Intro Recently I was developing portal for nurses. I was trying to configure 2 WordPress installations. I needed them to be separate blogs. Multisite feature couldn't help me because secondary blog should contain huge database of agencies. And it would be just nightmare if both blogs will share same posts/comments tables in DB. Too many [...]
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Imagine following thing: My site works some specific keywords (keyword 1, keyword 2, keyword 3) as usual and inside it i have pages for each one of them: www.mysite.com/keyword1.php ; www.mysite.com/keyword2.php ; www.mysite.com/keyword3.php ; So, i want to get rank for my index with those 3 keywords. I can use the keyword anchors mentioned in [...]
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admin on March 27th, 2012
Intro
Recently I was developing portal for nurses. I was trying to configure 2 WordPress installations. I needed them to be separate blogs. Multisite feature couldn't help me because secondary blog should contain huge database of agencies. And it would be just nightmare if both blogs will share same posts/comments tables in DB. Too many troubles I could get with MultiSite…
If you are in the same situation Solution is on this page for you!
It even works if your secondary blog located on subdomain.
How it works?
Here are 3 blogs:
- http://nokeywordinurl.com/
- http://nokeywordinurl.com/folder/
- http://blog.nokeywordinurl.com/
For testing - just sign up on one of them (doesn't matter on which one) and you'll get registered to all 3 blogs! Read the rest of this entry »
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admin on July 6th, 2012
IMO there is no such thing as a 'bad' link... therefore, one might infer that all links are 'good'... but there are varying degrees of 'good'.
Unless there is obvious and overwhelming evidence that you are buying links, I'm not sure the SEs can really penalize your site directly. But they can go after those selling links, which indirectly hurts you as a buyer because you may now not get what you paid for... and may continue to pay for the links not knowing that you are being passed Zero link equity from them.
The best links IMO are from authoritative, high PR sites that are relevent to your site, from pages on that source site where they are targeting similar or same keywords as the page to which they are linking on your site, and having the link in the actual text of the source site's page, and the link text for the hyperlink being the keywords you're targeting on the page on your site to which they are linking.
But even a 'click here' link on another site to a page on your site can only help (pass 0 or more link equity), never hurt...
If you're buying links, know where they are coming from... what types of sites they are coming from... get references. And make sure that the growth looks natural.
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admin on June 4th, 2012
1. Don't mention anything nice about the person's site you are writing to. Keep the focus only on your site and how important your site is.
2. Mention repeatedly how important your low ranked, unknown site is and that the person you are writing to with an established, popular site "needs" to know about it. Don't use phrases like "you may find it of interest to know about my site" or "we seem to share a common interest" - those words are too polite and might actually get a response. Be sure to use terms like "you need to", especially when corresponding with a total stranger.
3. Address your email to "whom it may concern" even if the person's name you are sending your link request/demand to is in the title of his or her site, on the home page and listed again on the contact page. Remember your site is the important one, so it doesn't matter if you show an interest in the other person's name or web site.
4. Don't offer to link to the other person's site even if it is on the same topic as your site. Just repeatedly mention how important your information is and how linking to your site will help spread the word about this important topic. Ignore the fact that the publisher you are writing to already is spreading the word on this important topic.
5. Don't use words like please or thank you. If you use polite terms like that and the person you are writing to may actually respond to your email.
6. Repeatedly namedrop every important person you know related to the topic of your site. This shows how important you and your gray bar site with no links really must be. Make it seem like you are doing the link request recipient a favor by even taking time out of your busy schedule hobnobbing with important people to send him or her unsolicited spam email.
7. Don't bother to proof read your email and be sure to include spelling and grammatical errors.
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admin on April 11th, 2012
First of all I don't like the word "donate" in context of reputation/relations.
Just imagine, user thinks and want to say: "Hey, Bro! Thanks! Take this 10 points to your rep!"
And here we do offer him to tell another phrase: "Hello. Please take my handout of 10 points..."
