WordPress by default creates revisions of your posts automatically. Whenever you save a page or post, the older version is retained so that you can revert it back at any time.

Sure this feature is handy at times but it is understandable that every revision would take its own space in the database. This would mean nothing for a few revisions but as your blog grows bigger & each post or page has multiple revisions; it shows its effect.

This makes it necessary to do some housekeeping & gain control over revision by removing older revisions to free up disk space and ease MySQL’s processing burden. This also has effect on the speed of your blog.

Here I am sharing 3 ways in which you can keep a check on post revisions & keep them under control or disable post revisions completely. (But before we begin I advise you to BACKUP YOUR DATABASE):

1. Remove Old Revisions

I am going to repeat BACKUP YOUR DATABASE because in this step we are about to run SQL command directly on your MySQL tables & one tiny slip can break your wordpress installation. First, you need to find your WordPress table prefix which is specified in the following line of wp-config.php:

$table_prefix  = ‘wp_’;

wp_ is the default table prefix but it may have been changed as a measure of added security. We’ll assume wp_ has been specified in the following code.

To delete all revisions for all pages and posts, start a MySQL administration tool such as phpMyAdmin and run the following SQL statement:

DELETE a,b,c
FROM wp_posts a
LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id)
WHERE a.post_type = ‘revision’;

(Remember to change all table references from “wp_” to your table prefix if necessary.)

If that’s a little too severe, you could remove all revisions prior to a specific date, e.g. the following statement will remove all revisions except for those made after January 1, 2010:

DELETE a,b,c
FROM wp_posts a
LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id)
WHERE a.post_type = ‘revision’
AND a.post_date < ’2010-01-01′;

2. Limit or Disable Post Revisions

Add the following statement to your WordPress wp-config.php file to permanently disable post revisions:

define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false);

The value can be set to ‘true’ to re-enable revisions.

Alternatively, you can use a positive integer to limit the number of permitted revisions, e.g.

define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, 5);

This will create a maximum of 5 revisions per post, plus one for auto-saving purposes. Older revisions will be automatically deleted.

3. Use WordPress Plugins

If this all sounds a little too scary, than there are a number of WordPress plugins offering revision control.

Do you have any further tips for controlling WordPress revisions? Share it with us by commenting below…

3 Ways To Control Post Revisions In WordPress is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

Offering e-Courses like Mr. John Chow is an easy and superb way to build relationships with your blog readers. As we all know, creating an autoresponder course is not a big deal at all. Well, somebody said that it just sounds too good to be true so I am going to prove them wrong.

Basically, a killer autoresponder course is not difficult to create and it can be summarized into only 5 easy peasy steps!

#1 – Choose A Subject

The very first easy step in creating a superb autoresponder course is to decide the subject and niche of your course. You don’t send vegetarians emails about “how great the new McDonald’s McChicken is”. They just won’t buy it. You should also target a subject, which you have knowledge in, not just some stupid niche, which you aren’t really sure about. For example, before blogging at my technologies blog Shastera, I was clueless about which niche I should start blogging in and in the end I thought that why not technologies since I am such an avid Apple fan?

#2 – Create A Subtopic

Niche and subject choosing is the first step whereas next you need to create is a list of subtopics. One lesson will be represented in each sub-topic and if you have 5 sub-topics, it can be offered to your subscribers as a free 5-day course.

#3 – Dividing Your Lessons

Now that you’ve your list of sub-topics ready; the next step is to separate each of the sub-topics into course lessons. In the first lesson, do not offer any sub-topics to be taught but instead you should introduce the whole lesson and most importantly yourself to them.

#4 – Providing Valuable Content

One of the most important factors in deciding the success of your autoresponder course is to provide good, valuable and informative content which is relevant to the niche of your subscribers.

You see, sometimes, people says branding is much more decisive in marketing but what I can tell you is that if Coca Cola starts producing Coke which smells like polluted water, they won’t go any further and Pepsi will overtake them.

By giving out lousy content, what I can tell you is to expect multiple readers unsubscribing from your list.

