iPhone and iPod touch brought revolution in surfing. As blogger, we see it as our prospective that what can I do to use that media to display my product. If you are using wordpress and want to show your blog on mobile devise instead of full view page, you can use WPtouch wordpress plugins. You can see how does thetricks.net look on iOS devises at the end of post. I attached screen shots.

WPtouch doesn’t support only iPhone and iPod touch, but it support Android, Opera Mini, Palm Pre, Samsung touch and BlackBerry Storm/Torch mobile devices too.

Features of Plugins:

- Automatically transfer full view to mobile if you open in iPod touch or iPhone

- Ajax loading articles and effects

- Setting page to play around with lot of options. (Screen shot below)

- Adsense Support

- Switch between full view to mobile view (Mobile view is default)

- iPad support is coming on next update

- Show specific number of page

- Assign different icons for different pages

- Show/Hide Excerpts

- Many more (View settings screen shot)

Thetricks.net and Setting page screen shots:

Link: WPtouch WordPress Plugins

Social media is best way to get traffic. Many user share your post to many social networking site such as twitter, digg and faebook. You might want more people to do it by adding buttons, which capture their attractions. I have seen different way, at the bottom of post, starting of post or in widget, but what if you can float that buttons as visitors goes up and down in post.

Here is example how does it look when you use our tutorial. Even though, visitors are at the middle of page, visitors can see social networking buttons, which help your post to be shared on more social networks.

Step 1:

Sign in to your WordPress admin panel and go to Appearance >> Editor. Make sure that Style.css file is open. (You will see when you click on Editor.)

Step 2:

Copy following code and Paste it in style.css.

#sharebox {
background-color:#fff;
border:1px solid #ccc;
bottom:45px;
left:30px;
position:fixed;
}

#sharebox .float {
padding:5px;
}

Step3:

Save it.

Step 4:

Open Single.php file and seach for <div class=”entry”> and paste below code after <div class=”entry”>.

<div id="sharebox">

<div>
<script type="text/javascript">
tweetmeme_source = 'letmebuzz';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script>
</div>

<div>
<script>var fbShare = {
url: <?php the_permalink() ?>,
size: 'large',
badge_text: 'fff',
badge_color: '1B1112',
google_analytics: 'true'
}</script>
<script src="http://widgets.fbshare.me/files/fbshare.js"></script>
</div>

<div>
<script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=5"></script>
</div>

<div>
<script type="text/javascript">
(function() {
var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0];
s.type = 'text/javascript';
s.async = true;
s.src = 'http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js';
s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1);
})();
</script>
<a></a>
</div>

</div>

Step 5:

Save it and you are done.

Important:

Red text in css file can be changes as your theme colors. If you want no color, then just write transparent with out # sign.

Recommended Tricks:

- Floating ‘Subscribe’ Button at right Center of Your Blog

- Add sexy social Bookmark to your Blogger

- Floating soical networking button – Worpdress

What’s Next?

It was easy, wasn’t it? This works in some themes. If your theme provide custom function file, then this trick can’t work.  Need more help? Leave comments…

Blogging is one of many way to make money online. Many of showing advertisement in widget and might want to add them before post, after post or middle of post. For that you might need to change template code and have to make some customization which you don’t know or don’t want to.
Now it is easy to do it with whydowork adsense wordpress plugins. You can add any ads you want in post with few clicks and some copy paste ad codes. For Demo, you can see ad at the top of post.

Feature of whydowork adsense:

- You can add 10 different type of adsense code from 125 X125 to any size as you want.

- Show you the preview of your adsense code in setting page. (If you have made adsense code recently, then wait for 10 minute.)

- Excludes post and page, where you don’t want to show ads.

- You can show ads on single page or main page or both.

- Choose where to show ads in post form top, middle or bottom with left, right or center.

- Show two or three ads on one post easily.

- Option to show advertisement to Admin.

Screenshot of Setting page.

WordPress Plugins: whydowork Adsense Details.

WordPress plugins make posting as easy as always. As you know that wordpress Visual editor is small and You might want to change height or other thing for it. You can do it using Dean’s FCKEditor 3.1.3. Reason to mention version is when you search for only name than you will find 2 plugins with same name.

If you don’t know how to install wordpress plugin, then check out “How to Install WordPress plugins?”

Screenshot of Post Editors:

Screenshot of Comments Editors:

Features of Dean’s FCKEditors:

- Replace the default wordpress editor with CKEditor

- Post comment with CKEditor to provide styled and colorful comments (Optional)

- Build-in File manager and upload manager.

- Build-in WordPress “read more” Button

- Integrated with WordPress media buttons

- Configurable output formatting.

- Manage and insert smileys into your post

- Customizable toolbar buttons

- Customizable skin

Screenshot of Setting page:

WordPress Plugins Details: Dean’s FCKEditors 3.1.3

So, Do you like Dean’s FCKEditor WordPress Plugins?

WordPress is SEO friendly blog platform. Right now, most blogger choose  wordpress as their blog platform because of  Search Engine Optimization and WordPress plugins . WordPress-Plugins  is one of the best feature of wordpress. There are thousans of plugins but not all plugins are really useful to you. Then, you might think that which plugins should I use to make my blog little advance than regular blog. Here are top 5 out of thousand from my point of view:

1. All in One SEO:

WordPress itself is friendly version of SEO but if we want to make it more search engine optimized than before. It give you many option to give particular shape to your blog such as Home title, Home description,  Home keyword and other keyword apart form category and tags. It help your blog to be found on top in google search engine.

