Free Glass Style Feed Icons
I always have an interest in searching for nice and glassy feed icons. And this time, I did stumbled across something very cool, Glass-Style RSS/Feed Icons. I’ve been able to get a nice screenshot and a preview of how they look from their official page
:) .
Cool, aren’t they? Well, they are fee to use and can be download from here. They are of two types, regular and reflected and come in 8 colors. They can be downloaded in JPEG, PNG, EPS, AI and SVG extensions and they come in the following sizes (pixels): 128, 96, 64, 48, 32, 24, 16, 12.
Source: ~[Technoworld]~
Essential SEO Plugins for WordPress
I have been using WordPress for 5 months now. I have come across many plugins and I have even tried most of them. It included all types of plugins. With my experience with WordPress and with the help of my friends, I have finally been able to compile a list of the essential plugins needed for optimizing WordPress (your blog) for search engines.
So the list goes like this…
Google Sitemap WordPress Plugin – The most important! Get your blog posts indexed on Google with this plugin.
Optimal Title WordPress Plugin – You hate long titles,right? Even search engines do. This plugin will display the page title before the blog name. That’s saves a lot of time and helps you get more hits!
Ultimate Tag Warrior – It is a tagging system that helps search engines crawl your site in a better way. You can even make tag clouds and play with many other customizing features.
Permalink Redirect – It does a permanent 301 redirect. Saves your post from being copied :)
All-in-One SEO Pack – Yup, the title says it all. You can easily set your page title, tags, description from this one plugin!.
If you have liked this post, then you would also like to know how to reduce spam by 99.9%.
Have I left out any plugin? Feel free to add it.
WP Theme K2: Common Errors and Fixes
I was recently setting up a blog for my friend using wordpress as the platform, when I found some common installation errors that occur while installing the famous theme K2. I have even found the fixes to these problems, thanks to the K2 Support forums.
Errors with their fixes
1. If you get this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_option() in [...]/wp-content/themes/k2/theloop.php on line 28
To fix this, disable all the plugins that load their own version of prototype.js.
2. If you get this:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_bootstrap() in /home/mybattle/public_html/wp02/wp-content/themes/k2/app/
includes/sbm-stub.php on line 24
You will have to re-install the theme from scratch, because the file structure have change. This error occurs while installing K2 0.9.6 on top of a previous installation.
3. For this:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: is_active_module() in /home/…wp-content/themes/k2/theloop.php on line 76
I don’t know the actual reason for this error, but this error is fixed in the latest version 0.9.6. So, if you are getting this, make sure you are using K2 0.9.6, not 0.9.5.
These were the only errors I found with the fixes. If you know any other common error that you have come across, then feel free to share it here. Your additions will be highly appreciated. If you still have some question regarding a problem, the K2 Support Forums are always open.
I hope this article has been helpful to you. This was the lat post for today… See you guys tomorrow :)
Reduce Spam by 99.9% in WordPress
Finally, I have found a way by which you can reduce spam by 99.% in your WordPress blogs. I was getting a lot of spam messages daily and this was the reason why I had to enable comment moderation :( . But now, I have finally got rid of this problem by using just two plugins :) .
I was already using Akismet, but now I have also started using Challenge. Akismet was not filtering out all the spam. I was still getting spam as comments. So, I googled some anti-spam plugins for WordPress and found Challenge. You must have seen that 2+2= in the comments :P . That’s Challenge. The combination of both Akismet and Challenge reduces spam up to 99.9%. It’s been more than a week since I installed Challenge, and till now, I haven’t received any spam comment :D . Even Akismet isn’t receiving any spam comments.
I would recommend everyone to use both of these plugins. This way I don’t even have to enable comment moderation, and this really helps me in getting more comments on my posts.
WordPress.com Stats footer.php Fix
by Haris on June 14, 2007
in Tips and Tricks, WordPress
You guys must have noticed that a few days back I changed Sizzled Core’s theme from iTheme to Envision. But since that day, my WordPress.com Stats plugin was not working. The stats were not updating and it continued that way for 3 days. Then I mailed at WordPress.com support and from there I came to know about the fix.
The problem in my case was that Envision did not have <?php wp_footer(); ?> in its footer.php
Many themes don’t have this. So it’s better to put <?php wp_footer(); ?> in your theme’s footer.php to avoid any problems later on. If ever you get stuck in such problem all you need to do is just copy the above given code and paste it anywhere in your footer.php. This will fix the problem and the plugin will continue collecting your blog’s data without any loss.
How to get traffic from WordPress.com to your blog
If you are a new blogger, or have just started another new blog, you will definitely find this easy, cool technique quite useful to gain popularity. Even I use this technique to get some part of mail daily traffic from WordPress.com and gain to gain some popularity 
.
Apart from publicizing your blog in the usual manner, such as advertising on bulletin boards, on Orkut, MySpace, submitting them on various link directories etc. you use this sweet technique to gain popularity in the blogosphere.
My Top 10 WordPress Plugins
I have been using WordPress for the past 2 months, and in all this time, I have come across many WordPress plugins that are very useful, and is used by almost everyone. I have compiled a list of WordPress plugins that I think are the best ones available. Whether you are a new user or an existing one, you will definitely find these plugins useful.
So here goes the list:
Sidebar Widgets
Customize the look of your sidebar without manually editing the PHP files.
Ultimate Tag Warrior
Best Tag system for WordPress.
Hotlink Protection Plugin for WordPress
Want to get rid of people copying images from your posts and using your bandwidth? Then Hotlink Protection Plugin is the solution to you problem. With this plugin you can easily protect your images without blocking images for feed readers. I’s a new plugin which came out yesterday.
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Top 10 Most Popular and Must-Have WordPress Plugins
by Haris on April 29, 2007
in Tips and Tricks, WordPress
Ok, peeps. Here, I bring you the top ten most popular useful WordPress plugins.
WordPress is one of the best and most popular blogging platforms. It has a huge community with a large number of free themes and plugins available. It provides most of the features out of the box, but still some extra plugins are needed to enhance and optimize WordPress blogs. I have listed below some of the most popular WordPress plugins.
