By making a wordpress post a Sticky, it “sticks” it to the front page. Even if you make a new post, it’ll will show up as the very first post on your blog. This feature is useful for announcements, etc.

Making a Sticky, and making an Un-Sticky

1.  Navigate to the Edit page of a post, and look for the “Publish” part where you Update Post, etc.

2.  Find where it says “Visibility: Public”, and press the “Edit” button next to it.

3.  Now, find the checkbox next to “Stick this post to the front page”. Check the box to sticky it, and simply uncheck it to un-sticky it.

You have learned how to make a sticky post!

Thank You.
wpadvanced.

This post was made in hope to help out a loyal wordpress user, 4854derrida.

WordPress bloggers are always on the lookout for cool plugins to add extra functionality to their blog. There are so many best wordpress plugin lists online (many including the plugins I use) that it is difficult to assess which are actually the most popular ones. The new WordPress plugin directory categorizes plugins in way that help you find the most useful plugins for your blog. It is now a central place to find and download WordPress plugins.

The best way to track a popular plugin is to see the number of downloads. Akismet seems to be the most popular plugin.
* Akismet Downloaded 133,901 times
* del.icio.us widget Downloaded 97,042 times
* Subscribe to Comments Downloaded 12,093 times
* Page Links To Downloaded 2,887 times
* Kramer Downloaded 2,054 times
* No WWW Downloaded 1,639 times

The newest plugins help you find the latest functionality being added to wordpress. WordPress plugin developers are constantly innovating new ideas and this is a nice way to track them. The Recently updated plugins list keeps track if your favorite plugin just got an update. Mark points out that the WordPress directory acts as a front-end to wp-plugins.org. The main conduit connecting the two is the readme.txt format that evolved.

WordPress can host your plugin for you. You can then keep track of how many people have downloaded it, see comments about it, get your plugin rated and get lots of exposure in the wordpress directory. But remember you wordpress plugin must be GPL Compatible.

There is some good news for developers too, You now have:
* Exposure to the lots of dedicated wordpress traffic
* Free SVN hosting for GPL plugin development at wp-plugins.org.
* Automatic download packages with their free hosting
* Statistics about people using and downloading your plugins.
* Prominent links to your homepage
* Specify a Paypal donation link from your plugin page.

Now all that news should make WordPress all the more popular and easy to customize with encouragement and motivation to all. Switch to WordPress today. Its worth it.

Which are the must-have WordPress plugins? As a blogger, I have spent months of my life researching all sorts of different WordPress plugins. To tell you the truth – I still do to this day. From Social Bookmarking to SEO to Security, I have installed, deactivated and removed hundreds of plugins throughout my blogging career.

This being my first guest post here on QOT, I wanted to share some REALLY useful insights. I have decided to present you with a list of the Top 10 Must-Have WordPress plugins a starting WordPress Blog can’t do without.

Best wordpress plugins

1. All In One SEO Pack – An essential plugin for any blogger who’s interested in conducting on-page SEO. All In SEO Pack provides jillions of options but for the majority of  bloggers (including me) the default ones are more than enough. All In One SEO Pack allows tweaking Meta Titles, Descriptions and Tags of your blog without changing the content. The plugin comes in handy whenever you come up with a catchy title but it doesn’t include your targeted keyword. Just stick another Title into the SEO module and the search engines will never know how creative and sneaky you really are. The plugin also protects your blog from violating Google’s Duplicate Content – a violation which seems to be a major problem these days. With Google becoming more uptight by the hour, I recommend installing this plugin just in case.

2. Comment Luv – Comments are a way of your readers showing love for you and your blog. Comment Luv enables you to show some love in return straight away by including a titled link to their last blog post or tweet at the end of their comment. The technical details are not important – what’s important is the fact that this plugin drastically increases user interaction on your blog. People are happy to comment if they know that they are getting extra exposure in return.

3. Popularity Contest – This plugin helps to see which posts are the most popular by evaluating views, comments, impressions, etc. All posts are tracked and given configurable point values to determine popularity. Popularity Contest allows you to determine the popularity between dates as well. You can create sidebar widgets with the most popular posts this year, this month, this week, etc.

