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When you are regularly blogging online, you may need some stuff to upload to your site time to time.

Like a plug-in which needs to be installed manually. You need to FTP the files of that plug-in to the plugins’ directory before you can activate it.

Here is a quick tip to save your time and frustration:

Where possible upload .zip file and then Unzip on the server!

This will save you 75% time of uploading and 99% time of brain work & tension. Because it is always easier to upload one file (no matter what size) than to upload many many tiny files.

Also in case of interruption you do not  need to worry what file is done and what needs to be re-uploaded..as you are dealing with just ONE file it is easier to manage.

That is for today a Quick tip :)

This is very risky to leave your WordPress blog open for all comment spam without adding any anti comment spam plugins.

This was the case with the blog which a client of us have, it had about 4000 spam comments, and it was going to take ages to delete them all from WordPress dashboard. So they came to us for the help.

We deleted all those about 4000 spam comment using little query operation at database level from phpmyadmin. I want to share the same process with you.

1. You need to login to your hosting panel and access PhpMyAdmin to access your database for that blog.

2. When you are there, select your blog’s database and then click SQL tab and run the following query:

DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = 0

3. Wow within milliseconds all spam comment junk is gone.

Deleted rows: 3994 (Query took 0.1472 sec)

Now go to your wordpress blog and see all pending(spam) comments are gone. Now you please add some anti spam plugins to stop this thing happening again. I recommend you activate built-in plugin for comment spam called akismet. And add any other anti spam plugin you may like.

More and more clients are demanding to have their site backend built on WordPress. They want to use WordPress but they do not want to use it as a blog but CMS or a Niche site.

To make a wordpress powered site look like a Content website and not just a blog, and also to make it work like a CMS, we add permanent content into Pages (instead of posts). This works great but there is a problem…

Problem is that by default WordPress does not generate RSS feeds from pages. To really benefit from this technology we need to have pages content also included into RSS feeds.

We solved this problem by installing a simple plugin available for this called RSS Include Pages.

I suggest you to install this plugin if your most of the content is in the form of Pages instead of posts in wordpress powered website.

Regards,

Mohsin

Hi,

For local development and coding I use WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) at my laptop and it is really great to do coding while disconnected from wide wide wild internet.

I use PhpMYAdmin to access MySQL db from localhost but just recently i was introduced with a Desktop Program named MySQL-Front to access MySQL db and much operations fast!

Shahzad my close friend just left today, for last two days he was with me at my dorm room + office. Wow what a learning experience to spend time with this senior developer. He has introduced this tool and I have downloaded their trail version and i am already having fun with it.

Another great development tool to add in my growing development tools collection!

Today I was working on a new wordpress theme and I discovered this Error/Bug in Google Chrome. What is the bug? Well it would not show the background of the body properly.

Every other browser like Firefox and I.E will show the background fine, but Chrome will show no background, or simple plane white color. While I used built in Element Inspect tool in Chrome, I see there it has applied blank background. I searched the Web, and found many fixes, but this is what worked for me:

Simple add to your CSS stylesheet this line:

html{ height: 100%;}

Also you may replace your Body tag, with Html,Body i.e.
Body
{some css here}

will become
Html,Body
{same CSS here.}

Hope this saves you some time and solve your problem.
Regards,
Mohsin Rasool

Most of the time new bloggers make this mistake. They have set their wordpress show full posts at their homepage, category pages and archive pages. It should not be the case, as this creates duplicate pages with same content on your website or blog which is powered by WordPress.

For SEO purposes and user friendliness, it should be set to show only summary or excerpts of posts at every pages except their own page or post page. That is there should be only one page at your blog or website which does have full orignal text, and all other pages should only show excerpt and link to that page.

This will help you have a great webpage with genuine content and many many internal and external incoming links to that page with anchor text in links. And this is surely going to rank your that page higher and higher for the related keywords targeted in that post.