#5- Setting Up Your Autoresponder Course

Now that you’ve prepared your course, what you need to do is to transfer your text into your autoresponder. There are a lot of autoresponders out there and it is quite a hassle to make a good choice. I recommend you to try out two which I think are the best, “Aweber” and “Mail Chimp”. They are the best autoresponder service out there and many popular probloggers like John Chow and Dareen Rowse are using them.

After getting everything working, you will need to place a javascript code on your site to capture email addresses. Offering free autoresponder course to your clients, visitors and readers is very important as you are giving out value which they will certainly appreciate. This method of free advertising surely will increase your sales.

If you are into online list building and looking to start an autoresponder course after reading this article then do read our guest post “Online List Building: IMMEDIATE Download Or 7-Day E-Course?” that compares whether you should start an autoresponder course or not.

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It seems that everyone these days has a WordPress blog. It’s not at all surprising. After all, these blog sites are easy to create and maintain. Beyond that, they allow individuals to easily run their own site, and provide a great marketing mechanism for any business that’s smart enough to branch into social networking.

Despite how attractive and simplified a WordPress site is, however, you still have plenty of options for improving your blog. One of the major areas that advanced webmasters can fine tune is the loading speed of the site.

Why Site Speed Is Important?

The load time of your site may be a more important factor in the success of your website than you realize. It should be obvious that your visitors will be far happier with fast load times than slow ones. Beyond that, however, your load speed may actually have a direct affect on your site’s search engine optimization.

According to the official Google blog entry created on April 9th, 2010, Google will be using a site’s load speed as one of the factors in its search algorithm. In plain talk, that means that a faster loading site will rank better. While Google is the only major search engine that has announced that load speed will be a factor as of June, 2010, the other major search engines frequently mimic additions to Google’s search rankings.

Here Are Some Simple Tips For Speeding Up Your WordPress Blog :

Choosing A Reliable Hosting Plan

Sticking to a reliable hosting provider is crucial. This is why I usually recommend choosing a well-known hosting provider: it may cost more but it will save your time and money in the long run!

You may also consider going with some wicked hosting service like hosted exchange for example which usually means more reliable plan as well as other cool benefits as well.

Cleaning Your Code

Speeding up your WordPress blog can start with running through your code and cleaning it up in a few different ways. While the standard WordPress templates are fairly clean, they are also designed for “the average blogger.”

To make these templates easier to upload and simple enough for beginning webmasters to use, the code of WordPress blogs includes a long list of php references that could easily be hard coded or deleted entirely. Eliminating these php references will speed up how quickly your blog loads, and can also add to the stability of your site.

Clearing Out Your Plugins

Plugins and widgets can add some great functionality to your site, but they aren’t going to help you achieve the “fastest possible load time.” You certainly shouldn’t eliminate useful features from your site, but removing any unused plugins will make a significant difference in load time.

Add A Cache Plugin

While clearing out plugins that you don’t use is a great idea, one specific type of plugin should be added: a caching plugin. Cache plugins make large strides toward speeding up your WordPress blog by storing each of your posts directly on the server.

Normally, WordPress uses a database query to load your post, and this can result in a slow site load time if you have a lot of traffic. Beyond these tips for eliminating unnecessary database delays and clearing up messy code, you will also want to be sure that any elements, such as images, that you include are individually optimized.

I hope you would have liked reading this article and you attain the best possible loading speed for your wordpress blog. Do comment below if you have more tips or ways to speed up wordpress blog.

[If you liked reading this then you must consider reading : "How To Speed Up WordPress Blog In 3 Simple Steps".]

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A blog header has two main goals:

• Convey the overall message of your post
• Entice a visitor to read your post

So why do so many blogs skip out on such an important part of their blog posts? Certainly it’s not the lack of images available on the net. With thousands of available resources, you have no excuse not to be taking advantage of all the great benefits of using an enticing blog header image.

Skipping over the opportunity to create an header image lowers the opportunities for visitors to read your content. After you’ve driven visitors to your blog, the point is to get them to read. A great header image is one additional element that converts visitors into readers.

This post is going to show you just how easy it is to find great images to create an enticing blog header image.

1. Creative Commons Search

Hands down, the easiest method to create a powerful and enticing blog header image is to use images that fall under creative commons. Creative commons, depending on each level, generally allows you to use images in a non commercial manner.

