It is widely known that social networking sites can drive traffic to our blogs, in fact if your news is world shattering you will gain a huge traffic from them. To get the sweet fruits from such sites, it is recommended to add their submitting buttons on our blog, so every visitors who land to our blog (or pages) can click them if they find our stories worth sharing, thus their friends are notified.

And in this post I would like to invite you to add social network sites buttons, like Google Buzz, Facebook, in case you have not added any of the button, thess instructions for WordPress based blog only.

Add Social Networking sites buttons to WordPress blog

To add Google Buzz button to WordPress blog simply visit buzz site and choose the button size or type you like, and grab the code and put near <?php the_content(); ?> . Here is the Buzz button preview:

To add Facebook Share and Like button to WordPress blog, surely you need to visit their developers site here and fill the required forms, like your site name, the width and etc to get the like Button, here is the preview:

Or if you want the Like button on every single page or post of yours simply, add this WP php code:

<?php the_permalink() ?>

The FB like button code should look like this as a whole:

<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script><fb:like href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" show_faces="true" width="450"></fb:like>

Or using iFrame code:

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php the_permalink() ?>&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

Now your visitors or readers can hit “Like” to each of your post or page. Thus, add the above code to your single.php near <?php the_content(); ?> .

And for Facebook share code, copy the following code and paste any where you see fit within your WordPress theme editore file:

<a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>

Add Twitter button to WordPress Blog, there are two type of buttons, one is the wide and small button. To add the wide one, like this,

To display the above button, use the following code and add to your WordPress theme editor file:

<script src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js" type='text/javascript'></script>

Or if you prefer the small one, simply add this code to your theme editor:

<script type="text/javascript">
tweetmeme_style = 'compact';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script>

And if you want to import your blog feeds to Facebook, Google Buzz and Twitter follow these tutorials:

• Import Blog Feed to Google Buzz
• Import RSS Blog Feed To Twitter
• Import RSS WordPress Blog to Facebook

Hope this post helps you.

2 days a go WordPress released WordPress 3.0, or it called Thelonious and it’s a half year of work of 218 contributors. In this release you will find over 2,700 changes, 1,217 bug fixes and also an opportunity to try Twenty Ten as its default theme! Wait up! There are more features you will experience! Just watch the following WordPress video to find out:

Have you upgraded to WordPress 3.0? Do it because it’s amazing, no regret!

You will likely familiar with Mashable.Com’s floating Social Network button which appear on the left side of your screen. And likely you want to have that on your WordPress blog, beside to make your visitors/readers click the social media buttons, it’s going to make your blog cooler!

If you want to have Mashable floating Social Networking button, Erik has been nice to share the tutorial on this matter. And here are the steps:

Firstly download and install the following plugins:

• WP Google-buzz – plugin
• Tweetmeme Plugin
• Facebook Share (New) Button

And then do these steps:

1. Open your header.php, and find this <?php wp_head(); ?>, note: if your header.php document does not have that tag, just add it and put it above this tag </head>.

2. And put this code above <?php wp_head(); ?>:

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(function () {
var msie6 = jQuery.browser == 'msie' && jQuery.browser.version < 7;
if (!msie6) {
var top = jQuery('#share_buttons_single_page').offset().top - parseFloat(jQuery('#share_buttons_single_page').css('margin-top').replace(/auto/, 0));

var y = jQuery(this).scrollTop();
// whether that's below the form
if (y >= top-20) {
// if so, ad the fixed class
jQuery('#share_buttons_single_page').addClass('fixed');
} else {
// otherwise remove it
jQuery('#share_buttons_single_page').removeClass('fixed');
}
});
}
});
</script>

3. And now open your single.php and put this anywhere you think fit:

<div id="share_buttons_wrapper">
<div id="share_buttons_single_page">
<div class="wdt_button">
<?php if (function_exists('add_wp_google_buzz')) echo add_wp_google_buzz(); ?>
</div>
<div class="wdt_button">
<?php if (function_exists('tweetmeme')) echo tweetmeme(); ?>
</div>
<div class="wdt_button">
<?php if (function_exists('fbshare_manual')) echo fbshare_manual(); ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>

