Software ini fungsinya sama seperti Microsoft Outlook/Express Outlook, bedanya kalau pakai Outlook harus setting IMAP/POP buat koneksi keluar/masuk email, di Zimbra sobat hanya memasukan email address & password tanpa setting IMAP/POP. Saya sendiri memakai software ini di komputer saya (Windows7)buat check email sehari-hari.

Client Zimbra Desktop memungkinkan Anda untuk berbaur dunia online dan offline – menyimpan dan sinkronisasi email, kalender, kontak, file dan dokumen di awan. Zimbra Desktop mendukung berbagai jenis akun email (Zimbra, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, dll.) dan jaringan sosial (Facebook, Digg, Twitter, dll) untuk membantu membuat berkomunikasi & berbagi informasi lebih mudah dari sebelumnya.

Fiturnya antara lain :

• Email, kontak, kalender, dan dokumen dalam satu aplikasi
• Syncs Zimbra, Yahoo Mail dan Gmail email, kontak dan kalender
• Baca email dari POP atau IMAP akun email termasuk AOL, Hotmail atau email bisnis
• Bekerja pada Windows, Mac, atau Linux desktop komputer
• Tidak ada batasan untuk ukuran penyimpanan email Anda
• Bisa Check status Twitter & Facebook
• Tersedia dalam 20 bahasa

Sobat yang mau mencobanya bisa langsung Klik Download di bawah ini:

Semoga bermanfaat

Oke, disini saya tak akan membahas bagaimana tentang cara pendaftarannya melainkan tentang bagaimana cara Verifikasi-nya.

Seperti yang sudah kita ketahui bahwa akun Paypal harus di Verifikasi untuk mencabut Limit/Batasan pada akun kita. Saat ini Verifikasi akun Paypal hanya bisa dilakukan melalui Credit Card (Kartu Kredit) / VCC (Virtual Credit Card) dan bisa juga bagi anda yang punya akun Bank di Amerika.

Selain cara tersebut di atas saya mendapatkan cara lain dari googling yang mungkin bisa untuk Verifikasi akun Paypal (saya belum coba karena akun saya sudah Verified .. hehe).

Untuk jelasnya silahkan Download Panduannya yang saya buat dalam bentuk PDF. (Catatan : Click Download, tunggu Timer, lalu Click SKIP AD )

Password : abdee.web.id

Semoga Bermanfaat.

Namanya Megatypers, situs memberikan gaji (dolar) yang relatif lebih tinggi dari penyedia ketik captcha lainnya. Namun memiliki peraturan yang cukup ketat yang harus diperhatikan oleh para captcha typist di sana, jadi harus berhati-hati. Dan berikut ini adalah beberapa peraturan yang telah saya temukan :

1. Tugas penuh (full-job), kirim dan dapat captcha lagi (jam 12 siang ke atas, job agak sepi)
2. Waktu mengetik captcha 15 detik
3. Sebelum berhenti mengetik captcha harus klik “Submit and pause”
4. Waktu habis dan tidak mengetikkan captcha akan mendapatkan “Kick”. Jika sering mendapatkan “Kick” maka akan mendapatkan “Ban”
5. Ketika tidak bisa membaca atau kesulitan membaca silahkan klik “Don’t Know” atau pencet tombol “Esc” pada keyboard. Namun jika terlalu sering “Don’t Know” akan mendapatkan “Suspend”
6. Tambahan, Sebaiknya baca dengan teliti semua aturan mainnya (Rule) sebelum memulai kerja

Peraturan mengetik captcha yang perlu diperhatikan :

1. Besar dan kecil huruf diperhatikan (case-sensitive)
2. Tanda baca tidak perlu dituliskan

Berapakah Anda akan dibayar?
Sangat bervariasi, berdasarkan jam kerja. Untuk saat ini rentang gaji adalah $0.85 sampai $1.45 per 1.000 captcha.

