WordPress Tutorials

Installing and Configuring the Popularity Contest for WordPress

December 25, 2024 by Johnathan Ward

Popularity Contest is a WordPress plug-in written by Alex King. It gives your posts a popularity rating base on these values: Permalink Views, Home Views, Archive Views, Category Views, Feed Views, Comments, Pingbacks, Trackbacks. You also have the ability to change the weight of all of these values. For example, if you value Feed view more than comments, you can adjust the value of Feed Views to be greater than comments. The total of all values added together is the posts popularity. The popularity of the post is then displayed on your page as a percentage.

Replace WordPress Search With Google Search Box

December 25, 2024 by Johnathan Ward

This tutorial will show you how to replace the default search built into Wordpress with a Google Search box through Google Adsense. Adding the Google Search box will help you make money from your website by showing advertisements in the search results. You are paid if a users clicks on an advertisement. The downside to Google Search is that when a user clicks an advertisement they will leave your site.

Generate Traffic with Ekstreme Socializer Plugin for WordPress

December 25, 2024 by Johnathan Ward

This tutorial will show you how to use the Ekstreme Socializer plugin for Wordpress to help generate traffic through social book marking website. Socializer makes book marking to several different networks very simple. The plugin makes it even easier for your readers to submit your quality content to popular social networks.

XML Sitemap Optimization with WordPress

December 25, 2024 by Johnathan Ward

This tutorial will show you how to generate a sitemap for a Wordpress blog and tell most of the major search engines where your site map is located. Including a site map will increase the amount of pages that get index by search engines, and ultimately increase traffic to your website.

Monetize Your WordPress Blog with Adsense Injection Plug-in

December 25, 2024 by Johnathan Ward

In this tutorial I will show you how to monetize your blog without hassle, using the simple Adsense Injection 2.0 plug-in for Wordpress. With the Adsense Injection plug-in you can randomly place ads from Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network into your content.

Install WordPress using Fantastico in cPanel

December 25, 2024 by Johnathan Ward

This tutorial will teach you how to install Wordpress, the very popular blog content management system, using Fantastico in cPanel. It is a very simple task thanks to Fantastico. In order to complete this tutorial you will need to be using a hosting provider that offers cPanel web based management software.

Clean URL’s with WordPress

December 25, 2024 by Johnathan Ward

This tutorial will show you how to setup Wordpress to use clean URL’s. Using clean URL’s is on of the first step in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Besides that, they just look better. You can see an example of these URL’s on sites like digg.com and more.