Loyal readers of Extreme Trix may have noticed some big-big updates in the site. Actually from a long before I was planning to make it look more good and reliable, then while stumbling my site only I came through a comment post by Harsh bro to change the theme as it was not looking good, which was posted around July, but I didn’t see it yet. I asked some of my friends too they also suggested me to change the theme. I was afraid to change the cause theme cause I didn’t have Adsense and whenever I applied for it they rejected me saying the domain is not yours or the site is under construction. That was the main reason to not to change the theme. Last night I re-submitted my Adsense application and finally got an approved account this morning . So changed my theme tonight and I have also taken some more steps rather changing the theme, which would help me a lot in my blogging career (as I think).

Steps

• PPP Progarm: Yes! now rather than allowing guest authors to show their advertisements below or above the posts on my site, they would be paid per post via Paypal. We are giving 2$ per post to the author. For more info and guidelines checkout this page.
• Ad Prices reduced: This month I got two sponsors who really paid  well for just text links so, to get more sponsors I have reduced the advertisement prices. I would soon publish a detailed page on it.
• Logo: The logo is same, but I have added a reflection below it, which makes it look more professional.
• Niche: This month I have not posted even a single post about or of blogging and SEO. Now I am trying my level best to be on the niche. I will be publishing all Tech and Tricks related stuff here, all Blogging and SEO related posts are on Passionate Bloggers and all hacks are on Hacker’s lane.
• Forum: Sorry to let you know, but we are closing our forum for sometime due to some reason .
• Network: As I told before we are working on Budding Blogger with Satish bro to improve it and make it India’s first network of blogs giving free domain and ad-free hosting. We are currently making the plan ready and then we would be releasing some Blogging and computer related applications (one of them I am going to release tomorrow only – (have released it and gave a tutorial too of making it)).

Hope you liked the my steps to improve my blogging and please feel free to suggest me some more to make me a Pro-blogger.

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Good news for you all, we are again giving a free Google’s AdWords coupon worth 54.92$ valid until 31st March to Extreme Trix readers. To win this coupon all you have to do just comment on this post and the guy who will do the first comment on this post will get the coupon.

Google Adwords

If you don’t know what is AdWords and how much is it useful to bloggers in getting traffic and link building , then please refer to my this post. This page will be soon updated with name of the winner. Until stay tuned.

Update: Arun bro is the first commentator, but he doesn’t wanted this coupon so we have sent the coupon to Birju bro who the 2nd commentator. Congrats Bro!

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Yup! You read it right after a long break of three months I’m back again to it. In these three months I have learned a lot of new things about blogging especially branding and SEO. I have reverted back Extreme Trix’s theme to iNove from Swift. I reverted it back to iNove because swift was a bit unprofessional and making changes on it was difficult. From now onwards I will try to cut down blogging related posts on Extreme Trix and will focus on Tech and Tricks as it is based on “Tricks”. I will write blogging related posts, but not on ET on Passionate Bloggers, which is my new blog after Limit Trix. I realized that I’m not following basic and main rule of blogging that is “Post articles based on your site’s niche” and I was continuously posting posts under Blogging Category and cut down posts on tricks.

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Changes -

• Created official Twitter accounts for all sites in my network. (Learned branding ).
• Created a personal blog on Blogspot, which I will use a my personal diary so I will not post any more post about me on ET to keep my friends updated about me.
• Added an author image plug-in, which will allow users to upload their own images on ET (just like a social network) and will get displayed in sidebar of their profile and posts (if posted any).
• New logo of ET, PB and my personal blog.
• New revenue sharing system coming soon (good for guest authors!).
• Our first WordPress theme and plug-in coming soon!

Links -

Twitter – Personal  acc (@AnkitPuri), Official  acc of ET (@ExtremeTrix), Official PB blog (@PassionateBlogr) and Devilish Lover (@DevilishLover)

Network – Personal (Devilish Lover), Blogging related (Passionate Bloggers) and  (Limit Trix)

Stay tuned to my blogs, each blog and Twitter profile will be updated regularly this month with weekly and monthly round up of posts.

Extreme Trix is back. What’s new? is a post from: Extreme Trix

Have you ever thought of what your website says about you and your business? If your answer is “No”, then you should start thinking about it. In the online world your website is the only way by which your customers can interact with you and learn about your products. Therefore, the importance of having a great website cannot be ignored. Part of having a great website is the impression that your potential customers get from visiting the site.This can assist in influencing them in online campaigns and can determine your success and the amount of revenue your website generates.

