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Why WordPress is Best Blogging Platform?

December 30, 2011

WordPress has been one of the most popular Blogging platform used in past couple of years and one of the most common question which I heard from newbie blogger is Why WordPress , or why not BlogSpot. Well, I’m not going to discus why BlogSpot is good but certainly not the best but will focus more on answering Why WordPress and why you should use WordPress as your Blogging platform. Blogging is one of the ...

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JetPack Plugin : A Powerful WordPress Plugin by Automattic

March 10, 2011

How many of you here are tired of using tons of plugins on your blog? More over we all know how fast is free WordPress.com blogs. Company behind WordPress “AutoMattic”, has come up with a plugin “JetPack” for self hosted WordPress blog, which will bring many of WordPress.com feature into our blog. Here is some official words from WordPress team on the launch of Jetpack WordPress plugin: With Jetpack, a new plugin from Automattic, people ...

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[WordPress Solution] Your Jetpack has a glitch

March 10, 2011

WordPress has just released a new plugin call Jetpack which will bring the power of WordPress.com into self hosted WordPress blog. Though I will get into details about this plugin after this post but for now, while I was trying to activate this plugin by connecting to my WordPress.com account, I got this error message: Your Jetpack has a glitch. Something went wrong that’s never supposed to happen. Guess you’re just lucky: xml_rpc-32601 Now if ...

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Gravatar HoverCards For WordPress.org Blogs

October 16, 2010

This is a guest post by Kimberly. She blogs at Just-ask-kim and share Blogging and WordPress tips. If you would like to write for ShoutMeLoud, check our guest posting guidelines. Gravatar Gets Even Better With HoverCards! If you haven’t taken the time yet to fully fill out your Gravatar.com profile now is the time to get it done! Gravatars are a great way to brand and personalize your comments you leave on blogs and have ...

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WordPress.com to Self Hosted WordPress blog Migration Made easy

October 5, 2010

Many people start blogging with free blog and once their blog start getting traffic and exposure, migrating from one platform to another one is always an headache. Specially if you are paranoid about SEO and search engine traffic. We already have solution for BlogSpot to WordPress and WordPress.com to WordPress.org migration. Specially WordPress to WordPress.org migration is easy as you will be dealing with same platform but again for non technical user, migration process is ...

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3 Ways to verify a WordPress blog in Google Webmaster Tools

April 12, 2010

Like most of the other bloggers in the blogosphere, my primary focus is to get more Google juice. Little do I care about Yahoo, Bing or anything alike. There is Google search, and there’s everyone else. Naturally, I’m much concerned about how my blog gets crawled by Google and about what content get’s indexed by Google. Google Webmaster tools tells me the inside story of how users find my website through Google. In my opinion, ...

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Why WordPress is Better Than BlogSpot Platform?

January 11, 2010

As a newbie blogger, the most confusing state is to decide which Blogging platform to choose. Though, most suggested platforms are BlogSpot, WordPress, Tumblr. Now, when we talk about creating a blog from professional front, WordPress is a rock-solid choice. There are many things which you can do with a Self hosted WordPress blog, which you can’t do on a BlogSpot blog. BlogSpot and WordPress both offers free blogging platform which is a good way ...

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How Many WordPress Plugins We should Use?

May 18, 2009

WordPress is no doubt one of the best CMS out there and plugins make life really easy for bloggers like you and me. Now, there is always one plugin for anything we want to do on WordPress, and this leads to most common question: How many WordPress plugins we should use. It took me over years to understand, less plugin we use, it’s better for our hosting server performance. Also, I’m strictly against the policy ...

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