WordPress Customization
WordPress is a well known platform for people to create blogs, both personal and for business. With a plethora of plugins and themes freely available it is also highly customizable. But a little known fact is that WordPress is also a fantastic platform for building a complete content management system. With a little bit of customization, WordPress can be turned in to anything from a social network site to a photo gallery site. Agriya has even worked on customizing WordPress in to an eCommerce website.
With so many powerful built in features like pages for content, hierarchy control to put content in to categories, search engine friendly URL’s out of the box and more, businesses around the globe are beginning to realize that there is more to WordPress than just blogging. Take for example user role management. This is critical in the eyes of many companies who need to have access control to various parts of the website so that nothing potentially embarrassing can be posted to the site.
Agriya has already worked on hundreds of WordPress customization projects building everything from corporate websites which need to have content added regularly such as news items, to large eCommerce sites which allow customers to buy digital products and even let other merchants sign up to sell their own products via the website.
We also have WordPress plugin developers on hand to develop any kind of plugin that you require for your website. Our CSS developers too, are well trained in WordPress template integration and we can offer a speedy turnaround not only on WordPress template design but also on WordPress design integration.
Since WordPress is released under the GNU Open Source License, businesses don’t have to pay any royalty to the WordPress developers and there are no ongoing costs that are usually associated with proprietary systems. Furthermore, WordPress is regularly updated and you can get these updates for free.
If you want to get a free quote on how much it might cost to get your WordPress website customized, please contact us, there’s no obligation and you can use it to get a feel for how much your planned project might cost.
WordPress has released a new version 2.8.2 to download
Many webmasters are engaged with WordPress to establish their business by taking advantage of using the blogging software. Although there are number of benefits to be realized by using WordPress, some entrepreneurs are facing serious issues like security vulnerability. In order to make sure its users have the most secure platform available WordPress has released a new version 2.8.2 security patch.
This new version will help webmasters to get rid of an XSS vulnerability that was identified by a site admin. The XSS vulnerability will allow hackers to access the admin page by inserting certain code in a form. The previous version of WordPress 2.8.1 was released just two weeks ago.
Anyone running WordPress 2.8 or 2.8.1 can upgrade to this latest version right away. The latest major version is faster than ever. Don’t delay! WordPress 2.8.2 is available for download here. Development on 2.9 is already underway, with a bunch of feature list. Hope the WordPress team will release it soon.
SEO advice of the year
Every business entrepreneur needs to know the secrets of SEO techniques to optimize their site and get high search engine rankings. Recently, Matt Cutts who is the head of the Web Spam team gave a presentation at SEO Advice of the Year. He provided excellent advice and insight from Google on optimizing WordPress for search engine ranking.
Have a look at some points he made under the title “Straight from Google: What You Need to Know”:
Use wordpress to get a head start:
Blogging is a great way to lead a load of traffic to your website. WordPress is absolutely free to use so you can save there. One of the good things about WordPress is that you get to receive comments and feedbacks from your readers and interact with them.
Choosing content keywords:
Needless to say, choosing keywords for content is the most essential process in improving the rankings of your pages on Google and other platforms and search engines. Analyze keywords, which are used by your visitors to visit your site and implement them in your site content. this will enable you build targeted traffic to your site.
Post informative content:
By posting creative and informative articles, you can attract more people, and increase the call to action.
Use Google’s free webmaster tools to optimize your site:
Webmaster tools are useful for business owners who are keen to see how their sites are performing in Google. With Google analytics, you will be able to tune your site and stay ahead of your competitors.
Use wordpress plugins:
WordPress SEO plugins have some of the smartest options to optimize your wordpress blog for search engines.
Six Apart offers plug-ins for its rival WordPress
At WordCamp Mid Atlantic 2009, Anil Dash, CEO of Six Apart announced that they offer plug-ins for their bitter rival WordPress. ReadWriteWeb has stated that this action is like “Apple releasing software that runs on Windows”. This attempt is a strategic move to monetize through the popularity of WordPress.
