and wordpress error will be instantly solved.

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This is a good example that you should always update your wordpress and wordpress plugins as the updates available.

This is about a wordpress plugin and believe me it’s one of the best free plugins which can ever be used on wordpress to grab attention.

This wordpress plugin is excellent and grabs the attention of the visitor instantly – when visitor visits your blog or blog page.

Attention Bar
This is the wordpress plugin, which is designed to serve its name. Attention Bar is the true attention grabber. It’s easy to install and configure.

Attention Bar is installed in the header of your wordpress blog. You can choose the colors and height of your Attention Bar. Also, you can define various other parameters with it.

Most importantly, this wordpress plugin auto-rotates your written messages – as per the duration you defined in the settings. It will not only display the multiple messages – but it does supports the HTML – therefore, if you need to mention any hyperlink you can easily write the code.

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You can display not only your important messages to visitors but it can also be used as the marketing tool. You can display your affiliate link information in this Attention Bar.

With the kind of customization available with Attention Bar – You can customize to an extent to attract greater attention of visitors.

Download Attention Bar – Click here

If you are addicted to blogging or want to update any important blog post – and you are not in front of your computer – but you are having an iPad – so this app will make your work easy.

How it Works
Blogsy is the blogging app for iPad and it stands true for its name – it smartly replaces the blogging backend (admin) part for your iPad and makes it more suitable for typing and editing, with some of the explicit features.

Features
Blogsy works on drag and drop feature which is specifically designed for iPad – making blogging an easy task. The most important feature of blogging is to give tags to your text that is – formatting your text and blogsy make is very simply with one touch.

It has features of drag and drop – you can add pictures from Picasa – Flicker etc – with one click.

It also gives you freedom to add the videos from YouTube.

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Though there are many blogging tools available but this one works perfect for iPad as it serves all the possible features needed for blogging.

Blogsy supports both the leading platforms – blogger and wordpress.

This app is priced at $4.99. Download Blogsy App

Do you want ads that can be easily picked by the users – so that your advertisers get more attention. It is simply possible with a small hack on wordpress.

With this WordPress Hack you can easily place your ads in between your posts and that also automatically. You don’t need to edit the codes every time nor you need to place any tags or install any plugins.

WordPress Hack for Ads
Follow the procedure below and it will enable ads in the middle of your blog post.

I assume that you know a bit of coding – just follow if you need to ask some thing you can always post comments. Login to your wordpress admin and look for “appearance” tab on the left-column – just click on the “editor” link and then you will land on to the template-editing page.

Step 1
Just search for the file name “single.php” the file list will be on the right-column.

Step 2
Search for: <?php the_content(); ?>

Step 3
Replace it with the following code

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<?php
  $content = apply_filters('the_content', $post->post_content);  //get the post content store in $content
  $save = explode("</p>", $content);  //Separate the content into <p> blocks
  $tcount=0; //this is count for number of <p> blocks
  $adon=0;  //this is a variable so you don't show ads more than once.
  foreach($save as $item) {
    echo $item;  //print the <p> block
    echo "</p>";
    if(preg_match('/<p> /',$item)==0 && $tcount>=1 && $adon==0) {
                                $adon=1;
?>
YOUR ADV CODE
<?php
    }
 if(preg_match('/<p> /',$item)==0 && $tcount>=4 && $adon==1) {
                                $adon=2;
?>
ANOTHER ADV CODE IF YOUR POST HAVE MORE THEN 4 PARAGRAPHS
<?php
   }
   $tcount++;
 }
?>

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You are done!

Conclude
This wordpress hack will easily let you place the desired ads – or you can also use it to place any thing you like – such as related posts codes – or any other code you wish to place.

Happy Blogging!

With the increase in use of tablet pc it is the right time that we make our websites/blogs compatible so that it should not miss-out potential visitors.

Though the heading talks about iPad but you can also try this for other tablet pc. Since, after iPad it’s the Google Android tablet pc that are selling like hot cakes.

iPad Optimization
I have mentioned some points below for iPad optimization – kindly go through.

1. Don’t have pop-up.
2. Implement CSS nicely and try to avoid any menu scripts. Keep it simple.
3. Place advertisements correctly and normally as you do – nothing much is required in advertisements.
4. Don’t include flash since you know iPad earlier versions don’t support flash.
5. Avoid using frames – such as iframe etc.

Graphic size is not much important since all the tablet pc comes with a good processor and all have wifi option.

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Now that iPad 2 is having flash option, so there is not much needed to optimize in your website. For the previous versions you can still add a script to your index of website – which detects the version of iPad and loads a different CSS structure that is without flash.

When anyone is viewing your blog post the most important step that any blogger or Webmaster would want is that how long a particular user stays on your blog. Second thing you want is to provide the easy navigation to the user who visited your blog.

The easy navigation makes the user comfortable and this ensures returning back of the user.

Blog Post Should Have
You need to have few installs on your wordpress blog post to provide the easy navigation to the user. The foremost important thing you need to have is the bookmarking buttons.

This is very necessary for any wordpress site to have – this ensures that user if likes the blog post can immediately click on the social bookmark icon within your post and bookmark your post.

Best part of using such plugins is, user does not need to have fill in the data when doing the bookmark on the social bookmarking site.

Also, such plugins ensures that you get more bookmarks.

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Social Bookmark Plugins for wordpress – indeed increases your website traffic. As, it’s easy to bookmark and user does it, so in return you get traffic.

Most people opt-out of social bookmarking even they have to bookmark any URL is because of the form filling that has to be done on social bookmarking sites. But with plugins it makes the task easier then ever.

So, go ahead and install the social bookmarking plugin and enhance your website.

If you are a blogger or hosting any wordpress site – then you must have witnessed the plugin crash. Believe me this is the worst experience for anybody when you open your website or blog and see the error. A long confused PHP string – very annoying isn’t it.

But for every difficult and ugly situation there are simple solutions – which you can do to overcome this.

Solution for WordPress Plugin Crash
When you see the PHP error on your wordpress hosted site – so just watch in the string you will find some thing like: “…/plugins/…”

This means the error is pointing to the wordpress plugin crash – don’t panic and just login to your FTP.

• Open the folder name: ‘wp-content’

• In this folder you will find a folder named: ‘plugins’

Just open this and you will find a list plugin-folders, which you have on your wordpress – just check with the error and see which plugin is having error.

Rename that folder to something else or just a ‘0’ in the folder name. This will erase the error on your wordpress website and you can access the admin panel and website as previously.

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Just don’t forget to note the error string, line number and file name. So, you can check the file from the ftp for the error correction. Most of these errors are caused due to version conflicts and could be easily solved with just normal upgrade process.