By using this plugin, you can select which categories that you want to exclude from the front page. In other words, all of the posts inside the selected categories will not appear on the front page.

You can actually find several exclude categories like plugin out there but I prefer the Ultimate Category Excluder because the plugin can also exclude the posts in category from appearing in feeds or archives.

Manual code injection

Go to the Theme Editor of your WordPress blog and find the code location of the navigation menu. Find code that similar to the code below:

wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li=');

If the navigation menu is at the header of your blog, usually you can find the code at header.php. If the navigation menu is at the footer, usually you can find them at footer.php. No one can tell you the exact location as it depends on the WordPress theme you are using.

To exclude a specific page, you just need to add ‘exclude=pageID’ to the navigation menu code. In this case, the pages with page ID 12 and 26 are removed from the navigation menu. You can get the page ID from the shortlink of the page.

Use Exclude Pages wordpress plugin

If you are too worry to mess with your WordPress theme, then you can install Exclude Pages wordpress plugin that you can get for free here. This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, which is checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages (which includes, and is usually limited to, your page navigation menus).

All in One Seo pack is  good but the bad thing is you can’t change the permalink of any post. If you do, the corresponding post will not appear in search engine results anymore due to the different adress.

By using Platinum Seo Pack, changing permalink is not a problem anymore since this plugin will automatically create 301 redirection from the old link to the new one.

One thing to remember, you could not use both plugins at the same time. Do not worry, Platinum Seo Pack will automatically use all of your All in One Seo Pack settings.

Ps: I am still sticking with All in One Seo Pack.

The shockest thing of wordpress 2.7 also known as coltrane is its new interface. I like this new interface much more since I can reduce my clicks to do something. This is done by the placing of control panel features at the left sidebar.

Blogger always want something simple as a blogging platform, thus make wordpress  as a choice compare to Joomla or other CMS.

In wordpess coltrane, wordpress once again make thing simple by adding quick press feature. Now blogger can reduce a click to add a new simple post that doesn’t need extra editing or styling (since there is no editor at the quick press feature).

RB-internal links problem

After upgrading, I am having problem with the html editor. Luckily the problem solved once I deactivated all of wordpress plugins and activated it again one by one. Lastly, I detected that the culprit is RB-internal links, the plugin that I used the most.

I feel so bad to say goodbye to my precious buddy.

The focus for this release was making WordPress faster and lighter.  The first thing you’ll notice when you log in to 3.2 is a refreshed dashboard design that tightens the typography, design, and code behind the admin.  All of the widgets, menus, buttons, and interface elements fade away to allow you to compose and edit your thoughts in a completely clean environment conducive to writing, but when your mouse strays to the top of the screen your most-used shortcuts are right there where you need them. (I like to press F11 to take my browser full-screen, getting rid of even the OS chrome.)   (Rhapsody in Grey?) If you’re starting a new blog, you’ll also appreciate the fully HTML5 new Twenty Eleven theme, fulfilling our plan to replace the default theme every year. Start writing your first post in our redesigned post editor and venture to the full-screen button in the editing toolbar to enter the new distraction-free writing or zen mode, my personal favorite feature of the release.

Okay boys. Times to upgrade.

If you are using WordPress as the platform for your website, you should glad because the Search Term Tagging 2 wordpress plugin is going to made you on page SEO more easier. This wordpress plugin has the ability to save keyword that is used in search engine to reach your post. To optimize the post, you should list the incoming search terms below your post. Actually you can put the incoming search terms anywhere but it might look spammy and inconvenience for the readers. To avoid Google bots from detecting the post as a post with keyword stuffing, it’s good to control the number of displaying search terms to approximately 20.

So how does the plugin help SEO? The secret is in displaying the list of incoming search terms in the post. Remember, keyword density plays some role in SEO. Since the incoming search terms is placed in the post, the post should now be more optimized for the terms.

For on site SEO, you can activate the supplied widget. To avoid keyword stuffing issue, do not list to many term on the widget.

