Wordpress Blogging Mastery Malaysia

If you are looking for another way to drive more traffic to your blog, then try out BlogCatalog.

Blog Catalog is one of the premiere social blog directory on the internet. This is a good site place for you if you are looking to promote your own blog or just find blogs on various topics.

They work similarly like MyBloglog. They regularly feature blogs, blog directories in major tag categories like Arts and Entertainment, Business, Blogging, Computer, Health, Food and Drink, Humor, Internet, Music, Political, Technology, Travel and Writing.

It is rather easy to join in. Just open a Free account with your Username and Password at Sign In and submit your blog in the various categories.

You may also add in a Recent Viewers BlogCatalog widget and Link Back buttons or plugins, that you can join for free.

Wordpress Widget is a plugin-in developed by Automattic. You can use widget to personalize your wordpress site without knowing the hardcore HTML programming.

Just 3 steps, you can setup it on your blog:

1) Drag and Drop

2) Configure

3) Done!

Download widgets here

How To use Widgets:
http://automattic.com/code/widgets/use/

Update: Widget is come with Wordpress v2.2 or later. If you have Wordpress v2.1 or older version, you need to download separately.

FeedSmith is original design by multi-talented Steve Smith, who is passing over to Feedburner for future development and handle all the support.

This plugin simple forwards all your feed traffic to FeedBurner. The plugin will detect all ways to access you feed (e.g. http:// www . yoursite . com / feed / or http:// www . yoursite . com / wp-rss2.php, etc.), and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. It will forward for your main posts feed, and optionally your main comments feed as well.

For more information on how to use this plugin and installation guide, go here.

To download the plugin, go here.

You may visit the forum if you have any issue using this plugin:
http://forums.feedburner.com/viewforum.php?f=6

AdSense-Deluxe offers a better option for you to manage your Google Adsense in the blog post. You can insert the pre-set ad format whenever you want by putting in code in the post. It is also works for Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads on your Wordpress post.

For more information on Adsense Deluxe, and download the plugin, visit here.

There are five ways to customise your blog’s design in anyway you prefer.

1. Template Driven Design

WordPress uses templates to generate the pages dynamically. You can control the presentation of content by editing the templates using the Template Editor tool and the Template Tags.

2. Template and File Editor

Every installation of WordPress comes with a file editor you can use to edit your templates and other WordPress related files, right in your browser without having to worry about downloading and uploading the files in order to edit them.

3. Template Tags

Template tags make it easier to design the content and information displayed on your weblog. You don’t need to be a PHP whiz to design your weblog.

4. Themes

You can skin your weblog using readily available themes, or styles. You can also create and share your own themes.

5. Plugins

Plugins extends the core functionality of your weblog. A large number of user-developed plugins are already available and can be used to do virtually anything you want to, with your blog.