It’s better to put the code above your <?php the_content; ?>

4. And the now open your css file (stylesheet) and add the following within it:

#share_buttons_single_page img{
background: none;
border: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#share_buttons_wrapper {
left:-120px;
position: absolute;
margin-left: 35px;
width: 280px;
}
#share_buttons_single_page{
position:absolute;
text-align: left;
margin: 0 0 10px 15px;
}
#share_buttons_single_page.fixed {
position: fixed;
top:20px;
}
#share_buttons_single_page .wdt_button{
float:left;
clear:left;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}

5. It’s done, now your WordPress blog has floating social networking buttons like Mashable.Com

And see you in my next posts!

You can exclude certain categories you don’t want them to show at your homepage, singe page or any pages on your WordPress blog. The reason for excluding category may vary, as for me, I don’t want my second navigation looks crowded especially with categories that are not really important or with less posts.

Thus as you can see in my category horizontal list above I only put 9 categories of 12 categories this blog has. And what I did to exclude unwanted categories from showing up is adding this function:

<?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&exclude=1,2,3'); ?>

1, 2 and 3 are categories ID that to be excluded and you can find categories ID on your category section (Post -> Categories), then point your cursor to the category name you wish to exclude to find its ID:

Thus change 1,2 and 3 with your own category ID to make them/it excluded and not show up on your WordPress blog!

QuickRise WordPress Theme, a Great WordPress theme design motivates you to update your blog frequently with valuable content, the more awesome the design the more you are going to value your blog, and of course your readers will credit your blog high, it’s simply a human nature to have pretty and cool environment. Most of WordPress designers know that, therefore they produce WordPress themes to serve our need, just like the theme I am about to share now that will likely make you amaze

The theme is Quickrise, it comes out with 4 different color schemes – blue, green, red, and gray. To switch from one color style to another is very easy via option theme settings. Or if you want to have your own color, that is awesome, the tutorial to do that is in the document of the theme

Full Control Over the Elements. The admin theme settings allows you to hide/show certain theme elements such as featured content, featured video, advertisement, sidebar elements, and a lot more. To get an idea of what else you can do within the theme settings, check out the screenshot.

Demo | Purchase (Only $27)

Or if you want to cheaper price, you can purchase it only $25, here is what you need to do, Sign Up To ThemeForest ! and deposit your $25 there, and use the $25 to buy the theme, then you will get $2 discount

Hope you like the theme and see you in the next post

News WordPress Theme. Hi guys do you feel like purchasing a WordPress theme in this new year? I have one theme I consider handsome enough and worth promoting, the theme is designed to a news portal blog, but tweaking and modification are always available, you can set it to any blog niche in your mind without limitation at all.

Studiopress team has put a great job in designing News WordPress theme, it’s purely white color and of course ad ready so placing ad banners will be as easy as open our eyes, widget ready and option area to tweak the appearance of the theme is provided by default so no need to jump into the code!

You are free to put your own logo to emphasize your brand or just use a dynamic text for your header, and it can be done via News options page and more features can easily be added or removed there

To buy News WordPress theme you can simply click the following link:

Purchase News Theme

The above link is my affiliate link, thus if you purchase the theme using it, I will earn commission and I thank you for it, hope you will like the theme

Yes WordPress 2.9 is here, and officially released and this one ain’t beta but final! In WordPress 2.9, many most-demanded features that previous versions should have added almost completely, such as:

• Image editor to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images,
• The awaited undo/trash which replacing annoying “are you sure” when deleting posts or pages
• Plugin compatibility checking before upgrading, WordPress will tell whether your installed plugins are compatibility with the upgrade, this will avoid plugin incompatibility with WordPress new version
• Easier video embeds, embedding video will never been easier than this, just copy the video url and paste it…done, magically the feature will turn it into the proper embed code, currently it supports: YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).
  5. For SEO, WP 2.9 has canoncial url, thus no worry about duplicate content.

