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• WordPress Disqus Plugin: Why You Should Get It Today

  • Friday, 2 Jul 2010, 02:00 PDT (2 Jul 2010)
  • By: Guest Author, BloggingPro » WordPress Plugins
  

  This is a guest post by Selena Narayanasamy who writes at

• How to Reward Your Guest Authors and Build a Strong Community

  • Friday, 25 Jun 2010, 07:36 PDT (25 Jun 2010)
  • By: Guest Author, BloggingPro » WordPress Plugins
  

  This is a guest post is by Ann Smarty, founder of a community of guest bloggers: My Blog Guest and first contribution as part of a new My Blog Guest – Splashpress Media partnership.
  The best (and I’d say the only) way to create a strong community of talented guest authors around your blog is to offer incentives. You want your guest bloggers to be sincere in their desire to provide quality – so you want to be sincere in your desire to pay back.
  No, it is not about money. Guest blogging is about benefit exchange: the authors give your blog high-quality content (and thus traffic and leads) and you give your guests exposure.
  So do you promote your guest authors enough?
  Rewarding with Backlinks
  You may not really like that but let’s face it: most (even awesome) guest authors contribute content for links. Being generous in linking is…

• 5 Plugins to Boost Contact With Your Readers and Users

  • Monday, 7 Jun 2010, 04:50 PDT (7 Jun 2010)
  • By: Guest Author, Daily Blog Tips » WordPress
  

  A blogger or admin who takes the time to answer visitor questions, engage commenters or interact with readers always gets return visitors.
  If visitor loyalty is important to your blog, you should do all you can to solve their problems, answer questions, respond to comments and messages – and even let them call you from your website.
  Here are a few great WordPress plugins that give you various ways to get in touch with your readers, streamline the communication process and answer some questions if need be.
  1. FAQ Builder
  FAQ Builder is a WordPress plugin that lets you create a FAQ (frequently asked questions) page for your users.

  Once you install the plugin, you can add it on any page. You can use the simple plugin interface to add questions, answer user generated questions, and organize your FAQs for ease of access. You can also add a search field…

• Why and How To Backup Your Blog

  • Friday, 2 Apr 2010, 21:16 PDT (2 Apr 2010)
  • By: Guest Author, Daily Blog Tips » WordPress
  

  This is a guest post by R Kumar. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.
  What is the frequency of backups for your blog?
  If that question has got bells ringing in your mind, then you need to seriously evaluate your blogging blueprint.
  It is not just you who are a culprit to ignorance on backing up your blog. I too, was a victim of it. I learned it the hard way when I found that my hosting company’s servers were attacked by a hacker and that they had no backup copies of any installations on their servers.
  My blog had more than a year of content and since my blog was a single author blog, it was all my own hard work. I had no clue what to do because neither did I keep any backups of my blogs.
  The final outcome…

• Optimize and Speed Up Your Wordpress Blog

  • Tuesday, 17 Nov 2009, 20:22 PST (17 Nov 2009)
  • By: Guest Author, Daily Blog Tips » WordPress
  

  This is a guest post by Vlatko. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.
  If your blog is on shared host but starting to get some serious traffic, then you are probably having problems with slow database queries, and in the future you might even be suspended because of exceeded CPU quota. The outcome will be frustration on your side and annoyed visitors on the other side.
  The first reaction will be to file dozens of support tickets with the hosting company. After that you might consider moving to VPS or Dedicated Server, but before doing that you should try some tricks to improve the loading speed of your blog and survive higher traffic on shared hosting.
  Important: before attempting to do anything with your blog please make a fresh backup of your database and WordPress files.
  1. Use just few necessary plug-ins.…