There are 2 ways to highlight author’s comments, one is use highlight author comments wordpress plugin, another idea is without wordpress plugin. If you don’t want to use wordpress plugin to highlight author’s comment, you can follow the below few simple steps.

First, you need to open styles.css and add the following into this file.

.authorstyle { background-color: #B3FFCC !important; }

Second, open comments.php, find and locate the following code.

<li <?php echo $oddcomment; ?>id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>"></li>

And then replace with

<li class="<?php if ($comment->user_id == 1) $oddcomment = "authorstyle"; echo $oddcomment; ?>"></li>

Please note that you must change 1 to the user id of the author. Thanks to Matt Cutts for this tutorial.

There are 2 ways to exclude certain categories from your blog, one is use wordpress plugin named Advanced Category Excluder. This plugin was born because there was a no other real alternative to enable content sparationd and some CMS like functionalities in WordPress. The main goal was, to enhance WordPress’s functionalities, to hide some unwanted categories, from defined parts of the blog.

The alternative way is without plugin, you can add the below code inside the loop then it will work.

<?php
if ( have_posts() ) : query_posts($query_string .'&cat=-1,-2'); while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
?>

If you have problem with hosting service or your wordpress blog has taken lots of time for loading, perhaps you can consider to install WP Cache wordpress plugin to generate static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

My web hosting is quite reliable,so far I don’t think I will need this plugin at this moment. If you need to speed up the loading of your blog and your blog always hit Digg.com’s frontpage, then you are encourage to activate this plugin.

Many readers seldom browse through our old post to read them out, but installing wordpress plugins like Pagenavi and Related Posts can help to give a new life for your old posts. There is another way to make your old posts have a good chance to read by reader, that is to display random posts on your sidebar.

To display random posts on your sidebar, simply copy and paste the following code to your sidebar.php.

<?php
query_posts(array('orderby' => 'rand', 'showposts' => 1));
if (have_posts()) :
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
the_title();
the_excerpt();
endwhile;
endif; ?>

Freemium theme has great design and features than some other premium themes don’t have. You can check out its wonderful features as below:-

• XHTML 1.0 Transitional
• jQuery menu
• quick submitting to web2.0 websites support
• flickrRSS plugin support
• threaded comments support
• feedBurner subscribe via email support
• a lot of advertising spots (125×125, 120×600, 300×250)
• 2 widget ready sidebars
• free for commercial & non-commercial use

This theme definitely free for download, you don’t need to pay any cent then you can enjoy to use this great theme which can compare with some other wordpress themes.

This is one way to combat spam comments if you can avoid duplicated comments are submitted on your posts, you can do some code modification as below in comments.php file. Why people post double comments because sometimes they are not aware that their comment is under moderation mode. Anyway, if you found your theme don’t have this option, then you can open comments.php and do some code modification.

1. Open comments.php and find the following code.

<p>
<input name="submit" type="submit" tabindex="5" value="<?php _e("Say it!"); ?>" />
</p>

2. Replace with

<p>
<blockquote>
Comment moderation is in use. Please do not submit your comment twice — it will appear shortly.
</blockquote>
<input name="submit" type="submit" tabindex="5" value="<?php _e("Say it!"); ?>" />
</p>

WordPress title tag also plays important role in SEO, it telling the search engine spider what your site covered, and allows your site to be indexed based upon the correct and most relevant keywords. If your site has good seo, then you will have lots of organic traffic from various search engines. So how to make your wordpress title tag SEO friendly?

Open header.php file, find the <title> tag, and replace it by the following code.

<title>
<?php if (is_home () ) {
bloginfo('name');
} elseif ( is_category() ) {
single_cat_title(); echo ‘ – ‘ ; bloginfo('name');
} elseif (is_single() ) {
single_post_title();
} elseif (is_page() ) {
bloginfo(’name’); echo ': '; single_post_title();
} else {
wp_title("",true);
} ?>
</title>

This code will generate title tags according to the following model:

• Blog homepage -> display blog name.
• Category page -> display the category name and the blog name.
• Article page -> display the article title.
• Static page -> display the blog name, and the page title.

Finding a right theme for your blog is necessary in terms of building traffic, blog personality, readability and etc. There are lots of premium themes that you can search from google or even find the affiliate links and advertisement from other blogs, but how many of those premium wordpress themes have good functionality, quality design and sell at reasonable prices?

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