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How to backup your WordPress files
There two issues used to backup your WordPress web site: Files and Database.
Now we will talk about files.
Your WordPress web site comprises the following files:
1. WordPress Themes 2. WordPress Plugins 3. WordPress Core Installation 4. PHP scripts, Javascripts and other code files 5. Files and Images 6. Static Web Pages and Additional Files
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All things which provide the look of your site are located somewhere, so it is better for you to back them up as well as those files in your WordPress directory and subdirectories including the .htaccess file.
Hosts provide the work of the entire server where your web site is located. However, it is necessary to protect your own files by backing them up. The simplest way to do it is to download FTP program. It allows you to save all personal WordPress files on your hard drive.
On default setup, your personal content such as plugins, uploaded files and edited themes is located in the catalog “wp-content”. Please note that this directory is very important as well as the wp-config.php file which contains your connection information. The rest of files are core files, which have their own supply from WordPress download zip file.
Other possible solutions for backing up your files: – Website specialized Software Most hosts offer specialized programs to save your website setup and content files. Search for such software on your host server.
– Synchronization with your website Some programs like WinSCP allow you to create a mirror copy of the setup and content and synchronize the latest updates with your local computer. It is very easy and saves your time and efforts.
How to use WinScp program Using WinScp log in to your FTP server Click “Synchronize”
It will set your remote directory to the current FTP directory (mostly your root directory). As it was when you press “Synchronize”, local directory would be
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similarly set to the local directory of your computer. If needed, you may select any other direction.
Pay attention that for a successful backup the direction on your computer should be set to “local”.
All synchronized files would be put under Synchronization Mode.
When selecting “Ok” once, you will see a short list of your actions. Click “Ok” again to finish the process.
How to Save your files on Desktop With the help of UNIX Shell Skills or FTP Clients you can save files anywhere on your hard drive. If you need free space or just want to have several versions of files, you may turn them into a zip archive.
Usually, it is not necessary to save the WordPress core files on a hard drive since you always have access to them through a fresh version of the WordPress zip file. Remember however, that the wp-config.php file is the most important one since it contains your plugin files, theme and settings details.
WordPress themes overview
To be short, the Theme system of WordPress is a simple instrument to format your personal blog. However, it is designed not only for formatting. Changing your website design means to change visual effects. The WordPress Theme system provides the possibility to control over the content and “skin” of the page.
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The WordPress Theme system is a number of files which are aimed to produce perfect visual effects with unified design-making system. These tools are called template files. The Theme system establishes the way of how the page is shown without changing the engine of website. It may include image files (for e.x.*.jpg, *.gif), custompages, customized template files, code files (*.php) as well as style sheets (*.css).
Imagine you are writing about cars and computers. With the help of template files and WordPress Loop system, you got the possibility to “skin” your cars category block to look different from computer category block. This perfect control system gives you a powerful tool since the design of your website is limited only by your creativity.
See New Themes The WordPress Theme directory is the official website if you are looking for WordPress Themes. All files have been inspected absolutely safe and free. The page offers you a preview of the Theme as well as the diversity of styles and
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types.
Choose your Theme WordPress has two main Themes. The old Twenty Thirteen Theme and new Twenty Fourteen Theme. With the help of admin panel you can easily switch between them.
Find New Themes WordPress offers you variety of free perfect Themes available for installation.
In case if the Theme you choose contains some instructions, make sure you read them properly since successful installation requires following all mentioned steps. Each Theme contains installation instructions of how to do it right since the installation process may be complicated. But we ensure that it will work perfect if you will follow all instructions. In case if something is wrong, please e-mail the Theme author.
How to add New Themes through the Administration Panel With the help of Add New Themes option in the Appearance panel you can always add a Theme directly into your weblog.
1. Log in the profile of Administration page. 2. Go to the Appearance sub-menu, then choose Themes. 3. Click Add New. 4. See the Filter and Search options to define your choice. 5. To upload the new Theme Select the Install Now link; select Preview link to see how it will look in your blog. 6. In order to get an archived copy of a previously downloaded Theme, select the Upload link
How to add New Themes through cPanel
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In case if you have a possibility to enter cPanel control panel, and required files are in a .gz or .zip archive please, follow the instructions below:
Important: the following instructions are for the files compressed in .zip archive only.