Metode pembayaran (metode payout) :

1. Paypal (minimal PO $3)
2. Liberty Reserve (min. PO $3)
3. Western Union (min. PO $100)
4. WebMoney (min PO $3)

PERHATIKAN !! Untuk metode pembayaran tidak dapat diubah di kemudian hari, jadi saat pendaftaran MANTAPKAN diri untuk memilih metode pembayaran yang mana.

Kelebihan dibanding penyedia ketik captcha lainnya :

1. Full-job
2. Gaji yang lebih
3. Metode pembayaran yang ++

Kekurangan dibanding penyedia ketik captcha lainnya :

1. Tidak atau belum ada software untuk diinstall di PC/laptop
2. Perlu berhati-hati agar tidak dipecat

Berikut ini adalah cara mendaftar :

1. Silahkan menuju megatypers atau click disini
2. Klik “Free Signup!”
3. Isi formulir yang ada (metode pembayaran tidak bisa diganti)
4. Masukkan Invitation Code : 19KR atau 19KS  (Penting – harus diisi)
5. Setelah semua benar dan yakin, silahkan klik “Register”

Oke gan, selamat mencari Dollar ..

My Home © Perum Wahana Cikarang – Bekasi

Kembali beradaptasi di lingkungan yang baru, dengan tetangga yang baru dan kondisi rumah yang belum sepenuhnya tertata rapih, tetap semangat .. Insya Allah semua akan terlalui dengan baik-baik saja.

Insya Allah di rumah ini dalam kesederhanaan saya dan keluarga merajut mimpi dan harapan yang terpupuk dan pastinya membangun keluarga yang Sakinah, Mawaddah & Warahmah .. amin.

1. Widgets enable drag and drop functionality for content or plugins (usually sidebar / footer)

This is a bit basic, but I still find that a lot of people don’t exactly know what widgets are – or how they can use them. Your WordPress theme has to support widgets, but if you go to “Appearance->Widgets” in your WP dashboard admin, you’ll see that areas that you can drag and drop widgets to. WordPress natively has some core widgets available (like pages, categories, tags, recent posts), and a lot of plugins have their own widgets as well.

2. A WordPress theme can have unlimited “widgetized areas”

The concept of widgets is simple, and most people are used to seeing widgets in the sidebar(s) or footer. What you may not know is “widgetized areas” are added by the theme developer, and you can (literally) add a widgitized area “anywhere you want”, and you can have as many as you want. The WordPress Codex page for Widgetizing Themes is a great reference.

Let’s say (as an example) that your footer wasn’t widgitized, and you wanted to be able to drag and drop widgets to it.

You would edit the ‘functions.php’ file of your theme to contain this code to register your new footer widget (of course the before and after values may vary depending on your theme):

# Footer Widget
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'Footer Widget',
        'before_title' => '<h2>',
        'after_title' => '</h2>',
		'before_widget' => '<div>',
        'after_widget' => '</div>',
    ));

Then you would add this code to your ‘footer.php’ file to find and show the appropriate widget(s) when the footer is called for a page:

<?php // Widgetize the Footer

	if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Footer Widget') ) : ?>
<php endif; ?>

3. Widgetized areas can be “conditional” (for specific conditions or pages)

Sometimes you may want widget(s) to be displayed only under certain conditions. Like a widget just for the homepage, or just for specific posts or category or tag pages. This when you use WordPress Conditional Tags.

In this case you would use the same code in your ‘functions.php’ file to register your widgetized area, but then you would add the conditional statement(s) code to the area where you are calling the widgetized area in theme code. Using the previous example, if it was the footer and you only wanted to display that on the footer widget on the homepage, this would be the code:

<?php // Widgetize the Footer ONLY for the homepage

  if (is home() {

	if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Footer Widget') ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

  } else {
  }

4. WordPress 3.0+ adds custom “menu” functionality (like widgets, but for navigation)

WordPress menus (navigation menus) were introduced in WP 3.0+. Here’s the Navigation Menus page in the WordPress Codex. Much like widgets, menu areas can be added anywhere inside a WordPress theme by first registering them in ‘functions.php’ and then adding them to theme page code. You can also “conditionally” add them using the exact same methods presented in the widgetized area examples.

