Extreme Trix » PHP http://extremetrix.com Tricky site for all tricksters Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:51:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 What I did to save Extreme Trix from SEO problems? http://extremetrix.com/what-i-did-to-save-extreme-trix-from-seo-problems/ http://extremetrix.com/what-i-did-to-save-extreme-trix-from-seo-problems/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:10:13 +0000 Ankit http://extremetrix.com/?p=1884 You may remember that Extreme Trix was deleted on 16th of November and it took me almost complete two days to make it live again without any problem, it was entirely my fault for not keeping a backup, but from now onwards I have started using WP-DB-Backup plug-in which helps me in getting daily backup [...]]]>

You may remember that Extreme Trix was deleted on 16th of November and it took me almost complete two days to make it live again without any problem, it was entirely my fault for not keeping a backup, but from now onwards I have started using WP-DB-Backup plug-in which helps me in getting daily backup easily. When Extreme Trix was deleted the biggest challenge to me was to solve SEO problems. Actually I had two installations of WordPress in my Database one was of WordPress 2.7.1 and second one was of WordPress 2.8.1. I wanted to remove WordPress 2.7.1 as ET was powered by 2.8.1 and the blog which was powered by 2.7.1 was just a test blog which was consuming my free space and making ET very slow.

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While deleting that first installation of WordPress by mistake second one (blog directory) also got deleted where Extreme Trix was installed. :( I lost my everything images, videos, docs and even some articles too. Thanks to Farhan and Prateek bro who helped me in finding back images and permalinks of the posts and pages from Google Cache. At last after continuous hard work of five hours my images and permalinks were restored.

The second challenge for me was to redirect some pages and my forum (my forum was also deleted so I installed a new one) be directory to the new one. I searched on Google about how to redirect PHP based pages and finally got a solution. First my login page was www.extremetrix.com/wp-login.php but now its www.extremetrix.com/blog/wp-login.php. To redirect old page to new one I simply made a new PHP file and added this piece of code -

< ?php header( 'Location: http://extremetrix.com/blog/wp-login.php' ) ; ?>

then saved it with name wp-login.php in my root directory.

Firstly when I launched Extreme Trix’s forum, it was with permalink forum, but when I re-installed it I changed the permalink to “support” instead of forum. To redirect forum to support what I did is just made a blank directory with name “forum” and made an index.htm file. In that index file I added a piece of HTML code (301 redirection code) which redirects and tells the crawler not to index forum directory. The code was -

<html>
<head>
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
window.location.replace("http://www.extremetrix.com/support");
-->
</script>
<noscript>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="10; URL=http://www.extremetrix.com/support"/>
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="10"/>
<meta name="Description" content="301 moved permanently"/>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW"/>
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW"/>
</noscript>
<title>301 moved permanently</title>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<h1>ET - Forum</h1>
<p>has been moved to new address</p>
<a href=" http://www.extremetrix.com/support/"> <h1>ET - Support</h1></a>
<p>Sorry for inconvenience... </p>
</center>
</body>
</html>

Last challenge for me was to find a free SEO optimized theme for New version of Extreme Trix, I didn’t want again use my old theme because everything was new on my blog and moreover it was a bit un-professional. After reading reviews of 5-6 free themes the best theme I found was Swift by Satish bro. That time I was expecting a spike in my traffic so I switched to it as it was light and had very cool features.

Well that’s all! It was the entire story how I made Extreme Trix up again and solved SEO errors. If you also have such a drastic blogging story do share with us. :)

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We had already covered too many articles under Blogging category about SEO,  famous blogging software WordPress and also covered an article about Google’s Blogger in which I told you all about its history and tutorial to set-up custom domain name. So I hope till now you all will be familiar with WordPress Plug-ins. Don’t worry if you are new to WordPress and yet not familiar with plug-ins, I am once again going to explain it here.

Plug-ins are PHP based tools which extend and expand the functions of  WordPress. You can add plugins by just uploading it to your wp-content > plugins folder that is in your WordPress directory. More info.

Today in this article I am going  to review Top 10 WordPress Plug-ins which I had myself used on Extreme Trix to make WordPress powered blogs more user friendly.