Six Apart has clearly stated that their effort is to help bloggers irrespective of blogger tools used by them, to make the most of their blog using powerful services.
1. TypePad Connect
TypePad Connect is a free and easy to integrate service that brings a whole new level of community to your site. People who wish to leave a comment on your blog, can create profiles using their Google, Facebook, Yahoo or OpenID accounts. They can also follow each other’s activity across the web. It also enables users link to their rich profile that contains their comment history, and links to their own blogs and their accounts on Twitter, Flickr and other services.2. TypePad AntiSpam
TypePad AntiSpam engine is a free plugin for bloggers, to protect your wordpress from invasive comments. It adapts to every changing spam technique and gets smarter every time you report spam.3. Six Apart Media
Six Apart Media offers advertising solutions to allow WordPress bloggers to monetize their blog. Bloggers will have total control over the display of ads on their site.4. Blogs.com
Blogs.com is Six Apart’s blog directory where a team of passionate editors chose featured blogs based on their quality, popularity and relevance. Now, WordPress users can submit their sites as well and get the latest buzz via editorial round-ups and top ten lists.Anil Dash Announces Six Apart plugins for Word Press at Word Camp Mid-Atlantic
Are you interested in creating a successful blog?
A lot of people get confused; whether they should be creating a blog or a website for successful business, is always a matter of confusion. A lot of them think that a website is enough to do it. Even though you have a website, creating a blog is vital. Blogging has emerged as one of the best marketing tools on the web. The secret of success for most giant companies, are blogs used as an effective way for promotion.
Blogs help you increase visibility among millions of online users. Well, you have decided to create a blog and make it successful. How do you create a blog? Blog creation is a fairly easy task. You don’t need to learn HTML or any other programming languages.The following pointers might help you start.
Word press and blogger are the two most popular blogging platforms. You can use them as per your desire. Blogger is easy to setting up a new blog and Word press has many features and plug-ins to manage your content effectively.
Setup a theme for your blog which perfectly suits your business. There are many themes available in Blogger, and Word press, both. Post unique and informative content in blog, so that readers frequent your blog.
Most bloggers follow a simple routine. They write a post, publishing it, and then start thinking about the next article they want to write, to feed new content into their blog. Make sure you update content constantly; search engines like regularly updated content.
Next, concentrate on promoting it. Signup for Google Adsense, they will provide highly relevant ads that are closely chosen to match the content in your blogs. If you sign up with adsense, they provide ads to place in your blog, webpage or website so you earn money per click. You get a code after signing up in the Google account. Paste the code in the template of your blog and save it. Once you do this, you can see ads on your site immediately.
Create a blog and maximize your marketing opportunities.
Congratulations to WordPress
Just wanted to post a quick note of (admittedly belated) congratulations to the guys over at WordPress.org on releasing the latest 2.5 version of their software.The newest version is another step forward to what is arguably the worlds best (not to mention favourite) blogging platform – beating other open source and commercial products alike.
The latest version has way too many new features to mention, so we won’t, we’ll let the guys over at wordpress do that here:
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/
My personal appreciation for WordPress started just over a year ago in January 2007 when I decided to switch my personal blog from Drupal to WP. The ease and simplicity was a step ahead of everything else I’ve used and I’m glad to say that after upgrading this blog they have continued that tradition.
But WordPress isn’t just a great blogging tool, over the years it has also evolved in to what could be considered quite a robust content management system, and infact we are modifying WP right now to power our network of sites – I’ll tell you right now, the programmers wanted to use Drupal, but I stuck to my guns and they conceded that WP would be able to do the job
If you are thinking of using or already use WordPress for your blogging solution, I strongly suggest you check out this WordPress SEO Whitepaper which contains loads of tips, tricks and plugin suggestions to get the most out of your blog.
Finally, if you are in the market for some custom WordPress templates or custom plugins, then shoot us a mail to info@agriya.com and tell us what you have on your mind. We love WordPress at Agriya, and we’re keen to help you get the best out of it!
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