1. Download the Theme archive to your PC. 2. In the cPanel menu, go to Theme folder. In case if WordPress program is located in the root directory of your host server, you would go to “public_html/wp-content/themes”. If WordPress program was installed in any other folder named wordpress, you would go to “public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes”. 3. As soon as you find yourself in the Theme folder in the cPanel File Manager menu, select Upload option to upload the .zip Theme file that you already saved in the first step. 4. As soon as the archived file is uploaded, select it in the cPanel menu, and then do the same in the right panel. To extract that .zip file, click “Extract File Contents”.
How to add New Theme Manually (FTP) If you want to decorate your WordPress by adding a new Theme manually, please, follow the instructions below:
1. Click on the Download button to download the Theme .zip file. Then extract all the files inside. When you are extracting these files, it could be necessary to preserve the catalog structure in the .zip archive. 2. With the help of FTP client, enter your server and create a catalog and click “save” button to save it in wp-content/themes directory. In other words, the Theme file named Test should be located in directory wp- content/themes/test. That directory should be provided as a part of the
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archive. 3. Finally, upload all Theme files to the new catalog.
How to select the Active Theme If you want to select a Theme for your website, follow the recommendations below:
1. Enter the Administration Panels in WordPress. 2. Enter the Appearance panel, then go to Themes. 3. Navigate to Theme thumbnail image in the options of the Theme you like to see details. 4. Click Live Preview if you want to see live preview of any Theme you are interested in. 5. Click the Activate button to activate the chosen Theme.
Any Theme you choose will be activated right away.
Important: Please, do not try to activate the new Theme without its further investigation when the Theme preview window is empty. It may lead to incorrect work of the website.
Review of WordPress Gallery Plugins
In WordPress, there are a lot of different Gallery plugins, and it is hard for a regular user to pick one of them. First of all, user has to determine the main
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features that he or she wants to get from the Gallery, and then, he should choose the most appropriate plugin. User can define the right plugin by comparison of rates, installing process, features, developers, and customer’s reviews.
This review will compare BestWebSoft Gallery, NextGen Gallery, Slideshow Gallery, and Grand Flagallery plugins.
Rating Gallery Plugin by BestWebSoft has rather high rating and its developer has 29 other plugins and they also have high rates.
Download number of this plugin is high because its version updates frequently, and attains new functions. Its rating is 4.5 out of 5 stars, and it has approximately 1000 downloads per day. Users prefer this plugin for easy using and high level of support.
NextGEN Gallery Plugin has the highest upload number among other plugins. It
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was downloaded almost 10,000,000 times.
Its rating is 3.9 out of 5 stars. This plugin has a lot of contradictory comments, one part of users like it for functionality, and another one blaming it for different errors, which occur after the latest updates. Its author developed only this plugin.
Slideshow Gallery Plugin rating is lower than in previous cases, however, it focuses the attention on the function of slideshow, so, for this kind of plugins the rate is good.
Its download number increased during the last month because of the new uploads, which expanded functionalities of the plugin. Its rating is 4 out of 5 stars. Author of this plugin created 6 other plugins with high ratings. Users choose this plugin because it 100% customizable, quick support service, and its user-friendly.
Grand FlaGallery Plugin also has a high rate and almost a million of downloads. Its rating 4.3 out of 5 stars.
This plugin, also can be used for creation of video and mp3 galleries, and it is convenient to use via different gadgets.
Features The Gallery Plugin by BestWebSoft has a lot of different features, which are rather useful. First of all, it is necessary to point that this plugin has user-friendly interface that makes the work more simple for a user. This plugin allows to create as many galleries as user wants on his/her website, and in every gallery it is possible to add any amount of pictures and make a description under the each picture. This plugin permits to set all images on one page or create several separate pages, so users don’t have to scroll for the end of the world. With Gallery each person can also upload HQ images, that are very popular today, and these
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functions help to save the size and quality of image, and to share its full version with other users. Not all plugins permit to set a featured image as an album cover but Gallery by BestWebSoft is one of those. Moreover, you can share the gallery via shortcodes and add any single gallery on your page. Gallery allows to add a caption and alt tag to each photo in the album and change the size of album cover thumbnails and photos in the album. Also it has a function of slide show and ability to show it in a full size.
