Feed your WordPress Demons!
A lot of people ask me how they can use their own domain names and host their blogs on Wordpress.com. Hosting a blog on Wordpress.com is not that hard. In fact, you should always start with that if you are not ready to do it your own way. You should never settle for those xxx.wordpress.com sub-domains as it won’t be your site that you are putting your content on. In reality, the process is very easy to do. All you got to do is buy a domain and change the settings on the back-end of your Wordpress.com blog to point your site to the new domain. It’s going to cost you $10 a year, but it’s well worth it. Here is how to do it:
NS1.WORDPRESS.COMNS2.WORDPRESS.COM NS3.WORDPRESS.COM
You can always register your domains with Wordpress.com. It will cost you $15 a year which is a bit pricey. You can always register a domain for $8-$10 on top popular domain registration sites. The cost of redirecting your Wordress.com blog to your own domain will be $10 per year, which is pretty affordable. If you are tired of using Wordpress.com sub-domains, this is a easiest way to get your blog on your own domain.
A few of my blogging colleagues have asked me a few times about a Wordpress theme that would allow them to create their own ProBlogger copycat. Problogger.com uses a very attractive, custom-designed theme, which means you are not going to find anything like it on the market. But there are a few themes that come close. Money Blogger by BlogOhBlog comes closest to anything I have seen on the market. It not only has an attractive design, it’s highly customizable as well.
Money Blogger is a theme created for super bloggers. It has everything you would expect in a pro-blogging theme. You get your RSS and subscription box right at the top of the page. You have your links lined up at the top of the page. The logo can be changed easily in the code. You also get an about me section that you should use to communicate with your readers on the reasons they should be reading your material.
Blog monetization is very easy with Money Blogger. You’ve got two options for your ads. You can use the left sidebar to display your 125*125 ads. Another way to go is by putting your vertical ads on your right sidebar. If you need more space for ads, you can put a 468 * 60 banner under your content tabs (which are CSS based and highly customizable as well).
The code is clean and easy to customize. The guys at BlogOhBlog have create a modular theme in Money Blogger that can be easily customized without too much effort. Overall, if you want to start your very own problogging theme, Money Blogger is an affordable way to get started right away.
Massive News 2.0 is the most recent Wordpress theme released by Press75 that is designed for those who are interested in running their news/magazine style Wordpress website. Massive News 2.0 is designed for folks who are interested in starting a blog, media site, or even a news site. It is very flexible, so you can change things around as you wish. It comes with feature and popular content tabs to help you promote your best content easier.
The theme supports thumbnails and makes it easy to build a news website from ground up. You get 3 columns to display your content and also display your sponsored ads on it. What I like about the featured section is that it’s not category based. You get to define where you want to link for and what image you want to show for it. That makes it easy to put your pages on your featured section as well.
Changing things around on Massive News is almost too easy. Once you install the theme, you are going to get a new tab on your admin screen that lets you change any aspect of your theme fast. You can change your logo fast. Changing your advertisement or disabling sections on this theme is easy as well. Finally, you can add your Google Analytics code right in the backend.
Overall, Massive News 2.0 is a cool theme for those who want a flexible theme for a news, magazine, or regular blog site. It is compatible with top browsers and is very easy in the eye. It does help that it’s highly customizable. Another great blogging theme from Press75.
The iPhone is one of the best mobile phones on the market and is one its way to become the most dominant device in the mobile phone industry. iPhone is popular because it provides its owners with all the features they have been waiting for years to get on their smartphones. One of those features is the “real web” which helps folks browse through websites like they do on their personal computer. While most websites show up without too much trouble on the iPhone, your site may not be show up properly on the device. If you own a Wordpress website, you don’t want to ignore your mobile visitors. That is why you should use iPhone Wordpress plug-ins to let your readers get the best out of your site on their iPhone.
Here are the top iPhone Wordpress plugins that help you make your site fully compatible with the iPhone:
There you have it. Browsing a website that is not compatible with iPhone or other cell phones could be frustrating. Using the above iPhone Wordpress plugins help you make your site optimized with all kinds of cell phones. Believe it or not a lot of folks use their mobile phones to consume content online, and you can’t afford to not have a site that is optimized for mobile phones.
If you are looking for cool themes to adopt on your Wordpress theme, today’s your lucky day. A couple of top Wordpress developers are offering discounts on their premium themes, and you can take advantage of these deals to build more websites for less money. Here is how to take advantage:
Press 75: Press75 has some of the best Wordpress themes for video-bloggers. Now it has a bunch of coupons that you can take advantage to get more themes for less. Use Discount Code “1FREE” to get two themes and get the third for free. Use Discount Code “SEC25″ to get one and another one for $50 off.
NattyWP: NattyWP also has a coupon that lets you get a free theme when you buy a new theme.
Dream Host: if you are looking for a new web host or just want to switch to a reliable one, you can always sign up for the web host that I am using. Here is a $65 off coupon that you can redeem on Dreamhost.com ($50 off annual contracts + 1 lifetime free domain registration): “WPJEDI”
Stay tuned for more Wordpress coupons.
