Shoto Azikuri

Many bloggers ask how they can to get people to bookmark their posts. We can talk a lot about it , but in this post I want to show you one inevitable thing for it. This is social bookmark buttons, you will agree that if reader see nice buttons there is more chance that reader bookmark your post and if buttons aren’t in fact there is a very little chance to remember bookmark post.

How to make such buttons?

Those buttons are very nice and easy to see, so how to make such buttons? It is easy:

1. Find buttons in .gif, .jpg or other format and upload them to your ftp.

2. Go to WP-Admin>Design>Theme Editor>Main Index Template (index.php) and find this code:

<?php the_content(’Read More…’); ?>

and you must add here code of social bookmark buttons, you must search urls from where you can add your post to social bookmark site and edit it, for example http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url= this is url where you can bookmark page in SU so you must edit this code http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?> the_permalink menas link of your post, so there is final code you must add :

<a href=”http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><img src=”http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/32×32_su_shadow.gif” alt=”Stumble It!”></a>

<a href=”http://digg.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>”>
<img src=”http://digg.com/img/badges/32×32-digg-guy.png” width=”32″ height=”32″ alt=”Digg!” />
</a>

<a href=”http://del.icio.us/post?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>”><img src=”http://azikuri.com/wp-includes/images/delicious.png” width=”32″ height=”32″ alt=”Bookmark!” /></a>

You have already added buttons on main page of your blog.

3. In the end you should add buttons on post’s page in single.php instead of index.php. Find this code:

<?php the_content(’Read More…’); ?>

and add the same code below.

Now you can see social bookmark buttons on your blog, if you want another social media site’s buttons on your blog find image of buttons, submit url and make it as others.

So if you like this article you can bookmark it with nice social bookmark buttons :))

In this post I’ll show you how to add favicon to your blog, what is favicon and why we must use it. Let’s start:

What is Favicon?

Favicon is Favourite Icon, which you can see in your browser’s address bar, before url. It is 16×16 or 32×32 icon. First is very small so it is better to use 32×32 icon. Mostly favicon depicts symbo or first letters of your site. On my blog you can see that favicon depicts “S” and “A”, it means “S”hoto “A”zikuri.

Why Must We Use Favicon?

Favicon is something what give your blog means to become more famous and well-known. Do you interest how can favicon becomes your well-known? So I’ll show you little example of this, here is list of favourite blogs from my opera bookmarks, now look at this picture below and you can understand that it is more easy to notice blog with favicon and if you have ever seen blog’s favicon second time you will easy know what is this, and favicons aren’t used only in browser’s bookmarks, there are a lot of other resources which are using favicons.

How To Add a Favicon?

At last, how we can add favicon:

1. First you must have a favicon, you can do this in Photoshop,Fireworks and e.t.c, then save picture(32×32) in .gif format and with this site http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/ you must edit format to .ico
2. Download favicon.ico and upload it to your ftp.
3. Then go to wordpress admin panel>Design>Theme Editor>Header Template(header.php). Now find <title>…</title> tags and write this code below title tags:

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico/or any other location of favicon.ico” >

That was all, if you like this post please Stumble this and leave comments.

You know that make wordpress theme isn’t a easy work and to do theme you must know html/css and php, but there is a great tool for making wordpress theme without knowledge of html/css/php.

Wordpress Theme Generator

This online generator creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme. Without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge.

Change the colors, settings, layout, preview live, click “save” and download your unique Wordpress theme zip-file. Extract, upload, set, and you are done! If you have any questions or need additions visit the forum.

Based on WordPress 2.1 to 2.6.2 with Yahoo! UI (grids, tabs & fonts) to support all A-Grade browsers and valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Theme supports Widgets & Tags. Themes examples: read more…

I can’t promise you that you’ll make cool theme, but your theme will be unique and simple, here is link: http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/.

And end of the post i want to ask you: Will you use theme created by Wordpress Theme Generator?

Google Adsense is the best way to make money online. There is a lot of adsense plugins, but i want to write a little post about the most easily and comfortable way of adsense setup.

1. Log in wordpress admin panel, Design>Theme Editor>Single Post.

2. Now you must edit single.php. Find something like this:

<?php the_content(’Read More…’); ?>

and add after this code add code of google adsense.

<div style=”float: left; margin-right: 10px;”>
<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “pub-6327714593254577″;
/* 336×280, created 10/1/08 */
google_ad_slot = “5871925300″;
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//–>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>
</div>

3. Enjoy, everything is now right, end of the every post there will be adsense code, but only when reader show full post, don’t on main page only in single.php.

Every blogger wants to have a lot hits on their blog, you can increase hits with most ways but i want show you pagination plugin, with this plugin you can to get people view your blog’s pages. This plugin looks something like this:

You will agree with me that this is more comfortable then “old posts” and “previous posts”.

So here is Lester Chan’s plugin WP-PageNavi, go to url and download plugin, then you must extract archive and upload it in plugin’s folder, activate plugin and then edit theme’s file where is code of pagination and write this code:

<?php if(function_exists(’wp_pagenavi’)) { wp_pagenavi(); } ?>

insted older pagination code.

If you want different css styles open pagenavi-css.css and edit it.

more information about WP-PageNavi:

http://www.lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-pagenavi.html

I am searching top commentators plugin, widget for a long time and at last i found it, the best variant of the top commentator plugin, i think so.

Why i want to use this plugin? It is one way of marketing, with this plugin you can give stimulus to your readers to read your post and leave comment, because they can get from this one way link from home page where is this top commentator widget.

You can see this widget on my blog, so here is this: Top Commentators Widget.

Download plugin upload in plugin’s folder and activate it, then go to widgets and add Top Commentators widget you can edit this widget and set as you want. If you don’t want to be your username or any other username you can write it in Exclude These Users.

Top Commentators

So lets enjoy with this.