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Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Few days back, I informed you that I Want to Change My Blog Theme. I had also asked for suggestions. Lot of loyal readers had given their suggestions. I was happy to see the response. From that day onwards, I was on the look out for a new theme.

As i was hunting down for a theme, I went through a lot of sites. But, I finally decided to go for Imagination Theme from CSS Jockey.

Big thanks to Shankar Bakshi 's post where i came to know about Imagination Free Theme.

Its a beautiful and stylish theme. Its free and has got lot of settings that can be set from Dashboard.

Free Imagination Theme Features

  1. Plug & Play - No Programming Knowledge Required
  2. Comes with 9 preloaded Color Schemes
  3. Customize the Interface to make it unique
  4. Built-In Twitter, Flickr and Entrecard Widgets
  5. Built-In Feedburner RSS Integration
  6. Widgets Ready & Plugins Compatible
  7. W3C Valid & Cross-Browser Compatible
  8. Fully Documented Admin Options
  9. Compatible with WordPress MU (Multi-User)
  10. Standalone processing without interfering with default WordPress tables
  11. All this and lot more, absolutely Free!

After downloding the theme, it took me two full days of tweaking to CSS and migrate some of the things that i was using in old theme and wanted to use in this theme as well.

Imagination Theme with 9 Color Schemes

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24.05.2009 Blog Related, Wordpress 47 Comments

How to Remove Wordpress Meta Generator tag

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

I was reading an excellent post How to Stop Your WordPress Blog Getting Hacked. In that, the author has listed out different ways on how you can stop your Wordpress Blog getting hacked.

The second point in that post is to "Remove Meta Generator Tag". This tag reveals the Wordpress Version you are using. This is the reason to remove that tag.

As instructed, i headed to header.php of my current theme and looked for the following line to remove it.

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.7" />

I was surprised to see that line was not there but, it was getting generated when i view the source of my Blog.

I then found a way to Remove Wordpress Meta Generator tag.

If you look the contents of header.php carefully, you will find a function call wp_head() just before tag. This is the function which is adding Wordpress Meta Generator Tag.

Our aim is to remove that tag from getting generated by wp_head() function.

Following steps are to remove meta generator tag in wordpress:-

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14.05.2009 How-To, Wordpress 24 Comments

I Want to Change My Blog Theme. Any Suggestions?

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Guys, This blog has been dressed up with two themes before. CopyBlogger Theme with Three Columns from the inception of this blog way back in December 2007 to May 2008 (6 months) and WP Premium Theme(current one) From May 2008 to till Date.

I have done lots of tinkering to this theme from Increasing the Sidebar Width, CSS Changes, Implementing Rounded Boxes in Sidebar and lots of other stuff. I am now looking for a new look. I am now bored of this old look :)

I would like you all readers/bloggers to pour in with your suggestions on Themes that i should try.

The new Wordpress theme should have following features

  1. SEO supported
  2. Two sidebars on right side
  3. Should fit 125X125 3 ads on the sidebar at the top
  4. Each sidebar should be 160px minimum
  5. Adsense support with HIGH CTR :)
  6. Other stuff...

I hope you guys can refer me Nice Impressive Free Theme/Premium Theme which is a bit cheap.

Hope to see lot of suggestions.

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06.05.2009 Blog Related, Wordpress 24 Comments

Increase Blogs internal linking using SEO Smart Links Plugin

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Yesterday, I came across a post - Increase Internal linkings on Blog. In that post, the author talks on How to better internal linking in wordpress blog. He mentions use of 4 Plugins which will you achieve this.

I am already using 3 of the plugins out of the 4 listed there. SEO Smart Links plugin which was new for me. I immediately jumped on to Wordpress admin interface and installed SEO Smart Links plugin.

SEO Smart Links Plugin puts Contextual links

SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

Increase Internal Linking - Smart Links Plugin

Increase Internal Linking - Smart Links Plugin

Contextual Links are the backlinks from the post. A number of such type of backlinks can easily take your blog/article page to the top of any keyword. So, even if you link to your own posts from another post, that would still count as another contextual backlink.

The plugin automatically adds links to other pages of your blog from a page with the desired keyword as the anchor text. It basically scans the post and find the keywords or a phrase and matches it with already existing post / tags / category and links it.

SEO Smart Links Features

  1. Allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs
  2. Allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window
  3. Ignore list for keywords you do not want to link
  4. Control external links with custom keywords
  5. You can edit the options from the administration settings panel.

I started using it and found some Contextual links getting generated. Need to monitor and also will try setting up keywords vs URL's

Download Smarts Links Plugin and further Description

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28.04.2009 Wordpress 25 Comments

Greet your Blog visitors using WP Greet Box wordpress plugin

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

I have found a new Wordpress plugin called WP Greet Box. I am found it really interesting and am impressed with this plugin. I am going to first instroduce you to WP Greet Box and will give my review!

What is WP Greet Box?

This is a Wordpress plugin which show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer URL.

Below are Few examples

If visitor arrives to the post from Google search engine, they will see a message asking to subscribe to the RSS feed if they liked the post. The plugin will also show posts based on the search keyword used in google search engine.

If a visitor arrives from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter.

You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors (not matching any referrer URLs) suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed.

These greetings helps the visitor with the suggestions and reader interaction.

Screenshot

WP Greet Box - Greeting Message

Features

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18.02.2009 Blogging, Wordpress 28 Comments

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