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Gallery editing page
BestWebSoft Gallery Plugin has regular updates and its simplicity of using, efficient functionality and nice interface attracts a lot of users, moreover its a good choice for beginners. However, not all functions are available in free version, so you have to buy pro version for more profound usage.
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Gallery Page in Frontend
The developer of this function recommends to use Updater plugin, for updating all plugins and core of WordPress to the newest versions. And Gallery Plugin is translated into Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian languages.
Download Gallery: https://wordpress.org/plugins/gallery-plugin/.
NextGen Gallery Plugin is the most popular plugin among others, moreover, it
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has a lot of similar features with the BestWebSoft Plugin and of course it is multifunctional. Also it has beautiful, minimalist, and simple interface. Like the first plugin, it can upload a lot of images into the gallery and it can create as many galleries as possible, also here it is also possible to add description to each album, add gallery to the page, and share it through the shortcodes. And of course, it can create a slide show.
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NextGen Gallery View
Unlike other plugins, this one can import meta data, and it has good edit tool for images. Moreover, you can easily upload a great number of pictures not only via a standard WordPress-style uploader, like other plugins, but upload them via zip file or FTP. With NextGEN Gallery it is possible to add watermarks to batches or galleries of images. And unlike previous gallery it has more wide range of functions for thumbnail galleries.
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NextGen Gallery Other Options Page
Unfortunately,over the last few months this plugin had a lot of errors. However the part of them has been solved. Also, you have to buy the Pro Version of the plugin to use all features like new gallery displays, email support, and video galleries.
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Download NextGen Gallery: https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/.
Slideshow Gallery Plugin is based on JavaScript, so it is rapid. Moreover, it helps to prevent conflict with 3rd party themes and plugins. The main feature of this plugin is the slideshow function, so, unlike other plugins, this one will be useful for people that will show different slides to the public, for example, for lectures. With this plugin you can easily display big number of galleries throughout your WordPress site showing your custom added slides, slide galleries or displaying slides from WordPress posts or pages. The slideshow is flexible, and all its aspects can easily be configured and inserting the slideshow gallery is a piece of cake. This plugin, uses shortcodes and hardcodes as other ones.
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Slideshow Gallery View
However, unlike other plugins, this one has limited functions, so it would be good to download it with other gallery plugins. Moreover, Slideshow Gallery is 100% customizable, so, there is no need to buy premium version. It can set speeds, intervals and dimensions of items, and also it can modify colors and other factors related to the exterior and style of your slideshows.
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Slideshow Gallery View
Download Slideshow Gallery: https://wordpress.org/plugins/slideshow-gallery.
Grand Flagallery Photo Gallery Plugin is the best choice if you are going to use WordPress on the mobile phone or tablet. Like other plugins, it has all main functions, which are general, for example, creating a lot of galleries, upload infinity number of images, cutting them into several pages, and describing images.
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Grand Flagallery Photo Gallery Slider
This plugin has iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry and Desktop friendly photo gallery, and SEO optimized. Also it can create galleries for photo gallery, video player, mp3 player, nivo slider, banner rotator, or nice slideshow widgets. One more hallmark, is the option of background music in gallery for desktop browsers.
The only essential disadvantage is Flash because not all devices are going with it, and also it does not use ftp format.
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Download Grand Flagallery – Photo Gallery Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/flash-album-gallery/.
Conclusion In conclusion, it is necessary to highlight, that in general, all galleries are good, however, they have a little bit different functions, so, users should choose the most appropriate one by themselves.
Plugins made by BestWebSoft and NextGEN are rather similar and they share the same audience. If to examine user’s comments you’ll see that NextGEN plugin has more errors and complications. Also, users write that BestWebSoft has good and quick support team. Slideshow Gallery Plugin is a good variant for users, who need expanded features for slideshow function, and this plugin is the best among similar. And the Grand Flagallery plugin will be useful and convenient for people who prefer to work from their mobile phones and tablets, this is the only plugin that has so good compatibility with them.
Select the plugin and enjoy your blog! Have fun!
How to Update WordPress?
WordPress should always be updated to the latest version. You will receive a message informing about an update in your WordPress Admin Screens whenever a new version of WordPress is released. In order to update the system, you have to click the link included in the message.
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WordPress can be updated in two ways, so you are free to choose the one that best suits your needs. One-click update is the easiest method, which will work fine for the majority of people. However, in case WordPress fails to upgrade, or you wish to participate more actively, the update process can be performed manually.
