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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. 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 ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Getting more comments with the Subscribe to Comments plugin


Comments are very important in blogging, because they encourage discussion. When leaving a comment on a blog post, for example if you are asking a question or requesting some support, it's very boring to come back to the page twice a day and see that no-one has answered you.

With Suscribe to Comments, you'll provide a way for your visitors to receive an email each time someone commented on the post in question. I was skeptical about this plugin at first, but after I tested it, I can say that it increased the average number of comments on my posts, and it helped creating many interesting discussions.

How to do it...

  1. The Subscribe to Comments plugin can be downloaded from http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments.

  2. Next, simply follow the plugin installation procedure as described on page 1.

  3. Subscribe to Comments does not require any configuration. Once activated, it is already working. To make sure everything's fine, you can...