What your visitors think about you and your business depends on your website. This article will help you in determining what your website reveals about you and your business to your customers.Color-Scheme: – Believe it or not, your website’s background colors can tell your customers a lot about your attitude. According to a study on color schemes: Red means you are confident and know what your customers want, Blue is the color of trust which means you care a lot about your customers, Yellow is the Color of warmth and happiness which means you are reliable, Green means you are fun loving person, but this color is mainly used on websites that are owned by environmentally friendly organizations and lastly, White means you are always open to new ideas.

Absence of Testimonials: – If your websites don’t contain any testimonials from your previous clients then it gives signals that you are not reliable enough or that old clients were not happy with your service or that you are very new to business. More testimonials you will add to your website and thus allow more people to contact you or want to work for you.

Adding Lots of Content: – If your website contains a lot of content, which is of no use for your visitors, then it means that you don’t know how to express yourself. Adding a lot of useless content also implies that you can’t differentiate between important and not so important things for your visitors.

Excessive use of “I” and “We”: – If you are using words like “I” and “we” too many times in your sales copy, then it means that you only want to tell your visitors about yourself or your products and are not interested in what they need and how they can solve their problems. Customers are not interested in knowing how great your products are, they just want to know how those products can solve their problems.

Tip: How to start an affiliate marketing.

Non-User-Friendly: – A website, which is not easy to use or requires a user to install some software to run it properly gives the impression that you gave priority to your convenience and don’t care about your customers and visitors to your website. You are assuming that the individuals who come to your website already have the required software installed on their browsers.

Poor Layout: – Poor layout or navigational structure makes the process difficult for your users when searching for information. This can show your customers and visitors that you don’t know how to organize things correctly and can make your business appear poor to others.

Broken Links: – When a user clicks on link and lands on an Error 404 page or sees a “page does not exist message”, then it shows that you are careless in your work and can make you seem too busy with your current business and not available to handle new clients.

Incomplete Contact Information: – Incomplete contact information on your website says that you don’t want people to contact you or you are trying to hide something and not a trustworthy business. If you are planning to make some changes in your web blog or site, then you can give a try to Go-gulf, which is a web design company in Cairo and provides high quality website development and logo designing services in various areas of Middle-East.

Hope you enjoyed reading my article, if you really enjoyed reading it please do share it with others and drop down a comment.

Editor’s Note: This post is written by our guest blogger Gagan, who is a freelance writer and loves to write on Landing Page Design and Optimization, Affiliate Marketing, SEO and Latest gadgets. He blogs on – Landing Page Design. If you, too would like to write for Extreme Trix, then please check this.

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Hi guys, this is Prateek Makhija this side. I am new contributor of Extreme Trix. I’m sure that most of the readers of Extreme Trix would be familiar with the best micro-blogging service Twitter and some of the users may be also using it in their daily life as it is good for marketing. A blogger or a web-designer can easily promote his site and even can make few bucks from it (check this article posted by Ankit if you are interested in making money from Twitter right posting from your site only.), if used in a right way. I too like to stay updated just like Ankit and other guys working on Extreme Trix. I don’t get too much time to come online so I have registered on Google Updates which automatically emails me about the latest information on that Technology & Tricks.

Today I got a great news from Official Japanese blog of Twitter for all those who are using Twitter as a marketing tool to promote their site/service that they are soon going to launch paid corporate accounts, according to co-founder and CEO Biz Stone. While speaking at an event in London, Stone said Twitter plans to charge for corporate accounts, and in exchange, would offer enhanced features and analytics in return.

Digital Garage, Inc, their official partner from Japan misunderstood the actual plans of Twitter service and made a statement about the recent press coverage about Twitter service in Japan as below:

In response to media reports stating that Twitter Japan will be launching a paid-premium accounts service on Twitter, we would like to officially state that this is not correct. To be clear, Twitter service in Japan is a free service and neither Twitter Inc. nor Digital Garage, Inc. (JASDAQ code: 4819, headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan, CEO: Kaoru Hayashi, henceforth DG) have discussed or have any plans for paid-premium accounts. Also to clarify, Twitter Inc. and DG enjoy a commercial partnership but do not have a joint-venture arrangement in Japan.

The recent media reports are likely a result of a misunderstood presentation by a DG subsidiary, DG Mobile, about potential business opportunities that it could explore as a third party. DG Mobile’s presentation was unrelated and separate from the Twitter and Digital Garage partnership.

Digital Garage apologized (by DG Mobile) to mislead and took time for correction on the release. I think what Twtter wants to do and what DG wants to do in Japan are not the same, and DG uses its subsidiaries to chase more original activities. I’m not able to understand what will they do now, but doing a lot of research on it, stay tuned I’ll keep on sharing news about it. BTW what do you guys think about it? Do let us know via comments.

