31 December 2012

The 5 Best Reasons to Use WordPress for Your Blog

Best Reasons to Use WordPress

Engaging people on a blog can be an exciting prospect for anyone who has information and ideas to share. Among the free blogging products out there, WordPress is one of the leading ways to publish online. In fact, WordPress is highly popular with bloggers around the world for a number of reasons.

Customize your posts with permalinks

Earlier this year we introduced a suite of new SEO features that help ensure your blog, posts, and images are accurately indexed so they appear correctly in search results. Today we’re happy to introduce another feature that enables you to more effectively customize your search preferences - custom permalinks.

When you write a post, Blogger automatically generates a permalink based on the title of the post. Until now, blog authors have had no control of the permalink. Custom permalinks give you more control of your blog and posts. These new custom links also provide readers with more information about your post when scanning search results.

If you prefer to use a custom permalink, you can do so via the “Permalink” option in the Post Settings box.

Customize your search preferences

Hi Bloggers.

Ensuring that your blog, posts, and images are accurately indexed so they appear correctly in search results is valuable. Today we introduced a suite of new features that enable you to more effectively customize your search preferences. Managing how your blog is viewed by search engines is an important aspect of maintaining a healthy blog, regardless of whether you’re new to blogging, or a seasoned veteran.

Here’s an overview of what we added:

Introducing Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger

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Before After

SEO Blogger: Optimize Your Posts As You Write

Whether you blog about business, politics or the hot topic of the moment, SEO Blogger allows you to find the most sought-after keywords for your subject without ever leaving your blog editing screen. The tool sits alongside whatever blog publishing software you're using so you can do keyword research andoptimize your posts as you write. Then, simply hit "Publish" – and you're done!

How to add Retweet Button to Blogger

Update: Twitter has now Released its own Retweet Buttons - So check it out at Official Tweet Button from Twitter With Counter

How to add retweet button to Blogger ?

Twitter is getting more and more famous and so is retweet Most of you might be knowing of both of this.Still i will give a brief into on both :P
Twitter – Twitter is a free social networking site that enables users to send short notices of 140 characters. :P

Post Summaries on Blogger With Read More

Blogger is fulfilling some of our expectations. Now blogger officially supports Post Summaries With Read more.This means that you wont need any JavaScript and CSS based tricks to display post summaries on Non-Post Pages.

Blogger has started using Country Specific URLs and some of you might have already noticed it. The change has been rolled out in India.If you are from India try visiting any BlogSpot URL and you will be redirected to the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD). For example if you visit any page on http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.comfrom India , you will be redirected to the country specific page onhttp://bloggerindraft.blogspot.in . Similarly if you visit any other ccTLDs from India, you will be redirected to the Indian TLD

Blogger has introduced 6 awesome Gadgets for the Dynamic Views/Dynamic View Templates. The Widgets appear as a Floating Dock and expands when the user hovers over it. These Gadgets matches up with the look and feel of the CSS3 powered Dynamic Views.

Meta Tags are HTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a web page. Such tags are placed in the head section of an HTML document and Search Engines might use this data to display the search snippet when they display a page from your blog. Most of the Social Sharing Tools like the Facebook Share or the Google Plus buttons will pick up this meta description to create the snippet which gets shared to the Social Networks.

Blogger has launched an Array of Search Engine related features and one of them is the ability to create Custom Redirects. Technically Blogger allows you to create 302 Redirects which are used to specify that the Web Page has temporarily moved to a new location.

Numbered Page Navigation For Blogger

Page Navigation is a really awesome and long awaited feature. You might have seen numbered page navigation on many wordpress blogs(wp-pagenavi by Lester Chan). Muhammad Rias of Techie Blogger had already developed a page navigation system for blogger.It really was an awesome trick which was made at a time when nobody could even think of implementing it on blogger.It had some minor bugs and now Abu Farhan has perfected it and he has now given us the perfect page navigation solution.Here is a little screenshot of what this is all about.

When you use this hack,you will see this kind of navigation on your blog’s home page and label pages(needs little customization).

Show avatars on Blogger Comments

Blogger is now introducing features every day as part of its 10th birthday celebrations.Now it has formally announced the Blogger Comment avatars. To know what it means take a look at the comments here on this blog and you will see the profiles pictures of the commentators near to the comments.If you are using some default blogger template things would be much easy.Here is a little screenshot of the new feature.

Facebook Share Count Buttons For Blogger

Facebook has now officially introduced the Retweet like Facebook buttons for your blogs or sites. These Facebook buttons look much similar to the Retweet buttons by Tweetmeme. Facebook has 5 styles of Sharing buttons. Here we will see two of them.

Adding a Facebook share count button will show a neat count of how many times your blog post has been shared on Facebook.

