Flame Scorpion

I like Wordpress and i like the way i can do things in Wordpress. This is the reason i always look for ways to do greater things with Wordpress. Few weeks ago i proved that you can make a full featured Social Bookmarking Website with wordpress. Today i will show you how you can build a Social Network with Wordpress. Really!

The theory behind a social network is huge, but Wordpress makes everything so simple: just install a plugin and you’re done. That plugin is called BudyPress and it is very customizable.

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When you start your website you certainly go for a shared hosting plan. It is very cheap these days and you’ll find it perfect for your start-up. But what when your website grows ? You start to search for alternatives but there is no way to pay a dedicated server ? A VPS is the perfect solution for you.

With a VPS you can have your own dedicated RAM and your own dedicated disk space. Probably you are familiar  with all shared hosting companies  that gives you unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited everything for practically free ? Well, they are just using marketing strategies. That disk space is not available to you, and they hope you will never use more than few GBs. When you use too much resources you are advised to move to a VPS or dedicated server. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Waiting to see which are the best themes of the moment ? Wordpress recently upgraded to Wordpress 3.0 and many users are wondering how old themes are working on the new wordpress.

The good news are that old themes are working perfectly with the new wordpress, but there are few disadvantages: Old themes can’t take advantage of new features added to Wordpress 3.0. If you think about switching theme, now is a good moment to do it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

E-commerce is very popular these days. Every store want to sell products online but most of them are held back because they don’t want to deal with technical stuff.

The truth is that if you try to do the things old-school way you will find out how much work is involved in building an e-commerce website.

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Why wordpress is so beloved by non-tech people ? Because they never encounter errors like: “Wordpress does not support your PHP version” or “To use wordpress you need to have PEAR lib installed, contact your web hosting provider for support”.

Some people may never seen this, but if you are used to install different kinds of open source software you encounter these errors frequently. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You probably heard about the dispute between creator of Wordpress, Matt Mullenweg, and Thesis framework creator Chris Pearson. The real issue is that the creator of Wordpress have a point against Premium Wordpress Themes.

Free is better. You like free stuff. You like when you go to KFC and you get a free garlic sauce for every menu you order. The truth is that it is not free, it’s price is included. [Read the rest of this entry...]

How many times you wanted to start your own Digg ? In case you don’t know digg is a social bookmarking website: Stories are submitted and others vote for stories they like. When a story reach a number of votes it gets promoted to the front page.

It is widely known that if you get on digg front page you receive tons of visitors ? Where are these visitors from ? They like stories recommended by others, filtered. If they are so popular, why not starting a social bookmarking website for a topic that you like for your own ? And why not using your favourite CMS: Wordpress! [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you want to do a thing the right way, but you don’t know where to start you should learn from others who are already successful in the area.

Right now you want to start a blog, you need good content, promotion and a good theme. The content depends a lot on what you are writing about and who are you writing for. The promotion also depends on your niche. The theme is the one who can work the same for many niches.

The theme should assure that the text can be read easily, the navigation is good, the search engine optimization is ok. These are some aspects of the theme. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This question raises to many webmasters that want to start a new website using wordpress. There is not an universal answer, it depends on what you want to do with your website. It also depends on you technical skills.

If you want just to kick off a simple blog to post your toughts or you are unsure what you want to do you can go with a simple theme, but if you want to start a serious website and you don’t have high programming skills you should seriously think to use a theme framework. [Read the rest of this entry...]

When you start a blog you have to make a plan. A plan contain milestones and strategies used to reach the milestones. The milestones should be based on your capabilities.

Traffic is the most important for you blog. If you don’t have anyone to see your articles means you are wasting time on writing them. Some well known strategies for blogs to get visitors are: commenting on other blogs, social networking, get in touch with other bloggers, guest posting. They will all bring you traffic.

What about search engines ? Probably you already get traffic from search engines, but you are not too impressed. Your traffic comes from very specific queries that are searched once per month. The truth is that the more keywords a search query have the more targeted is that visitor. [Read the rest of this entry...]