I think this alternatives are much better: Add/Share/Give points, say Thanks!
We need passing username to the first field ("Recipient:") and value="10" to field "Amount:" (or 5, or 20 or any value you consider better).
Find function cp_module_donate() in the script /wp-content/plugins/cubepoints/modules/donate/donate.js
and function cubepoints_bp_profile() in the file /wp-content/plugins/cubepoints-buddypress-integration/includes/bp-cubepoint-functions.php
We will just add "username" variable to cp_module_donate()
I've added value="'+username+'" to the first input, and value="10" to second input.
function cp_module_donate(){ changed to function cp_module_donate(username){
Here is my result for mentioned function (donate.js file):
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function cp_module_donate(username){
confirmation = cp_donate.confirmation;
thebox = new Boxy('<form name="cp_donate" id="cp_donate" method="post" onsubmit="Boxy.confirm(confirmation,function(){cp_module_donate_do();});return false;"><label for="cp_recipient">'+cp_donate.recipient+':</label><br /><input type="text" id="cp_recipient" name="cp_recipient" style="width:300px;" value="'+username+'" /><br /><br /><label for="cp_points">'+cp_donate.amount+':</label><br /><input type="text" id="cp_points" name="cp_points" style="width:300px;" value="10" /><br /><br /><label for="cp_message">'+cp_donate.message+':</label><br /><textarea id="cp_message" name="cp_message" style="width:300px;height:50px;"></textarea><br /><br /><input type="submit" value="'+cp_donate.donate_points+'" style="width:300px;" /></form>', {title: cp_donate.donate, modal: true});
} |
Now we need set variable "username" when cp_module_donate(username) function was called.
It should look somehow like this:
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| onclick="Javascript:cp_module_donate('<?php echo bp_core_get_username($bp->displayed_user->id); ?>');" |
In addition I've changed title for link: title=""
And removed "Rank - " from user-rank. I think word "Newbie" is enough and looks better than "Rank - Newbie".
Ok, here is result of customized function cubepoints_bp_profile() (file /wp-content/plugins/cubepoints-buddypress-integration/includes/bp-cubepoint-functions.php)
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function cubepoints_bp_profile() {
global $bp;
if(function_exists('cp_displayPoints')){ ?>
<span class="cubepoints_buddypress"><?php echo cp_displayPoints($bp->displayed_user->id); ?></span>
<?php }
if(cp_module_activated('donate')){
if (is_user_logged_in()) { ?>
<span class="cupepoints_buddypress_donate"><a href="#" title="<?php _e('Share Points(say Thanks!)', 'cp_buddypress'); ?>" onclick="Javascript:cp_module_donate('<?php echo bp_core_get_username($bp->displayed_user->id); ?>');" class="thickbox cp_donateLink"><?php _e('Add Points', 'cp_buddypress'); ?></a></span>
<?php } }
if(cp_module_activated('ranks')){ ?>
<span class="cupepoints_buddypress_rank"><?php /*_e('Rank', 'cp_buddypress');*/ ?><?php echo cp_module_ranks_getRank($bp->displayed_user->id); ?></span>
<?php }
}
?> |
Additionally you can change output for donation popup window.
Check file /wp-content/plugins/cubepoints/modules/donate/donate.php
Here is example of customized values:
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| wp_localize_script( 'cp_donate_script', 'cp_donate', array(
ajax_url=>get_bloginfo('url').'/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php',
confirmation=>__('Are you sure you want to share your points?', 'cp'),
recipient=>__('Recipient', 'cp'),
message=>__('Message', 'cp'),
amount=>__('Amount (10 points should be Ok)', 'cp'),
donate_points=>__('Submit!', 'cp'),
donate=>__('Add Points from your Score', 'cp')
) ); |
Any questions or suggestions?
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admin on April 11th, 2012
After installing CubePoints(+CubePoints Buddypress Integration) plugin I was disappointed that I didn't found reputation points and ranks for users in their comments on blog and bbpress forum. I think that this is important part of such plugin - show user's reputation to public.
