Good that there are lots of CSS tutorial available in the net.

captured from www.w3schools.com

Yesterday I learn about the following from CSS Tutorial:

• Margin – Clears an area around the border. The margin does not have a background color, it is completely transparent
• Border – A border that goes around the padding and content. The border is affected by the background color of the box
• Padding – Clears an area around the content. The padding is affected by the background color of the box
• Content – The content of the box, where text and images appear

Using the following example , let me share the information I got yesterday about CSS of my WordPress Template :

width:250px;
padding:10px;
border:5px solid gray;
margin:10px;

Above code means :

Let’s do the calculation:
250px (width) – { Content Width }
+ 20px (left and right padding)
+ 10px (left and right border)
+ 20px (left and right margin)
= 300px { This is to the total width of the object that you can float either right or left.

Believe me, it took me hours to figure out how to use this CSS style in my WordPress template. I am not a web designer, but sometimes I am trying to understand things within my template which I am using for the last 4 years.

One thing I learn about CSS is that “ You need to close what you have open“ .

I am sharing this experience for my fellow blogger who is also trying to understand the concept of Margin, Padding, Border in CSS. If I don’t know this and I spend lots of time Googling this subject yesterday, there is also a great chance that if this post will be number # 1 in SERP, it could lead to a targeted visitors and additional readers and hits for this blog that would eventually turn in Make More Money Online

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Questions,When Making Blog Post.

1. Will this blog post interest my 4500+ feeds subscribers ?
2. Does my title is includes keyword that could be found by the Search Engine Searchers ?
3. Is it the usual terms that the people is typing in search engines ?
4. Did I mentioned my targeted keywords in my blogs ?
5. Will I not be ashamed in promoting this blog post over my social media friends ?

And here are the things I am doing if my answer is “NO” to the above mentioned questions,

1. if my answers is no, and I still want to post about it, I will usually make the post to appear on my sidebar and not sending it across my subscribers. So in short, I am making the post for bots and search engine for keywords hijacking. Check my blog post when I say that there is now no hidden post in this blog
2. If my answer is no , and I still want to post the topic, I will just change the title using ALL in One WordPress Plugin
3. Same method for number is being implemented.
4. I just make sure that I have enough keywords in my blog post that will not bother my readers.
5. I normally do not post about it, as an example if there are some news in the net in which it does not go with my belief, then I will just pass the opportunity on writing about it.

More Tips When Making Blog Post :

1. If I I had a hard time getting information in the net. I will blog about the result of my research, chances are there are no bloggers post about it and there are no competition on this particular keywords.Normally those kind of keywords are being searched by internet users who clicks the ads.
2. Long post is not always best for readers. Most of the time they just look at the post title, then scan the post,  and then go to the comments section without reading the full article. So why aim for a long post? I believe having 200 to 300 words is enough for a normal post.
3. Don’t forget to add pictures/images in your post, it does not only good for your readers but also good for search engine optimization, provided that a proper picture tag is made.
4. Check our post about Basic Information about Search Engine Optimization

Remember an optimize post might lead to more visitors and eventually more income to your blogs.

So How do you make your blog post ? Care to share for the benefit of new bloggers.

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When making new post in 3.2, and a user opt to have it in full screen, all other part of the dashboard will be hidden. I can say that it is really a very good feature.

I am actually doing this post thru the new blog set up.

Word count can also be seen automatically at the lower part of the Dashboard.

As if I am writing through my Windows Live Writer, So if you see any un usual thing in this blog, please let me know.

SEO wise I don’t know if this is better or not. Any experience with WordPress 3.2 ?

We’ve just made our WordPress Security upgrade to WordPress 3.1.3. Here is the excerpt of changes as mentioned in WordPress blog.

WordPress 3.1.3 is available now and is a security update for all previous versions. It contains the following security fixes and enhancements:

• Various security hardening by Alexander Concha.
• Taxonomy query hardening by John Lamansky.
• Prevent sniffing out user names of non-authors by using canonical redirects. Props Verónica Valeros.
• Media security fixes by Richard Lundeen of Microsoft, Jesse Ou of Microsoft, and Microsoft Vulnerability Research.
• Improves file upload security on hosts with dangerous security settings.
• Cleans up old WordPress import files if the import does not finish.
• Introduce “clickjacking” protection in modern browsers on admin and login pages.