Here is image of plugins setting of my SEO pack:

2. Tweetmeme:

One of the best plugin for twitter user. This plugins allow you and and visitors to twit any post. This plugin change regular url to shorten url. So, we don’t need to even short url. Here is image how its looks like when we activate it. It will looks like this:

3. Contact form 7:

Contact page is very important part of any blog user in either wordpress or blogger.com, because most user use contact form to contact the author if they want their help or for other purpose.

I tried many contact form before this one, but I found this one very easy and helpful for newbies and professional blogger. Some features of this plugins are  Spam prevention, Human verification with CAPTCHA, Multiple contact from, file upload and accept term.  You can see live demo on my blog. Click here for Live Demo.

4.  Commentluv:

Comment is most important part for blogger to get opinion and credit for his work. So comment form has to be advance than regular one. Commentluv plug in show the latest post from the commenter’s blog, so some of blog user will post comment so next commenter can see the latest post of his blog and may visit his blog and he will also get more traffic.

You can check demo yourself by leaving comment on this post. Don’t forget to write your domain name, otherwise it will shows only regular comment.

5. Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button:

This Plugins allow your visitors to submit that your post to many social bookmarking site. This plugins also support email feature which will send email through Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL. It increase you traffic. Here is image of how it looks.

Here are most important plugins @ my point of view.

If you are using other than this plugins and think that this plugin is useful for blog user then please post in comment.

Affiliate links are more complicated and looks weird. Most blogger hide their affiliate link, not to hide from visitor that they are making money from it, but to make easier to remember only one link instead of that long URL.

Pretty link is wordpress plugin which make your affiliate link to your regular blog URL.

For example: If you have signed up for thesis theme affiliate program, you might have link looks like http://diythemes.com/affiliate/xxxxyyyyzzzzz. You want to make http://yourdomain.com/affiliate/thesistheme, you can do it easily using Pretty link wordpress plugin.

Features of Pretty Link Plugin:

- Give you simple URL to redirect any affiliate or other links.

- Give custom slug for URL according to your choice.

- Make group for different category links such as themes, services and plugins.

- Ability to track hits per link.

- Show IP of visitors, browser, and time of hit on link.

- Download stats on CSV format.

- Choose between temporary and permanent redirection.

- Enable to post pretty link to twitter directly from pretty link setting page.

- Many more options…..

Install pretty link wordpress plugin. Click Add pretty link. You will see image looks like below.

Hide affiliate links according to your choice.You did it…!

WP plugins: Pretty Link (Hide affiliate link)

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Blogging is passion for some one and for others, it is way to make money online. Adrotate is wordpress plugins which help you to create widget in sidebar for your advertiser. You can use lot of features from adrotate wordpress plugin.

List of features of Adrotate wordpress plugin:

Blogging is passion for some one and for others, it is way to make money online. Adrotate is wordpress plugins which help you to create widget in sidebar for your advertiser. You can use lot of features from adrotate wordpress plugin.

List of features of Adrotate wordpress plugin:

- Easy manageable plugin from admin panel

- Track daily click on banners

- update banner easily

- Show random and number of banner on blog

- Works with both google ads and other affiliate program

- Totally user friendly plugin.

Screen shot of plugin setting page:

WP plugin: Adrotate

Whenever we talk about free stuff, first thing come up in our mind is their will be some limitation for it. Same is true with free wordpress. Here are some difference between free wordpress and Self hosted wordpress. 

1) Limitation on Theme Options

Free wordpress.com have some themes. You can use only from their list. You can’t add other than that. But in self hosted wordress, you can use any theme. You can edit theme in self hosted if you have knowledge about code and php. You can do same with free wordpress blog, but you need to pay extra for it.

2) No Private Advertising.

Yes, free wordpress.com isn’t allowing private advertise on your blog. Making money is reason to run blog, but if free wordpress is not allowing private advertising then you won’t prefer it as blog platform. If you are making blog only for friend and family then, free wordpress is best but not for professional blogger who is blogging for passion.

On other side, you can use code to put private advertise on self hosted wordpress blog. You can use ad any where on blog if you have knowledge of CSS.

3) WordPress Plugins

WordPress plugins play important role to make blog attractive. With plugins, you don’t need to code more. Free wordpress don’t allow you to upload wordpress plugins, but on self hosted blog, you can. WordPress.com have some but not all useful. As blogger we need twitter tools, tweetmeme, and social bookmarking….

4) Expensive Upgrades

Free wordpress give you access to use some features as self hosed blog such as custom domain, more storage and using other wordpress theme, but it will charge you more than self hosed blog.

5) Subdomains

Subdomain means another domain under your domain. For instance you have domain name http://www.yourdomain.com and you want to make forum using subdomain http://forums.yourdomain.com. You can’t in free wordpress blog, but in self hosted you have freedom to do it. You might not need it when you start new blog, but need after some time to use for forums or other purpose.

So, What do you prefer? A free wordpress blog or Self hosted wordpress blog?

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Making quality post took long time and as blogger we need to post a lot. So, if we know keyboard shortcut, it will be easy and less time consuming than before. I usually prefer shortcut rather than clicking buttons in wordpress blog. I thought it will be great to share useful shortcut with my…

Have you ever thought to change logo and background on log in page? If yes, and want to do it. You can do it using Custom Admin Branding WP plugins. Not only log in page, but also admin panel logo and footer of admin page.

Custom admin Branding give you option to choose different color, image and many more option to select. Take look at setting page:

Customizing image:

• Login Form Background
• Login Form Login Button Background
• Admin Header Logo
• Favorite Actions Button Background
• Footer Logo

This plugin don’t only allow you to change login page, but at same time it also shows you preview so you can make it more attractive. Custom admin branding is mostly useful with brand companies.

WP plugin: Custom Admin Branding