4. TweetMeMe – The Easy ReTweet Button. Using TweetMeMe drastically increases your blog’s chance of going viral on Twitter. This plugin optimizes the ReTweeting process to a single click, which makes it much more attractive to your readers.

5. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – YARPP provides a list of posts and/or pages related or similar to the current post/page introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. This plugin utterly improves the click through rates and blog navigation by simply giving the reader more of what he wants.

6. WP Super Cache – WP Super Cache makes your blog load faster. Why wouldn’t you want to download and install this plugin?

7. Smart Update Pinger – Plugin protects your blog from over pinging by pinging only when you publish a new post – not when editing. I wish I could say more about it, but I can’t. It’s just a great security plugin, that’s all.

8. Redirection – Often, bad SEO is caused by broken links and indexing problems. Redirection enables you to prevent Google Bots and Yahoo Spiders locking themselves in a loop. This plugin improves your site indexing and navigation by allowing you to create simple 301 redirects in order to avoid those pesky indexing problems.

9. Contact Form 7 – Every major blog has a contact form. They used this plugin to create it.

10. Sexy Bookmarks - The sexiest sharing plugin for your WordPress blog. I haven’t yet found a sharing plugin that can top the looks of Sexy Bookmarks. Sure, there are plenty of alternatives and some of them are probably much better than Sexy Bookmarks, but unlike any other, this plugin actually makes you WANT to share.

Twitter is buzzing and here is a collection of top 10 twitter tools, plugins, widgets and scripts to integrate with your wordpress blog.  These Twitter tools are easy to implement and you can get them running in  minutes in your wordpress blogs.

WordPress Twitter Plugins, Tools, Widgets

• Wickett Twitter Widget – Display tweets from a Twitter account in the sidebar of your blog. As seen on WordPress.com. The easiest and best way to add Tweets to WordPress.
• TweetSuite -� a Twitter-WordPress integration plugin that includes server-side TweetBacks, ReTweet-This buttons, digg-like Tweet-This Button, automatic tweeting of new posts and some widgets.
• Tweet This – A plugin that adds a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease.
• TweetMeme button – easily allows your blog posts to be retweeted.
• Simple Twitter Link – simply returns a URL, which is a link to Twitter with your post/page URL within it.
• WP Twitip ID – Plugin adds an extra field to the comment form for user to enter their twitter username
• Twitter Badge – Official javascript codes that display badges showing what you are posting on Twitter.
• The Twitter Updater – a wordpress plugin that automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.
• TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the web page to all of their friends on Twitter.
• Twitter Tools – This wordpress plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.
• Twitter WordPress Sidebar Widget – Customise the number of updates shown in your sidebar, individual links to each status update on Twitter, style your Twitterings using CSS, choose whether to display your Twitter name before each post and customise text between the post text and the relative time.
• Twitter Feed – Posts your blog updates to your twitter account. Login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed, and how often to post to Twitter.
• Twitt-Twoo – is a simple little plugin that will allow you to update your Twitter status right from your blog�s sidebar. It is AJAX powered and allows for quick and easy status updates.
• Twitter Sharts – ‘Shart’ your twitter status anywhere within your wordpress blog posts or pages.

I hope these Twitter tools will help you integrate Twitter in your wordpress blog and vice versa. Found a Twitter tool for this list? Post it in comments. This list is regularly updated. 

Looking for WordPress Plugins to shorten urls? Many people would like to share the URLs of web pages or an article which they find interesting with their friends. But most of the URL’s are very long and these days micro-blogging is the hot trend which allows users to post messages only up to 140 characters. Due to this, many of the URL’s will be chopped off at the end making it useless to share them. So, to solve this problem URL shortening is a feasible solution.

There are plugins available for WordPress that allow you to shorten the lengthy URLs and enable you to count the number of clicks for each shorten URL. WordPress plugins are very easy to install and use. You can include a short URL for every post in your WordPress blog so that users can easily share posts with others right from your blog.

WordPress Url Shortening Plugins

Here-in are the five handy WordPress plugins for shortening URL’s.