WordPress Backups We recommend you to back up your website before you start updating WordPress. This way, your website can easily be restored in case any issues appear. Browse the WordPress Backups section for thorough instructions on making a backup.
Automatic Background Updates To apply minor and security updates in later versions of WordPress, such as 3.8+, you don’t have to do a stroke of work. Instead, most websites are nowadays able to do it for you, automatically applying these types of updates in the background. If your site supports one-click updates and does not require entering FTP credentials, then updating from 3.8 to 3.9.1 or later versions will be problem- free. However, for major feature releases, you will still have to hit “Update now”.
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One-click Update One-click updates are generally featured in versions of WordPress, such as 2.7+. So, to launch the update, all you have to do is navigate to the Dashboard > Updates screen, or simply click the link in the new version banner (if available). Once you moved to the “Update WordPress” page, hit the “Update Now” button, and the process will begin immediately. That is about everything you have to do, no extra actions are needed from now on. Once the update is over, you will have the up-to-date version ready-to-go.
The majority of servers have no problems with one-click updates. However, proper functioning is only possible when the following technical criteria are satisfied:
1) File ownership: The user under which your web server executes must own all your WordPress files. This means that the actual owner of your WordPress files should be the same as the user under which your web server executes. However, it may happen that the user of the web server (which passes by the name “web”, “apache”, “nobody”, “www” etc.) is not the owner of your WordPress files. Most commonly, the FTP user, which uploaded the initial files, actually owns WordPress files. In case the user under which your web server executes and the owner of your WordPress files do not correspond, a dialog box requesting “connection information” will appear, and you may notice that, regardless of your attempts to enter anything in that box, upgrading WordPress via clicking the “Upgrade Now” button will be impossible.
2) File permissions: The user under which your Apache server executes should ensure that WordPress files are writable either by an owner, or by a group.
Please note that the web server should NOT be the owner of the WordPress files on shared hosts. Still, if it turns out that multiple users own different files in the
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install (which can happen, for example, if the files are re-uploaded and deleted through different accounts), it is essential that the files are made group writable (for instance, 775 and 664 instead of the default 755 and 644). Generally, the server environment should be taken into consideration, and file permissions should be adjusted accordingly (for example, the shared host RackSpace CloudSites suggets 770 and 660 for multiple FTP users, or 700 and 600 for a single FTP user). For more information, check the file permission section (note that for some files and folders stricter permissions are needed).
In case the “failed update” nag message appears, use FTP to delete the .maintenance file from your WordPress directory. When done, the message should be removed.
If the one-click update fails to work for you, there’s no need to panic! There is always a manual way to upgrade the system.
How to Update WordPress Manually Here is the short variant of instructions, but if you want more details, have a look at the extended upgrade instructions. If you struggle with the Three Step Update, we recommend you to examine the in-depth update instructions.
These instructions presuppose that your blog’s URL is http://example.com/wordpress/.
Step 1. Replace WordPress Files
1. Download the most recent WordPress zip (or tag.gz) file. 2. Unpack this zip file. 3. Deactivate plugins. 4. On your web host, remove the outdated wp-admin and wp-includes directories (via your shell access or FTP).
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5. With the help of your shell access or FTP, upload the new directories in place of those that were deleted at the previous stage, i.e. wp-admin and wp-includes directories. 6. Move the individual files from the new wp-content folder to wp-content folder that already exists, choosing to overwrite the existing files. Make sure you do NOT delete your wp-content folder. Also, files and folders in the existing wp-content directory, other than the ones being overwritten by new files, should NOT be deleted. 7. Next, upload all new loose files available at the root directory of the new version to WordPress root directory that already exists.
NOTE: all outdated WordPress files should be replaced with the recent ones in the root directory, wp-admin and wp-includes directories and sub-directories (for instance, wp-login.php, index.php files etc.). No need to worry about your wp- config.php file, though, it will remain secure.
However, you should be careful when it comes to copying the wp-content directory. We recommend to make sure that you do not replace the entire wp- content directory, but only copy the files from inside this directory. As this is the place you will find your plugins and themes, you might want to keep them. In case you have customized, yet did not rename classic or default themes, make certain you don’t overwrite these files, as in that case you will lose all changes made. (However, you can do so, if you wish to compare them for fixes or new features).