Note: The Facebook share buttons are deprecated and FB no longer supports it(It still works though). You can still add it if you want. You can also opt to add the new Facebook Like Buttons with Like Count

Add Signature to Blogger Blog

You might want to add a custom automatic signature below each of your blog posts. This would be more useful if you are running a Team Blog with multiple authors. You can use unique signatures for each author.The same can be done on a single author blog also :)

Adding Signature to Single Author / Multi Author Blogger Blogs

1. Create a Signature using Photoshop or some online Generators like My Live Signature

2. Upload this signature image to blogger.Once its uploaded hit preview and copy the image location(Note down the URL of the image).

3.Now Go to Layout > Edit HTML and Expand your Widget Templates

4.Now Find

Google Buzz is a social tool from Google and it is much similar to Twitter and Facebook :). Google Buzz is a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting. You can read more about Google Buzz at the official Google Blog . You might have seen the Google Buzz buttons on Mashable. You can see a demo of this button in this post page. :) . Now Google has officially released the Share Counters, So here are the steps to get the Buzz button on your blog.

Like all other Social networks, StumbleUpon has also got some really elegant sharing buttons. StumbleUpon has got 6 different sharing buttons. You can choose any of these six. Integrating this into your blogger blog will require some template Edits.

How to remove quick edit and wrench icons on Blogger

You might have seen the Pencil , Screwdriver and Spanner links on blogger. It seems like these icons appear only when you are logged in to your blog. But if you take a look at your Blog's Source From your Browser's View source option, then you will find that there are plenty of quick edit links on your blog even if you are not logged in(Do a Find for blogger.com ). These are the quick edit links and these will be hidden using CSS if you are not logged into your blogger account(but still be present in your blog as hidden links).

What is the use in Removing these Links?

You will be able to reduce the number of external links on your Blog and make it more Search Engine Friendly

Do i loose anything if i remove these Links ?

You will no longer see the Quick Edit pencil

or wrench links

on your blog . If you want to Edit a Gadget, you will have to go to the Layout > Page Elements Page .

Blogger has got a default Navigation Bar. This navigation bar is hidden in most of the third party templates. Instead of hiding the nav bar using CSS, we can completely remove it.

This Tutorial will help you in adding a Facebook Like Button For Blogger. Facebook has come up with a new set of Social plugins which enable you to provide engaging social experiences to your users with just a line of HTML. The Facebook Like Button is One of them. You can see a demo of the like button on this page. The Facebook like button will allow your readers to quickly share your posts with their Facebook Friends. You can also get to know how many people liked your Blog Post .This tutorial will teach you to add a Facebook Like button for Blogger

Blogger has been rolling out new features to improve the looks and usability of the blogs. Blogger is now testing out a new Social Sharing icon set consisting of Email, Blogger,Twitter(with goo.glshortener),Facebook and Google buzz buttons. The set looks simple and elegant with some cool mouse over effects. These Sharing buttons are now available in your regular dashboard.If you need to take a peek at these new sharing icons, then take a look at my post page(and try sharing it :P ).

Having a Shorter Version of your Blog Post’s URL is much useful especially when sharing links with others. For example Take a look at this Link http://bit.ly/aJMJNI . If you visit that link, you will end up right back here. This URL shortening was done with the Help of the Bit.ly API. Bit.ly is one of the most reliable URL shortening services on the Web. Wordpress has got its own URL shortener namely WP.me. If you are interested in providing Short Sharable URLs of your Blogger Posts to your readers, then read on. Demo is present on the post page.

Official-Twitter-Share-Buttons-for-Blogger

@Twitter has now officially released new Sharing Buttons with counter(Tweet Button). The button comes in three styles and has a new URL shortener(t.co). The tweet button will show how many times your post has been shared on twitter.

The Official Twitter Tweet Button has 3 default styles(2 of them with a counter and one without) . The Button works with JavaScript and is not fully Customizable.This post is for all those who want to customize, the tweet button and change it into a simple Text link. The output will be a simple HTML link with all the features if the Tweet Button(excluding the count)

How to Add Tweet Box to Blogger

It has been a long time since @Twitter released the @AnyWhere Developer Tool. AnyWhere allows you to seamlessly integrate Twitter into your site using a few lines of JavaScript. You can read more about it at @AnyWhere Developer Page. Tweet Box is one such @AnyWhere Application, which allows you to add a 140 char Tweet Box onto your blog.

The Default Blogger Templates(which can be customized using the Designer) are all made to use the “Blog Pages” as your Blog’s Top Navigation Menu. This is done using a Page List Gadget. But , you might want to setup your own menu with Custom Links. In that case, you can replace the Page List Gadget with a Link List. This tutorial guides you on how you can replace the Page List with a Link List without loosing the Menu Styling(and the highlighted active links)..

Google Chrome Frame is an open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome's open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer. Older versions of IE doesn’t support the latest web technologies like HTML5 and CSS3. With Chrome Frame, all these new Technologies will be supported.

Facebook Like Button allows you to provide more Sharing Options to your Readers. Your readers can share your posts on Facebook using the Like Button. Have you added the Like button and still not getting any “Likes”? :(. Ok then we will present the Like button in a much better and elegant way.