5. Core theme files are index.php, single.php, page.php, header.php, footer.php, style.css

Some WordPress themes are really complex, and others have but a few files. If you are ‘tech curious’, it behooves you to dig a little deeper inside your WordPress theme and see how it works. For those of you that tinker a bit, here are some brief details about some of the most important files within every WordPress theme.

index.php: The ‘index.php’ file is the default of all WordPress themes. When loading your theme, if WordPress can’t figure out which theme file to use, the default is always index.php. For instance, when WordPress loads your homepage the first file it looks for is ‘home.php’. If you don’t have one ‘index.php’ is used. For archive pages WordPress looks for ‘archive.php’ – if your theme doesn’t have one it defaults to ‘index.php’.

single.php: The ‘single.php’ file is what is used for all posts within your WordPress web site. If you want to permanently add something to all posts sitewide, this would be the theme file to edit.

page.php: The ‘page.php’ file is the one that is used in your WordPress website to display all static paged pages (like your About page, Contact page, etc.). If you wanted to modify all your static pages sitewide,this is the file you would edit.

header.php: Generally speaking the ‘header.php’ file is for the basic HTML code that starts all webpages in your site, in addition to the display of the top portion of your page. You could modify the header of all pages sidewide by editing this one file.

footer.php: The ‘footer.php’ is the reverse of the header, it’s for the bottom of all pages and also the closing HTML code for each webpage. You can modify the footer of all pages sitewide by changing this one file.

sidebar.php Your theme may have more than one ‘sidebar.php’ file (or it could be called something slightly different), but generally speaking the sidebar is for your right/left sidebars within your web pages.

6. You can create custom headers, footers, and stylesheets to be used in certain conditions

Once again I’ll take you back to WordPress Conditional Tags. Using a conditional tag statement in your WordPress theme code, you could actually create and use multiple headers, footers, and even stylesheets in your WP theme code.

Let’s say as an example, you wanted a different header for the homepage than the rest of the site (like we do).

This is very simple, in your index.php do something like this:

<?php

  if (is home() {

	get_header(home);

  }  else {

	get_header();

  }

Then all you have to do is save your ‘header.php’ file as ‘header-home.php’, make the changes you want, and upload it to your theme directory. You can do the same with your footer, sidebars, stylesheet, etc.

Here are some references in the WordPress Codex:

function reference: get_header
function reference: get_footer
function reference: get_sidebar
function reference: get_stylesheet

7. Custom theme page “templates” can be used and then assigned to display for specific pages

There are many instances where you might want one particular page to look differently, or have different functionality. Maybe you want a series of pages to be this way. You can create a ‘page template’ based on your theme, and then assign it to be used only when you want.

Here’s how you accomplish it:

1. Download a copy of your ‘page.php’ file from your theme and “save-as” something else like ‘page-test1.php’.

2. Open the file in a text editor (like Notepad) and edit the top adding the following code:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Test 1
*/
?>
1

<p style="text-align: justify;">Then upload this file to your WordPress theme folder, and edit any static page from your dashboard.  On the right side under “Page attributes” you’ll see a dropdown that says “Template”, and it should have a new entry called “Test 1″.  Select it and update the page, and when displayed that theme template file will be used.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You can make as many theme page templates as you want for specific pages, and then assign them to different pages on the edit screen.</p>
<strong><em>8. You can control how many posts “the_loop” shows</em></strong>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Most people with WordPress websites are just used to the fact that nearly every archive type page (homepage, category, tag, archive pages) all list “10″ posts at once.  First you should know (if you don’t already) that “the_loop” is the chunk of code that gets these posts in all WordPress theme pages.  View the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop">WordPress Codex page on the_loop</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What you may not know is that you don’t have to specifically have the_loop on these pages (or a template page) – you can instead use the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query">‘wp_query’ function</a> to show any range of specific posts you want like this:</p>

