Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress’
Start a Colorful Blog with Block Theme
There are millions of blogs on the Internet these days. A whole lot of people have taken a chance and started blogging about what they are passionate about. But there are so many of these blogs that use boring and plain themes. It does not help when people use free themes that are being used by thousands of other bloggers. Premium theme are not exclusive to you either. But the price tag does keep a whole lot of people away.
Block Theme is a colorful and very attractive WordPress theme that gives you the chance to start an attractive blog or portal in no time. Block Theme can handle your content easily, no matter how many photos or stories you have on your blog.
The theme is designed to handle images easily. You don’t have to jump through hoops to add your content to it. It has a very unique design that is modern and catchy. It’s pretty easy to make small changes from this themes options pages without making changes to your code.
Answer Theme: Build a Question/Answer Portal with WordPress
As a blogger, you should always be on your toes to find ways to provide more value to your readers and get them more involved in your community. A good way to do that is by adding a Q&A portal to your blog. That way you can let your visitors get more involved and share their questions and experiences with others in your community. Designing such a portal from scratch can take a lot of time and cost you a bit. Thanks to Answer Theme, you can get the job done fast and in an affordable fashion.
Answer Theme is pretty straight-forward to use and comes with everything you need to give your readers the chance to discuss their questions and experiences with the world. The “Auto Install” feature will give you a head-start with your site. So you won’t have to set everything up from scratch. You get to display the latest questions by your community members on your home-page. The same goes for popular and unanswered questions. Read more »
How To: Add a Store To Your Blog
In the past few months, I have written a series of posts on ways bloggers could go about evolving their blogs and taking them to the next level. Adding a job board, forum, and a chat room to your blog are all great things to do to make life easier for your visitors. But starting an online store can do that and give you a whole new way to make some revenue on the side (you are not planning to blog and starve, are you?). I am not suggesting you should start an Amazon.com-like store. A niche store that has items your visitors may find useful is a good way to start. You can sell your own products and branded items on the side as well.
Adding a store to your blog is not really that difficult. You can either do it with a third-party script or hire a web developer to do it for you. Hiring an e-commerce developer can be expensive for most folks. That’s why I love doing things with WordPress. There are just a ton of solutions out there for WordPress to get things done. WP Store is a killer WP theme that lets you start a store next to your blog. Whether you are planning to sell other people’s products or sell your own T-shirts, mugs, and other branded items, this theme can handle it.
I know what you may be thinking here. Who has time to go and set up a fully-fledged e-commerce store when you have your blog to run. WP Store is more than just a theme. It comes with everything one would need to manage a store with minimal effort. You can define shipping, tax, and other terms in the back-end and have the theme take care of the rest for you. You can even set up an affiliate program for your store and let others do the promotion and the selling for you.
Start Green Blogging with EcoPro for Wordpress
Wordpress is one of the best blogging platforms around (if not the best). It can save you a lot of time and effort and help you get started with your blog fast. Green blogging is one of the most popular niches in the blogging world these days. Everybody’s talking about green jobs, green revolution, and emerging green technologies. So there are plenty of opportunities to start a green blog today. Thanks to themes such as Eco Pro, you can get the job done without investing too much time and money. The theme is designed specifically for anyone interested in starting a green portal and can be easily customized to fit your needs.
For starters, the makers of Eco Pro will donate 10% of everything you pay to help save the environment. That’s a very noble way to run business. The theme comes with a featured section that you can use to push your favorite page or section of your website. You can also change the color and look and feel of your website by changing the color scheme in the back-end. You can have more than one featured story and even fit videos in your featured section.
Blog Like a Pro with Wordpress for iPad
Wordpress is one of the most powerful blogging platforms around, and it is being used by a whole lot of bloggers as their content management of choice. Wordpress platform enables bloggers to blog from their PC, Mac, and even their smart-phone. Thanks to latest upgrade made by the people behind Wordpress, you can now blog like a pro on your iPad as well. Since the iPad comes with a super large screen, bloggers are going to find it much easier to use it as a blogging tool for the road. Wordpress for iPad allows you to write posts, upload photos, and everything else you would do if you were behind your desktop computer.
Wordpress for iPad is a universal app. That means you can not only use it on your iPad but its smaller cousin the iPhone. The app is designed to help you manage your blogging life on the road much more effectively. It enables you to write posts on the go, manage your comments, and add photos to your posts as well. You can also preview your posts and make final changes before submitting them.