News Credit: Asiajin and OOM

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According to Wikipedia, Landing page is the page which the visitors see after clicking an online ad, link in promotional Email or Link in Search Engine Results. In Affiliate Marketing, Landing page plays a very important role in the success of your campaigns as it the page where you would be directing all your traffic in hope that they would take the action you want them to take so that you can achieve your desired results.  In short, the success and conversion rate of your Affiliate campaign would depends on the success and failure of your landing pages. In this Article I would be discussing how to create killer Affiliate Landing pages which can give an extra push to your conversion rate and help you to increase your sales.

Tip : Learn what is affiliate marketing and how to start with it.

Affiliate Marketing

Determine Objective – You need to determine the purpose of your Landing Page. Whether you want your user to buy something or to fill a form or just download a free report or you only want to direct your traffic to another website. You need to determine the purpose of your Landing pages and optimize your landing page for that specific purpose.

Make them Relevant to your ad copy – Your landing pages should be highly relevant to the ad you are using to attract traffic. PPC traffic is much targeted and is always looking for specific things. It is a good practice to use the same keywords in title and body of your landing pages which you are using in your ad. Your visitor should feel that they are on right place after clicking on your Ad else they would leave your landing page right away.

High Quality UNIQUE Content – A good landing page should high Quality content related to the product and service you are promoting so that your user can learn more about your services. If you are promoting a product of a company then don’t copy content from manufacturer website. Write unique content also you can hire a good copywriter to do this.

Catchy Headline – Headline is the first thing which a user sees on your Landing page. Your Landing page should contain headline which can catch the user attention easily and should speak what your users want to hear. Make your Headline bold so that it can stand out from the rest of your page.

Tip :  Tools to improve English Grammar.

Proper positioning of Call to Action Link – Don’t put your call to action link at the bottom or at place where it is not easily visible. Your Visitors don’t have time to go up to end of your copy or search for Link to take action. Keep your call to action link at the top so that it could be easily available to your Visitors.

Make your Process Simple – The process you want your users to complete should be as simple as possible. Most of the visitors don’t complete the action before of its complexity and leave it in middle. You should try to provide the shortest and simplest path for your users so that they can complete the action easily.

Reliability Factor – You need to establish a trust factor between your visitors before selling anything to them. Add short positive reviews of the like-minded people on your landing pages. Also you can add logos of renowned companies line BBC, CNN or you can add the awards and recognition your product had won in past to your landing pages to create trust among your visitors.

Testing Landing Pages - Create Multiple Landing pages of same product and do Split testing. Analyze the results to understand which Landing pages convert better. Even a tiny change on your Landing pages can affect your conversion rate a lot So keep tweaking your landing pages until you find an ideal combination.

[Editor's Note: This post is written by our guest blogger Gagan, who is a freelance writer and loves to write on Landing Page Design and Optimization, Affiliate Marketing, SEO and Latest gadgets. He blogs on - Landing Page Design. If you, too would like to write for Extreme Trix, then please check this.]

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No doubt that blogging is a good time pass which can be turned into a good source of income if used in a right way. I know most of new bloggers in greed of money fill up their blogs with loads of advertisement or write creepy products review that is not at all good for SEO and finally result in a mess.

If you are new blogger and want to earn a few bucks from blogging without spamming or writing creepy products review, then I will recommend you guys to start using Affiliate Marketing. According to Wiki Pidea – Affiliate Marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. It is an application of crowd sourcing. In simple language it is the commission paid by the product company which you promote.

Affiliate Marketing

Here are a few tips for starting Affiliate Marketing -

• Select products based on your niche - Always select a product based on your niche, means select products based upon the topic you blog on. For e.g, if you are blogging on “Blogging” niche, then you should try to sell premium themes (like thesis) or hosting services like Host Gator.
• Come up with your own ideas – It is always best to come up with your own ideas for promoting your product. Experiment with different banners, text links, or reviews. Keep these that bring good results, and change the others. Sometimes only change of few words or color of link can mean difference.
• Write a review of the product – Write a small review of the product you want to promote, letting the people know how good the product is. (Like our editor posted a small review about the HostGator web hosting service. If you want you can check this – post.)
• Join popular marketing forums – join some popular online marketing forums and make frequent contributions to the popular threads there. Remember you have to promote that product through your affiliate link not to spam forums.

These were some main points of Affiliate Marketing. BTW do you do Affiliate Marketing on your blog or site, if yes, then how do you judge which product is good for your blog and which one is bad?

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What is Affiliate Marketing and how to start with it? is a post from: Extreme Trix

Firefox is the best browser in the industry and especially when it comes to blogger’s I can say that this is a must have as it has loads of addons to make the things more productive and easy.

