Friendster Blog now using Wordpress

September 17, 2008

Picture of Friendster blog layoutFriendster just announced that their blogging Platform now using Wordpress, instead of Typepad. It is good news since wordpress is the best blogging platform. It just introduced a couple minutes ago by The Friendster Blogs Team. The new look Friendster Blogs 2.0 make them one step ahead since many blogger feel not comfortable when blogging on friendster.
I have to say that it’s a smart move to integrate Wordpress into Friendster mainly because Wordpress is a tried and tested opensource blogging platform that makes it easy for its users to create blog posts and manage them with other cool friendster layout.
I see the blog url on friendster is still using the old format. I thing this is not friendly for search engine. For example my blog url is http:// username.blog.friendster.com maybe they can make more simple like http:// username.friendster.com and i think that is the good one than before. Now, let see how many people will continue their blog on friendster. [Read more]

Popularity: 15%

Wordpress Plugin for Auto Nofollow and Opened in New Window

June 20, 2008

Picture of Nofollow pluginCouple weeks ago I wrote about how to make your Paid Post safe for Google, and for this purpose I found a great Wordpress plugin to do this automatically. This Wordpress plugin will automatically make any link on your post to be rel=nofollow and target=_blank (will make it opened in a new window)
This could save your time if you have a large post on your Wordpress blog and make your selling link list more safe on Google’s eye. Great for any SEO campaign!

You can download the plugin here and read the manual instructions, it’s not too difficult anyway. [Read more]

Popularity: 28%

Gallery Navigation Plugin

May 10, 2008

Picture of Gallery navigation PluginGallery Navigation Plugin is a simple Wordpress 2.5 plugin that allows you to quickly add page navigation to your wordpress 2.5 gallery.

Installation

1. Upload `galnav.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Place ‘<?php isgal($post->ID); ?>` before the contenty loop (the_content();)
in your post templates
Example:
<?php the_content(’<p class=”serif”>Read the rest of this entry »</p>’); ?>

4. Don’t forget to fill the Custom Fields
Key: isgallery
Value: true

The demo page can be seen here

Download Gallery Navigation Plugin

Give your feedback/comments, so we could develop this plugin more for you

Popularity: 32%