tips and tricks 3 (blog)

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Custom Smileys - Adds clickable smiley emoticons to comments.

how to install this avators..
1. Download and extract custom-smilies.zip; then, upload the content to its corresponding directory.
2. Activate Custom Smilies in your Admin Panel
3. Put your smilies in smilies folder (wp-includes/images/smilies/)
4. Change the emoticons by navigating to Manage > Smilies and complete the form
5. If you want to add clickable smilies to your comment form, append these lines to your current theme’s comments.php file, just before the form begins:
download link..

TinyMCEComments - Turns the comment box into a full-featured rich text editor.
Live Comment Preview - Allows readers to preview their comment before posting.
Comments XT - Lets commentators edit their own comments.
Gravatar - Displays user-selected avatars from a central database next to comments.
Favatars - Pulls the favicon from a commenter’s blog or website, and uses that for their avatar.
MBLA - Adds user images from MyBlogLog to comments.
OpenID Comments - Lets readers comment with their OpenID identity.
better conversation
Simple CoComments - Tracks the conversation across blogs.
Comment Karma - Digg-style voting on comments.
Quoter - Allows users to quote a previous comment in their comment.
Whisper - Lets users “whisper” comments that are only visible to one person.
Moderate comments
Comment Twitter SMS Notification - Notifies you of new comments through Twitter SMS.
Bannage - Adds the ability to ban users from commenting by name, email, or IP.
CommentCentral - Allows batch opening and closing of comments on multiple posts.
spam protecting tools
akismet- Antispam plugin from the creators of Wordpress that uses a central database of spam comments to flag spam. Requires a free API key from Wordpress
Spam Karma - Analyzes comments for spam based on a karma system.
Bad Behavior - Prevents spambots from even accessing your site by analyzing their HTTP requests.
dypm - Asks commenters a simple math question before their comments are posted.
Comment Timeout- Closes comments on old posts.
Show off comments
WP-Most Commented Posts - Displays posts with the most comments in the sidebar.
Latest Comments with Avatars Reloaded - Shows the latest comments, along with the MyBlogLog avatars of the commenters.
Encourage Commenting
BlogFollow - Shows a snippet of the commenter’s blog at the bottom of the comment.
DoFollow - Removes “nofollow” attributes from links in comments so search engines can follow them.
DoFollow Trackbacks - Removes “nofollow” attributes from trackbacks
Show Top Commentators - Lists the most frequent commentators on your blog, along with links to their blogs, in your sidebar.
Improve appearance
Nicer Trackbacks - Improves the appearance of trackbacks from other blogs.
WP-NoSh*t - Filters bad words from comments.
Numbered Comments - Adds numbers to comments.
AuthorHighlight - Highlights comments by the blog’s author.
Comment Highlighter - Styles comments based on the author’s name, email, or URL.
wp-chunk - Truncates long URLs in comments to prevent them from stretching the page.

How do I enable comments on my blog?
How do I moderate comments on my blog?
How do blog comments work?

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what is blog pinggers? A notification to a Web site that a blog has been created or updated. The ping is typically an XML message that contains the URL of the blog. Blog tracking sites publish separate Internet addresses for accepting pings, and news sites may also set up ping addresses.
wiki | about pinging

Ping-O-Matic - is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated.
Alles Over Ping Service - This is a blog ping service that pings 7 web services. Service is available in Dutch and English.

AllPodcasts - AllPodcasts is a podcast ping service that pings your feed to 7 podcast directories.
Autopinger - This is what I call a ping service with a difference. Autopinger pings your blog at regular intervals so that you don’t have to ping manually. It also displays the ping success rate of the sites it pings in percentages. Autopinger pings 25 English services and 19 non-English services. After a ping, it shows you the actual ping response from the services rather than a just success or failure report.
Blogblip - Currently sends pings to 45 web services. You can request addition of more directories to its list using the form on the site.
Blogflux Pinger - Pings 17 general services, 7 specialized services,some languages.
Feedburner Pingshot - If you are using Feedburner to burn RSS feeds for your blog, you can activate its Pingshot feature to ping web services automatically every time you update your blog. Feedburner Pingshot pings to 6 web services and you can add 5 more addresses to ping.
Feed Shark - Pings 16 services that accept blogs, 12 services that accept RSS feeds, and 8 services that accept podcasts. You can view your submission status on your current page itself.
iPings - iPings is a simple ping service that pings your feed to 32 web services.
King Ping - Just enter your blog URL at King Ping to have it submitted to 57 web services.
MyPageRank ping service - Simple site that pings your site to 25 web services.
Pingates - Pingates pings your blog to 37 services.
Pingerati - You can use this unique service to ping non post information like contacts, events, job information, addresses, geolocations, etc. called microformats to services that accept these microformats like Eventful, Technorati, and Alexa.
Ping.In - Pings 37 general service sites, 12 non-English services, and 6 special services.