EasyComment -  This addon is specially designed for those who comments more on blogs. This helps you to comment easily on other blogs by single click. It automatically fills in the comment form and your regular text you for comments.

Easy Comment Addon For Firefox

Yoono – This add-on brings all your social networks and instant messaging in one easy to use sidebar. You can get all your friend updates, update your status and share stuff easily across Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and more – all at once! This add-on simplifies your online social life.

Yoono for Firefox

FireFTP – FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. FireFTP also includes advanced features like directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SFTP, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing, and much more…

FireFTP Addon for Firefox.

ScribeFire – It is an alternative to Windows Live Writer. ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. It allows you to easily post & edit your blog and has many features. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, upload images, and post to multiple blogs.

Scribe Fire plugin for Firefox

SEO Quake – Seo Quake is a Mozilla Firefox SEO extension aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization (SEO) and internet promotion of web sites. Seo Quake allows to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet. It has lot more features than SEO for Firefox plug-in.

Seo Quake plugin for Firefox

[Editor's Note: This is a first post written by our Guest Blogger Rajesh Kanuri who is an Engineer turned Blogger and loves to share knowledge about technology. He writes at Tech Cats. If you, too would like to write for Extreme Trix, then please check this.]

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The most common problem faced by new bloggers is that they don’t get any topic to write about. As they don’t get any topic to write about they start writing spam or review posts, which is not good for SEO. There is no use of writing spam or reviews as no one will like to read your post, but if your content is nice or interesting, then everyone will like to read it which will help you increase your traffic.

Pro-blogger

I know many newbies don’t get hours and hours of time to spend on internet so they also don’t get updated about their niche. For a blogger it’s always advised to cover latest updates or news about the niche he is blogging because covering a latest and original update would help him to get organic traffic.

For e.g, – If you are blogging on “Technology” niche, then covering an update about Apple Macbook’s new mouse will give more traffic than covering an update about Microsoft Windows seven. Covering an update about Apple’s new mouse will bring more traffic because it is new and still many people are unaware of it, but covering a review of Windows seven will not bring more traffic to your site because it is an old news and many people have already covered the same.

What to do if you don’t get time spend hours on internet, but want to cover latest and original updates on your blog/site?

I have a solution for all those new bloggers who don’t get time to spend hours on internet, but want to cover latest updates about their niche (which would help them to increase their traffic). You can use Google Alerts and watch new channels to stay updated about your niche.

• News Channels – New channels like IBN 7 and Ajj Tak always show cool news in all niches like technology, shopping, marketing, money making and a lot more. So I will advise you to watch news channels in your free time like while having your lunch.
• Google Alerts – is a very useful way to keep in touch of what’s going around the world. You don’t have to waste your time going to search engines and find something. Just add a Google alert for your favorite topic and Google will automatically email you about the latest information on that topic.

Once you develop a strong foundation in the niche of your own choice, take up a dedicated time of the day (away from any distraction) and just write in. I am damn sure covering latest updates in niche of your own choice would help you to get good traffic in minimum time.

Task – Try Google Alerts for a week and watch IBN 7, cover latest updates from your niche, after a week or two check your traffic and please do let us know via comment.

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I just came across a good Web Hosting and Dedicated Servers provider a while ago – called HostGator. Be it a need of Web-Hosting, Reseller Hosting or Dedicated Servers… HostGator is very good in all this

Servers

Host Gator is one of the 10 largest Web-Hosts in the world, hosting about 2,200,000 domains (with shared cPanel). It also gives 99.9% up time guarantee! How’s that? And if, you’re not convinced with them then you can have your money back – with the 45 days money-back guarantee…

And you know what! You can even start your own web hosting company using Host Gator with the Reseller hosting option. You can create unlimited web sites under your own packages, prices, and brand with this option & also, you can keep 100% of the money that you get!

HostGator also provides Dedicated Servers powered by Linux/Free BSD or Windows/Plesk, you can take your business to the next level with it!

Oh, and it’s all damn cheap compared to other sites

Thinking of any of the stuff mentioned above? Visit Host Gator

Also read : Tips to choose right Web-Hosting service provider.

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The main part where a blogger lacks is his English Grammar. They used to a lot of grammatical mistakes which seem not good for their blogs. Even my own Grammar is not too good and sometimes I also used to make lots of Grammatical mistakes in my articles which seem not good for SEO. I have made a list of three free online tools which will surely help bloggers to improve their English, and they are -

• 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.
• Polish My Writing – Free online tool from makers of After the Deadline WordPress based plug-in. This tool too uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find our writing errors and offer smart suggestions.
• Spell Check Plus – This one is my favorite online tool to check spelling mistakes and grammatical errors of English as a Second Language.

