When Nick Roach designs a theme, you can trust blindly on its quality and he’s been proving it time and again with his new designs.

The latest to hit the stable is the “My Product” theme, which is the best WordPress theme I’ve seen yet, that fits a product showcase or a company portfolio. That is if you have an online product to sell and is looking for the… Continue reading

Mobile detection is not difficult to implement on WordPress, just grab any of these plugins and plug it in. Or you can try these mobile version creation tutorials. You get a mobile theme right away. Many of them are awesome too. In fact, I’ve tried more than one and quite honestly, they are really good. The only problem you encounter if at all, would be compatibility issues with other plugins… Continue reading

Now, how would you react knowing that the plugin that you had used for ages emailed your admin login credentials to the plugin developer and you didn’t even know ?Scary – isn’t it ? Well, that’s just what happened to this blogger Sven.Sven reports in his post that while experimenting with a few plugins he found that a plugin (Pushit) plugin actually emailed his admin id and password to an… Continue reading

I’m not going to talk about the much repeated permalink editing or heading changes here. Instead, I’m going to share with you some SEO tips for WordPress that you might not have bothered to check, the fine details that is. Keep in mind that some of them are the result of recent updates from Google. Let’s go. 1. Nofollow your RSS feeds We don’t need the bots to crawl them… Continue reading

You know the problem with the “plug and play” products is that they work really easy for you but once when things get screwed, you really are on your own. All in One SEO is one of the most downloaded and used plugins on Wordpress today and it deserves the popularity. But unfortunately, not all of the people using All in One SEO knows exactly what it does, or what… Continue reading

Now, soon after the Wordpress 2.7 version was released, along with all the excitement, there was one problem that was not noticed in all the hype. A couple of webmasters complained that the post articles with more than 50 comments created multiple URLs for the same post, because the comments split itself into separate pages every time it crossed 50. Obviously, this feature was included in Wordpress 2.7 for ease… Continue reading

If your traffic source is more of search engine referrals and if there’s a high bounce rate, that should ring bells at the dashboard. Shouldn’t it ? Well, it just means that many people who come to your blog through search engines looking for something is not actually finding it – and are disappointed. So, what have you done to curb this situation, or what would you like to do… Continue reading

This is going to be a life saver. The Wordpress team has announced it’s exclusive HQ video tutorial channel Wordpress.tv which will be featuring all things Wordpress. It has tutorial videos that covers all the basics of using Wordpress to some advanced uses as well. Some Worpress video tutorials featured on the channel. – How to write and publish a post on Wordpress? – How to publish your post at… Continue reading

This one’s perfect for those who’d like to flaunt their blog stats. Pagerank, Alexa, User stats, RSS feed subscribers and the like.

Of course, you can manually put them together but if you remain busy and would prefer it all automated like me, this is the plugin for you. It puts together all the following stats on a single page, and will update the values automatically.

This will… Continue reading

Wordpress 2.7 comes with a category class, which can be exploited to create custom messages for each category on the article pages. This is a bright idea that you could use to take advantage of the most popular category on your blog. You could either use the custom message to promote a product, or just give a “surprise” message to the reader or something similar. What the hack does –… Continue reading

Here is a nice list I found the other day. W-Shadow has put up a top 10 list of the best Wordpress plugin developers of 2008, based on plugin popularity and number of plugins developed. I think it’s a very apt and true list. Check out the plugins from these authors, they’re all cool. Michael Torbert 961 306 downloads. Co-author of All In One SEO Pack (originally created by… Continue reading

Tracking the popular clicks on your articles is no easy job. Advanced analytics programs like Crazyegg allows you to do it, but it’s a paid service. For monitoring your links and clicks, there are very few free programs available as of now. I know that MyBlogLog allows us to track the most popular outgoing links from the entire site if you use the JavaScript code, but it isn’t flexible at… Continue reading

This is a wordpress plugin that shows the latest 10 posts with carousel sliding effect and is SEO friendly. User can set the height, width, and the time duration of the slide show. Post will be shown with the link by clicking on it user can view particular post. All the4 articles displayed are “crawlable” and SEO friendly therefore. Try it out if you have been looking for a non… Continue reading

This is a plugin for bloggers who often write serial posts. You know, like the Part 1, Part 2 type where it’s difficult for a new visitor to find out where it started and ended. This plugin apparently makes it easy to list down all the posts in the serial post by adding a custom field. The author says – This is a very straightforward and easy to configure plugin… Continue reading

Arne’s Google sitemap generator plugin is pretty popular with webmasters. But it’s a truth that it has some problems, and there are no updates on it yet. I personally had to face two types of problems with this plugin on many of my sites.
1 – Something strage happened to the sitemap template, every time after upgradations/tweak, that I had to manually update it.
2 – The memory usage was… Continue reading