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Download Customized Skyline MobilePress Theme

September 11, 2012 By 25 Comments
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Before I got a mobile responsive Genesis child theme, I was using MobilePress to properly format this blog for mobile phones and tablets. I've even written a couple of posts in the past on how to customize  your Mobilepress theme including how to include thumbnails, how to change the color, how to add pagination and how to insert google ads. This theme was exactly what I was previously using and it has almost all the features I wrote ablout earlier. It's the complete Mobilepress theme you would like to have on your blog. Before you install, you may want to check out how your blog should look after installing it. I've added quite a number of features to this theme which makes it very … [Read more...]

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Add a Stylish Set of Share Buttons to Blogger / WordPress

August 15, 2012 By 67 Comments
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If you checked this site on mobile, you should see a set of share buttons appear above and below posts. Also, if you're using a PC, you should've noticed the same share buttons appearing just below posts only. Lots of co-bloggers often ask me which exact Wordpress plugin I use but as a matter of fact, I'm not using a plugin for those buttons, I added them manually. Either you're on Blogger platform or Wordpress, you can add these kind of cool, stylish share buttons to your blog too. This is what the buttons should look like when added: I actually got the code from sharethis.com but you may not like the way it appears on your blog if you're using their Wordpress plugin or if you did … [Read more...]

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12 Best Free Blogging Platforms of 2012

July 4, 2012 By 48 Comments
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Blogging has turned out to be an amazing approach to express your ideas, thoughts, and create your own presence over the Internet for your company and providing your existing as well as potential customers with the required content. If you are planning to come up with your own blog, but do not want to get into the hassle of developing, hosting and deploying it by your own, you can opt for the free blogging platforms that are considered the best and can be accessed for free. These platforms offer their users with a large number of features and normally come with both free as well as premium plans. The 10 best blogging platforms of year 2012 are as under; 1.       … [Read more...]

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Would You Rather Stick To A Free Email Subscription Marketing Service Or A Paid One?

July 1, 2012 By 17 Comments
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Email subscription marketing is one thing that must not be neglected by any web publisher (big or small) who really wants to suck the juicy benefits that comes with it. One common way people get traffic and increased page views to their blogs or websites is through email subscription by readers. Visitors are turned into readers when they subscribe to your site’s update using their email address and they in turn, are automatically notified via their email each time you publish a new update. That said, the pressing question which this article holds is – would you rather stick to a free email  subscription marketing service or go for a paid one? I decided to make this article … [Read more...]

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Adding Pagination (Numbered Navigation) to MobilePress

June 18, 2012 By 10 Comments
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I've always loved MobilePress plugin because it's so easy to customize and if you know some basic Wordpress tags, you can make your blog's mobile version look just the way you want. You can edit MobilePress colors, add thumbnails / featured image and integrating google adsense for mobile is really easy. I've successfully added a cool pagination (numbered page navigation) to my own mobile version. You can go to the homepage to check it out. How to add Numbered Page Navigation (Pagination) to your MobilePress Theme 1. Install and activate WP PageNavi. Of course, the pagination won't show yet on MobilePress but we're gonna make that happen in just a couple of minutes :) 2. Log in to your … [Read more...]

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Best 3 Plugins to Effectively Block Spam on your WordPress Blog

June 3, 2012 By 1 Comment
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You know you have a big problem when spam comments hit 300 in 24 hours and this is one of the first problem I encountered when I moved from Blogger to Wordpress last year. There were so much spam comments I installed up to five anti-spam plugins just to block them. What makes these spam comments even more annoying is that it's so easy to delete real comments made by humans along with those spam comments by bots. I tried several plugins till I settled for just three, the very best that reduced spam to the barest minimum without creating problems for human users. Yes, I could have decided to use captcha but the fact is that I hate captcha personally and I have this feeling it might … [Read more...]

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Displaying Breadcrumb in Google Search Result for Blogger & WordPress

May 19, 2012 By 33 Comments
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I'm not sure Breadcrumb has any SEO benefit but a sure fact is that it gives your a higher click through rate in google search. You heard me right and I'm talking from practical experience. A blogger sent me a message this morning asking how I included that breadcrumbs in Google search and I had to come up with this post. If you don't know what it means, breadcrumb trail is a navigation tool that allows a user to see where the current page is in relation to the Web site's hierarchy. At the top of this page, you should see this: Home » Blogger » Displaying Breadcrumbs in Google Search for Blogger & WordPress I wrote a post on this a while ago but it's only visible on your … [Read more...]

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How to Install WordPress Locally without a Hosting Account

May 14, 2012 By 26 Comments
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If you're on the free Blogger platform and wondering if you should move to Wordpress or not, you might want to see all the features available before planning to get a hosting account. You can install Wordpress locally on your computer and have full access to all the available features without even having a hosting account. Locally Wordpress installation allows you to get used to Wordpress dashboard, install themes and plugins and do everything you would do with a Wordpress installation on a regular web host. Alright, let's stop the talk and go straight to business. You'll need to download WampServer. This software is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web … [Read more...]

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