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WordPress Hack : Get the first Image from the post and display it

Deineshd — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:11:40 +0000

This is the first post about the wordpress hack published on Bloganol about getting the first image from the post and displaying it.This is really useful wordpress hack and also requested by many users.Thanks to Wprecipes for publishing code for such important hack.

To implement this hack on your wordpress blog First of all copy the following block of code and paste it to your functions.php file.

function catch_that_image() {

global $post, $posts;

$first_img = '';

ob_start();

ob_end_clean();

$output = preg_match_all('//i', $post->post_content, $matches);

$first_img = $matches [1] [0];

if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image

$first_img = "/images/default.jpg";

}

return $first_img;

}

Now in second step Paste the following code where you would like to display the Image.This Tag simply call the function within the loop to display the first image from the post:

" alt="" class="th" />

WordPress 2.9 ‘Carmen’ now available for download

Deineshd — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:58:15 +0000

The latest version of the world’s largest self hosted blogging software wordpress is finally released.The latest version is wordpress 2.9 which is released after the six months of the release of previous version of wordpress2.8.This version is called the WordPress 2.9 “Carmen” on the behalf of honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae.

This version of wordpress got many more features than the previous version of wordpress.The main features of this version is Global undo/”trash” feature which allows you to restore your old deleted posts and comment.Another great feature is Built-in image editor which allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images.Moreover with these version you can update 10 plugins at the same time from your dashboard and it allows you to embed the videos on the post easily.These are the few main features of this latest version.It too got other features that makes you make blogging easy.

WordPress 2.9 is free to download at wordpress.Aftere you download upload it to your web hosting and activate it.You can too update it from your WordPress dashboard by going to Tools > Upgrade..Moreover you can update it from Fantastico > WordPress from your webhosting.

26 most recommended wordpress plugins for better wordpress blog

Deineshd — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:33:27 +0000

It has not been so much time that I have been transferred to wordpress but I came to knew a lot about it and I find it more interesting and easy than Blogger.Here are lists of 26 wordpress Plugins that are strongly recommended for wordpress users.

1. All in one SEO Pack

This is a single pack wordpress plugin which does all the optimization of your blog Search Engines.This Plugin automatically optimizes your title for search engines and helps you to get higher ranking in search engines.

download | Installation

2. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin is also related to search Engine optimization.This plugin automatically generate a special XML sitemaps which will help different search engines like Google,Yahoo,Bing to better index your blog.

download | Installation

3. Advertising manager

Advertising manager is an ads managing plugin that helps you manage ads on your blog and also most recommended for the ad publishes.This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your WordPress blog.It not only recognizes ad networks like Adsense,adbrite,widgetbucks,etc but also unsupported ad networks also.

download | Installation

4. Akismet

Akismit checks your Blog against the spam comments posted in your blog and automatically move them to spam section in the spam comments section without publishing it.You can review those comments in future and publish them.This plugin is strongly recommended to all the wordpress users.

download | Installation

5. Similar Posts Plugin

Similar Posts plugin automatically displays the similar posts related to that post.This plugin is also said as Related posts plugin.This plugin helps your blog to explore your blog internal pages.

download | Installation

6. Site Table of Contents Plugin

This plugin helps you create table of contents page for your wordpress blog easily.This plugin helps your users to easily explorer your blog posts easily according to your blog categories.

download | Installation

7. WordPress Recent Posts Plugin

This might be the most simple and also the useful plugin for wordpress blog.This plugin helps you show your recent posts in your blog’s sidebar or somewhere else in your blog where you have pasted the code.

download | Installation

8. WordPress Recent comments Plugin

Like recent posts plugin its also the most simple and also the useful plugin for wordpress blog.This plugin helps you show your recent comments in your blog’s sidebar or somewhere else in your blog where you have pasted the code.

download | Installation

9. Popular posts Plugin

This plugin shows all the popular posts published on your blog according to the number of comments posted on that post.This is also an important wordpress plugin.

download | Installation

10. WP-PageNavi

This help helps you create page navigation widget in your blog that helps users to browse your blog contents more easily.This Plugin surely helps you gain more page views in your blog.