I just hope that everything will be fine. Let me know for any bugs that you could see after our upgrade.

WordPress 3.1.1 is now available. This maintenance and security release fixes almost thirty issues in 3.1, including:

• Some security hardening to media uploads
• Performance improvements
• Fixes for IIS6 support
• Fixes for taxonomy and PATHINFO (/index.php/) permalinks
• Fixes for various query and taxonomy edge cases that caused some plugin compatibility issues

Version 3.1.1 also addresses three security issues discovered by WordPress core developers Jon Cave and Peter Westwood, of our security team. The first hardens CSRF prevention in the media uploader. The second avoids a PHP crash in certain environments when handling devilishly devised links in comments, and the third addresses an XSS flaw.

Anybody in our reader updated their blogs ? Any comments ?

Since we are using remote publishing, I have decided to make the 3.0.3 update. Keep your site safe, be sure to update to the latest version of WordPress.

WordPress 3.0.3 is available and is a security update for all previous WordPress versions.

This release fixes issues in the remote publishing interface, which under certain circumstances allowed Author- and Contributor-level users to improperly edit, publish, or delete posts.

These issues only affect sites that have remote publishing enabled.

Remote publishing is disabled by default, but you may have enabled it to use a remote publishing client such as one of the WordPress mobile apps. You can check these settings on the “Settings → Writing” screen.

Download 3.0.3 or update automatically from the “Dashboard → Updates” screen in your site’s admin area.

We hope that there will be no issues on this site because of the updates.

WordPress 3.0.2 is available and is a mandatory security update for all previous WordPress versions. Haiku has become traditional: Fixed on day zero One-click update makes you safe This used to be hard This maintenance release fixes a moderate security issue that could allow a malicious Author-level user to gain further access to the site, addresses a handful of bugs, and provides some additional security enhancements. Big thanks to Vladimir Kolesnikov for detailed and responsible disclosure of the security issue! Download 3.0.2 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area. You should update immediately even if you do not have untrusted users.

Happy Blogging

For me I am monitoring comments in my blog thru e-mail notification, where I set up my blog to send notice to my e-mail whenever there are new comments to moderate or respond.  The application only supports wordpress.org blog ( Self Hosted Blogs ) , Comment Push is currently free in the app store (note: iTunes link) .

The application will not be able to open up the official WordPress iPhone app but instead launches you within Comment Push itself, who gives you the option to visit your blog in Safari. ( by Blog Herald )

So I believe this applicatyion is very useful for bloggers on the go.

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Well Thanks Allen for the reminder. However I have made other solutions that might help you regarding this matter, I have not followed Allen’s suggestion regarding submitting the page in Google Webmaster for removing the whole cached google translated page.

The solution I have implemented is a 301 redirect for all folders of the translated page into it’s original post, I have added the following codes in my .htaccess files

redirectMatch 301 ^/folder name/(.+)$ http://techathand.net/$1

Example :

redirectMatch 301 ^/ar/(.+)$ http://techathand.net/$1

“ar” is the arabic folder that the cached page is using, The code above shows that if somebody tried to arrived at my site thru the translated cached page by Google they will be redirected to the original post.

It is about more than 6 mos ago when I tried to block some translated page like Tagalog translation thru robots.txt and after checking it today I cannot see any tagalog translated page in SERP, that only means that if we stop Google from crawling the page thru robots.txt in due time google will remove the page in the SERP. But while it is not being removed I will try to redirect the visitors in the English Page ( original ) to avoid any possible problem with Google or Google AdSense for using their translated page more than 15 days.

On the other side of the story when I read Marhgil Post about the Loading Time of my Homepage thru the recent announcement of Google, I have been reminded to check my site thru Pingdom just to find out that it loads at 19.09 seconds.

Which might be a reason of having high bounce rate of my blog. Did you see how it drops by removing the Global Translation Plug-in because I have implemented it wrong.