This means you’re able to modify, post and use these images throughout your website as long as you give appropriate credit to the owner.

The easiest way to find a great image to use for your blog header is to do a creative commons search on the web. A great search engine is available at Creative Commons Search.

This search allows you find creative commons images on many websites such as:

• Flickr
• Wikimedia
• Jamendo

You’ll be sure to find very interesting images you can use to create amazing blog header images. Most of these images are uploaded by amateur photographers but it doesn’t mean they aren’t worthwhile, you’ll find many you like and appropriate for your content.

2. Icons and Freebie Packs

Many designers offer free brushes, icons and tools to create amazing header images.

There are thousands of free icons available online at IconsPedia which fit your niche. If you write about making money online, you can do a general search for money related icons.

Designers also offer brushes of all sorts: ink splatters, skylines, nature – the list is endless. Use your own creativity to create variations of your blog header image.

Using these icons and freebie packs, you will be able to create a unique header from your own creativity.

3. Free Stock Photos

Stock photography doesn’t have to be just for business and print media, you can also use these valuable images to create enticing blog header images.

Websites such as SXC.HU offer free stock photos that fall under creative commons.

Thousands of photographers upload endless amounts of images to free stock photography websites so your choices are endless. There are literally thousands of images that depict acts which will be appropriate for your blog content.

Why A Blog Header Matters

People make split decisions online, capturing their attention with a powerful headline and blog header image is your best way to pull them in and read your blog post.

The blog header image helps convey to the reader what your post will be about. The image can also be used to peak the visitors interest and be used as a metaphor which can later be explained in the post, giving your reader the “ah-ha” moment.

Simply load your favorite image editing software, play around with the settings and images you use and in no time you’ll be able to create a unique and enticing header image.

You owe it to yourself to make each of your blog posts the best you can. Including a great header images, using the resources in this post will start you in the right direction.

How To Create An Enticing Blog Header Image is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

For most people blog traffic and search analytics is done with help of Google Analytics which is quite understandable because it is free and really advanced.

You can get really in-depth traffic analysis with the tool or, if you don’t want to go onto any geeky details, you can just see your traffic sources and keyword referrals.

This post will show you three simple Google Analytics hacks you will love! To try two of the following tips, make sure you have Greasemonkey installed.

1. Export Your Report to Google Docs and Share them easily! (Greasemonkey)

This Greasemonkey script exports up to 10000 rows of Google Analytics data to Google Docs and thus allows a handy option to save, organize and share your reports!

2. See Your Unusual Traffic (Greasemonkey)

Here a cool Greasemonkey script that allows you to see referrals that have sent you unusual traffic:

• Referring sites with higher 50% traffic over the last 3 days;
• Referring sites appearing  in the last 3 days;
• Referring sites with lower 50% traffic over the last 3 days:

3. Check Your Traffic for the Current day with One Click of a Mouse (Bookmarklet)

Are you obsessed with your search analytics which makes you check your current traffic again and again? If yes, you will love the tip!

Now, to see your traffic and referrals for the current day you need to make at least three clicks but with this handy bookmarklet generator you will need only one!

Just provide your Google Analytics ID and drag the link to your bookmarks toolbar:

I hope you will have find these firefox hacks for Google Analytics pretty interesting. Do give it a try and let me know your opinion about it.

Three Simple But Useful FireFox Hacks For Google Analytics is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

God knows how many times I’ve got the wordpress blank page error after leaving comments on some blogs. Some days back I got an email from one of my readers complaining that he had left  two lengthy comments on my blog only to get a blank page after clicking the submit button.  Thus I set out to find a solution and finally I’m 99% sure I’ve found one.

My research revealed that in some cases the almighty and over-rated Akismet is to be blamed. One of the features of Akismet that helps it with it’s anti-spam capability is that it tends to monitor the time gap between when a web page or blog post loads and when a comment is subsequently submitted.

If the time gap is small, Akismet tags the comment as spam and either throws up a blank page or tags the comment as spam in your wordpress dashboard. In most cases it does both.

HOW TO FIX THIS ISSUE?