There is plenty more exciting features in this release to learn more you can visit the WP Development Blog

But actually one feature that I always wanted since the release of WP 2.7 but never been added yet, as you can see since the release of WP 2.7 we are able to add plugins or themes easily without needing to download them because we can directly install from WordPress repository.

But no functionality to install plugins or themes that are not in repository, thus it will be perfect if there is “add url” for installing plugins or themes that are not registered in WP repository thus I don’t need one-click plugin updater.

C ya in the next post

Don’t worry because a traditional blog design still exists among the Magazine style themes crowd, and this one is really a gorgeous WordPress theme and its name is Magnet by WpZoom, you would be agree with me that Magnet is gorgeous of course after I show you the theme screen screen shot so you can take a look:

Magnet Theme is definitely match for personal blog and for Make Money Online (MMO) blog also, will amaze your readers for the expensive interface, and it’s also flexible theme as you can highlight your favorite posts and such!

All default features inside Magnet theme are well-matched with the requirements of a modern theme should has, and it’s also compatible with the latest WordPress version.

If you have decided to purchase the theme there are 2 licenses here:

• Purchase Single License ($69)
• Purchase Developer License ($149)

We have already known the benefit of having OIOPublisher plugin installed in our WordPress blog, since I have already elaborated clearly in Get Maximum Income From Sell Private Ad With OIOPublisher. Now the latest version has been released which is OIOPublisher 2.21.

A few improvements have been made up in this latest version to result in OIOPublisher plugin will be more easy to use and surely help us more in getting money online. And here is what you will get in OIOPublisher 2.21:

1. One-click WordPress theme integration, with this feature integrating OIOPublisher with our WordPress theme will be a lot more easy.
2. Use decimals in your pricing, if before you are limited with non available decimal usage in pricing the ad price, now you are able to set the price with decimal such as $10.11 and such.

So OIOPublisher is getting smarter to serves our need, interested to purchase? Well, you will have $10 discount also if using the steps I am about to post. Here’s the steps to get $10 discount:

1. Purchase OIO Publisher Plugin using my affiliate link: Buy OIOPublisher.
2. And use this coupon code: TERRA-OKE
3. Done!

Hope you’ll find this post useful and see you in the next post.

Do you know Solostream? Surely if you’re one of WordPress theme fans you will likely know the name. Solostream is one of well known designers on the net that has producing amount of extremely amazing WordPress designs one of which is Solostream 3-Column 1.0, oh there’s another one WP Magazine Theme 1.0, they are quite well-design for premium theme.

Premium theme I am about to show now is, Theme WP-Clear 1.0. I don’t need to speak further just see the screenshot and decide it whether this is great one or not, but firstly look at the features:

• Theme settings page in your WordPress control panel
• 2-column or 3-column layouts with bottom right sidebar divided columns
• Magazine layout options for home page with category blocks (up to 4) of recent posts
• Threaded and Styled Comments
• Featured article glider option for home page, with on/off setting on control panel
• Gravatar integration
• Banner ad integration option
• Built-in post thumbnails option
• Logo/header image integration option via control panel
• Built-in site search
• Built-in drop-down navigation for sub-categories and sub-pages
• Built-in author page and author profile with Gravatar support
• Widgetized sidebars
• Basic SEO techniques integrated
• Original Photoshop files (PSDs) available for download via control panel
• And much more …

Screenshot of WP-Clear Theme

WP-Clear 1.0 has a great design, right, want to buy? here are 3 options you are free to use and the options are provided to purchase  WP-Clear 1.0 Theme:

• Single License ($79.00)
• Premium License (Multiple Use License $179.00)
• Developer License ($279.00)

Note: the above 3 options contain my affiliate links, thus if you buy the WP-Clear Theme via my affiliate, then I will earn commission from your purchase, therefore I thank you for it