PingMyBlog - PingMyBlog pings the highest number of services - a whopping 68 search engines. You need to enter your blog name, URL, and feed (optional) to ping. Ping reports are available.

Pingoat - Pings 26 English search engines, 15 non-English search engines, and 9 special services. You add your blog name, url, and xml feed (optional) to ping. This service also features ping reports.
Pings ws - Pings dot ws pings your feed to 13 web services.
Pingomation - Pingomation can check if your blog has recently pinged
Sitemapr - updated your blog’s sitemap and want to ping the update, this is a tool you should use. Sitemapr dot us pings Google,Yahoo!,Ask.com about your updated sitemap.
Twitbacker - Twitbacker is a service to ping your blog update to Twitter.

Ping-o-Blog - Ping-o-Blog sends pings to 18 general services.
Pingsalot - Pingsalot pings your blog to 24 active servers. It checks your site URL for availability before pinging, and is your site fails to respond, pings are not sent out.
source forge - just testing blog ping projects.

[eminents]

Salute for the Effort you have put to it mate! Great lists
Thanks for sharing

Cheers

[[ugly_cat]]

1. Does the blog look OK in different browsers?
It’s a common mistake for people to only test in the browser they use. But you need to test your blog with multiple browsers. Some services like browser shots will help with the process.
2. Does the feed work?
Whether you’re using FeedBurner or not (although I highly recommend it) you should test the feed. Subscribe to it with your own RSS Reader and make sure it’s coming in properly. It’s also a good idea to make the subscription options highly visible. Don’t bury your RSS feed link at the bottom of the blog or in a far-right sidebar. Get it front and center.
3. Did you setup stat tracking and a sitemap?
Everyone wants to track stats on their blog, so make sure you’ve got stat tracking setup properly. There are lots of options - Awstats, Google Analytics, 103bees, etc. A sitemap is equally important. It helps search engines crawl your pages faster, which is good for search engine optimization and ranking. And don’t forget: Submit your blog to Google Webmasters.
4. Did you update the About page and test the Contact page?
Too many bloggers forget about the About page and leave it as the default (or don’t include it at all!) In WordPress, the default About page tells you it’s an About page; which really doesn’t help you. Make sure you update it and spend some serious time thinking about what you’ll write. The same holds true for the Contact page - Do you have one? If it’s a form, does it work?
5. Did you test all the links?
Before launching your blog click on every link and make sure they work. This is particularly important for links to pages (i.e. About, Contact, etc.) as well as links between posts and to outside sites. You want to make sure links to outside sites are working - those other bloggers will see the trackbacks and visit (or they should.)
6. Did you claim the blog in Technorati?
Your blog needs to be live before claiming it, but it doesn’t have to be “launched” - where you’re actively promoting it, telling people, building links, etc. Before launching the blog, make sure you pop over to Technorati and claim it. The process is simple and quick, and it’ll help people find your blog. It’ll also help you track incoming links.
7. Did you write a few posts? You can’t launch without content.
before you really put yourself out there and launch your blog. The more content you have upfront the easier it is for people to get a feel for what you’re doing. Plus you’ll get more comfortable in your blogging shoes. It takes awhile to get into the Blogger Mindset.
8. Do you have a few more posts ready to go?
It’ll be a huge shame if you launch your blog only to write sporadically or not-at-all for the next little while. You want to be as productive and effective as possible right out of the gate — so have a handful of blog posts ready to go. Even if they’re not completely written, it’d be good to have the ideas and basic outlines in place.
9. Did you make a list of people to contact?
You can’t launch your blog into a vacuum. Yes, people will find it, but you should give it a nice kick into gear right away. Put together a list of contacts that might be interested in your blog. When you launch, ping ‘em all and let them know that your blog is ready for action. Encourage them to comment, send feedback, link over and spread the word.
10. Do you know how you’re going to promote the blog?
There are lots of ways to promote a new blog, including blog directories, various widgets, strategic linking, etc. You may not have all the answers right off the bat, but a big part of blogging is marketing - you need to market your blog. Do some research, make a list of blog promotion steps to take, and get going once you’re launched.

[poksa]

what a great list... keep it up uglycat!