1//retrieve only specific pages

<?php
$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'page',
	'post__in'  => array( '595', '33', 44 )
);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
?>

//display posts by author

$query = new WP_Query( 'author=123' );

//display posts by several authors

$query = new WP_Query( 'author=2,6,17,38' );

//posts from a specific category

$query = new WP_Query( 'cat=4' );

//posts for a specific tag

$query = new WP_Query( 'tag=cooking' );

You can also use wp_query to just show a portion of your last posts (like we do in the header of this blog) like this:

<?php
   $recentPosts = new WP_Query();
   $recentPosts->query('showposts=3');
?>

<?php while ($recentPosts->have_posts()) : $recentPosts->the_post(); ?>
   <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"></li>
   <?php endwhile; ?>
</a>

9. You can control the display of each post (content or excerpt)

Each WordPress theme page that has the_loop in it has a function that gets the actual listing of posts. When you see the function the_content that means show full post content. You can just change that to the reference the_excerpt (change the word content to excerpt in the code), and those pages will show excerpted posts instead of the full post content.

If you want to change to excerpts, for example on your homepage – change this in index.php. If you want to change this on your archive pages, change this in archive.php. If you want to change your search results to excerpts change this in search.php, etc.

10. Small modifications can alter meta info and navigation for posts

Don’t be afraid to start altering your WordPress theme. Download a copy to your local desktop, and the go to “appearance->editor” in your WordPress dashboard and start mucking around!

Check out this portion of our theme code for this site:

            <?php if(have_posts()) : ?>

            <?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
            <div class="the-loop">
              <h2 class="title"><a href="<? the_permalink(); ?>"></h2>
              <p class="post-meta">Filed under:
                <?php the_category(' &amp;bull; '); ?>
                | </a><a href="<?php comments_link(); ?>">0) Comments',
'(1) Comment','(%) Comments'); ?>

                </a></p>
              <div class="post-content">

                <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
                <p>
                  <?php edit_post_link(); ?>
                </p>

                <div class="cleaner"></div>
              </div>
            </div>
            <?php endwhile; ?>

Can you tell what’s what? Here’s some helpful links that you can get started with in the WordPress codex while reading the code above and figuring out what’s what:

the_post function
the_permalink function
the_category function
the_title function
comments_number function
edit_post_link function

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1.) Make a post sticky

If you want a post to be on the front page above all other posts, you can make it sticky. To do this, go the the post’s edit page. Under the Publish panel, click [edit] to the right of Visibility and check the box “Stick this post to the front page”.

2.) Require a password to view a post

You can password protect a posts individually. To do this, go the post’s edit page. Under the Publish panel, click [edit] to the right of Visibility and click the radio box “Password protected” and type a password to view this page. When someone tries to go to this page they’ll be prompted with a password to access.

3.) Schedule posts for the future

Many times you may find yourself writing multiple posts at once, yet it’s best to moderate the frequency of your publishing. This has multiple benefits. To do this, go the the post’s edit page. Under the Publish panel, click [edit] to the right of Publish and set a time in the future for when the post will go live.

4.) Make images “web friendly”

It’s best to make your images larger than they need to be on the page. This means if you took a photo with your digital camera, you should resize it before uploading it to WordPress. Here’s a great Windows add-on for this: http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/

5.) Re-use the same images when possible

You don’t have to upload the same image again if you’ve already uploaded it. From the post edit page, click the [Add an image] icon. Click on the Media Library tab at the top and select an uploaded image.