These are three tools which I use to check my spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. Do you use any other tool for spell check and grammar checking? If yes, then do let us know.

Tools to improve English Grammar of bloggers! is a post from: Extreme Trix

It has been more than a month since I have written any post under blogging category, somehow today I got free time so I thought to write an article under blogging category, actually I am not writing anything just sharing some posts posted by my blogger friends which may help some newbies.

Top 10 tips -

How to install WordPress on your web-space - In this article my friend Arafat wrote a tutorial to install WordPress on web server. Read this…

Move your blog from WordPress to Blogger – WordPress is best blogging platform. Some bloggers who started at blogspot and started getting some attention and traffic realized that they should have started at WordPress or they should move to WordPress to have a more professional experience and get more opportunities than those which were available on blogger platform. But there are many people who want to move to blogger from WordPress. Dinesh of Teen Tech Guru gave some steps to move WP blog to Blogger. Read this…

Tips to choose a WordPress theme – Most of the newbies find choosing a theme is a tough job with thousands of themes around. Here are some tips posted by Satish of Budding Bloggers to help you choose a theme for your blog. Read this…

Optimizing WordPress Blog Structure for SEO – There’s a lot of amazing SEO power built into WordPress. Unfortunately it doesn’t all come by default, and you might not know what’s best when it comes to implementing SEO on WordPress blogs. Debajyoti of Snap How posted a cool article for new bloggers so that they can easily optimize WordPress blog structure for SEO. Read this…

How WordPress can be customized? – In this post Karthik of Blogrpro mentioned how WordPress blogging platform can be modified to work as some cool applications. Read this…

Tricks To Increase The Loading Speed Of WordPress Blog – In this article Simran of Tricks Daddy posted some tricks which may help some newbies to reduce their WordPress blog loading time. Read this…

Essential HTML And CSS Training Program For New Bloggers – It is always advised to learn some basic HTML, CSS and PHP if you want to have total control over your blog look and functionality. This training program started by Gagan of BTG will surely help new bloggers. Read More..

Why commenting is Very Important for Your Blog – Harsh of SML wrote a nice detailed post on the importance of commenting for new bloggers and social media person. Read this…

How to copy text or images when right click disabled in website -There is some-time when we need to copy some text or image from a site in which right click is disabled. My friend Arun of About Tricks posted a trick to copy text or image from a right click disabled site. Read this…

How To Customise Your WordPress 2.5+ Log In – Jacob of Just Creative design posted a cool trick for all those who want to change their WordPress log in logo. Read this…

Also read : Tips to choose right Web-Hosting service provider.

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Last time I wrote “How we earn money by our sites” in that post I told about Adbrite advertisements program, it is good, but not the best so from today we (me and my bro) started to use Chitika, actually first we signed up for Adsense, but they denied to accept our site so we started to use Chitika. It is the best contextual advertisement which can be used with both Adbrite and Adsense, I’ll recommend to use it!.

Note : Are you also interested in making money online by just posting articles, but don’t have a website? If yes, you can earn by posting articles on Limit Trix (new site with 500 daily page views) or on Extreme Trix (page rank three site with 4000+ daily page views) and we will add your advertisement below/above your post content. Guest author will have benefit of making money + link back to their blog or site (if any) from Extreme Trix.

What’s next?

If your are really interested in making money by posting articles here then read this post and please sign up for Chitika and Adbrite.

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My school is going to re-open from 1st of July, then I will be again busy with my study, school work and home work so I may be not able to publish articles regularly and keep my blog updated so I am inviting guest authors to post articles on my site. If you are Interested in writing for Extreme Trix, then please click here.

Extreme Trix covers wide variety of niche .. So you can write anything you want to write which will be helpful for our readers. You will get back link + traffic + recognition + Money by writing an article here. Ya Money! we are also giving the flexibility to use your own advertisements code in your post so that you can earn few bucks by showing you advertisements on your posts. We support all types of ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks.

Guidelines for Guest authors and other Information : Read our Join page to know guide lines and other useful information. Our Join page cover following points :

1. Why to write for Extreme Trix?
2. How to add advertisements to your posts?
3. Guidelines for guest authors.
4. Copyright

Note : Extreme Trix only provides a facility to display Ads in your blog posts. But not responsible for counting the Ad clicks and the revenue generation. That’s entirely Ad Provider’s business. If you have any questions then please ask in our  help forum.

Link : Join, Help Forum

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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.

How to choose, edit, upload themes and plugins? is a post from: Extreme Trix