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Del.icio.us Inbox
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking tool that helps you share links in a easy and effective manner. But there is much more to it. You Can use del.icio.us to discover new content for your blog and also keep track of everything you’ve discovered in the past so that you can retrieve it later easily.
OpenDNS
OpenDNS is a very useful tool that not only helps you browse faster but also make it a lot more easier. For example you can create shortcuts to your most visited sites, and easily access them using OpenDNS.
An Offline Blog Editor
Windows Live Writer or the scribefire addon for firefox. Offline Blog Editors make blogging much more easier and also allow to manage multiple blogs at the same time.Here is the offline blogging tools.
A Feed Reader
A Feed reader is the bloggers best friend. A Feed reader allows you to keep track of your favorite blogs. Recommended feed readers are Google Reader or Bloglines.
StumbleUpon Toolbar
This is one must have toolbar.StumbleUpon allows you to discover some great new sites to blog about. it is biggest source of content for the blogs.
Digg Account
Digg is the posterboy of Web2.0. Aimed at providing the best Tech News, you can also use Digg to discover great content for your blog before everyone else blogs about it. Hat Tip use Digg Spy to discover stories that are worth a mention on your blog.
Google Calendar & Google Notebook
A Calendar is a must have tool for any blogger out there who wants to make it big. You should have a schedule set so that you don’t waste time on unnecessary things and at the same prioritize the things you need to do. Also a notebook tool where you can jot down important notes is also very important so that you don’t forget the next Killer idea. I Would recommend Google Calendar and Notebook for this.
Firebug + YSlow add-ons
This applies to all those bloggers who want to be Dugg. When you get dugg you’ll have huge burst of traffic and to make sure your blog does not go down fighting this mob you need to optimize your blog for minimal load times and server load. For this use Firebug and YSlow.
Firefox Browser
Firefox is the browser that I would suggest to all the blogger’s out there because of the presence of various addons and extensions to it and yes it is also Standards Compliant unlike IE.
Now...,Flock just beta still.,but it is good.

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MetaTags - This sidebar displays page meta-information (metatags, links, etc.) Has automated search engine submission menu.
Feed Sidebar- The Feed Sidebar is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser that displays the new items from your Live Bookmarks in the sidebar.
Wikalong - Wikalong is a Firefox Extension that embeds a wiki in the Sidebar of your browser, which corresponds to the current page you are viewing.
Flickr Sidebar - This Flickr sidebar is used for viewing and searching photo lists.
Netscape Friends Sidebar - The Friends’ Activity Sidebar (FAS) extension helps you keep tabs on what stories your Netscape friends are submitting, comment,voting.
Another Delicious Sidebar - A sidebar for accessing del.icio.us bookmarks. Now able to edit and delete links.

Wordpress Sidebar - Get quick access to your wordpress.com account from your browser sidebar. Easy to use.
Alexa Sidebar - It just retrieves the What’s Related information from their free service.
KeywordBar - Shows a sidebar with all bookmarks that contain a defined keyword
FlashTracer - While running any .swf Flash file in your browser you can see all the output generated by the “trace” flash functions in this sidebar component.
Content Preferences - displays widgets for modifying the Text Zoom, Page Style, and Character Encoding settings (which are normally housed in the View menu).
Navibar - The Navibar Extension adds a new sidebar containing a tree-representation of the current website depending on a special sitemap format.
EditCSS - Stylesheet modifier in the Sidebar.
del.icio.us Sidebar - It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.

GMarks - includes a sidebar, a toolbar, a quick search with Home+Home similar to Google Desktop’s Ctrl+Ctrl search, and full content search of your bookmarked pages.
Twitbin - Twitbin allows for the sending and receiving of messages on twitter via your firefox sidebar.
Toodledo - You no longer need to signin to our website just to add a quick todo.
dragdropupload - A Sidebar allows to drop files from a listing.
MediaPlayerConnectivity - Allow you to launch embed video of website in an external application with a simple click

LinkCounter - Display a count of links of a web page and frames.
Alexa Sparky - Get Alexa data in your statusbar!
SearchStatus - Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and Compete ranking anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more.
RankQuest SEO Toolbar - quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Alexa Rank and Page Rank provided by Alexa and Google respectively ensures the popularity of the site.

PDF Download - if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your default or custom PDF reader.
ScribeFire - full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.
Clipmarks - You can save your clips privately or publicly, email them to friends, or post them directly to your blog.
Meebo Sidebar - Get a sidebar with all of your buddies visible while you're browsing. Get visual notifications when your friends IM you. Drag and drop links and images from web pages right onto your friends!
Gtalk Sidebar - Can't use gmail? Don't have time to install Gtalk? Want a simple solution? Then try using gTalk from your sidebar!

[Saige]

Whoa that's a lot of add-ons!

[jhoniegudel]

Thanks for the tips ....


jhonie

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[gabrial]

thanks.
great man.