Finally, if you want to find out if any useful settings have been introduced with the new update, check the wp-config-sample.php file. You are free to add useful new settings to your own wp-config.php file.
Step 2: Delete .maintenance File Remove .maintenance file from your WordPress directory if you had to upgrade
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manually as a result of the auto-upgrade failure. When done, the “failed update” nag message will no longer be shown.
Step 3: Updating the installation Go to your main WordPress admin page that can be found at /wp-admin. At this point, the system may ask you to login once again. In case a database update is required at this stage, WordPress will identify it, and you will receive a link to a URL that will look like this: http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade.php. All you have to do is follow the link and follow the instructions on the page. This will upgrade your database to become compatible with the newest code. It is strongly recommended that you do this as soon as you can after Step 1.
Step 4. Reward yourself In case you have caching enabled, the changes will be applied and visible to users a lot faster if you choose to clear the cache at this stage. If you don’t, chances are you will notice an old version number in page footers when you decide to check if the upgrade went as planned, and this can be quite confusing.
At this point, your WordPress installation is successfully upgraded. There hardly is a more simple way to update WordPress without using Subversion.
Consider doing something nice for yourself now. Write a blog post telling about your success in updating, read an article or a book you had to set aside before, or merely take a breath and let the world pass you by.
Concluding Steps Now that your update is complete, you are free to log in and activate your Plugins. Try clearing cookies in the browser you are using if there are any difficulties with logging in.
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Problem Identification In case something goes wrong, the first thing you have to do is check the extended upgrade instructions and go through every step suggested there. Since the most frequent issues that may appear are also covered on that page, with that information you may be able to fix the problem.
If an update process triggers any problems, you can always go back to the previous version of WordPress by restoring your backup and replacing the new files with the old ones from the release archive.
What is blogging?
Blog is the shortened variant of the word “weblog”. This term means the website where information is provided in the form of constantly updated column. The key elements of every blog are links to posts or videos from other sites and chronological time comments and they are usually represented in the form of records in the opposite timeline. Blogs may have various topics from personal to economical and they also can be aimed to one particular item or to the wide range of items.
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A lot of blogs concentrate on a certain subjects like travels, politic, home decor, or IT technologies. Some of them are more general and providing links to other sites of different orientations. And blogs are kind of personal diaries, introducing everyday situations and ideas of the author.
In general (exceptions are possible), blogs have some typical features:
1. A central content region with entries, which are placed in date order, latest at the top. Usually, the articles are gathered into different divisions. 2. A record of non current information. 3. A place, where readers can make comments about the items. 4. A catalog of links to other similar web sites, which are called a “blogroll”. 5. One or several “feeds” like Atom, RSS, or RDF files.
Blogs also can have some extra characteristics apart from these.
The Content of Blog
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Content is the essential purpose of all web sites. Commerce sites offer a catalog of products. Sites of Universities comprise information about their curriculum, faculties, and accommodations. Internet news sites demonstrate the ultimate events. For a personal blog, it is common to have a great number of comments, or surveys. If the content updates rarely, there is no sense to enter the site one more time.
The content of a blog comprises articles (the synonyms are “entries” or “posts”) that the writer(s) creates. Of course, there are blogs that have several writers, each is in charge for certain posts. In general, blog writers create their posts in a web-based interface, embedded into the blogging system itself. Several blogging systems also maintain the capability to employ stand-alone “weblog client” software that permits writers to create entries offline and upload them later.
Comments Do you want an interactive website? Wouldn’t it be great if the visitors of a site could make comments, practical suggestions or leave impressions about the website or a certain post? In blogs, all these options are possible! Leaving comments is the key and one of the most interesting feature of blogs.
A lot of blogs have a means to permit readers to make comments. Moreover, there are dope methods for writers of other blogs to make comments without entering the blog! These ways are called “trackbacks” or “pingbacks”. They were made to notify author’s of other blogs whenever they cite a post from another website in their own posts. All these facts assure that online talks can be supported painlessly among different websites and website users.
What is the Difference Between CMS and Blog? Software that exposes an approach of managing your website is usually called a CMS or “Content Management System”. A lot of blogging software applications
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are regarded a particular type of CMS. This applications expose the features needed to create and support a blog, and can turn the internet publishing into an easy process, just like writing of an entry, giving it a heading, or arranging it into one or several classifications. Unlike some CMS software programs that suggest numerous and complicated features, an ordinary blogging tool has simple interface that provides easy and even intuitive manner of work. Nevertheless it deals with the logistics implemented in making your work decent and open to public. Otherwise speaking, you have to concentrate on what you aim to write, and the blogging tool provides the site management autonomously.
