Your blog can look really cool with some interactive google maps. Embedding google maps into wordpress blog has become really easy with Google Maps Wordpress Plugin. However you need wordpress version 2.5.1 and php5 for this plugin to work properly.
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Every blog has two types of visitors : returning readers and first time visitors. Returning readers already know what to expect on your blog and come to your site for its content and for what you write. First time visitors, (mostly search engine visitors), come because they are looking for something particular, look at the page, and leave.
The returning visitors should be treated as premium members because they spread word about your blog and link to you. Anyways they are least likely to click on your advertisements. So no point in showing a lot of adsense advertisements to them and put them off. I shall rather show them CPA advertisements to them as they trust my blog.
Whereas one time visitors are most likely to click on the adsense advertisement as they are looking for something. If I have to monetize my blog with adsense then I shall show the adsense advertisements to these one time visitors. However the compexity of the code required to determine if the visitor is a regular user or onetime user deterred me from using this strategy.
However now you can control the display of the advertisements using who sees ad plugin for wordpress
While inserting the adsense code you just mention what type of user can see the ad. The plugin takes care of everything else.
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A really successful wordpress blog can consume a lot of server power as each page needs to be dynamically created for each user. Now you can remove the need for doing so by using WP Super Cache plugin.
This plugin generates static html files from the dynamic WordPress blog. Once the file is generated your webserver will serve the static html file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
Advantages of WP Super Cache
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Version 2.5.1 of wordpress has been released. I shall check with Tarun to see if he has upgraded to 2.5.1. This version contains one serious security fix.
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After almost 6 months of work by the entire wordpress community and some delayed release deadlines, wordpress 2.5 got released. you can download it here
Some important features of wordpress 2.5 are
Table layout has not been changed in this release, so many plugins are expected to work fine with 2.5.
Few-click plugin upgrades — if the plugins you use are part of the plugin directory then wordpress automatically downloads and installs the upgrade for you.
Friendlier visual post editor — The editor doesn’t mess with your code anymore. version 3.0 of TinyMCE is used, which means better compatibility with Safari, and we’ve paid particular attention this release to its integration and interaction with complex HTML.
Concurrent editing protection if you use a multi-author blogs, you might have been frustrated if you ever tried to edit a post while someone was already editing it, and your auto-saves kept overwriting each other. Now if you open a post that someone else is editing, WordPress magically locks it and prevents you from saving until the other person is done.
Read more about the features here
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Here is a list of wordpress plugins that we are currently using on binaryday.
Spam Control from akismet. Without this plugin, there was no way we could have allowed our users to comment on the blog. Works like a magic in controlling spam. This was the first plugin you must install, once your blog is up and running.
Google sitemap generator helps you create a xml sitemap for your wordpress blog. Helps google find more pages on your blog. Make sure to submit the sitemap to google webmaster central. This is the only SEO I have used till date and I have a pagerank of 4.
Related Posts. At the bottom of this post you will find a list of posts relateds to this one. A really cool plugin to increase user experience and pageviews.
Email the post, pagenavigation and post views This page has some of the most useful wordpress plugins, including email this post, page views and the advanced navigation bar at the bottom of the blog.
Make sure to install the email this plugin for sure. You will be surprised how the small numbers add up over the time.
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