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Fix WordPress Capital P Dangit. What is it anyway?

By Arun Basil Lal | Published: July 17, 2010

When WordPress 3.0 came out, Matt did something silly. He added some code into WordPress core that replaces all instances of Wordpress with WordPress. See the difference? Look again, the P in second one is capital. Well, that is the way it is meant to be.

So what is the big deal?

Posted in WordPress | Tagged Fun, Web Development, WordPress, WordPress Plugins | 8 Comments

9 Best WordPress Ad Management Plugins

By Arun Basil Lal | Published: July 16, 2010

A guest post by James Adams. If you wish to write one, check out the guest-posting guidelines and details.

One of the attractions of the WordPress blogging platform is its ability to be very easily monetized through advertising. Whether you use pay-per-click advertising, affiliate marketing, or your own system, there are many ways you can generate revenue from a WordPress blog.

Fortunately, the flexibility of the WordPress platform allows for the use of plugins that can make the implementation and management of advertising campaigns simple, and effective. Here nine of the best WordPress ad managing plugins that can successfully generate revenue from your website.

Posted in Guest Posts, WordPress | Tagged Adsense, Making Money Online, WordPress Plugins | 6 Comments

Fix For BuddyPress Activity Stream Not Showing Up on HomePage

By Arun Basil Lal | Published: June 21, 2010

WordPress 3.0 is here! I know you guys probably know that already. I haven’t upgraded most of my blogs yet just because I don’t want to screw up anything.

(If you are upgrading, you would want to make your Theme WP 3.0 compatible, right? Here is what you would need.)

BuddyPress - SocNet with WordPress But today morning I just tried upgrading one of my BuddyPress installations since a plugin that I was trying out works only with WordPress 3.0. Back-ed up the database (you should too!), checked if the backup was working and did the automatic upgrade. Everything went smooth, I checked the homepage and boom! It reported a 404.

First idea on my mind was to roll back to WordPress 3.0. So I googled for some WordPress downgrading plugins. Fortunately or Unfortunately there are none. Any plugin developers reading this? You might want to make the First WordPress Downgrade Plugin.

Heck, I can code, I understand WordPress, why not fix the issue? And here it is, the work around.

Posted in WordPress | Tagged #ideabox, BuddyPress, WordPress Hacks, WordPress Themes | 12 Comments

Simple Ways to Generate Buzz About Your Blog

By Arun Basil Lal | Published: May 19, 2010

A guest post by Anil Gupta. If you wish to write one, check out the guest-posting guidelines and details.

When it comes to the success of your blog – there is no way that you can achieve success by simply writing articles, posting them and then going offline. Today’s world is marketing oriented. Even if you write good quality content, you must have the ability to market them well.

It is important that you let people know that your blog exists since you cannot expect people to visit your blog when they are not even aware of it. Letting people know about your blog and talk about your blog is called generating buzz and that is done by smart marketing and a little bit of diligence.

Here are a few tips to generate buzz: