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Why Use Top Commentators

Eric — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:13:58 +0000

If you like to have more poeple comment your blog, i suggest you use Top Commentators wordpress plugin. I have one blog that has used this plugin and I can see many people like to give my posts a comment. The more the comment, the higher chances their name with website link to get listed in my Top Commentators list, this can be help to drive some traffic to their website from my blog.

Blogorator’s Free Rating Widget

Eric — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:00:39 +0000

I just for fun to install Blogorator’s free rating widget in my blog and it allow blog readers to rate my blog. It is free to join. If you like my blog, then just rate my blog 5 stars huh! Blogorator will compile lists of top voted blog and listed in top blog page. May be I can say that it is another way to drive more traffic to your blog with the installation of Blogorator’s free rating widget.

Top 30 WordPress Plugins in Blogosphere

Eric — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:45:32 +0000

I found a link for Top 30 WordPress Plugin in Blogosphere, these plugins are the most popular that will be used by most bloggers. These top 30 WordPress plugins are as belows:-

1. Akismet
2. Google Sitemap Generator
3. Related Post
4. WordPress Contact Form
5. WordPress Database Backup
6. Feedburner Feed Replacement
7. Ultimate Tag Warrior
8. Subscribe to Comment
9. Adsense Deluxe
10. Gravatars
11. Jerome’s Keywords plugin
12. Optimal title
13. Sociable
14. WP-Cache 2.0
15. Popularity Contest
16. Sidebar Widgets
17. Wp_Notable
18. Simple Tags
19. Adhesive
20. Exe-PHP
21. Extended live archive
22. No ping wait
23. PodPress
24. SRG Clean Archives
25. WP-Page Navi
26. WP-Cron
27. Wp-Shortstat
28. Lightbox 2
29. del.icio.us cached
30. Get Recent Comments

WordPress Plugin: Google Sitemap Generator

Eric — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:50:22 +0000

Google Sitemaps Generator generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Google, YAHOO and MSN Search. XML-Sitemaps can help you to get indexed by the major search engines. It has a user interface where you can customize all parameters like change frequencies, priorities etc and available in 14 languages. For more features about Google Sitemaps Generator, you can visit their site for further information.

WordPress Plugin: Database Backup

Eric — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:31:49 +0000

Previously I have talked about how to backup your database from your hosting control panel, there is another way to backup your using WordPress Database Backup Plugin. This plugin allows you to backup your data with three backup option, you can save to server (wp-content/backup-be994/), download to your computer, or email backup to your desired email address.

Alexa Toobar (Sparky) for Firefox Browser

Eric — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:17:37 +0000

Previously Alexa toolbar is only available for Internet Explorer (IE) browser, now you can download the recent released Alexa plugin called Sparky for Firefox browser, it required Firefox 2.0 or newer to install this plug in. The features of the Sparky are as follow:-

Related Links: Find sites that are similar to the one you are currently visiting.
Traffic Trend: A sparkline showing the traffic trend from the last four months.
Reach Meter: A neat little indicator that shows the site’s Reach.
Traffic Rank: Shows the current site’s Alexa Traffic Rank.

Many people said that install Alexa toolbar can helps to improve your Alexa ranking. If you want to use it, you can download it by clicking here.

WordPress Plugin: PageNavi 2.11

Eric — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:19:59 +0000

This is very nice WordPress plugin called WP-PageNavi 2.11 which display the blog page something look like [1],[2],[3],….[Last]. I just installed it in my blog, you can scroll down your mouse and look at the most bottom of this blog.

Without installing this plug in, the default wordpress blog for the navigation page will have 2 hyperlinks, PREVIOUS and NEXT, right?

Regarding how to install it, please follow the instruction by clicking here. Sorry, I’m to lazy to write here because I was thinking that it is unnecessary.

WordPress Plugin: MyAvatar

Eric — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:42:43 +0000

MyAvatar WordPress plug in shows MyBlogLog’s avatars in your comments instead of Gravatar’s ones even if you’re not subscribed to MyBlogLog. You can see the example by looking at this picture. I will not discuss how to install this plug in here because you can learn from this plug in’s website. If you have any question, I don’t mind to help you.

WordPress Plugin: Top Post by Category

Eric — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:28:53 +0000

Long time ago, Jesslyn already told me that my category look so messy, that time I thought it is still OK. Recently I found that it is not OK at all, and then I decided to rearrange my category again, meantime I also change/move the category of particular posts from one to another.

I only spent half an hours to get it done, this is only for blog live about 2 months only, what do you think if it is more than one or two years? I think it would be a tedious task rearranges your categories.

I have used Top Post by Category WordPress plugin in my blog, I have no choice but to empty the default database (wp_tpbc) of this plugin. I feel hard to explain why I need to empty the database, but I’m sure that when you use this plugin then you will know after that. Anyway, this is good plugin and you can try it. I’m strongly recommended.

You can see an example of this plugin by click here.

Widget to Show Rank of PR, Alexa, Complete Snapshot and Technorati

Eric — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:11:45 +0000

I come across with the personal blog called adesblog.com and found a fantastic widget which provides provides a simple and elegant representation of your site’s rankings. Currently supported rankings are:

- Google PageRank
- Alexa Traffic Ranking
- Compete Snapshot Rank
- Technorati Rank

It is simple to set up, all you need to do is key in your site URL, choose which rankings you want to show and then generate the code. Copy and paste the codes into your page. That’s all.

If you are interested in, you can customize your widget at showoffrankings.com.