11. Commentluv Plugin

This plugin shows the link of the recent posts of your commentator after their comment in your blog.This plugin encourages your users to comment more in your blog which is really very useful.

download | Installation

12. Easy Google Syntax highlighter

Easy Google syntax highlighter allows you to put the different HTML,php,CSS ,etc codes in your blog in systematic and clean way.It automatically include languages to highlight, thereby improving page loading performance.

download | Installation

13. KB robots.txt Plugin

When robots from different search engines they begin by ” http://example.com/robots.txt ” checking it for special instructions.This KB robots.txt plugins lets you create and edit your robots.txt file within the wordpress which will surely make a difference on your ranking on different search engines.

download | Installation

14. WordPress Download Monitor

WordPress is a plugin for uploading and managing downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying links from your wordpress account.This plugin requires wordpress version higher than 2.5.

download | Installation

15. WP Greet box

WP greet box shows the different greeting messages to your new visitors on the basis of their referring URL at the post of your each post.You can too edit the greeting messages as your desire.

download | Installation

16. Subscribe to Comments WordPress plugin

This plugin is also related to the comment from.Its a robust plugin that enables your blog commentators easy to signup for email notifications for subsequent entries. When new comments are posted on the post on which the user has chosen Subscribe to comments,The new comments will be notified to email Inbox of that user.

download | Installation

17. Digg Digg

Digg Digg is a social bookmarking plugin for your wordpress blog which helps to display the social bookmarking buttons on your blog easily.This plugin will Integrate “Digg”,”Reddit”,”dZone”,”Yahoo Buzz”,”TweetMeme(twitter)”, “fbshare(facebook)” and “Polladium” into the posts of your wordpress blog.You can too customize the settings of the plugin.

download | Installation

18. WordPress Thread comment

WordPress Thread comment plugin is an enhancement for your wordpress’s comment function.This plugin will add Reply function on your existed comment ,Then the discussion will be displayed threaded or nested.

download | Installation

19. Wp Gravators Plugin

This plugin is related to the comment function of your wordpress blog.This plugin will show the garavators or small thumbnail of the commenattor next by the comment in your blog comment section.This plugin will make your blog comment section more attractive.

download | Installation

20. New Tag Cloud

This plugin generates the small Tag cloud widget for your blog which makes your blog posts browse easily.You can use New Tag Cloud directly in a post/page, in the theme as PHP code or as widget.This new Tag cloud is easily customize the font size,font size type and more.

download | Installation

21. AFlinker Plugin

This plugin is strongly recommended for affiliate marketers on wordpress.This plugin not only helps users to cloak their affiliate link but also helps bloggers to shorten the long link.

download | Installation

22. Google Analytics for WordPress

Google analytics for wordpress is a plugin that automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads.It also allows you to track adsense clicks,adds extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.This plugin is strongly recommendated for wordpress users.

download | Installation

23. Broken Link Checker

This plugin will monitor the broken links and missing images in your blog and lets you know about it.If you have transferred tour blog to wordpress platform from other then this plugin is strongly recommended to you.

download | Installation

24. SEO Friendly Images

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.

download | Installation

25. Popularity Contest WordPress Plugin

Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. There are numerical values assigned to each type of view and feedback; these are used to create a ‘popularity score’ for each post.

download | Installation

26. W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache Plugin helps you improve the user performance of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.

download | Installation

A complete guide on how to move your blogger blog to self hosted wordpress

Deineshd — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:04:13 +0000

Moving Blogger blog to self hosted wordpress is also the most important decision made by a blogger.There are many reasons that encourages a blogger to move their blog to self hosted wordpress but moving your blog during the early days of your blog is better than to move your blog after a long period of time because there occurs more errors during the move.