6.) Spell check your posts and pages

Sometimes even proofreading your content multiple times isn’t enough for mistakes to slip. Use After The Deadline plugin to not only check your spelling, but also check your grammar. You can install it by itself or as the JetPack package (recommended).

7.) Copy and Paste your Microsoft Word content properly

When copying and pasting content from Microsoft Word, many times you’ll get unwanted characters and formatting in your WordPress. If you’re writing your posts in Microsoft Word before posting to WordPress you should be using the Import from Microsoft Word functionality of the TinyMCE editor.

8.) Link to other posts quickly

New to WordPress 3.1 is the ability to search your old posts and add them as a link to a new post. From the post edit page, click the link icon in the TinyMCE editor and click [Or link to existing content]. Here you can search your old posts, click on the post to link and then [Add link].

9.) Easily search and embed content from the web

Researching content for your posts can be painstaking and long. Using the Insights plugin you can easily embed images from Flickr, videos from Youtube, search Wikipedia and more, without ever leaving your blog post. Install the Insights plugin to do this.

10.) Write content for the web

Too many times people write their content like white papers or press releases. The easier users can digest your posts, the more likely they’ll read more of your content and share it. This topic is big and important, so here’s a place to start and a place to explore more.

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1. Akismet Akismet is the world’s most popular anti-spam plugin, created specifically for fighting “blog spam”, “comment spam”, etc. It’s an official WordPress plugin, and to use it all you have to do is signup for a free WordPress.com account and use the free API key to register it. You can download Akismet here, or just install from the “Add Plugins” dialogue of your WordPress dashboard.

2. Hotfix Hotfix is also an official WordPress plugin (which is awesome). It allows you to update core WordPress files without actually having to go to the next version. Case and point, let’s say you’re stuck at WordPress 3.0 because one of your plugins isn’t compatible with WordPress 3.1 (yet). You could use the Hotfix plugin to update the WordPress core files and get the security patches you need to make you safe, without upgrading fully to 3.1. Then you can upgrade to WordPress 3.1 once you know all your plugins work properly. You can download hotfix here, or just install from the “Add Plugins” dialogue of your WordPress dashboard.

3. Jetpack JetPack is an official WordPress plugin that gives you several services at once. Visit the official JetPack URL and you’ll see that once JetPack is installed you can use WordPress.com stats, a twitter widget, gravatar hovercards, wp.me shortlinks, sharedaddy, and even the “After the Deadline” plugin! You can also use LaTeX markup, and special shortcode embeds for videos and stuff from YouTube, Vimeo, Slideshare, etc. You get ALL this functionality just by installing Jetpack!. You can download JetPack here, or just install from the “Add Plugins” dialogue of your WordPress dashboard.

4. Revision Control WordPress has a great revisioning system, but it’s endless. Meaning if you update a post or page 100 times, you have 100 revisions stored in the database. There’s no way to limit them natively in WordPress at all. With the Revision Control plugin installed, you can limit revisions to any number you would like (personally I use 3). You can download Revision Control here, or just install from the “Add Plugins” dialogue of your WordPress dashboard.

5. Subscribe to Comments Subscribe to Comments is probably the most famous plugin (core WP programmer) Mark Jaquith has ever written. Ordinarily when you leave a comments on a WordPress web site, the only way to know if someone has responded to you or left a new comment – is to either revisit the page or follow the RSS feed. I for one, cannot monitor the RSS feed of every single page post I’ve ever left a comment on. Enter Subscribe to Comments, which (once activated) shows a checkbox to “subscribe to comments” when you leave one. It also has a built in system that allows (from links in comment notification emails) people to unsubscribe at at any time. You can download Subscribe to Comments here, or just install from the “Add Plugins” dialogue of your WordPress dashboard.

