Create Humans.Txt for Websites with Humans Txt WordPress Plugin

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You might have heard about the term ‘Robots.txt’ which is used in websites to tell search robots that which pages you would like them not to visit or give access to them. So basically these Robots.txt is for search robots. Similar to that, there is a concept called ‘Humans.txt’ to tell human beings that who is behind the website such as developers and designers.

Human.txt is an initiative for knowing the people behind a website. It’s a TXT file that contains information about the different people who have contributed to building the website. In Humans.txt file you can mention the developer, the designer, the copywriter, the webmaster, the SEO, SEM or SMO. As you can see, the number of people who may take part of the creation of a site can be big, so the list is almost endless.

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Website Under Construction WordPress Theme with Ready2Launch

If you’re building a WordPress website, then for temporary span of time that you’re using for building a theme or building the elements for a website, you can use an Under construction theme on WordPress. Today we have an excellent Under Construction theme for WordPress which I stumbled a few days back.

Ready2launch WordPress theme is for websites which are under construction. Without leaving the webpage as a blank one, you can install this theme which gives readers, visitors the option to view an excellent designed webpage and also you can let them know when exactly the website would be ready up live with a count down clock.

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Monitor, Track Your Download Hits with WordPress Download Monitor

December 24, 2010

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When will you need this WordPress download monitor plugin ? Suppose if you’re giving away some set of files to your readers or some download options from your server, you can use this WordPress plugin to monitor your downloads. Linking back the downloads from an external server is not a good idea because, you may not know when the external server goes down and the download links in your blog post gets broken. So, uploading the files into your server and giving the direct links to download is the best possible option. If you’re planning to do so, you must install this plugin and it allows you to customize, monitor and track the downloads from your server. Let’s jump into its features and how is it useful.

WordPress Download Monitor plugin allows you to track your download hits in WordPress. It has interface for uploading and managing download files, inserting download links in posts, and monitoring download hits. Once you’ve downloaded and activated the plugin, you can see a separate set of options beneath the settings panel. You can edit, add new download links, manage download links and also customize the download link URL to custom URL.

You can upload the file from the plugin interface or you can also directly link the file URL. It also has the file browser where you can select the file directly from your server. You can also add the list of download mirror URLs, so that the plugin automatically picks up the mirror url when at download.

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Send Mass Emails to all Registered, Commented WordPress Users with WP Mass Mailer

December 24, 2010

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Previously we had discussed about Email users WordPress plugin which allows you to send an email to all the registered blog users, where as now we have WP Mass Mailer plugin which extends the functionality of Email users plugin where you can send mass emails to all the registered and commented WordPress users.

WP Mass Mailer plugin for WordPress allows you to send mail to all your WordPress commenter, registered user and the specified post’s comments. Using this plugin is so simple. Just install the plugin, activate it and start sending emails. But why do you need this plugin ?

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Create WordPress Mobile Site with WordPress Mobile Pack Plugin

December 27, 2010

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We already discussed about the importance of mobile version of the website or blog you own. Once again I repeat, the recent statistics tells that more people access internet through their mobile phone, so obviously the visitors to your websites will be accessing from different mobile phones. Optimizing your website for mobile viewers is an important task now. Also we told about a simple app that allows you to create mobile version of the blog or website, now for WordPress users, we have an excellent plugin named ‘WordPress Mobile Pack’ which gives you full customizing power to the mobile readers.

WordPress Mobile Pack plugin allows you to customize your website or blog for mobile readers. It has complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site. It has a mobile switcher, themes, widgets, and mobile admin pane. Once you’ve installed Mobile Pack plugin, you can find the mobile theme, widgets, switcher options on the Appearance panel.

Along with this, it also provides mobile analytics where it tells you how many visitors has visited your website or blog from the mobile phones. It doesn’t give complete or detailed analytics. If you want, you can use any third party external analytics tool to find out the mobile visitors.

A mobile swticher link is present in the widget panel, where you can add it so that it allows users to toggle between desktop and mobile sites (when a switcher mode is enabled). Also you have set of advanced themes for Nokia and WebKit devices, designed by Forum Nokia. These also look beautiful on Android, iPhone and Palm device.

It comes with the device adaption which includes the rescaling of images, splitting posts into multiple pages. You can also add ads to the mobile version with AdMob or Google’s Mobile Adsense, there is an built in ads widget with Mobile pack plugin. It also adds a barcode widget which adds a barcode to your desktop site so that devices with a suitable reader can quickly bookmark your mobile site, or deep link within it.

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FAQs: Things to know before moving your Windows Live Spaces blog to WordPress

October 1st, 2010. Filed under:Live. Tags: Spaces, Wordpress
As a Windows Live Spaces blogger you must have read that Spaces is now shutting down and that you will now have to migrate your Spaces blog to WordPress, sometime soon. While this article on how to migrate your Spaces blog to WordPress will help you, you definitely would have some questions in your mind pertaining to the migration process.

Here are some FAQs you should check before migrating your Windows Live Spaces to WordPress!

1.  What will happen to my old blog posts?
We will move all your old blog posts for you. They will retain all their text and media content and will be listed in order just like they were on your Space.

2.  Will my blog posts be in order by date and time?
Yes your blog posts will be arranged in order, just the way you published them.

3.  What will happen to my draft blog posts?
Your draft blog posts will not move with you. Please publish or back them up before moving  your content.

4.  What will happen to comments? Will I know who the comments came from?
Yes your comments will move with you and we’ll also try to remove any spam. The comments with have date and time associated with them as well as the URL of the user who posted them.

5.  What about my photos? Can I move my photos?
If you integrated your photos or any other media into your blog they will move right with your posts. However if you used the photos module, that will not move. You can always add links to specific albums to old blog posts without changing their published date and time. And your current albums won’t change their home

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Embed Picasa web album into WordPress Sidebar

Picasa is one of the best photo sharing websites from Google. You can sign in to Picasa web album using Google account and add images, tag it, group it and share with your friends etc. Regarding picasa, on the past we had seen enough tools like importing albums to facebook, viewing it as automatic slideshow, bulk uploading etc.

Import Picasa Web albums to FacebookView Picasa Photos as SlideshowUpload Bulk Photos to Picasa

Picasa Widget WordPress plugin allows you to add picasa images on WordPress sidebar. It can display all your latest picasa images from the Picasa web album and display it on your WordPress blog sidebar. It displays the images as thumbnail from the gallery. You can make many adjustments to size as well as layout of the images.

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WP Flickr Plugin Embed Flickr Photos To WordPress Posts

Flickr, the largest photo sharing website where amateur to Pro photographers have an account. If you’ve interest in Photography, then you should have an account in it. It’s free. We had discussed a lot of Flickr tools such as displaying Flickr album inside facebook, Guiding you to buy camera’s with the help of Flickr and a lot more. Have a quick glance over the Flickr tools which we had covered, you can open it on a new tab and keep it for later read.

Save pictures from Flickr on BulkShare Flickr photos on Twitter automaticallyTransfer images from Flickr to Picasa or PhotobucketBackup your Flickr account

WP-Flickr WordPress plugin allows you to embed Flickr images into WordPress blog posts. You can choose any of the standard sizes and then choose your image. You can also choose from any of your sets or directly from your public photo stream. It is easy to connect to your Flickr account and a simple way to add your photos to you blog. The title of your image automatically becomes the image alt text too.

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