May 19th in Premium Themes, Themes for Businesses by Wordpress Jedi . 
After weeks of waiting, eBusiness theme is finally out. eBusiness is a smart WordPress theme that is designed to help small businesses and start-ups set up their websites fast using the WordPress platform. eBusiness is not only very flexible, but also comes with many options to help you set up and optimize the look and feel of your website fast. eBusiness is optimized for search engines to help you maximize your free leads through Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. The code is XHTML + CSS valid which helps as well.
You get 9 theme colors with eBusiness. I personally love the smooth design as it’s perfect for corporate blogs. If you are looking for a corporate website and not just a blog, you can use the Default or Radiate options. What I like about eBusiness is the fact that it allows you to change almost every aspect of your website from the back-end. That makes it easy to make changes without having to write a single line of code.
As you can see in the above image, eBusiness provides you with an easy interface to manage your ads as well. You can enable, disable, and change the number of ad spots easily in the back-end.
You can also enable thumbnails for your theme. eBusiness will automatically re-size your thumbnails, so you won’t have to. As you can see, there is really not much coding you need to do to make a killer small business WordPress website fast.
Overall, eBusiness is a great solutions for small businesses and start-ups who are looking for a professionally designed theme to take their business to the next level. Best of all, it’s so cheap most businesses can afford it. If you are looking for a highly flexible theme for your WordPress business site, look no further than eBusiness.
Continue Reading May 17th in Wordpress Tips by Wordpress Jedi . 
I usually try to stay away from non-wordpress topics. After all, there are plenty of websites that teach you how to make money online blogging or how to blog like a pro. But when it comes to starting your WordPress blog, you need to pay extra attention to the domain name you choose for your website. That’s why I have decided to cover domain registration topics in the past. You can have the best blog in the world, but if you have a terrible domain name, you are not going to realize your blog’s full potential. That’s why you should spend a lot of time focusing on finding a catchy, short domain name. Thankfully, there are many services that let you come up with domain ideas fast.
If you are stuck and have no idea what to choose for your domain name, here are a few services that can give you ideas:
1. Domize: Domize is a great service if you are looking for a catchy domain name. Let’s say I have a book about WordPress and am looking for a domain name for my book. You can search for WordPress[like:book] to get started and find whether there is any catchy domain name available.
2. DomainsBot: Domainsbot is my favorite tool. It has saved me a lot of time and found me a lot of killer domain names. If you are looking for a comprehensive domain research solution, Domainsbot is the service to go with.
3. Makewords: another great tool that tells you what TLDs are available in your niche. I have found a lot of killer domain names with this free service. It’s very addictive too.
4. Domain Exposer: Domain exposer is another cool tool that helps you find catchy domains fast. If you haven’t had too much success with the above tools, you should try Domain Exposer.
5. Bust a Name: Bust a Name is a very addictive domain registration tool that will keep you busy with domain ideas for a while. It’s another cool free tool.
Bonus: if you are looking for a cool start-up name, you can always use Web 2.0 domain name generator. You’d be surprised how many cool domain names you can come up with this tool.
Did I miss anything? Feel free to share your favorite domain generator tool in the comment section.
Continue Reading May 13th in Premium Plug-ins by Wordpress Jedi . 
Have you seen some of those WordPress sites that come with beautiful pop-ups when you open them up? While I am not a fan of pop-ups, I can understand why some folks use them to promote their newsletters or products. In reality, you don’t need a program to create popups for your WordPress blog. But you’ve got to know your HTML, CSS, and Javascript. If you have no idea how to write code, you should probably use a solution such as LightPop.
Let’s say you have a Aweber account, and you want to post your newsletter code to your blog as a popup. As you can see in the above picture, you can easily post your code to LightPop’s code area, and it’s automatically converted to a popup. What I like about LightPop is the fact that it allows you to make your popups less annoying. You can redefine the behavior of your popup so that it shows up only the first time someone visits your site. You can even define a certain hour each day to show your popup.
LightPop is a simple but very flexible plugin that allows you to create popups for your WordPress sites fast. If you don’t know any coding, you won’t have to sweat it with LightPop.
Continue Reading May 10th in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . 
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:
- WordPress PDA & iPhone: allows your visitors to view your blog on their PDA or iPhone.
- iPhone / Mobile Admin: this plugin makes it easier to work with Wordpess’ admin interface.
- iPhone Webclip Manager: you want to create an icon for your blog for iPhone or iPod Touch? Just upload your image and this plug-in does the rest.
- WPtouch iPhone Theme: another great way to show your readers a mobile version of your site, optimized for iPhone and iPod Touch.
- iPhone Google Map Tracking: uses the instamapper.com API and Google API to get the latest geo location updates from your mobile devices.
- iPhone Control Panel: another plugin that allows you to optimize your WordPress site for iPhone.
- Iphoneize my Feed: this plugin makes your feeds optimized for iPhone and iPod Touch.
- WordPress Mobile Edition: shows a mobile edition of your site when people visit your site on a mobile phone.
- WPhone: another cool plugin that allows you to manage your blog on your iPhone or other mobile phones.
- UserAgent-Spy: it’s a cool plug-in that shows you what browsers your readers are using to visit your site. The names will show up in your comments.
- WP viewMobile: a decent plugin to optimize your site’s look and feel for mobile websites.
- Blog Icons: allows you to easily add an iPhone/iPod Touch icon for your WordPress blog.
- MobilePress: yet another plugin that makes you theme compatible with all kinds of mobile phones.
- iWPhone: another plugin that helps you optimize the look and feel of your website for iPhone/iPod Touch.
- Mobilize by Mippin: if all fails, you can use this plugin to display your blog on cell phones.
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.
Continue Reading May 8th in Magazine Themes, Premium Themes by Wordpress Jedi . 
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.
Continue Reading May 4th in Premium Themes, Themes for Pro Bloggers by Wordpress Jedi . 
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.
Continue Reading May 2nd in Wordpress Tips by Wordpress Jedi . 
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:
- Purchase a domain on 1&1, GoDaddy, or any other domain registration service.
- Log on to your domain registration account and change the DNS settings to:
NS1.WORDPRESS.COMNS2.WORDPRESS.COM NS3.WORDPRESS.COM
- Log on to your WordPress.com account and buy 10 credits for WordPress premium services.
- Click on the Domains tab in the Upgrades section and add your new domain name.
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.
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