6. Contact Form 7 Contact Form 7 has been downloaded more than 3.6 MILLION times from the official WordPress plugin repository. This is the official Contact Form 7 website. It’s definitely the most widely used Contact Form plugin for WordPress, and it has a TON of extension plugins that you can use in conjunction with it. So many, in fact – I’ve written a long blog post detailing them on my other blog WordPress Directory: 11Different Ways to Extend the WordPress Contact Form 7 Plugin. You can download Contact Form 7 here, or just install from the “Add Plugins” dialogue of your WordPress dashboard.

7. Error Reporting One thing about of the more mainstream web hosts is that they don’t save PHP error files. And when they do save them – you probably have no idea unless you find them in FTP by accident in different directories. Error Reporting is a WordPress plugin that saves an error file every time an error is generated in PHP, and you can view the errors from the WordPress dashboard plugin settings page. In addition, you can limit the errors to be saved for the last XX days. I install this plugin on every client’s web site, so if they have problems in the future and call me – I’ll have something to go by to track it down. You can download Error Reporting here, or just install from the “Add Plugins” dialogue of your WordPress dashboard.

8. Login Lockdown When a hacker or spammer is trying to break into your web site, they will often use automated tools that try and do it via ‘brute force’ (over and over again) until they break your password and get in. Once you install the Login Lockdown plugin – you can limit the amount of failed logins that are possible before their IP address is locked for a period of time (before they can try again). Also all failed logins are logged by the plugin for review later. You can download Login Lockdown here, or just install from the “Add Plugins” dialogue of your WordPress dashboard.

9. Secure WordPress Secure WordPress is great plugin that offers some “set it and forget it” security features. You can deactivate tooltip and error messages to the WP login page, and remove the “version of WordPress” in all areas. You can also remove update messages and links for non-admins, and it even helps block bad queries. You can download Secure WordPress here, or just install from the “Add Plugins” dialogue of your WordPress dashboard.

10. All in One SEO Pack / Google XML Sitemap / Robots Meta To get your WordPress web site listed in the search engines and ranked well, you have to have the foundations of a good SEO plugin, a robots.txt file (and management for what pages get indexed), and an XML sitemap that’s registered with search engines webmaster tools. To accomplish this we use All in One SEO pack, Google XML Sitemaps, and Robots Meta.

Although slightly advanced (due to all the setup and features), we give honorable mention to another plugin you might want to check out WordPress SEO by Yoast. The WordPress SEO plugin combines some of the features found in All in One SEO and Robots Meta in one plugin. I did want to mention that a lot of people like this plugin for the Google search preview (showing what your page or post will look like in actual search results). You should know that this is only accurate if Google uses your exact Post Title and meta description (or first 135 characters of content). Google used to strictly use these, but now (because people game the search engines for rankings) Google is using random text from the web page as much as 50-60% of the time, rendering this feature a little more useless everyday. The rest of the features, however, are great! All of these plugins can be installed by going to the “Add Plugins” dialogue of your WordPress dashboard.

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1.) Hide WordPress files

Don’t allow hackers to find your WordPress, hide them. Here’s a simple trick to help hide WordPress files to the public: http://ox.no/posts/hiding-wordpress-installation-files

2.) Excellent password practices

It’s important to use secure passwords for your WordPress sites (this includes your database password when installing WordPress). Here’s a great site for creating passwords: http://www.safepasswd.com

Even the most secure passwords can sometimes be found. It’s good to update your passwords regularly. Make it a habit to add a monthly reminder into your calendar to update your site’s password.

If you’re going to use a password management tool, I highly recommend LastPass for its YubiKey support. Like most password management tools, all your passwords are protecting under 1 master password. If that one password is found all of your sites maybe compromised. LastPass offers a 2 step authentication which requires a USB key along side your master password to access your vault. To see more: https://lastpass.com/support_screencasts.php?feature=yubikey1

3.) Change your default login link

By default, to login to WordPress you can just put ‘/wp-admin’ at the end of a WordPress powered site to get to the login page. Use the Stealth Login plugin to change the login URL to something like ‘domain.com/mylogin’.