WordPress is one of the improved blogging tools and it exposes a vast set of specific features. With the help of its Administration Panels, you can easily choose options for the functionality capabilities and appearance of your weblog. Also, through Administration Panels, it is easy to create a blog article, all you need to do is just push a button, and your post will appear on the website in seconds! WordPress does its best to make your blog entries look great, the text looks readable, and the html code goes with web standards.
If you’re a first-timer, it will be necessary for you to read Getting Started with WordPress that includes both, guide on how to set up WordPress rapidly and efficiently, and guide on realizing common tasks inside WordPress, for example, making new entries or editing old ones.
Useful Information that Every Blogger Has to Know Besides apprehension how blogging software like WordPress works, each blogger has to know key terms and concepts.
Archives With the help of blog it is easy to follow the posts that were published on a website. Most of blogs have an archive based upon datelines (like yearly or
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monthly archive). The top page of a blog may include a calendar that is connected to daily archives by links. Also, archives can be grounded on different categories, where each category includes articles on certain subject.
Also, it is possible to archive your posts in alphabetic order or by author. The capabilities are unlimited. This quality to create and introduce posts in a composed fashion is one of the things that makes blogging a popular and widespread personal publishing instrument.
Feeds A Feed is an option of specific software that permits “Feedreaders” to enter a website automatically in search of recent content and then publish actualities about that content on other websites. This gives users an opportunity to stay informed about the most recent and hottest information published on various blogging sites. Some Feeds contain RSS (that is determined as “Really Simple Syndication” or “Rich Site Summary”), Atom or RDF files.
Blogrolls A blogroll is a categorized or uncategorized list of links to webpages from different websites the that the creator of a blog considered attractive or valuable. Usually, all links in a blogroll refer to other blogs on similar subjects. The icon of blogroll is usually located in a “sidebar” on the web page or situated on a special distinct web page. WordPress has an integrated Link Manager so users can manage and create blogrolls by themselves without regard to a third party.
Syndication A feed is a machine recognizable (often XML) content post that is renovated frequently. A lot of blogs post a feed (usually RSS, however Atom and RDF are also possible). Also, blogs have tools, which are called “feedreaders”. They examine determined blogs to check if they have been updated, and if they have
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feedreaders show the fresh posts, and provide links to them, with a fragment (or the entire contents) of posts. Every feed includes items that are posted for a time. During a feed examination, indeed the feedreader is searching for fresh items. For users convenience, all latest items are automatically detected and downloaded into one space, there is no need for you to overlook different blogs in searching of interesting information. To activate this tool, you just have to add links for needed blogs to the RSS feed. Then you will get a notification from the feedreader any time the new posts appear. Great part of blogs have the “Syndication” feeds, which are accessible for their readers.
How to Manage Comments Comments are one of the most fascinating peculiarities of blogging instruments. This peculiarity is interactive, and it permits users to leave comments about the posts, connect them to your own post, and recommend them. These functions are called pingbacks and trackbacks. In this section you will find out the information about managing and moderating of comments. Also, here you will learn how to handle with the irritative thing, which is known as comment spam (it is unwelcomed comments that appeared in your blog ).
Trackbacks At first, Trackbacks were invented by SixApart, which also developed the MovableType blog package. At official site of SixApart you can find the detailed introduction to trackbacks.
In general terms, TrackBack was made to assure a method of announcement between several websites: this method works easily, just like one person telling another person that he has something interesting to him. And to show this thing, first person mails a TrackBack ping to another person.
This explanation is more detailed and understandable:
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Person A posts some information in his or her blog. Person B wants to leave a comment on Person A’s blog. Also, person B wants his/her readers and subscribers to see her comment, and have a possibility to comment in their blogs Person B publishes it on his/her blog and mails a trackback to Person A’s blog Person A’s blog gets the trackback, and shows it as a comment to the primary article. This comment contains a link to Person B’s post
The main idea of trackbacks is that more persons who take part in the discussion (because Person A’s readers as well as Person B’s ones can follow links to different posts), and that there is a degree of identity to the trackback comments as they derived from other weblogs. However, there is no valid confirmation fulfilled on the incoming trackback, and in fact they may even be forged.