Build a Forum Around Your Blog with gForums
I have talked about in the past about various ways you can improve your blog and take it to the next level. Adding a job board, a Wiki, and a forum to your blog are all great ways to solidify your community and make people want to come back to your blog for more. Many bloggers don’t want to use with too many scripts. They take time to master Wordpress but don’t want to do the same with a service such as vBulletin. It’s true that vBulletin has a lot of forum features not found in other packages on the market, but you don’t need ot use vBulletin to add a discussion board to your blog.
gForums is a pretty unique Wordpress theme that turns your blog into a fully-fledged forum. And you won’t have to touch vBulletin or any other piece of software to get it done. In order to take full advantage of gForums, you want to install it in a sub-directory or sub-domain of your blog. So you are going to need a new Wordpress install to start your own Wordpress forum. But the rest is pretty easy. The theme is very easy to customize and comes with standard features you would expect from a forum software.
4 Cool Wordpress Themes For Your Personal Blog
There have been many bloggers who have made a business out of branding their own names. If you happen to have had any success blogging or doing anything else for that matter, you want to make sure you build your domain name (e.g. [Firstname][Lastname].com) to help people find you more effectively and leverage the site to push your other endeavors. Personal blogs are also useful for those who just want to aggregate all their activities on social networking sites in one place. Even if you don’t have a plan for your domain name, you still want to take the first steps to make sure you get the proper credit from the search engines.
Thanks to Wordpress, anyone can put up a website in a matter of minutes. There are plenty of themes that you can choose from to give your website the look and feel you crave. But if you are interested in giving your visitors ways to contact you or follow your work online on your blog, these 4 personal blog Wordpress themes come in handy:
Social Life: integrates all your favorite social media services into one page. So essentially, you won’t have to do anything other than doing what you have been doing on Twitter and other social networking sites. This theme takes care of the rest.
AntiSocial: one of the best aggregator themes on the market. If you happen to be invovled heavily in the social media, you are going to love using this theme. It’s pretty flexible and makes it easy to create a website that your visitors can use to get in touch with your work. Read more »
Fixed Social Plugin: Wordpress Meets Social Media
In a perfect world, your readers will take the time to remember to submit your best content to all relevant social media services around. After all, wouldn’t it be nice if you got some exposure on those sites for all the work you have done without having to lift a finger. That’s actually possible as long as your content provides unique value to your readers. You also want to have the proper tools on your blog to make it easy for your readers to submit your posts to those sites. If you are running your blog on Wordpress, you are in luck. There are plenty of plugins that make it so easy for your visitors to share your content on top social networking sites.
Fixed Social Plugin is an amazing little plugin that is worth a try for anyone who’s looking to get more exposure for his/her content on sites such as Facebook, StumbleUpon, and other top sites. This plugin is very flexible. It lets you pick and choose the style of your buttons and also the ones you want to show on your blog.
reCAPTCHA: Protect Your Blog Against Spam
Wordpress is the most popular blogging platform around. It’s not only free but can easily be enhanced through its huge database of plugins. But like every popular platform, Wordpress is susceptible to spam attacks as well. If you don’t believe me, just start a Wordpress blog with no security plugins and write a couple of posts on it. Once your site is crawled by Google and other search engines, you are going to see those nasty spammers make their way to your blog with their Viagra and other obscene plugs. That’s why you don’t want to abandon your Wordpress blog as far as its security is concerned.
reCAPTCHA is a powerful Wordpress plugin that helps you manage spam much more easily. Everybody who has been on the Internet for more than a few months has seen those annoying CAPTCHA systems. Yes. They can be annoying, but if you are getting a lot of spam comments on your blog, you’ll have to do something about it. I am sure your audience would understand. With reCAPTCHA, you can stop spammers in their tracks and make the process less convenient for them. Read more »
Enhance Your Wordpress Blog Posts with WDTGFH
I don’t know about you, but I never realized I had so many posts until one day I stopped and noticed the actual number. On another blog of mine, I blog on a daily basis and have been doing it for 9 years. After a while, you stop focusing on the number of posts you have and spend more time adding quality to your posts. But posts add up quickly, especially if you write a new one everyday. If you happen to have many posts on your blog, you want to make sure you provide your readers with the chance to go through your other posts and spend more time on your blog. That’s where WDTGFH comes in. It’s a powerful Wordpress plugin that let you users discover new posts on your blog and get more out of it.
If you have bought anything from Amazon recently, you have probably seen the above message. Essentially, Amazon is trying to encourage you to browse through more of its products and spend even more money on the site. That’s exactly what WDTGFH does, except it focuses on your blog posts instead of actual products. It keeps track of what stories people click on and provides a link to them on the source page. So your readers can go through your posts and figure out what posts other readers have found interesting after viewing a specific post.
