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WordPress 3 Cookbook

By : Ric Shreves, Jean-Baptiste Jung
Book Image

WordPress 3 Cookbook

By: Ric Shreves, Jean-Baptiste Jung

Overview of this book

<p>Using the WordPress Content Management System, you can create a beautiful, dynamic, and amazing website. WordPress is a flexible and powerful tool that's ideal for creating both blog and non-blog websites. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't?<br /><br /><i>WordPress 3 Cookbook</i> focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems so that you can translate your site to one of the best. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks &ndash; from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. <br /><br />With this update to the WordPress 2.7 cookbook, you will learn many WordPress 3 secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solving a particular problem. <br /><br />You will learn to install and customize themes, work with plugins, customize content display, enhance interactivity with the user and build communities. Then, the book also teaches you to earn revenue through online sales and advertisements. You will also find recipes for SEO and enhancing usability, and the book finally winds up with information on the inevitable maintenance and security.<br /><br />This book helps you to get solutions to common WordPress problems, to make your site better, smarter, faster, and more secure.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
WordPress 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Pinging third-party services


If you're interested in SEO, then you are interested in getting more visitors. A good way to bring new readers is to ping third-party services.

In this recipe, we're looking at third-party services, such as Technorati or Google blog search. These services publish links to popular posts and allow visitors to search among blogs.

Pinging is simply the act of notifying these services that new content is available on your site. After you have successfully pinged for example, Technorati, a crawler from that site will visit your site and index your newest content, making it available to their visitors.

Getting ready

To ping a website, you have to get the trackback URL. For example, Technorati trackback URL is http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping.

Tip

Finding trackback or ping URLs isn't always easy as most websites just display a link on their footer, or even worse, on a specific page. Often the quickest way to find the ping URL is to run a Google search. To perform this search...