Simple, deactivate and uninstall Akismet.

Please note that I tried this method and the next day, my blog went loco with the permalinks misbehaving badly. Single posts kept throwing up 404 errors.  Reactivating Akismet and restoring a backup of my database seems to have saved my blog.

NOTE: I don’t know what Akismet had to do with this but I’m so NEVER going to be deactivating it again because at a point I felt I’d been hacked.

If you intend going this route, make sure comment moderation is enabled for each and every comment. Most especially if you manage a do-follow blog like I do.

Another fix I found making the rounds on the net is changing a little piece of code found in the comments.php file of your wordpress theme.

It is said that wordpress uses post ID to track which comments go with certain posts and if this post id is missing in a comment, the comment is lost or the commentator is redirected to a blank page.

The Trick:

Using CTRL + F, find:

<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />

in your comments.php file and change it to

<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $post->ID; ?>" />

Save the file and you’re good to go…

NOTE: So far so good, by changing this tiny piece of code in the comments.php file, I’ve been able to save my commentators a whole lot of headache. Deactivating Akismet was certainly not an option for me.

I hope you will find this guide helpful whenever your blog will face such kind of problem.

How to Fix WordPress Blank Page Error on Leaving Comments is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

This actually got released a week ago but I didn’t blogged about it at that time as the site(www.js-kit.com) was having some problems with their servers while installation. But now everything is good and I have tested it on my blogspot test blog.

It is actually a part of JS-kit Intense Debate commenting system which can be installed very simply. During installation it will back up all your existing comments and will keep a copy of all comments in sync with your blog so you can stop using it any time. It even allows you to take your comments with you when you move blogs. This commenting system allows your readers to comment with many choices plus they can also add their pictures while commenting.

You can get more info about it on the official blog post.

You can also check this system running on my test blog post.

So have you started using it? What’s your feedback on it?

CommentLuv Now available for blogger platform is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

So through this post I will teach you that how you can easily make use of these Conditional Tags in your template and easily play with the positions of your widgets

So first let me tell you the proper definition of Conditional Tags according to blogger.

Ok; so you got the definition now let’s move on to How you can implement it.

Implementation

First make sure to make a full backup of your existing template before attempting these Conditional Tags.

So before using these tags in your template; first just add any widget in your blog by the default way.
Now when you have added it Go to Layout > Edit HTML > Click on the Expand Box

Then search for any widget by the name which you have given it as title.

If you want to make an widget appear on main page only then we will use the following code:

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;>
</b:if>

Now let me tell you how to paste it:

Place <b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;> tag just after the opening <b:includable id=’main’> tag and Place the closing </b:if> tag just before the closing </b:includable> tag.

If you want to make an widget appear on main page only then we will use the following code:

<b:if cond='data:page.type == &quot;item&quot;'>
</b:if>

Now let me tell you how to paste it:

It’s almost the same thing to do just replace <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;> with <b:if cond='data:page.type == &quot;item&quot;'> from the above method.

By this method you can display any special widget on any special page which is important for it.

For this we will use the following code:

Just add <b:if cond='data:blog.url == "BLOG_PAGE_URL"'> in the same way in the above mention methods just in this replace BLOG_PAGE_URL with the URL where you want the widget to appear.

By this method you can display any widget on any specific label page. For example you may have posts on books and when the label books is clicked in your blog the sidebar will show a widget which you have added specially for books.

For this we will use the following code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://BLOG_NAME.blogspot.com/search/label/LABEL_NAME"'>
</b:if>

Now let me tell you how to paste it:

Just use the above code i.e <b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://BLOG_NAME.blogspot.com/search/label/LABEL_NAME"'> in the same as we did for Displaying widgets only on homepage.

Here, replace BLOG_NAME with your blog actual name and LABEL_NAME with the label which is currently being used in your blog and where you want it to appear.

So I think you know the use of Conditional Tags and It’s Implementation.Well if you have any problem then do ask me. You can also take my help in implementing it for free in you blog by my hands for which you just have send in your blogger info to my mail via contact form.

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Inspired by: BlogDoctor

Displaying Widgets on Specific Pages in Blogger is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips