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Dec
31st

Tips For Improving Your WordPress Skills

By Mert Erkal in Blog, WordPress

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  • Did you know that it is possible to post in advance by WordPress? You can easily set your own working schedule. For example you can work hard from Monday to Friday, and then post in advance at weekends. The good thing is you don’t need to login to WordPress and publish your posts. It is extremely easy to post for the future:
    • Write your post, select the categories and tags. Do not click on publish yet.
    • On the right hand side you will see Post Timestamp menu.
    • Click the box called Edit Timestamp and then set the exact time and date you want to publish your post.
    • Click Publish.
    • Your post will now display at the exact time and date that you setup under your post timestamp.
  • Comment Relish is a great plugin i use. It increases your readership and RSS subscription rate by simply sending a short ‘thank you’ message to users when they first comment on your blog. This is a good way of welcoming your first time visitors. I highly recommend you to install this plugin if you haven’t done already.
  • If you are fairly new to WordPress, there is a free reference guide which you should refer. WordPress Web 2.0 Guide is a great source for WordPress beginners. If you follow the steps written in this guide, it is likely that you will have your WordPress blog up and running in a couple of days.
  • There is one more free report for WordPress beginners. How to Become a WordPress Expert Overnight The title looks ambitious, but it is really possible to get familiar with the main concepts with this free report.

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bloggingzoom.com December 31st, 2007

Tips For Improving Your WordPress Skills | www.searchforblogging.com…

Please find highlights from this week’s post:

- post in advance with WordPress, schedule your week
- use comment relish plugin to increase your RSS subscribers
- WordPress Web 2.0 Guide for WordPress users
- free report:How to Become a WordPress Expe…

Alex December 31st, 2007

Thanks for the nod Mert!

Scheduling your posts IS a great time saver :) very nicely written.

Les December 31st, 2007

Hi Mert

As always very helpful. You may want to check out the latest little Wordpress issue related to updates - there are a lot of pluggins that don’t work with WP latest update.

Interested in joining us at http://www.blogcatalog.com/group/stronger/

we are trying to get our own little network together.

cheers
les

nimrodjo December 31st, 2007

I’ve done several future post my self..yep, this is a time saving feature the wp have…and I love the links you give…very useful indeed…this one is short and sweet post…

Steven Snell January 1st, 2008

The timestamp feature is definitely a big plus for WordPress. I don’t use it very often, but it comes in handy when you need it.

ryan January 1st, 2008

I love scheduling posts. Sure, I don’t ever have enough to schedule that far in advance, but its a great idea and I have used it before. I am glad that the latest Wordpress release fixes all the problems with people being able to see when your posts are set to go live as well.

Mark Dykeman January 1st, 2008

Good post, Mert. By the way, I don’t seem to be able to use the Previous link at the bottom of your Webpage, getting a 404 . Problem with htaccess file?

Mert Erkal January 2nd, 2008

@Mark: it was not a htaccess file problem, i installed a permalink redirect plugin 2 weeks ago, it crashed with the latest version i guess. I deactivated that plugin. It is fine now. Thank you so much for letting me know.

@Les:thank you so much, i will appreciate your help for the latest update. And i joined that group, thanks for the invitation!

@ryan:i hope so.

@Steven: yes, it is really a great tool for us!

@Nimrodjo:thank you so much for your kind words, glad to see you here again!

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