WordPress maintains a list of popular themes on its website. The top six popular are the twenty series default themes which come prepackaged with the WordPress package, hence deserve not to be checked. The next six have some interesting info. The following themes are in the next six of the popularity list. Zerif Lite –…
Previously we had seen how Blogger integrates with Google Plus to give us an unmatched commenting experience. The competitor blogging platform by WordPress has a similar feast in offing. Similar, but not identical. Since WordPress does not have its own social networking platform, its come up with a unique system to help bloggers. WordPress is distinctly…
This does amount to a certain degree of snooping, but its a way to see which WordPress plugins a particular website is using. Right Click on any empty space on the website as marked below. Unfortunately I could not get a clean screen shot. OR one can simply use the Keyboard short cut key…
The dreaded mail from Google Webmaster finally arrived. Choice was between how good the desktop site will look, but lead to lots of horizontal scrolling on a touch enabled smart phone. The mail read something like this People are buying smart phones like crazy and majority of them big screen touch enabled smartphones. Google needs to…
It was after some effort that I could understand what is Page Rank and its relationship with links. Though this tutorial from Google Support has covered the basics quite well, it was more to do with the convincing part rather than understanding. Check out the article about links from Google Support below. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en To sum…
As the world moves to mobile and portable touch screen enabled devices, search results displayed by Search Engines such as Google have entered a space wars. The fight is to crowd in as much information as possible in the small screen of a mobile phone. It has even lead to Google abandoning its much acclaimed…
Every website/blog will eventually need links for a basic kind of optimisation for the search engines. Harmful links, if left unchecked may play havoc with your rankings. This article will focus more on the methodology of controlling links rather than the why of it. It will put across a few easy ways to get your…
Not too long back, there was a requirement of displaying external content in a blog directory. A temporary arrangement was made to make use of an iframe. After all it did provide a conclusive solution as per the requirement of the blog directory, snapmylink. And finally the hunt for the elegant and permanent solution is…
Sharing a Link on Facebook is a treat. It enables authors to offer a better visual experience to their readers and followers. As you type in the hyperlink or the URL, the familiar three animated vertical lines appear and your link materialises in the form of a picture and some other information, usually the first…
The moment the though of bringing content from other websites, comes to mind. Slam, the answer is RSS. But this article will be focus on some thing more than RSS and the usual widget/sidebar display. 1. Using a simple hyper link <a href=”http://soonev.com”>main</a> <a href=’http://soonev.com/about/’ target=”_blank”>About</a> In the first instance the word “main” will only…
Jetpack, the plugin which brings the features of wordpress.com to your self-hosted WordPress blog/site has launched the 3.1 update which has “Custom Content Type” which allows you to showcase your work of art or skill. This feature is a new content type called Portfolio. Wikipedia defines Portfolio as either a sample of artists work or…
The latest trend in WordPress is Magazine theme, where articles are displayed in grid layout. This makes it easy to publish news of different categories in an easy to read layout. Here are some good themes which have in build magazine layout and will give you many other goodies as well. 1. SUFFUSION …