So onward ask your webmaster or theme designer to set all home.php, index.php, category.php, arhive.php or any other template pages of WordPress theme to show only Excerpts of the posts, and only single.php, page.php show their full content. If you do want to do it yourself, look for DIY guide at my PressGold’s WordPress Blog for a detailed technical information related to this issue and fix. Also you can outsource this fix to my team at WarMarks.com if you do hate doing technical stuff yourself :)

Regards,

Mohsin Rasool

We at PressGold has started this WordPress Blog to share some of the best tips and tricks about WordPress, Blogging and Blogging using WordPress.

Most of the time new users need some customizations with new wordpress blog. At WarMarks we also help build Custom WordPress themes for our clients  for a very affordable one time charge. If you ever need WordPress Customization Service, you are welcome to visit WarMarks.com/support and send us your query. We will be responding with a quote within 12 hours time frame.

Soon we will be releasing some WordPress Themes and WordPress Plugins at our WordPress Blog, so stay tuned for new and exciting stuff released by PressGOLD team.

Have a great day,

Mohsin Rasool

This is short report written by me in Warrior Master Mind Private Forum at Warrior Forum. Basically in this report I talk about different solutions and alternatives to the top internet business tools and services which are not available to some countries.

Like when I started my Internet Business, there were so many great services online which were not available in Pakistan, and It was not great fun really! Then by the time passing, I started to realize that this is not the END. World has many other options to offer, we just need to look and find.

I share alternatives to Paypal, Clickbank, as Payment Processing and Affiliate Marketing are two big pillars of Internet Business and Internet Marketing. And I have good news for you, that if you are in a situation where there is NO Paypal, and No Clickbank! I promise after you read this report, you will say NO Problem! :) Ok Download The report in following link:

Non-US, No Paypal, No Clickbank, No Problem Report Dowload

Have a nice day,

Mohsin Rasool

PS. Please do not forget to share your comments, or suggestions to add into this report. You can share anything related to this report, which may help other sturggliing Marketers accross the world, use the following comments form.

What a great news for us living in Pakistan!

Clickbank has just added about 30 new countries to their list…List is in PS of this post.

And I could not believe my eyes when i saw PAKISTAN in that list.

Really Paypal has discouraged me so much that i was thinking that

clickbank may also have forgot us when they did add 30 more countries.

But wow, unbelievable. Clickbank is done this boy!

How happy I am!

Let me email to my buddies in IM here in Pakistan :-)

Until now bye,

Mohsin

PS. Here is new list of countries added:

We are very pleased to announce that we now support vendors and affiliates from 30 new countries around the world! ClickBank is now more global than ever before.

The new countries are:

  • Albania
  • Armenia
  • Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Cambodia
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Falkland Islands
  • Georgia
  • Honduras
  • Haiti
  • Indonesia
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lebanon
  • Montenegro
  • Macedonia
  • Mali
  • Nicaragua
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Pakistan
  • Paraguay
  • Russian Federation
  • Swaziland
  • Ukraine
  • Uzbekistan
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Yemen

Welcome to all of our new client countries!

Source:  Clickbank.com- Clickbank in Pakistan

This is one of those features of wordpress which are awesome but used by fewer users while blogging with wordpress.

Yes I am taking about the capability for editing Post-Slug aka Post-URL or Permalink.

WordPress has the convention to use your post title as your post URL aka Post Slug. This is awesome when it comes to user friendly and search engine friendly URLs. But there was a little problem with this default behavior of WordPress i.e. this will result into very long URLs with unnecessary words inside them… Doing no good for SEO…

To fix this problem WordPress guys introduced a little field underneath the Post Title field giving you option to edit the URLz while you are posting new blog post.
Wordpress Post Slugs, Permalink and Url SEO

You need to click the EDIT button and clean the junk from the URL :-) , Yes you need to remove all those short words like, a,is,of,and symbols like ?,…,& or any html ascii junk code like %e2%80%a6. Your goal should be to make it as short as possible with few KEYwords.

This will enhance the SEO as well as usability for your blog.

Best Wishes,

Mohsin Rasool