1. Short URL Plug-in – This WordPress plug-in allows you to shorten the long URL’s easily and it even enables you to keep track of the short URL’s so that you can know how many times each short URL has been clicked. This feature is really useful to track downloads and other links in your blog. If you wish to reset the counter you can click on the ‘clear all’ button to zero the counter. It includes pagination of links, easier setup of htaccess (permalinks) and allows administrators to pass variables to their redirects.

2. YOURLS WordPress plug-in – This is a URL shorting service that lets you to shorten the long URL’s on your post and tweet them to the Twitter site automatically. You can configure the settings according to your needs such that you can set it to tweet when you have added a new post or page on your blog. It will send a Tweet with the title of the post and a shortened URL which will redirect to your post. It is very simple to install and works automatically after the initial configuration of the plug-in. It is also compatible with other URL shorting services like the Tinyurl.com, bit.ly is.gd, tr.im etc.

3. WP-Chunk – This WordPress plug-in will shorten the URL’s that are present in the comments field. Most of the visitors would like to add or share some other information related to the post in the comments. In that case, they just add the URL of the page that contains the related information. This WordPress plug-in will help shorten the URL’s present in the comments field so that you do not have problem when editing the comments or your blog will look just tidy with all the short URLs.

4. Pretty Link – This is another handy WordPress plug-in that allows you to shorten any web page URL’s. It will help you to track the hit count of the shortened URL’s, where each hit came from, the browser used, OS and the host. One cool feature of this plug-in is that: you can use your own domain name to shorten the URL’s.

5. Shorter Links – This WordPress plug-in will generate shorter URL of the posts on your blog so that users can easily post the link on any of the web services like Twitter, friendfeed, share it etc., When you save the post to WordPress, the shorter link that is generated can be edited into more meaningful characters. You can further configure the plug-in using the provided settings.

WordPress bloggers are always on the lookout for cool plugins to add extra functionality to their blog. There are so many best wordpress plugin lists online (many including the plugins I use) that it is difficult to assess which are actually the most popular ones. The new WordPress plugin directory categorizes plugins in way that help you find the most useful plugins for your blog. It is now a central place to find and download WordPress plugins.

The best way to track a popular plugin is to see the number of downloads. Akismet seems to be the most popular plugin.
* Akismet Downloaded 133,901 times
* del.icio.us widget Downloaded 97,042 times
* Subscribe to Comments Downloaded 12,093 times
* Page Links To Downloaded 2,887 times
* Kramer Downloaded 2,054 times
* No WWW Downloaded 1,639 times

The newest plugins help you find the latest functionality being added to wordpress. WordPress plugin developers are constantly innovating new ideas and this is a nice way to track them. The Recently updated plugins list keeps track if your favorite plugin just got an update. Mark points out that the WordPress directory acts as a front-end to wp-plugins.org. The main conduit connecting the two is the readme.txt format that evolved.

WordPress can host your plugin for you. You can then keep track of how many people have downloaded it, see comments about it, get your plugin rated and get lots of exposure in the wordpress directory. But remember you wordpress plugin must be GPL Compatible.

There is some good news for developers too, You now have:
* Exposure to the lots of dedicated wordpress traffic
* Free SVN hosting for GPL plugin development at wp-plugins.org.
* Automatic download packages with their free hosting
* Statistics about people using and downloading your plugins.
* Prominent links to your homepage
* Specify a Paypal donation link from your plugin page.

Now all that news should make WordPress all the more popular and easy to customize with encouragement and motivation to all. Switch to WordPress today. Its worth it.

WordPress allows bloggers to easily integrate Google Adsense inside wordpress using plugins. Google Adsense has become the most popular online contextual advertising program and proper custom integration with WordPress can help to increase Adsense earnings.

Google Adsense WordPress Plugins

Listed below are 10 best Adsense plugins which help you work smarter with wordpress.