After couples of hours of searching for solution, I did found only that. But nobody told there how to embed this correctly in WP.
Anyway I've found solution after reading some topics and WP functions descriptions. Here is result:
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admin on April 10th, 2012
bbPress 2.0 Released on September 21, 2011. Version 2.1 in progress.
If you are setting up new bbPress installation you wouldn't use old version for sure.
But the problem is that most of plugins are developed for bbPress 0.9 and wouldn't work on 2.0 version.
Developers do not hurry update their plugins... 
Here is some really useful plugins for bbPress 2.0 that I'd like to share with you.
Tested:
- bbPress Quotes
Gives the ability to quote bbPress forum topics and replies. A quote button appears to the end of replies so users can easily quote another user.
- bbPress Moderation
Add the ability to moderate and approve new topics and replies in the bbPress V2.0 plugin
- bbPress Post Toolbar
Enables uploading/embedding images in a bbPress post. User can embed video from YouTube, Metacafe, Vimeo (and others) with shortcodes.
- bbPress2 BBCode
This plugin adds support for popular bbcode forum code to posts, comments, pages, bbpress 2.0 forum posts and buddypress activity and group forum post.
It was tested and it works. But it doesn't offer any script+buttons for marking the text. You can setup simple BBCode Editor in JS for that (here is instruction). But there is no big sense while bbPress Post Toolbar works pretty good.
But BBCode Editor is a really simple solution, customizable, can be implemented everywhere and works like a charm. TinyMCE, CKEditor are brutal in comparison to this.
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admin on April 7th, 2012
I was trying to setup Sociable plugin for WP. Skyscrapper didn't work.
I remember about AddThis buttons and found that they do offer Vertical Bar now.
Instruction there is very poor, but vertical floating bar with social buttons is very popular among bloggers! And they really offer webmasters set position of sharing bar relative to the left top corner of visitors' browsers . 
Most of sites I visit has centered body, I think you too. And what if I want place this bar to the right of content???
According to the logic We must post notice on our sites like this: "Please change resolution of your monitor to 1280x1024 for better view."
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admin on April 6th, 2012
Today I've started making sitewide login form for WordPress based site with specific scripts.
wp-login.php uses redirect_to variable. That mean - after login user can be redirected back to the page where he was before. We must send this info to wp-login.php
So, for complete my login form I needed the value of current URL.
WP has function get_permalink(), but I needed something like this for script that is not under WP control.
And get_permalink() will cut GET request. For example if the user is on the page http://host.com/jobs/?query=nurse&location=CA after login he will be redirected to http://host.com/jobs/
There are lots of variants of code I found. For example specific functions like this or this.
That's too huge code for me and mostly for those who uses specific ports maybe.
But all I need is just the value of the URL in user address bar!
I found pretty good code here.
It checks the URL only if it HTTP or HTTPS, and that's enough!
After little minimization I've got this:
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admin on April 5th, 2012
Recently I was looking for attractive "Join Now!" button.
I was trying to find Photoshop tutorial with keywords like strip, tape and etc. Got some interesting options for ribbon word.
...but nothing what I need.
And rapidly found this button that could perfectly fit in my layout. It's a vector image, but it's possible to make something like that with Photoshop.
I was googling for any tutorial for about an hour, but got nothing similar.
I decided to make it myself using all my little experience with Photoshop.
Here is what I've made in the end:
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admin on March 29th, 2012
After sharing this solution with you I've started testing it for Buddypress.
It works. Example here:
http://bp.nokeywordinurl.com/ - Buddypress
http://bp.nokeywordinurl.com/test/ - WordPress
- both installations share 1 users table.
For testing use this test user:
login: test
pass: test
...or you can register here your own and visit test blog.
Installation is the same like here.
But WordPress user registration differs from Buddypress and has less options. In this case registration on secondary blog disabled.
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