So here we go -

  1. Advertising Manager – The best advertisement managing plug-in for WordPress I have ever used! Its having all the features that a publisher looks for. It manages our Google Adsense and other ad network accounts, and allows us to easily place the ads either within our WordPress blog posts, or within our WordPress theme/template.
  2. After the Deadline – It is free for our personal use plug-in that check writing errors and offer smart suggestions for our blogs. It uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find our writing errors and offer smart suggestions.
  3. AJAX Random Posts - This plugins display a highly customizable list of random posts. There are some plugins that server a similar purpose already, if they’re used along with cache plug-ins, the list is cached also, and remains the same over thousands of views, thus not so “random”. AJAX Random Posts, as its name says, uses AJAX technology to retrieve the posts and overcome the problem: now each page refresh comes with one different list!
  4. Akismet – It checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API keyto use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template.
  5. All in One SEO Pack – It’s a nice plug-in with inbuilt option for entire required field for SEO optimization of any post or page.
  6. Socialize – The plugin was designed to make it very easy to manage. Instead of adding new meta keys, like other plugins require, there is an additional panel in your post’s admin page that allows you to select which bookmarks you want to display. This is to encourage people to choose more relevant bookmarks for their posts.
  7. Wp-Thumbie – This plugin will show related posts based in context and you can configure lots of settings from plugin option page. You can make changes in CSS and design from the plugin editor page. Though even if you don’t this plugin will look good to start.
  8. GoCodes – It is simple WordPress plugin which can be used to hide your affiliate link and make them look like a simple link.
  9. About the Author Box – Displays a sleek “about the author” box in the single posts page. This is very useful for team blog having too many writers.
  10. Facebook Sharecount – The Facebook Share count plugin shows the number of shares on Facebook your posts get and allows users to share it themselves. This plugin is based on the (excellent) Backtype Tweetcount plugin.

New Blogger?

If you are totally new to blogging I will suggest you to read these articles on blogging.

I hope that you liked my article, if you really enjoyed reading it do read other articles filled under Blogging category. Comments, tweets and Diggs will be appreciated :)

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We all know that using lots of unnecessary plug ins and scripts will slow down our site performance, or may cause internal server error (if you are on shared web hosting chances of showing 500 Error is quite high). That’s why its always advised to not to use unnecessary plug ins and scripts on your site/blog. Today I’m gonna tell you how to track the IP address of visitors in your website without any plug in or script.

< ?php

    $ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
    $date = date ("M dS H:i:s");

    $message = "$page _ $ipaddress _ $date\n";

    $File = "track.txt";
    $Open = fopen($File, "a+");
    if ($Open){

    fwrite($Open, "$message");
    fclose ($Open);
    }

    ?>

You can easily track IP address of visitors in your website by just adding this PHP code, the IP’s tracked are saved in a log file named “track.txt” in the server. After adding this PHP code make track.txt page writable by PHP.

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Hello guys! I am back again with second post of this series today in this post’s I am going to tell you how to edit, upload themes and plug ins in WordPress. Before choosing a theme for your own WordPress blog, you should choose your niche, Now what’s niche?

- Niche is a role an organism plays in its inviornment. In simple blogging language its the topic on which you blog. For example- I mainly blog about tricks,tips,blogging,technology so my niche is – Technology,Tricks,Blogging.

According to your niche choose your theme and plug ins to customize your WordPress blogs, if you are having difficulty to choose your theme and need some tips for that, then read this article posted by Satish of budding blogger (the guy who sponsored me hosting and free domain). Now if you got a right theme that suits your niche, then just open your themes folder in wp-content in your WordPress folder and add (upload) the theme you want there, Now login to your WordPress blog and click on appearance > themes, click on your theme and just activate it.

For WordPress MU : before activating any theme for your WordPress MU blog login to your local host site – http://localhost.localdomain/wordpress-mu and activate theme from WordPress Mu themes admin section (http://localhost.localdomain/network/wp-admin/wpmu-themes.php) and then go to appearance > themes and activate your theme.

You can easily customize your themes by editing them, but before you edit any theme you should save your copy of your theme and you should know basic PHP and HTML to edit your theme, Well don’t worry if you don’t know PHP or HTML, you can easily extend and expand the functionality of WordPress with help of plug ins.

If you are new and don’t know what are plugins then wait let me explain you first.

- Plugins are PHP based (mainly) tools which extend and expand the functionality of WordPress. You can add plugins by just uploading it to your wp-content > plugins folder which is in your WordPress directory.

Before you add any plug in, you should check whether that plug in is compatible with your WordPress version or not, if it is not compatible with your WordPress version please don’t upload that to your server cause it may not work or crash your WordPress.

In next post we will learn about Buddy Press plugin which tranforms the default WordPress MU installation into a cool social networking site like Facebook or Orkut. ;)

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