Do you love this blog’s comment subscription manager? My blogger friend Klaus love it and asked me about the steps to create as like as for his WordPress blog too.

Here is the detailed procedure on creating a Comment Subscription Manager in your WordPress blog.

Requirements

You need

• A WordPress blog
• Subscribe To Comments plugin for WordPress.

How to

• Install and activate the Subscribe To Comments plugin in your WordPress blog.
• Go to Settings -> Subscribe To Comments in your WordPress Dashboard.
• Set the value for “From” name for notifications column. Example: “BlogrPro.Com”
• Set the value for “From” e-mail addresss for notifications column. Example: noreply@blogrpro.com
• Set the value of Path to header as [theme_path]/header.php
• Set the value of Path to sidebar as [theme_path]/sidebar.php
• Set the value of Path to footer as [theme_path]/footer.php
• Update the options.

Result

Following this article will integrate your WordPress blog theme with the Comment Subscription Manager in your WordPress blog. The integrated Comment Subscription Manager will look like the following screenshot.

Benefits

• A much better Comment Subscription Manager integrated with your blog theme.
• Facilitates you to change the email address that you have used for subscription.
• You can block any further notifications.
• Can unsubscribe from selected article subscriptions.

If you have any queries or facing any problems in following this article, you can contact me at anytime so that I can rectify your problem.

Last week, one of blogger friend pinged me and told that he is facing some problems with his WordPress self hosted blog. We have tried to recover his blog and came to know that his blog is under the attack of some hackers. Meanwhile, the problem actually started in his WordPress MySQL database. Yes! He lost the data and hence he don’t have any of his blog posts.

I have advised him to move to a good hosting provider for security reasons and he did that. But what about those deleted posts/articles? Of course, we have the solution.

Loss

• The loss of those articles will lead his blog to a major traffic loss.
• The blog will face problems since those old post’s url will lead to a 404 error which is hated by all search engines.

Solution

For every problem, there is a solution and here it is.

It’s simple. We can get the support of search engines for this problem. Yes. You all know search engines like Google will have an index base of your web pages and hence your blog posts will be in the index. For an example, I will give you a solution using Google.

1. In Google, type the query site:yourwebsite.com
2. Now you will see the entire list of web pages that are indexed in Google. Try to find what you have lost from the results page.
3. Click on the Cached link to get the cache page of those web pages.
4. In the cached page, click Text-only version to get the text only web page.
5. Then copy it and rewrite them as articles.

Note

• This trick will be good as enough if your loss of articles is moderate. If it is huge, this trick will take a lot of time to finish.
• Search engines will normally remove those urls which lead to 404 error from it’s cache thereby you will lose those articles permanently. Try to apply this method as soon as possible.
• The best solution is try to create a backup of your data always.

Well. I hope many of you will be able to enjoy with this trick since I am getting such requests for many days. If you have further doubts, feel free to contact me at anytime.

CommentLuv – one of the most popular WordPress plugin developers have released a notable plugin for WordPress. The plugin is named as “TwitterLink Comments”.

TwitterLink Comments will add an extra field in your comment form of the WordPress blog so that the readers can actually insert their Twitter user name.

Features

Features of TwitterLink Comments are:

• Also compatible with WordPress MU and Multi-db plugin.
• Full control over the CSS classes, HTML and the message.
• Link can be stated as nofollow.
• Twitter link is shown on all comments for a user in all the posts of a blog as long as they comment at least once with their username along with their Twitter user name.
• Twitter user name of a user can be changed at anytime by the user.
• Completely configurable.

In a major move to give credit to our beloved readers, we the BlogrPro team has decided to launch our first ever free WordPress theme called BlogrPro sLight. The name of the theme is fixed on basis of the simplicity and the lighting speed of the theme.

Here are the screenshots of the BlogrPro sLight theme:

We are going to release this theme exclusively for you all on September 18 IST September 20, 2009 October 2009. The theme is exactly what you are seeing as BlogrPro.com. The BlogrPro sLight theme contains many features like:

1. More Widgets area
2. Threaded comments
3. Lighting fast
4. SEO friendly

WordPress, a popular and widely used Open Source blogging platform can also be used for many other applications. WordPress blogging platform can be modified to work as the following applications:

• CMS

CMS known as “Content Management System” is like a platform which can be used to manage a complete web portal. Even though many CMS applications are available, WordPress is still the first option for the developers and website administrators because of its open source nature. WordPress with the help of its plugins can be well developed further to work as a Content Management System.

• Forum

Forums which is widely used for discussion issues can be well developed with WordPress. With the simple commenting system of WordPress, we can develop a powerful discussion forum application.

• Q & A

Popular services like Yahoo! Answers can be well developed with the WordPress blogging tool. This can be developed using the Commenting System of WordPress.

• Social Networking

Social Networking sites like Orkut, Facebook can be developed using the WordPress tool. There are already some applications for social networking developed using the WordPress tool are available.

• Email System

Simple Email Systems can be developed using the WordPress tool and it is little bit difficult to develop. It is possible to develop applications like an Email System which is used to Rate the Email, Comment it and more using WordPress.

I think this will give you a clear idea about how powerful is the WordPress application.

Today, I was irritated to see that I was unable to login into my wordpress blog dashboard. Even the url blogrpro.com/wp-admin/ didn’t load at all. All I saw was a blank page. After then I have started loading blogrpro.com/wp-login.php. It actually loads the login page. But still I am not able to login into my dashboard because it shows an empty page once again.

