Here is a list of 7 great iOS apps that will help you manage your blog, promote it and help with SEO. If you are like me, then you like to keep your online marketing as simple and easy as possible. (more…)
If you are new to WordPress, then this video will help you learn the basics to get your started. It gives you a full walk-through of the WordPress dashboard and how to use it to control your blog. I highly recommend viewing this video carefully before any other WordPress tutorials if you are new to WordPress. (more…)
Here are some WordPress tricks you may not know about, this will show you some very hard to find stuff, let me know if this was of use to you. (more…)
PHP based content manage systems, also known as "CMS" are Open source, which means their code is free to use and share with far less restrictions than other non-open source systems. Content management systems (CMS) are currently very popular, and are used to run websites of all shapes and sizes, such as; blogs, online stores, social networks, service business websites and almost any other kind of website you can imagine. But which content management system is the best? The content management systems compared in this article are very easy to install and configuration, especially with WordPress, is extremely simple, far simpler than if you had to use a normal website, without a content management system. A well built CMS avoids the need for hand coding.There are many popular PHP CMSs available, such as; WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and Typo3. In this article I have a comparison of the top PHP Content management systems (CMS). This comparison is based on Google search trends which helps you to choose best PHP CMS to run your website or personal blog.
No doubt, WordPress is the most popular and used content management platform from PHP. It's widely used by Over 60 million people all over world for websites and blogs. WordPress used to be mainly for blogging, but in the last few years it has become the main CMS for all types of websites, in all industries worldwide.
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Drupal is most popular with PHP web developers, because it has a higher learning curve than the others on this list. Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications worldwide. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world. you can use Drupal to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications, which makes it the most powerful CMS on this list. There are thousands of add-on modules and designs, which let you build any site you can imagine.
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One of my personal favorites is Joomla!. Joomla! is also a very popular PHP based CMS. It's an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications. It has thousands of extensions and designs which speed up development. I recommend Joomla! if you are building a small to medium sized website, social network or online store.
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TYPO3 is a free, open-source CMS that uses the GNU license. TYPO3 is fast, sophisticated, extensible and customizable. It also provides a great deal of interoperability between its platform-distinct versions. Currently, TYPO3 supports Apache or IIS running on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and OS/2.
One of the biggest problems I find with new blogs is spam comments. New bloggers are excited that they receive comments on their posts, so they either set the setting to always approve comments or they just manually approve them. This is great for when it says a particular blog post has 8 comments, but in the long run, approving spam comments will hurt you. (more…)
I was recently browsing one of my favorite blogs, Daily Blog Tips, and realised that their commenting system was lacking many important features. I couldn’t reply to other comments to create a threaded message and I couldn’t subscribe to the comments to receive email notifications when another user has commented. These are two necessary features that every blog needs to have successful discussion, but there are a couple more that will help you as well. (more…)
