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How To Make Your WordPress Theme Safe

Costa — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:14:05 +0000

I have written quite a number of post warning WordPress users about “dirty themes” which contains malicious codes or hidden links. These codes will not break anything and users, especially those who are using those “free” premium themes like the Thesis, will not notice any difference or find anything funny happening to their blog.

Other than the “free” premium themes, there are also many sites that gives away very well designed WordPress Themes. Most of these are sponsored themes, which means the theme designers makes some money by getting sponsors to pay for his time and effort and in return, the sponsors gets his links inserted in the footer of the Themes. It is a very effective link building method. A popular Theme might get thousands of downloads and even if half of them removes the footer links, the sponsors still gets hundreds of links for a single one time payment.

It is however best that the Themes we are using is free from any unwanted codes or links. Though it might not break the Theme, users might get banned by Google for these links.

To make sure your Theme is clean and safe to use, you can and I highly recommend, install a WordPress plugin called TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker). This plugin scans all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code and if such code is found, TAC displays the path to the theme file, the line number, and a small snippet of the suspect code. It is up to you then, to decide whether to continue using the Theme or contact the Theme developer for further clarification.

As the plugin is listed in the WordPress Plugin Directory, Installation can be automatically done via your WordPress admin dashboard. Just go to Plugins – Add New and in the Search window type in TAC.

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Costa — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:50:26 +0000

There are things which you can do with your sites or WordPress Blogs that could improve your site’s visibility to Search Engines, which in this case means Google. It is called onsite SEO. Onsite SEO is something relatively easy that we can do ourselves without the help of professionals. Most of it is common sense but still we have to know where and how to apply those senses.

Copyblogger Ditches DIY Themes and Thesis

Costa — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:03:38 +0000

I am slow in noticing and reporting what is suppose to be considered breaking news, at least amongst people like me who are suppose to be keeping an eye in the latest happening in the world of WordPress Themes. This happened more than a month ago and it is only now that I realized that Copyblogger has ditched the Thesis Theme in favor of Genesis the flagship framework by StudioPress.

What transpired before Brian Clark came to his decision to leave DIY Themes can be read in his interview by Aaron Brazell of Technosailor dot com. Though he tried to sound diplomatic about it, it was quite clear that the fallout was due to the recent GPL issue which caused quite a furor between Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg.

Personally I felt the debate did more harm than good FOR Chris Pearson’s reputation. He did sounded over arrogant and it sort of dented much of my respect for the man and his talents. He certainly did not sound like a guy who someone can easily get along with. Frankly, it was after listening to the debate that I made the decision to stop using the Thesis Theme and opted for the Frugal Theme instead.

With the departure of Brian Clark along with his usage for the Thesis Theme, coupled with another high profile blogger, Chris Brogan who also switched to the Genesis Theme at the beginning of this month, will the Thesis Theme take a beating?

Headway Themes was fast to capitalize on the issue, but I doubt competitors will benefit much from this incident. The Thesis Theme has become a brand name with it’s own community. As long as the community grows, so will the Thesis Theme sell.

The bad publicity, no doubt, does not augurs well for the company. Even if Brian Clark or Chris Brogan are the perfect gentlemen who does not say or mention anything negative about the Theme and the guy behind it, people will jump to conclusions. Especially when all this took pace after the debate.

New sales might be affected some but I think the DIY Themes is established enough to withstand the loss. If anything, we certainly will not see the desmise of the Theme in the very near future. The most we can expect might be a new owner.

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What Is Your Purpose Of Blogging?

Costa — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:01:40 +0000

Switch on your computer, open your browser, go to your blog. Take a long hard look. Ponder over it, dig deep into your heart and soul. Ask yourself. Why the hell am I blogging? What is the purpose? What do I hope to achieve? Let’s have some fun over this weekend. I am going to tell you mine in all honesty , then after-wards, you tell me yours. In all honesty too, I hope.

Time frame is present as purposes will change with time. Blog is this blog as I, as well as you, might have different blogs for different purposes.

My Purpose Of Maintaining This Blog.

Unsurprisingly, is for money. That is the main one. The other might sound a bit corny, but I do enjoy writing somewhat. It relieves me from lots of stress, especially when I rant and ridicule in front of an audience, no matter how limited.

That is about all. I am no saint. I did not start this blog due to some saintly nature of mine in really wanting to help other bloggers. Some might profess to that, but sorry, not me. Whatever I write and post here carries an agenda of some sort.

I write lots of different tips here. Those tips in nature are helpful but the only reason I wrote them is because these are things that are sought after in Search Engines. My motive is to get those looking for such tips to come and hopefully click on my Affiliate links or at least subscribe so I can increase my subscription numbers and have something more respectable to show to potential Advertisers. Then I can price my Ads a little bit higher and I will make more.

