WordPress

[How-To Guide] Enable Search Engine In WordPress

WordPress, no doubt most popular CMS and millions of bloggers/webmasters already using it. In earlier posts, I have already covered important topics like

How-To Guide on Installing WordPress

How-To Guide on Installing Plugin From WordPress Dashboard

How-To Guide on Installing WordPress Theme From WordPress Dashboard

Now continuing in same series of posts, I’m offering you a how-to guide on enabling search engines in WordPress blog. Many bloggers and webmasters are unaware of it and forget to enable search engine in WordPress blog which result in traffic loss and indexing problem. So in this post I offer you a step-by-step guide on enabling search engine in WordPress powered blog.

Step1: Log-in into wp-admin panel by typing URL

http://www.domainname.com/wp-admin (replace domainanme with your domain)

Step2: Now on top of your blog you see that “Search Engines Blocked”.

Step3: In wp-admin panel go to “Settings” and click on “Privacy” as shown below:

Step4: When you click on “Privacy” it open a new window as shown below:

Step5: Now click on “I would like my site to be visible to everyone, including search engines” and after it, click on “Save Changes” button to save the changes.

Step6: Congratulations, you have successfully enable search engine on your site.

If you face any problem do share it in comment section or you can use Free WordPress Installation Service.

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[WordPress News] WordPress 3.0.4 Released: Important Security Update

Already WordPress 3.0.3 released with security updates and now WordPress 3.0.4 also released as one of the most important security update.

Earlier this week on Christmas WordPress 3.1 RC1 released and now according a official release:

Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download here, is a very important update to apply to your site as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.”
I realize an update during the holidays is no fun, but this one is worth putting down the eggnog for. In the spirit of the holidays, consider helping your friends as well.

So, now its your time to take his advice and upgrade your WordPress blog to recent version.

Download Link for WordPress 3.0.4

[How-To Guide] Install Thesis WordPress Theme From WordPress Dashboard

Thesis, no doubt one of the best SEO optimized WordPress theme and comes with great features that will take your blog to next level. If you haven’t purchased Thesis Theme, you can buy it using this link:

Download Thesis Theme

Already I offered you a how-to guide on installing new themes in WordPress but didn’t tell you how-to install Thesis theme in WordPress yet. So, in this post I’m offering you a how-to guide on installing Thesis Theme.

Step1: Log-in into wp-admin panel by typing URL:

http://www.domainame.com/wp-admin (replace domainname with your domain)

Step2: In wp-admin panel click on “Appearance” (as numbered by 1) and after it click on “Themes” (as numbered by 2):

Step3: When you click on “Themes” (in step2), it will open a new window (as shown below) and click on “Install Themes”.

Step4: When you click on “Install Themes” (in step3), it will open a new window (as shown below) and click on “upload” button.

Step5: Clicking on “Upload” button open a new window (as shown below). Now browse the theme in your PC (where you have downloaded it). If you haven’t downloaded it yet, download it from here and click on “Install Now” button to install theme.

Step6: Clicking on “Install Now” button open a new window (as shown below) and now click on “Activate” to install the theme in wordpress blog.

Step7: Congratulations, you have successfully installed Thesis Theme.

You may also like following tutorials on thesis theme:

How-To Guide on Adding Author Profile Box at The End of Post in Thesis Theme

How-To Guide on Adding Adsense Revenue Sharing Code in Thesis Theme

Still if you haven’t grab your copy of thesis theme, get it now

Sign-Up Link for Thesis Theme

If you face nay problem do let me know in comments section. Don’t forget to like on Facebook so that you can’t miss any of the update.

[WordPress News] Download WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate

WordPress team released WordPress 3.1 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) as a Christmas present and made it available for download to all users and developers. This means that, WordPress 3.1 will be coming pretty soon.

According to official release:

“An RC comes after the beta period and before final release. That means we think we’re done. We currently have no known issues or bugs to squash. But with tens of millions of users, a variety of configurations, and thousands of plugins, it’s possible we’ve missed something. So if you haven’t tested WordPress 3.1 yet, now is the time! Please though, not on your live site unless you’re extra adventurous.”

Well every WordPress user excited to see WordPress 3.1 because it offer a lot of features like easy way to link earlier posts in write panel, new “Admin Bar”, access to new post templates and post styles, Ajax based admin screens.

Thinking of giving it a try but remember that it is not ready to use on live site, you can use it for testing purposes only.

Download Link to WordPress 3.1

[Guest Post] Most Popular CMS Systems

This is a Guest Post written by Alex L. If you would like to write for WebGuide4U, check out guest posting guidelines.

Content Management System is a software program, which help user in managing content of their websites easily & efficiently. User can store, create, edit, delete the content, which can be text, images, pictures or the other media files. A person who has limited technical knowledge can easily handle or use CMS as it does most of the tasks for you. There are so many types of CMS web design software available in the market today. Among them, some are very famous due to their quality features and use of ease.

Today WordPress, Joomla & Drupal are some of the most famous and extensively used CMS on the Web. Looking briefly on these famous CMS’s:

WordPress

WordPress is an open source CMS, which is a well-known blogging platform which allow user to publish, manage and organize, content of the website. In recent times, many companies have realized importance of using WordPress as CMS and it has become quite popular. It not only support web blog application but also has a rich suite of useful widgets and attractive themes. It also entails pingback and trackback features. WordPress web design is fully SEO friendly. It allow user to order content of their websites without any hesitation so that it get indexed by search engines very fast. It also facilitates user to customize the URLs means choosing of your custom domain name instead of sub-domain name thereby helping them pick up the most relevant keywords.

Joomla

Joomla, a freely available open source CMS, which enable number of users to work, publish, manage and organize the content of website. Using Joomla you can very easily add some good features to your website. It is widely used throughout the globe to develop everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. This award-winning CMS also enable users to build online applications and makes uploading of content easy, fast and effective. It is one of the most famous and extensively used CMS on the Web. It is very easy to use and can be used for all kind of websites, from simple to complex. Joomla also has a great community support of Joomla developers and designers to solve all kind of Joomla related queries.

Drupal

Drupal, freely available back-end CMS software package that allow anyone to easily publish, manage and organize the content on all kind of websites efficiently. It support thousands of people, organizations, RSS feeds and customizable layouts to power an endless variety of sites. Drupal is a PHP based CMS, which runs on every computing platform and SEO friendly. It has an extensible code base and a powerful theme management system. There is no need of special programming skill to install Drupal. Drupal development is the right choice for large websites with huge traffic.

Do share your views about CMS systems in comments section. Which CMS system you like most?