Major part of trackbacks send to Person A only a little piece (that is called a “fragment”) of what Person B had to tell about. This is behaves like a “teaser”, allowing Person A (and his subscribers) to see some of things that Person B had to tell, and promoting them all to enter Person B’s blog to see the rest (and comment it).
Usually, trackback from Person B’s blog to Person A’s one is published together with comments. This denotes that Person A has an option to edit the original contents of the trackback on his server, this implies that the concept of “identity” isn’t actually settled. (Note: Person A can edit the original contents of the trackback only on his website. And he has no option to edit the post of Person B’s at his site.)
Pingbacks Pingbacks were made to overcome some of the difficulties that arose during the
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work with trackbacks. Therefore, the official pingbackguidance is similar to the instruction of a trackback:
For example, Irvin writes an juicy post on his blog. Lerroy reads Irvin’s post and leaves a comment that is linked to Irvins’s initial article. With pingback using, Lerroy’s software can automatically inform Irvine that his article has been linked to, and Irvin’s software can then comprehence this issue on hir website.
Remote comments is the best way to understand pingbacks :
Person A publishes some item on his weblog. Person B publishes on her weblog, linking to Person A’s item. After that a pingback is automatically sends to Person A and two of them have pingback enabled weblogs. Person A’s weblog gets the pingback and then goes to Person B’s post automatically to affirm that the pingback did, actually, arise there.
The pingback is usually showed on Person A’s blog just as a link to Person B’s article. Pingbacks are generally thought not to send any content and updates, as trackbacks. This is wrong. If you receive a pingback, you will see a fragment from the weblog in the section ‘Edit Comments’ of your digital dashboard. The question is that only some themes show these fragments from pingbacks. The embed themes of WordPress, for example, do not show pingback fragments.
Indeed, there is the only essential distinction between trackbacks and pingbacks: Trackbacks and Pingbacks employ fundamentally distinct from each other communication technologies (XML-RPC and HTTP POST, respectively). However that distinction is significant because trackbacks have turned into the aim for numerous spam attacks. The automatic process of confirmation shows an identity level, making it more complicated to forge a pingback.
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Some people believe that trackbacks are superior as subscribers of Person A’s weblog can see some issues that Person B has to say, and then conclude if they want to see more articles (and surfing over the Person B’s weblog). Others believe that superior are pingbacks because they make an accessible connection between several posts.
Employment of Pingbacks and Trackbacks Blog comments are usually blamed as deficient authority because any person can publish anything under any name or cover name: there is no confirmation process to guarantee that the person is who they said to be. Both Pingbacks and Trackbacks point to grant some confirmation to leaving comments in blog.
To start pingbacks and trackbacks, you have to select the following items under ‘Default article settings’ in the Discussion Settings of Administration Panels:
Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article.
Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.) choosing one option and not the other would not be very amiable;)
Once started, pingbacks and trackbacks from other websites will arise at Administration Panels as other comments, but on the pages of your blog, moreover they will arise in accordance with your theme’s design.
Once started, pingbacks are automatically sent when you post your issues, so you have to do nothing. And if you want to send trackbacks, you have to detect the trackback URL on the post page you are connected with. If you cannot define any of them, try to identify if the website maintains pingbacks. If it does, it is better for you not to send trackbacks. Then Copy/paste the trackback URL into the Send Trackbacks Field on your Add New Post screen. If you don’t find this field, enter
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the screen settings and choose the Send Trackbacks option. Note that choosing this does not mail trackbacks, it only shows the field called Send Trackbacks. When you post your article, trackbacks will be mailed to the URLs you added into the field. This field will also display the state of pingbacks and trackbacks on your Edit Post screen.
If there is a person that likes to send a trackback to your WordPress weblog but their blogging software does not maintain pingbacks, they have to insert URL of your trackback into their article edit panel and permalink with “trackback” of your blog post’s will attached in the end. And if their software maintains pingbacks, the process will start automatically.
Moderation of Comments Moderation of Comment is an option that permits the site owner and creator to follow and control the comments on the various entries posts, and can aid in solving comment spam. It allows you moderate comments, and you can remove unwelcomed comments, affirm cool comments and decides about other comments.