4.) Prevent too many login attempts

To protect yourself from brute force login attempts, make it harder by limiting the number of login attempts to your site with this plugin: Limit Login Attempts

5.) Monitor your WordPress installation

If someone does happen to somehow compromise your site by adding, deleting, or changing a file get a email immediately with this plugin: WordPress File Monitor

6.) Upgrade WordPress to the latest version

WordPress is constantly being updated, many times to fix vulnerabilities. It’s best to have the latest version. See: Updating WordPress

7.) Scan your install after making admin changes

Its possible that plugins, themes, and even posts can open up vulnerabilities in your install. So if you’ve recently done some changes to your WordPress install, you may want to run a security scan before walking away. Here’s a plugin to do so: WP Security Scan

8.) See installing WordPress above

To reiterate, don’t use ‘admin’ as your username, don’t user ‘wp_’ as your database prefix, and don’t create the ‘wp-config.php’ file manually.

9.) Backup your database regularly

Even the most secure site can get hacked. It’s good practice to backup your sites database. If all other security measures fail, you can retrieve your database (posts, pages, comments, plugin/theme configurations) from a backup. Use a plugin to get database backups emailed to you regularly: WP-DB-Backup

10.) I’ve been hacked, what do I do?

Start here: http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

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1. Never search Google for Free WordPress themes

The bulk of the “free” themes in Google are full of spam links or infected with malware. Only use free themes from the offical WordPress repository, or reputable theme directories (linked by highly regarded members of the WP community).

2. The more professional your layout is, the higher your conversion rate will be

Usability studies show that the more professional your graphics and layout, the higher the perceived value and “trust” will be by visitors to your web site. When choosing a theme be sure that your design is as professional as possible.

3. If you like a theme google the name + conflict, broken, and help

Sometimes themes are released a single time, and never revised be developers. To mitigate future problems and fixes, google the theme name in conjunction with keywords like conflict, broken, and help – to see if others are having problems that you might not know about (until it’s too late).

4. Premium themes generally come with more mature code, multiple revisions, and support

Premium themes cost money, but if you have problems you can usually get support from the developer, or their community. Because their living depends on the themes, they also revise them more frequently, and provide more features. Generally premium themes are more mature as well (and better coded). If you were going to put new siding and a roof on your house, would you call a bunch of college kids – or a real contractor?

5. In most cases rely on a theme for design and layout – not functionality

The more functionality that’s built into your theme, the harder it will be move off it in the future (if you need to). If you keep as much functionality as possible in plugins, then if you need to migrate themes in the future, it won’t be so hard.

6. Some themes excel at functionality: directories, auctions, classifieds, video, magazine

Some developers have premium themes for specific functions, like directories, auctions, classifieds, video and magazine layouts. Some even make specific themes for realtors, auto dealers, etc. This type of functionality is different because it’s normally something that a plugin doesn’t provide, and odds are you won’t want to switch the theme in the future (because it provides a services you need and is supported long term).

7. View admin functionality before choosing a theme; make sure you’re capable of customizations

Some themes look great, but once you download and install them you need to “be a mechanic under the hood” to setup. Always be sure to try and view the admin screenshots of the theme to determine if you have the technical capabilities necessary to set it up once purchased (or if you’ll need to hire someone).

8. Use “Maintenance Mode” or “Theme Test Drive” plugins when switching themes

If you’re going to be doing a lot of customization, or don’t want a lot of down time to your web site when switching a theme (or before launching a site), use these plugins:

Maintenance Mode plugin

Theme Test Drive plugin

9. Test in Windows, Linux, Mobile, and Mac beore launch

Your web site may look one way on your local PC, but different on a Mac, or in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, or mobile devices. Test as many different ways as you can before launching a new theme.

If you don’t have an iPhone try iPhoneTester.com

Also try the IE Renderer

You can also test in nearly every browser (that matters) from one site at Browser Shots.

