Here I’ll continue going over the most common problem’s people have with WordPress. If I have not covered your WordPress problem, leave your question’s in the comment section below. Here are the topic’s I’ll cover today:
How to set up a Gravatar
A Gravatar is an image you can use as a branding tool. Then when you comment on other people’s sites your image will be placed next to your post’s.
First you need to create an avatar image. My favorite site is currently down, but should be up soon. It is located at FaceYourManga.com. The design I made to the left, was done on DoppleMe.com. Thankfully I don’t look that much like it.
After you design your picture continue following these step’s:
Your done. Now every time you comment, a photo representing you will be shown.
How to make an error 404 page in WordPress
If someone attempts to go to a page on your site, that doesn’t exist, they will be hit by a nasty error page. This is called a 404 error page. Here is a quick way to turn a negative into a positive. Instead they will now be sent to a page that will contain links to all of the article’s on your site. You can also use this code to create a sitemap page. Follow these step’s:
<h2><?php $numposts = $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = ‘publish'”);if (0 < $numposts) $numposts = number_format($numposts); ?> <h2><?php echo $numposts.’ articles on New Think Tank’; ?> </h2> <ul id=”archive-list”> <?php $myposts = get_posts(‘numberposts=-1&’); foreach($myposts as $post) : ?> <li><?php the_time(‘m/d/y’) ?>: <a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></li> <?php endforeach; ?> </ul>
How to post to multiple site’s using WPing FM
Every time you post new content on your site you can have it sent to over 40 social network’s automatically. You do this with a plugin called WPing FM. First you need to sign up for a Ping.fm account:
All done. Now every time you post an article, you’ll generate 40 plus incoming link’s.
How to post video’s to multiple site’s
Tube Mogul provides a similar tool to ping.fm, except it uploads video’s to multiple site’s. You have to sign up for an account at tubemogul.com and then:
That’s All Folk’s
That should pretty much cover any issue’s you may have with WordPress. If you have a specific issue that I didn’t cover leave a comment below.
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I read in a SEO article it is important load your home page with as many keywords as possible related to your site content. How do i do this with out a bunch of keywords just listed at the bottom of the page?
Listing keyword’s at the end of your page’s repetitively is known as keyword stacking. If you do this you’ll get banned. Instead go to site’s like 212 Articles, Article Alley, Article Blast, Article Cube, etc. and enter your chosen keyword phrase. This will serve up free article’s that already contain the phrase. Also search on Google for the keyword’s. Just make sure that if you copy content off other’s pages do it with Press This. That way everything will be legal.
Hi everyone!
So I have tried to login to my Ping.fm account over the last week or so, and keep getting the following error on the page – if anyone could answer this I would be most gratefull;
CONTENT ENCODING ERROR
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.
* Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem.
This will be a complete travisty if they have one completely – anyone know anything?
Regards
Darren