So I hope this experience might help you in a way in Search Engine Optimization. But sorry to inform that this is only applicable for WordPress Users

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Source : http://wordpress.org/support/topic/342645

Edit the plugin via the editor interface, find this line (near the top):

if ( strpos($wp_version, ’2.7′) !== false || strpos($wp_version, ’2.8′) !== false) {

and change it to

if ( strpos($wp_version, ’2.7′) !== false || strpos($wp_version, ’2.8′) !== false || strpos($wp_version, ’2.9′) !== false ) {

Above mentioned solution work with me and i hope it will also work in you.

Here are the changes for this version.

Highlights

• Requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater (old requirement was 4.0).

User Features

• Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and permanent delete)
• Add support for ‘include’ and ‘exclude’ to  (Gallery Shortcode)
• Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
• Add support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer
• ‘rel=canonical’ for singular pages
• Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin and Theme editors
• Correct comments and remove unnecessary echos from the default themes sidebar template file
• Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly
• Support location of category templates based on ‘category-slug’ as well as ‘category-id’ (Ticket 10614)
• Support location of tag templates based on ‘tag-id’ as well as ‘tag-slug’ (Ticket 10868)
• Support location of page templates based on ‘page-slug’ and ‘page-id’
• Set “Allow my blog to appear in search engines” to checked in installation
• Don’t offer to make a category its own parent
• Remove Sphere from search list
• Minify admin CSS
• Show correct max upload filesize error message
• Add ‘rel’ attribute to next/previous post links
• Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML
• Clean up ‘.button’ and ‘.button[disabled]‘ CSS classes, add ‘spinner’ and ‘gray-out’ buttons after clicking Publish or Update post
• Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title
• Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme
• Define ‘$content_width’ for Kubrick
• Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
• Display comments in descending date order, consistently
• Add means of automatically repairing tables
• Press This bookmarklet fixes
• Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at the end of an autogenerated Excerpt
• Don’t show “Change Permalinks” button when editing the page set as “Front page”
• Image editing
• Retire BunnyTags importer
• Retire Jerome’s keywords importer
• Explain that the permalink is temporary for autosave generated permalinks
• Update SimplePie to 1.2
• Eliminate the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1
• Easier Embeds with oEmbed support (see Ticket #10337) (oEmbed discovery disabled by default, use plugin to enable it)
• TinyMCE 3.2.7
• Remove rel=’tag’ on links in Tag Clouds
• Add a title to the Home link output by wp_page_menu()
• Adjust comment moderation keyboard shortcut keys ‘d = trash’ or delete depending on the screen
• Show “Draft updated” instead of “Post updated” when saving draft
• Show the login form in a popup when autosave hits the login grace period
• Open View/Preview post in a new window from the link in the Saved/Updated message
• Separate fields for ‘image alt’ and ‘image caption’ in Media uploader
• Display better information about broken themes when there is no stylesheet
• Improve situation when tables such as wp_options table were ‘corrupt’ new installation message was offered. Add means of automatically repairing tables
• Export and import custom taxonomies
• Admin copy improvements
• Don’t show page templates in the drop down if they are in a subdirectory