• Adsense Deluxe – offers advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. Easily switch all AdSense ads to a new color scheme across the entire site.
• Adsense Injection – inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog. Takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts adsense code. It does one per story on multi-post pages (home, archive, category) and let�s you pick how many to show on single post pages.
• Adsense Inline – inserts Google adsense in blog posts.
• Shylock Adsense WordPress plugin – allows you to insert Adsense ads on your blog without modifying the template. Set it up to show different Adsense ads for articles older then ‘n’ days. E.g. insert a 468�60 ad at the bottom of a new article for regular readers, and replace with higher paying 336�280 ad after 7 days for the search engine visitors.
• Adsense Beautifier – makes your Adsense look beautiful by placing images beside them to increase your clicks (CTR) and subsequent Adsense earnings. (May not be compliant with Adsense TOS now)
• AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar – Google AdSense widget designed for the new WordPress Sidebar Widgets plug-in.
• AdRotator WordPress Plugin – rotates your adsense ads with other affiliate programs like Chitika Eminimalls wherever you want. Helps to reduce ad blindness and test different ad formats and affiliate programs.
• Adsense Earnings WordPress Plugin – displays your adsense earning details within wordpress admin panel.
• AdSense Manager – is a WordPress plugin for managing AdSense ads on your blog. It generates code automatically and allows positioning with Widgets.
• AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System – allows you to view your adsense earnings and share your adsense impressions with your friends and co-authors.
• Author Adsense WordPress Plugin – allows blog authors to enter their Google Adsense Publisher ID and have ads displayed on their own posts generating revenue. Admin can set the ratio of author�s ads to admin ads.
• Author Adsense MU Plugin – Webmasters of WordPress MU sites can generate adsense revenue from hosted blogs as this script allows you to set an admin ID and the ratio of admin ad�s to blogger�s ads.
• Google Ad Wrap – wraps posts and comments inside Section Targeting tags for better targeted ads.

Support and upgrades are provided by the respective authors of these wordpress plugins. Use at your own risk. If you know of more Adsense wordpress plugins you like, let me know in comments and I can add them to the list.

Kode-kode shortcode (archives) yang lain :
Untuk membuat daftar isi dengan menu dropdown :

<div style="overflow:auto;width:220px;height:150px;text-align:left;">[/archives]</div>

[/archives format=option]

Contoh shortcode yang lain :

1. Menampilkan arsip 12 bulan terakhir:
[/archives type=monthly limit=12]
2. Menampilkan arsip 12 bulan terakhir dengan menampilkan jumlah arsip:
[/archives type=monthly limit=12 showcount=true]
3. Menampilkan arsip 18 hari terakhir:
[/archives type=daily limit=18]
4. Menampilkan arsip 32 posting terakhir:
[/archives limit=32]
5. Menampilkan arsip 3 minggu terakhir:
[/archives type=weekly limit=3]
6. Menampilkan arsip 12 bulan terakhir dalam bentuk menudropdown disertai tampilan jumlah arsip:
[/archives format=option type=monthly limit=12 showcount=true]
7. Menampilkan arsip 17 minggu disertai tampilan sebelum dan sesudah text:
[/archives type=weekly limit=17 before=' lama ' after=' baru ']

Catatan ; pilihan shortcode ada beberapa buah, pilih dulu yang akan anda gunakan kemudian setelah itu masukan ke menu dropdown(yang di atas) dan hilangkan tanda garis miring yang ada sebelum kata-kata archives. Paste pada widget text yang tersedia pada appearance. Selesai.
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Masuk ke dashboard kemudian cari menu appearance, klik widget dan tambahkan text kemudian paste kode seperti di bawah ini :

<div style="overflow:auto;width:234px;height:60px;text-align:left;">[/archives]</div> , jangan lupa tanda garis miring sebelum tulisan archives dihilangkan kemudian ukuran width dan height bisa anda rubah sesuai keinginan anda.

Technorati Tags: bookmarklets, javascripts, wordpress+tips

I wrote this because there are a lot of sites and blogs giving people the wrong information…Word-press have updated their Verification method to make it much easier to Verify your BLOG …simply log in and go to your dashboard ….Then click on the Tools Tab on the bottom left of your screen and got to the WEBMASTER VERIFICATIONS TOOLS …..its now just a simple matter of putting the META-TAG Verification code in the Form Field and bobs-your-uncle…click on the Verify my site button in your Google Webmaster account page and you are DONE ! Simples ….

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