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My Wordpress Ping List

Posted on 29. Dec, 2009 by Brian Wong.

One of the benefits of having a Wordpress blog is that it can automatically notify blog directories every time your blog is updated. To customize the settings of which blog directories get notified whenever you publish a new post, go to your Wordpress Dashboard and click on “Settings”. Then click on “Writing” and scroll towards the bottom [...]

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A Simple Way To Make Your Wordpress Blog iPhone Friendly With The Free WPTouch Plugin

Posted on 19. Dec, 2009 by Brian Wong.

Did you know that it is really easy to create a mobile web browser friendly version of your Wordpress blog? This is what my blog looks like on the iPhone before and after installing the WPTouch Plugin I found two options – the WPTouch mobile Wordpress theme and the Wapple Architect. As an iPhone user, I had [...]

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Blogging from My Phone With Wordpress iPhone App

Posted on 18. Dec, 2009 by Brian Wong.

This post was written entirely from my iPhone. Why? Well, I am trying to get a feel for blogging on my iPhone using the Wordpress iPhone app. So far, I am not convinced that I will be able to use this regularly unless I am posting under very specific circumstances. I have found [...]

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My Love Hate Relationship With Google Adsense

Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Brian Wong.

When I first started my blog, I really had no specific ideas or plans for it. I started with a free blogger.com blog, then I moved to a free wordpress.com blog. I’m not sure whether that is still the case, but at the time wordpress.com hosted blogs did not allow Adsense or other forms [...]

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How To Add Customized Adsense for Search Block in Wordpress

Posted on 18. Oct, 2008 by Brian Wong.

I just updated the blog I maintain for my son over at www.jdwong.com . And I took some screenshots to create a short tutorial for you. This tutorial will you how to add a customized “Adsense for Search” block on your WordPress Blog to add another channel where you can earn income. What this means is that [...]

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Blogs in Plain English

Posted on 26. Sep, 2008 by Brian Wong.

Common Craft videos are becoming the standard way to bridge the gap between new Internet users and the seasoned professionals. Since you’re at my blog, I think it’s appropriate to show you what blogging is all about with Common Crafts’s “Blogging in Plain English”. So if you like this blog, subscribe!

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My Top WordPress Plugins

Posted on 08. Jun, 2008 by Brian Wong.

If you ever wondered what plugins I use on my WordPress blog, here are my top recommendations: Akismet – Comes with the standard installation of WordPress for eliminating comment spam! A real must. All In One SEO - allows you to create custom tags and permalink titles Audio Player – allows you to add audio to your blog [...]

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Bah! Wordpress 2.5.1 RSS Bug!

Posted on 13. May, 2008 by Brian Wong.

However, each time I upgrade I end up spending an hour trying to fix the bugs that make Wordpress work EXACTLY the way I wanted it to work BEFORE I upgraded! ... If you go to my original feed at www.brianwong.com/blog/rss2.php you will see that the feed reports ZERO posts on my blog despite all my posts! ... So this is what I had to do to get back online: Disable the FeedSmith plugin Edit my RSS source in Feedburner from www.brianwong.com/blog/rss2.php to www.brianwong.com/blog/feed So the next time Wordpress comes up with the message " "there's a new version of Wordpress, please update!"

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WordPress 2.5 Upgrade and Popularity Contest Fix!

Posted on 09. Apr, 2008 by Brian Wong.

So I got tired of seeing the "Your Wordpress is out of date" message every time I log into my dashboard - and thus decided to upgrade. ...This plugin automatically backsup your blog, de-activates your plugins, puts your site into maintenance mode, downloads the latest version of Wordpress (in this case 2.5), upgrades your database, re-activates your plugins and completes the update. ...However, I do see a lot of improvement too in the way we manage posts, add media and also other improvements like the ability to track incoming links from other blogs.

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Using Aweber to Broadcast Your Blog Posts

Posted on 01. Apr, 2008 by Brian Wong.

But instead of using Feedburner’s email subscribe function to allow my blog readers to have my posts delivered via email, I use Aweber’s Blog Broadcast feature instead. ... A lot of people have asked how and why I use Aweber to publish my RSS Feed for my blog. ...With Feedburner, you can only set the time to send the email broadcast and sometimes the email is sent if you accidentally publish a post.