Comment Spam Comment Spam is classified as ineffective comments (or pingbacks, or trackbacks) to publishes on a weblog. These are usually inappropriate to the context validity of the article. They can keep one or several links to other domains or sites. Most of spammers use Comment Spam as a facility to obtain higher page rate for their domains in Google. This can help them sell those domains with a higher price in future or to get a high ranking in searching outcomes for a current website.
Spammers are incessant; because their “job” can bring them a lot of money, that’s why they do their best to get earn it. They even create some automated tools
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(robots) to send quickly their spam to different weblogs. A lot of bloggers, notably newcomers, sometimes are incommoded by Comment Spam.
However, there are some ways to avoid Comment Spam. In WordPress service there are a lot of tools for dealing with Comment Spam. It’s only necessary to make an effort and Comment Spam will never disturb you again, so there is no cause to abandon blogging.
Pretty Permalinks Together with categories and other types of blog postings, permalinks are the constant URLs to your personal blog posts. A permalink is a thing that any blogger can use to connect with your post (or column), or how you can submit a link to your e-mail message. The URL to your post shouldn’t modify, as other readers may link to your personal postings. Permalinks are purposed to be constant (active for a long period).
“Pretty” Permalinks is the concept that URLs are often observable to the persons who click them, and that is why they should be created in such a manner that they are reasonable, and not be loaded with inexplicable parameters. The superior permalinks are often “hackable.” This means that user is able to change the text of link in their browser to relocate to another column or listing of the blog. This is an example, of how the standard permalink to a story may seem in a standard installation of WordPress:
/index.php?p=423
How to understand what “p” means? And what did the number 423 indicates?
For reference, “pretty” permalink is well-structured and it can link to the same post, when the installation is configured to change permalinks:
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/archives/2003/05/23/my-cheese-sandwich/
It is not difficult to understand that the permalink comprehendes the posting date, and the heading, just by watching at the URL. Moreover, it is possible to guess that in case of hacking the URL to be /archives/2003/05/ it would obtain a list of all the publications from May of 2003. It’s great.
Blog via email Some of blogging instruments have a capability to send you posts via email straight to your weblog, and without any direct interference through the blogging instrument interface. WordPress proposes this wonderful feature. Now, only using email you may send anything in your post content at the earlier indicated emails and voila! Your article is posted!
Post Slugs In case, when you are utilizing Pretty Permalinks, the Post Slug is the heading of your entry inside the link. The blogging tool software can facilitate or clip your headlining into a more correspondent form for utilization as a link. A headline like “I’ll Make A Wish” may be clipped into “ill-make-a-wish”. In WordPress, it is possible to modify the Post Slug into something different as “make-a-wish” that sounds more appropriate than a wish made when sick.
Excerpt In other words, excerpts are brief digest of your blog articles, with blogging instruments being able to settle these in different ways. In WordPress, Excerpts can be made on purpose, to resume the post, or created automatically by utilizing some of initial paragraphs of an article or utilizing the post up to a special point, determined by you.
Plugins Plugins are great units of programming scripts that put in extra performance
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capabilities to your weblog. These features are usually either increase already accessible features or put them into your website.
WordPress proposes uncomplicated and convenient ways of adding Plugins into your weblog. Plugin Page button is located at the Administration Panel. All you need to do is to upload a Plugin directly into the WordPress, and then activate it at the Plugins Management SubPanel, and then you can enjoy your plugin’s work. Not many Plugins have an easy installation process, however WordPress Plugin developers and creators make it convenient.
Some Useful Information About Blogging It is rather complicated to start a new blog and this fact scares a lot of people. A lot of beginners give up with blogging because of absence of visits and comments. You want to break ranks from all this bloggers, you desire to be one of the thousand weblogs that are really visited and have high rank. Here are some advice that can aid you to become good and popular weblogger:
1. You should make posts on a regular basis, but they always have to be useful and interesting. 2. Choose only several subjects that you will write about. 3. It is unnecessary to put ‘vote me’ and ‘subscribe’ links all over the first page until you have some persons, which are really interested in your blog and can ignore these items. 4. To provoke reader’s interest write only about understandable and plain topics wherever possible. 5. Enjoying your weblog, and leave comments on other blogs (their authors will also visit your blog and leave comments on your posts). 6. Keep your blog, and never forget that you have no limits in choosing its subjects. Have fun!
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