Default wordpress excerpt length is 55 words. It’s easy to change the default excerpt length in wordpress in less than 2 minutes to desired length. I made changes to wordpress 2.9.2 code. Login into Directory where wordpress is installed Open the file Directory > wp-includes > formatting,php Search for 55 or $excerpt_length = apply_filters(‘excerpt_length’, 55); [...]
How to use Google Buzz to get Organic Google Search Traffic? Just follow the steps below. Organic Traffic from Google Buzz Combining Google’s 3 powerful features Results from people in your social circle for “search phrase” Cookies that remembers your search preferences Google Buzz Network (Followers) So, you have a blog and you want to [...]
Anil Chawla – friend of mine has created this cool Twitter App called TweetyMail, eMail to Twitter Posting App. It allows you to tweet straight from your email inbox, without switching to new window or Twitter App. How it Works To get started, click the “Sign in with Twitter” button below. After signing in, tweetymail [...]
Alright, you have multiple Gmail accounts and using Google Apps for your domain, then sending email your perosnal gmail account using Domain SMTP server just got easier. To send email from your Gmail account using Google Apps SMTP server, Google will provide 2 options Send using Gmail Server Send using your domain’s SMTP server. Configure [...]
If you are planning to upgrade wordpress to latest release, do the following Read Worpdress Support forums to see any upgrade problems Backup Entire Database Check for Minimum Requirements ( MySQL, PHP) Check if all installed plugins supports the latest version of wordpress. Deactivate all the plugins Know how to revert to previous wordpress version, [...]
Looks like 2.8.6 to 2.9 WordPress upgrade is is failing for many folks. Just after the upgrade the screen of death (blank screen) is displayed with just wordpress logo This is what happened Upgraded WordPress from 2.8.6 to 2.9 from within wordpress Refreshed the wp-admin page Following screen was displayed Database Upgrade Required WordPress has [...]
Having your site listed twice in Google Serch reults will definetly have higher click through rate compared to single listing. What if you site has Triple Indented listing in Google ? With competition heating up between Google and Bing search, Google is coming out with many search options. I guess, as part of that, google [...]
If you are into email marketing, testing is the key. There are various things to tested to improve Email Open Rates. Link click through rates is completely different area. Send Email once a week ( on high traffic days) Send Email once number of articles reaches certain number ( RSS to Email) Generic Email Subject [...]
Average Time Spent by visitors on the site depends on type of sites ( Blogs, Forums, Shopping Site, …). But, over period of time one can recognize the pattern establish a pattern and data will speak for itself. In one of my blog, Average Time on site was around 3 Minutes, but I started testing [...]
If you run into Password Recovery Error with WordPress Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid, do the following To correct this, fire up phpmyadmin ( it will be usually mysql.yoursite.com) in Cpanel, click on the database name, Select “wp_users” Table Click on Brose Icon ( first icon) Click on the Row to [...]