If I was a saint, I will keep my blog here squeaky clean of any Affiliate Links of any sorts and kind. I will give everything I know for free. I will not even have the slightest hope of getting any thing back in return. But again sorry, I am just a mere mortal, subjected to sins and wrongdoings. I hope, I want and I crave for something in return for my ‘good deeds’ I feel disappointed if I don’t get them.

These days the word is Blogs Doesn’t make Money. . It is something which I beg very much to differ.

Blogs do not make money if you choose not to. Give me a PR6 blog with more than 126 thousand subscribers and more than 58 thousand twitter Followers and I will make lots of money. Directly from the blog itself, without the need to play on the trust that others have put in you.

Okay, maybe I have very low expectations in life. I do not think about six figure incomes. Maybe when they said blogs do not make money, they meant that blogs will never make you millions of dollars. To make millions you have to make lots of people trust you and the easiest way to reach out to these trusting innocent people is through blogging. To that, I concur. It is a valid motive for maintaining a blog.

That then, is their motive for blogging and having a blog. Now tell me truthfully, what is yours?

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Things That Confused Bloggers Do

Costa — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:46:14 +0000

It is important to have a clear mind and have a good understanding of what you are doing or plan to do. A good planner always envision a step ahead. Each action that he takes must co-incide with the next expected re-action in his plan, for Newton once said, “For every action, there will be an equal and opposite re-action”. So if you plan to punch someone, be on guard to get punched back. If the opposite re-action is ill-planned and not well thought out, chances are the plan will fail. Short, simple and brief, it is called ‘plan ahead’

There are many different kinds of blogs and different kind of bloggers who are very successful in their own right. Whatever they have done to be what they are today, they had a plan in mind. They can foresee the reaction so they took the appropriate action. Thus they succeeded.

Many followed suit what those successful ones did, thinking what worked for the successful ones should work for them too. Problem is, while the successful ones planned well ahead, the followers just followed blindly. Thus they start to do many confusing things.

They Start Building A List.

Just because someone successful said, “The Money Is In The List” everyone, everywhere started to say and repeat the same thing. They got confused, because for bloggers, THERE IS NO MONEY IN THE LIST. The oh-so-important list is for Internet marketer who does email marketing. The list is for email spammers who sends you 2 emails per day recommending every new product that they are affiliated with. The list is for bloggers who has products of their own or who plans to launch a product of their own. If you are just a blogger even if you are one trying to imitate a successful MMO blogger, I say again, THERE IS NO MONEY IN THE LIST.

They Start To Use The Fade In Opt-In Form

Just because someone successful said by using the fade in opt-in form available from autoresponder giant, Aweber, they were able to increase their list many folds, they had everyone, everywhere trying to imitate that by using the form too. I tell you, IT IS DOWNRIGHT IRRITATING.

Imagine switching on the TV, lie back comfortably in your favorite couch and just as the the show was just about to start, the whole screen fades out. You have to buckle up, get the remote and press the “play’ button again before you can see the show. Isn’t that a big mood spoiler?

I remembered quite vividly Shoemoney using the same method some time ago and had some complains from his readers. He, of course told them off by saying something to this effect like, “what is so difficult spending one second clicking your mouse to close that window…” Well, it’s not about the one second, it has something to do with the human mind. It sort of gets irritated by it.

Don’t see that now though. See? Even a tough guy have to bite the dust sometimes.

They Too Want To Send NewsLetters

For what, I will never know. Just because someone successful somewhere said that they should? A newsletter is suppose to give out more than what you have in your blog, but as a blogger, you are already fast running out of ideas about what to write for your next post. So many have opened up their blogs for guests posters in the pretext that they want to help give you some exposure but in reality, it is because they have dried up their writing juices. So what do they send you in those newsletters? Your recently posted articles? I mean, for heaven’s sake.

Truth is, newsletters are used as a warm up for bigger things to come. Like if you are going to launch a course or maybe a membership site. You send newsletters with tips related to whatever you plan to launch a few weeks or months prior to that big day. If you can craft out good quality newsletters, you have a good chance of a successful launch.

For bloggers with nothing to launch, FORGET ABOUT NEWSLETTERS. If you have so much ideas to offer, better to post whatever you have in your blog, at least you see some increase in contents and readership.

Confused Or Just To Look Cool

I have to give the benefit of doubt here. Maybe they are not that confused. Maybe they are just doing it to look cool and to show the world that they do the exact same thing that successful bloggers do so they too will be viewed upon as successful. But then, would not that be the doings of someone with a confused mindset? Boy, I am confused.

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