Some simple terms to be known before you proceed

Moving your blog to self hosted wordpress is an important decision that you have made.
Since Blogger and wordpress are different blogging platforms , many things and features differ from each other.
You must have the concept about wordpress themes,wordpress plugins and other basic terms before you move your blog to wordpress.
Once you move your blog to wordpress your original blogger blog will not get lost.
In future if you like to rollback your upto date wordpress blog into blogger then its a really hard issue.

Some main Requirements

A registered domain name like .com , .org , .me which has got the feature of updating nameservers.
A web hosting service that meets the requirements of wordpress.

1. Be sure and confident

First thing is you must be sure that you had made a wise decision of moving your blogger blog to self hosted wordpress.You should too have confident that you can use wordpress in a wise way to develop and promote your blog.

2. Buy web hosting space

This is the most important thing and also the first thing to move your blogger blog to wordpress space.You must own your own web space to save the contents of your blog.So you must first get a web hosting space before you continue.

3. Update nameservers of your domain name

Nameservers performs the task of showing that your domain name is pointed to your wordpress blog.It takes around 12-48 hours to get your nameservers updated depending upon your domain name hosting company.You should enter the same addresses in your domain name nameservers as provided by your web hosting service.

To know whether your nameservers has been updated or not , take a frequent look of your blog in few gaps of time.If you blog address stops showing your old blogger blog then you can confirm that your domain name nameservers have been updated.

4. Login to your webhosting Control Panel

After you get your domain name’s nameservers updated login to your Webhosting control panel with the same data you signup with.To login enter http://yourdomainname.com/cpanel in your browser and signin with your Username and password.

5. Install wordpress from Fantastico

This is the most important step to be performed to get your wordpress account active.Take a look at the snapshots below on how to install wordpress from fantastico.

a. Click Fantastico from your Cpanal dashboard.

b. Click WordPress from the fantastico page.If you Cpanal already got WordPress button,you can directly proceed from there.

c. Now Click New installation from wordpress Page.

d. Now in 4th step enter data in the installation form as suggested in the snapshot below and click Install WordPress.

6. Preview your blog

After you install the wordpress for your blog now its your turn to look at your blog once.If your blog URL shows the new wordpress blog with just a single post “hello World” then you can confirm that your wordpress blog is fully setup and you can now move to next step.

7. Login to your WP Blog

After you’re done upto step 6 then now its your time to login into your wordpress blog.For that type htttp://yourblogname.com/wp-login.php in your browser.You will be redirected to sign in page.From there sign in into your wordpress blog with the same username and password that you have entered in step 5 d.You will be redirected to your WP dashboard from there.

8. Import your Blogger Blog

This step will import the posts ,comments and categories of your blogger blog into your new WP blog.To import your blogger blog click Import under Tools tab.Click the Blogger Link from that page.The next thing is you need authorize the blog with your Blogger account.After you authorize you will be taken to Import Page.The page will list out all your blog hosted on that account.Now click import to that Blog which you want to import.The import will complete in some time depending upon your internet connection.

9.Update permalinks to the the Blogger Style Permalinks

At first the permalink of your posts seems different from your old blogger style permalinks.The default permalink will look like http://www.yourblogname.com/?p=123.So you need to update this permalinks like the default blogger permalinks http://www.yourblogname.com/2009/11/sample-post/Post-title.html.For this Click Permalinks from your Settings Tab.Now you will need to select different styles for your permalinks.To make your Permalinks same like the blogger , Check the custom structure filed and enter the following code in the custom structure field and Click save changes.

/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

If you are doing well upto this step then you are done transferring your blogger blog to self hosted wordpress.But all the wordpress customization are not over here.You need to optimize your wordpress blog fro different search engines like Google.Yahoo,etc.
If you got some problem during this process or need support after this then you can easily contact us or communicate with the cute comment form below.Have a good day Bloggers!

5 Excellent free WordPress Themes

Deineshd — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:28:21 +0000

This might be the first wordpress related post published on bloganol So I cant deliver you the big wordpress topics and its also related to the excellent WordPress Themes for the wordpress blog users.Look at the Themes below.