Development, Themes, Plugins

• Added ‘excerpt_more’ filter to wp_trim_excerpt() function, which allow developers to change excerpt ‘[...]‘ more string (Ticket 10395)
• Add ‘smilies_src’ filter so plugins can better add smilies
• Canonical redirects for post name queries
• Allow _wp_get_comment_list() to handle custom comment types
• Return an empty array instead of false for get_children() when no children found
• Add some filters so that HTTP requests can be filtered
• Move plugin update notice output to the plugin specific hook
• Limit wp-mail ‘blog by email’ checks to every 5 minutes
• Make it much easier to filter contact methods from user profiles
• Allow filtering of get_edit_post_link for custom post_type
• ‘get_sample_permalink_html’ filter
• Enforce activation key to be a string, reject activation keys that are arrays
• Support for new post types
• Respect custom post_type in queries
• Send Retry-After header when in maintenance mode
• Various WP Filesystem related fixes and documentation
• Add constants for ftp connections timeouts
• Increase timeout on cron-based requests when checking for upgrades
• Don’t use has_action() before do_action() in http.php
• Speed up jQuery based scripts
• Use the current user as author for autosave
• Show My Posts as default view on the Edit Posts screen for users without ‘edit_others_posts’ cap
• Ensure that drafts viewed over XMLRPC have a correct gmt date set
• Pass user id to ‘get_’ the_author_meta filters
• Move _wp_get_user_contactmethods() into the registrations functions file
• Machine parseable db error codes
• Add global JS vars and actions to the media uploader iframe
• Add JSON compat for PHP < 5.2
• Make option_name the primary key for the options table
• Allow a plugin to do a complete takeover of Post by Email
• Logarithmic scale for tag cloud
• Pass Post ID to the ‘get_comments_number’ filter
• Always filter the url in the media upload form
• Add a ‘the_terms’ filter
• is_blog_installed() improvements
• Allow force_ssl_admin() to properly accept false as a value
• Pass logged_in cookie to async-upload and filter the cookie scheme in auth_redirect()
• Add more actions around database add/delete/update operations
• phpDoc for wp_”check|set”_post_lock functions
• Use the old strings which are more translator friendly and add a generic default string to aid re-use by plugins adding post_types
• Filter fields through kses upon display and introduce sanitize_user_object() and sanitize_user_field()
• Use null instead of 0 when setting content length
• Include ‘hidden’ directories in filesystem dirlist by default
• Pass args array to ‘wp_list_pages’ filter
• Actions for taxonomy updates
• Key should be ‘comment_id’ not ‘post_id’ in comments table
• Add get_delete_post_link () to retrieve delete posts link for post
• Add ‘separator’ parameter to wp_tag_cloud() and wp_generate_tag_cloud() functions (Ticket 10315)
• Added add_comment_meta() family of functions
• Use a post_parent of 0 instead of -1 to indicate unattached posts
• Improve get_page_hierarchy() function
• Deprecate the_content_rss(), add the_content_feed() and get_the_content_feed(). Convert places that called the_content_rss() with an excerpt length to the_excerpt_rss(). Remove the rss_excerpt_length option. Use the_content_feed() where the_content() was previously used in feeds.
• Add ‘pad_counts’ argument to wp_dropdown_categories()
• Remove codepress
• Remove the php-gettext library
• Canonical post thumbanils
• Add a filter to the_author_posts_link()
• Merge post.js with page.js and slug.js, optimize categories and tags JS, standardize postboxes IDs and JS
• Introduce register_theme_directory() which takes a wp-content-relative path and will additionally scan it for themes. Plugins can use this to add themes without requiring copying by the user
• Add set_user_role action hook
• Allow theme devs to change attrs (like CSS class) of thumbnail images
• Add wp-post-image CSS class to post images
• Allow for plugins to enhance the number of metadata fields captured from plugin and theme headers
• Merge updated pomo code
• Switch to using NOOP_Translations for untranslated sites
• Improve wptexturize performance
• Provide context to the strings in the Plugin and Theme installers to allow for different grammatical gender
• Fixes for theme subdir support
• Introduce wp_kses_post() and wp_kses_data() for filtering unescaped data
• Add ‘orderby=comment_count’ argument to query_posts()
• Honor Post Type for Sticky Posts
• Allow querying multiple post types
• Introduce add_theme_support(feature) and current_theme_supports(feature) for announcing and checking theme support for various features
• Introduce require_if_theme_supports()
• Add number of Embed related filters
• Add ‘IMAGE_EDIT_OVERWRITE’ constant to control edited image save or replace, most useful for setups that have dynamic image resizing
• Add load_child_theme_textdomain() to allow child themes to have their own translation files
• Add sidebar descriptions to sidebar settings and widget admin screen
• Make option_id primary. Add uniques for option_name and autoload
• Allow plugins to override the behaviour of load_textdomain() in a variety of flexible ways
• Mark _c() as deprecated. The new _x() function should be used instead.
• Allow plugins to change the redirect on post/page publishing/submitting
• Standardize on ‘user_id’ instead of ‘user_ID’ when passing comment data. Accept either ‘user_id’ or ‘user_ID’. Remove ‘user_id’ global.
• Filter imported comments

Other Sites that gives their review of WordPress 2.9

• Most notable features in WordPress-2-9
• WordPress 2.9 Blog

Have you upgraded to WordPress 2.9? Did you come across any issues with it? Do let me know through your comments.

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