As you might already know, Blogger is integrated with Picasa and all the images that you upload to Blogger automatically becomes a part of your Picasa account.Picasa has got 1 GB free Storage.So if your Picasa Account exceeds this 1 GB limit, you wont be able to post more images to your blog.(In that case you will have to buy additional Storage).

It had been some time since Facebook released their new Send Button.The Send button is a social plugin that websites can use to let people send a link to a friend through Facebook Messages, post it to a Group, or email it to an individual. Follow this tutorial to add it to your Blogger Blog.

Add Google Plus One ( +1 ) Button on Blogger

Google has released an alternative to the Facebook and Twitter Sharing buttons named +1.If you like something that you find on the web, you can hit the +1 button, and your +1's will help friends, contacts, and others on the web find the best stuff when they search. This tutorial will guide you on adding the same to your Blogger Blog.

A few days back, I published the JavaScript version of the Recent Posts widget, and I loved the Grid Layout of the Widget. One of the most popular Widgets used by Bloggers is Blogger’s Official Popular Post Widget. So I decided to edit the gadget, and give it the Grid Style.

I had got quite some number of questions regarding how I display post thumbnails here on my blog. So I decided to write a tutorial about the different methods that you can use to display post thumbnails. Post Thumbnails will look good on your blog if you are using the Blogger Jump Break Feature to efficiently control the post excerpt that gets displayed on non-post pages. So here are the methods:

As of now there is no Official Method to Override the Lightbox, and it is enabled on all of the Blogger Blogs. If you don’t like the Light Box, and want to remove it from your Blog, then read on:

Edit Blogger Mobile Templates

There is some Good news from the Blogger Team on the Blogger Code Blog. If you have enabled the Mobile Templates, you will be able to customize the Blogger Mobile Template by using CSS definitions. You will also be able to control which widgets are to be shown and which shouldn't. You can also configure the widgets to show an alternate content in the mobile view.

Though this looks so promising, I was not able to test all of these features.

You might have noticed Google search results includes information about the author. It has a link to the Author’s Google Plus Profile and it also displays the Author’s Profile Picture.This tutorial will guide you in doing the same with your Blog.

Before we Start, here is a preview of what we are talking about

Threaded Comments For Blogger

Blogger has just announced the much awaited feature "Threaded Comments For Blogger" and you might have already seen it on your Blog if you are using a default Blogger Template. If you are using your own custom Template, then you will have to tweak your template for the threaded comments to appear.

This is how the Threaded Comments will look like (Screen shot taken form the Official Blogger Buzz Blog)

wrong-image-and-description-on-sharing-posts-to-facebook

When you share a post on Facebook, it will display a thumbnail picked from the post page along with a short description of the post. But in many cases Facebook fails to identify the correct image and description that it should use. This leads to irrelevant images and description coming up in Facebook when you or your readers share the post. This is totally annoying, and I had got many queries regarding this on my Facebook page and via email. So for those who are trying to figure a way out of this, here is the solution.

Add descriptions to Label Gadget

This was a query that I got over email and I when I saw her implement it on her blog, it looked cool and I thought this might be useful for others as well. This won’t look that great with Blogger’s Label Cloud. So this trick is only for those who use the list view in the Label Gadget. To do this, you will have to modify your Label Gadget with some custom code. You will have to add a small code snippet for each label of yours.

This is how the Gadget will look like after applying the code changes

"The 404 or Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but the server could not find what was requested." In simple words the page that will be displayed when the actual page is not found is called a 404 Error Page. Till now Blogger’s error page was a plain old design with more of orange in it and was not customizable. Now Blogger Error pages use the same template . This would help template designers in making up custom 404 Pages.This tutorial will help you in setting up a Custom 404 page for your Blog.

How to change the “posts” label to “articles”

Are you working for clients which aren’t very good with technology? If yes, most of them might find the term “post” a bit confusing, while “article” can be seen as much self-explanatory. Today, I’m going to show you how you can easily change the “post” label to “articles”.

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HOW TO REPLACE NEWER, OLDER & HOME NAVIGATION LINKS WITH IMAGE BUTTONS

In this tutorial i show you How to replace the Newer, Older and Home Navigation links with image buttons. These Navigation links are located at Beneath of Post(s) Section. If you are using the Numbered Page Navigation widget, these links are visible on each post only. because the numbered page navigation is not works on single post page. and by adding these image buttons, there is no effect takes on page navigation widget.

The Icons are used in this tutorial is Designed by David Lanham – Amora Icons, You can use you own icons.

Blogger Team announced their new official blogger lightbox plugin for post images. With this light box you can view your post images and pictures in Light box popup window. This is pretty cool plugin for Images galleries and photographers. However, some blogger don’t need to use this plugin (or) already they have a custom Light Box plugin installed. After receiving the Feedback form blogger users, blogger updated the Light box ad added the option to Dashboard. So, you can Disable this plugin with 2 to 3 simple steps.

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