10. Always be aware that design changes always affect search rankings

Even if you change only visual elements, anytime that you switch a theme (and change placement of text) you will affect your search rankings. In most cases expect a “setting period” in search rankings of 30-60 days. Some drastic changes to theme design might require on-site SEO work to retain some search rankings.

Source: www.jtpratt.com

WordPress is really easy to install. After you have your webhost here’s the quick and dirty on getting WordPress installed. (WordPress shows 5 steps, but you really only need to follow 4, I’ll explain this below.)

a.) Download WordPress

b.) Create a database and user

c.) Upload WordPress files to your webhost

d.) Follow the on screen step-by-step WordPress instructions

Here’s a video to show you all of these steps for 1and1 webhosting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDoAS1R-xI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyDMHQdp3kE

2. Automated WordPress Install

Some webhosts offer automated solutions making it even easier to install. This method can be typically be done through your webhost’s admin panel.

Here are few videos showing how to do with multiple webhosts and their automated method:

HostICan (Fantastico)

MediaTemple (Custom)

DreamHost (Custom)

BlueHost (Simple Scripts)

3. More installation Help

WordPress’ recommended ways to install: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

For some videos: http://wordpress.tv/category/how-to/installation-how-to/

4. Don’t create a wp-config.php file manually

I know it says this on the WordPress install page (Step 3), but with newer version of WordPress, setting the database credentials can be done through the easy browser-based install. Using the browser install helps prevent errors on modifying PHP code in an important install file.

5. Don’t use ‘admin’ when installing WordPress

This is a security thing, by default, WordPress has its first user’s name ‘admin’ (pre WP 3.0). Change it to something custom to you. It’ll make it harder for potential hackers to get into your site.

6. Don’t use ‘wp_’ as your database prefix when install WordPress

Again, another security precaution. This is a WordPress default, change it to something custom to the site. Relating to the previous tip, by changing default values on install you’re eliminating the most common possibility a hacker would use when trying to access your site.

7. Install more than 1 WordPress site to the same database

Extending 6., by changing your database prefix you can easily install multiple WordPress sites to the same database. Next time you are installing WordPress on the same webhost of an existing install, use the same database credentials. When asked to set the database prefix give it something different than your previous install. You can repeat this multiple times. (It’s not always ideal to install multiple sites on the same database, i.e. – shared web hosts with small databases, heavily trafficked sites.)

8. Build your site offline

It’s good practice to setup WordPress on your computer locally. When the site is ready to “go live” you can move the files to your webhost. What this means is you would setup a server on your computer and install WordPress to that. Then you would be able to edit and test your site locally without the fear of destroying the live site.

Here’s the 3 step process

a.) Install WordPress locally

b.) Create your WordPress site (this is all the things you’d do with any WordPress install)

c.) Move WordPress to your webhost

9. Install multiple sites under one WordPress installation

Use WordPress’ multisite feature to manage multiple sites under one install. If you have multiple WordPress sites it can easily become overwhelming to remember to update all your sites, plugins, themes, etc.) With WordPress multisite you can create a super-admin which would allow you to upgrade WordPress once and push it to all of your WordPress installs. This can also be done with your plugins and themes. Using multisite will allow you to create all your users in one location. Setting up a network of sites is a bit more advanced, but here’s some links to helping you do this:

Creating your network

If you’re sites have different domains (i.e. – this.com, that.com more.com) you’ll need to setup domain mapping with this plugin:

MU Domain Mapping

Activating WordPress Multisite (vide0)

10. Still having trouble installing WordPress?

Here’s a comprehensive FAQ that covers the many facets of installing WordPress: http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Installation

See the many other ways to install WordPress: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Installation_Techniques

If all else falls search and/or submit your question to the WordPress forums: http://wordpress.org/support/

(You’d be surprised to see how fast you’ll get a response back, I know because I’ve battled others to be the first to help someone out!)

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