So what happened to this blog at all! This happened already to us and we have successfully solved those things. What may be the reasons for this problem? They are:

• WordPress Update may be the first problem. I have updated my blog software to the latest one and after then only I got so many problems.
• Plugins may be too. Some wordpress plugins are injecting scripts / codes into the wordpress dashboard actually. Such code may contain any error specific code.
• Themes will be one thing. Sometimes wordpress themes will lead you to see such problems.
• Web hosting service may be. Yes definitely.

So how I have solved this problem? Here it is.

• Renamed my wordpress themes folder from wp-content/themes to wp-content/themes_bak.
• Then just went to blogrpro.com/wp-admin/ to login into my wordpress account. Successfully logged in.
• Also checked whether the blogrpro.com/wp-admin/ page is loading in an another browser. But nothing happens as usual.
• Since I have changed the themes folder name, my blog’s design was entirely collapsed. So once again renamed the folder back to themes from themes_bak. Now, my blog was in perfect design once again.
• Then disabled the plugins one by one and checked whether the blogrpro.com/wp-admin/ page is loading in an another browser.
• After then I have solved this problem. The problem is with some of my plugins which actually uses more memory. Plugins which use so many database queries in form of updation/addition of data in your database requires more memory and I have avoided using them at this time.

Moral of this post is avoid using too many plugins in your wordpress blog.

Note: Don’t ever go to your Themes / Widgets section in your wordpress blog dashboard after renaming your themes folder.

Well for those who already read my previous post “Guide to Mobilize your WordPress blog“, Post Layout plugin is a familiar one.

Post Layout is a wordpress plugin which helps you to add specific content to your wordpress blog. The main features of this Post Layout plugin are:

• Support for adding PHP, HTML and Javascript code.
• Support for adding content into posts or  pages both in front or middle or bottom of your wordpress blog.
• Support for adding content in the comments layout.
• Support for adding content in the Tags, Home and Categories pages.
• Support for insertion of Mobile phone specific content to all the above features.
• Support for disabling Post Layout content for any specific post/page.

The main use of this plugin comes when you want to insert Mobile phone specific advertisements like Google Adsense Mobile Ads.

One feature that is missing in this plugin is that it doesn’t support any alignment of content in your blog while many other plugins like Easy Adsenser allows you to add Google Adsense code to the  right/ left side of your post content.

If you are planning for a mobile version of your wordpress blog, then it is must to use this plugin to avoid rendering problem in mobile phone browsers.

Post Layout plugin can be downloaded here.

Here I am presenting you two themes which are worth to watch if you want to make your wordpress blog theme, a look-alike version of some famous websites.

• Smells Like Facebook

Demo | Download

Although there are many other Facebook clone themes like CryBook theme are available for your wordpress blog, this “Smells Like Facebook” is almost a 90% clone of Facebook. I recommend this theme if you want to see your blog as an exact clone of Facebook.com.

• CrunchTech

Demo | Download

This is the look-alike theme of TechCrunch.com, the blog which is most popular in the web. Although this theme has some drawbacks, it is still suitable for blogs related to technology, reviews, etc.

I hope that you will love these 2 themes. Share with us if you know something better than these one.

Now it’s spreading like a mobile phone mania and usage of internet in mobile phones is growing tremendously. So it is good/must to mobilize your blog/website to make sure that your blog/site is accessible from the largest medium(mobile).

This post will guide you to make your wordpress blog a mobile friendly blog.

With just 2 plugins, we can do it by our self with very basic and easy steps. Here is the guide.

• MobilePress

So far, this is the best wordpress plugin for mobilizing your wordpress blog. MobilePress allows you to customize your blog with theme support for normal mobile phones as well as for Windows smartphones and iPhones.

MobilePress has an option for rotating your blog theme exclusively for

1. Windows Smartphone
2. Opera Mini
3. iPhone

If you are having a blog only for mobile phone views, then you can very well make it to be viewable only as a mobile blog.

MobilePress doesn’t support a separate subdomain for your blog’s mobile version. Instead it will automatically change your blog into a mobile version as per the mobile phone.

• Post Layout

This plugin will be an essential one after you find out a serious problem with the MobilePress plugin. MobilePress includes the ad code provided by plugins like Easy Adsenser, AdSense Manager, All in One Adsense and YPN, etc in your blog posts/pages.

Hence if you are having a 468 x 60 ad in your normal wordpress blog post/page and after you mobilize it using MobilePress plugin, the 468 x 60 ad will still be visible when it is viewed in a mobile phone. This is not a mobile friendly option.

My recommendation is to use Post Layout plugin to avoid such conflicts. This wonderful plugin supports you to add specific code for both the desktop browsers and for mobile devices. This will be useful if you want to insert Mobile Google AdSense ads in your post/page.

• MobilePress vs MoFuse vs Google Reader

There are some other solutions for mobilizing your blog. Services like MoFuse and Google Reader will be useful one but upto a certain limit.

- MoFuse will mobilize your blog by using its RSS feed only. For example, if your blog has around 1000 posts and your RSS feed provides the latest 10 posts, then MoFuse will only show those latest 10 posts from the RSS feeds. Hence it is not as good since it is actually mobilizing your blog feeds only.

- Google Reader will be good if you are using it since you have posted your first blog article. This is because Google reader will continuously aggregate/store your blog feeds so that it can mobilize as much as 1000 posts. But remember it will be only useful if you are using it since you have posted the first post in your blog.

- But MobilePress plugin will make your entire blog as a mobile friendly one so that the user can search, browse through all of your blog posts.

For any help regarding this guide, feel free to contact me.