Installation

Free PDF: Build Your Own WordPress Site

It seems that my posts lately was all about WordPress. Well…it’s because I want to stress the importance of having a blog as you take your journey in Internet Marketing, that’s why I really want to share it with you. For me, blog is the best way to expose yourself or your company to the world. It’s robust, fast, and customizable.

I will share any tutorials or tips about WordPress that I think worthy to be shared in the future. This time, one of my favorite site, MakeUseOf.com has released one useful eBook that you can use to build your WordPress from ground up. It will give you a general overview of WordPress installation, choosing the right plugins, themes, and so on.

If you want to download the PDF file, you can do so by going here.

Do you have any questions? comments? or remarks? Please leave it in the comment section.

WordPress 3.0 is coming – What’s new?

If you are a blogger like me, you must have heard about the upcoming WordPress 3. As a WordPress user, I’m so excited when I know that WordPress 3 is coming out. It means I can blog better. There will be more features being introduced that I’m sure will make blogging experience more pleasant.

I’m not a WordPress developer or anything, but I hope by knowing what WordPress 3 can do for you, you will be able to think of a better and efficient way to use WordPress for your Internet marketing journey (or even for personal use).

Currently, it’s still in Beta version. If you want to test it out, please visit WordPress Blog and download the installation files.

To know about all the new feature of WordPress 3.0, you can see them at WordPress Codex. However, I will try to mention here several new features that I’m most excited about.

• WordPress MU is now being merged with WordPress.org. I’m not too familiar with WordPress MU, but I tried it once a long time ago. What WordPress MU offer is to be able to host multiple blogs under same domain. I would assume since WordPress MU and WordPress.org are combined, you will be able to control the characteristics of each blog within a single dashboard.
• Ability to choose custom username upon WP installation. You can now be registered as the “admin” using different username. Before, this was a security issue, because hackers will know that every blog running on WP will have the username of “admin”. The only thing left for them to find is the password. Therefore, by changing the user name, hackers can’t easily break into WordPress admin page.
• New WP default theme, Twenty Ten. The goal here is to have new theme every year. Even though this is WP default theme, it offers great control options, such as Custom header, Custom Background, Clean Design, Multiple Widget Areas, Cascading Menus, and many more.
  
• Canonical plugin. This is kinda neat, I think. If you have plugins that you have been using for a long time and, suddenly, the author stop developing it, you don’t have to worry anymore. WordPress 3.0 allows the community to take over the plugin supports and trying to develop the new version as new editions of WordPress being released.
• Shortlinks API. When you have those long URL, you might want to use this built-in service in WordPress 3.0. This will work kinda like bit.ly for Twitter, I think.

What do you think? Are you excited yet?

Source: WPBeginner, Dougal’ Campbell, TemplateMonster.

How to Launch a WordPress Blog by Aaron Hockley

Aaron Hockley is a programmer, a photographer, and a great blogger. I found this video actually from one of my Wordpress dashboard window, and I think this video will really be a great help to get your blog up and running with less mistakes. If you don't know how to set up a Wordpress blog, Wordpress.org has detail instructions on how you can do it. Also, if you miss couple things from Aaron's presentation, like some plugin names or website links, you can go to his websiteanotherblogger.com and check out the transcript of his presentation. If you want to check out his slides presentation, you can go to Slideshare.net. Ok now, without further ado, here's Aaron's video presentation from WordCamp Seattle 2009.

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