To create a WordPress theme from scratch, you should follow these phases:

1. Photoshop mockup
2. Design slice
3. Coding the layout using HTML and CSS

Photoshop mockup means designing a WordPress theme using Photoshop. The Photoshop design should look as what you want to appear as in internet browser. Photoshop mockup and slicing the Photoshop design are important in order to ease your layout coding. From the mockup, you can determine how much length and width you need to put during coding the layout. Besides that, you can easily determine the address of the color needed for your layout styling.

There are already numbers of available tutorial about creating and designing WordPress theme from scratch, so I just point to the related sites:

• http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/building-custom-wordpress-theme
• http://www.wpdesigner.com
• http://net.tutsplus.com/
• http://themeshaper.com/2009/06/22/wordpress-themes-templates-tutorial/

In helping you coding the layout for the theme, it’s good to use Notepad++ instead of the normal notepad since Notepad++ come with Syntax checker. It just check Syntax though, and nothing beyond that. If you need better helper in coding the layout, consider to buy Adobe Dreamweaver.

In some case, Akismet becomes too strict and even detect proper comment as spam. So it is good idea to seldom check your spam comments.

The only reason you don’t know about their success is they try to be secrective due to four circumstances.

• First, they don’t want other internet user to follow their footstep and thus increasing  competition.
• Second, they don’t want their method to be widely spread and end up to Google. Once Google change their algorithm, autobloggers need to think another step in order to make decent income with the system.
• Third, some autobloggers don’t even have a personal blog to share their success.
• Fourth, contents use on an autoblog are stolen from other websites automatically. If you are a well known blogger, I doubt you want to write a post that say you are a content thief.

The idea to create autoblog by using WordPress is to find a plugin that can grab RSS feed from any sources and then publish it as post. If you decided to start a WordPress autoblog, WP-Robot or AutoBlogged are the best plugins available.

Both of them are commercial but they work great. From my research over the net, WP-Robot is worth to try.

WP-Robot is a bit expensive but the product has been sold a lot. That just proven how worthy WP-Robot is.

WP-Robot can grab contents according to specific ‘tags’. That’s really awesome way to start an automatic niche blog. Besides that, WP-Robot is the best plugin for moneytization. If other autoblog plugins can only grab RSS feeds, with WP-Robot you can choose to insert Youtube video, Yahoo answers, Clickbank and even E-Bay products too.

That’s so awesome and will greatly boost your autoblog income.

If you are really interested to have autoblog, you should aware of certain issues. Firstly, autoblog generated duplicate contents that is hated by search engine. If you don’t tweak the generated contents manually, you may suffer to get organic traffics. So you still need to put a lot of efforts in driving traffics to your autoblog manually. Remember, no traffics, no money.

The most important, all of the contents on your autoblog are not yours. And will never be yours. If the contents owner decided to take law action, then there is nothing you can do. If you want to play safe, at least use whois guard or use fake identity on your whois information.

Regards,

The basic of SEO

There is a few things that we need to take care in order to get high ranking in search engine. Common important things is url (website adress) and title.

By default, your post title and url is the same. However you can change the url to suit your needs. For SEO purpose, your url should be short in length and must contain the keywords that you want to optimize. In this post, I decided to optimize the words ‘All in One Seo Pack’.

Using all in one seo pack to change title

By default, the title of your post is the same as the title that will appear at your browser. For seo purpose, this is a waste since search engine (especially Google) really like something unique and different. Luckily, we have all in one seo pack here.

You can change the title according to your like. This is a tip for you. The title and description that you enter here will be visible in search engine results. So the title and description that you provide should have powerful and convincing words that will make visitor click on it. Otherwise, your high ranking in search engine means nothing.

Optimize your title with all in one seo pack

This blog is purely focus on web hosting and related stuff. So, I need to put the keyword ‘web hosting’ as much as I can in order to get high ranking in search engine for related keywords.

That’s why I am using this great plugin to change my Title structure and fill it with ‘web hosting’ keyword.

Besides All in One SEO Pack, there is also another WordPress plugin for SEO purpose that is called Platinum SEO Pack. If you haven’t done any SEO optimization at your blog, start it now.

There is nothing to regret.