Here is the code that i used

[cc lang="php"]

[/cc]

How to customize

1. Change the username
// Your twitter username.
$username = "honeytech";
2. Change the display image
background:url (http://media.honeytechblog.com/s1/images/avatar.gif)

Having any problem

Ping me @honeytech

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1.All in One SEO Pack

The All in One SEO Pack is included in every list you find and with good reason. It allows you to configure your page titles, Meta tags and keywords as well as descriptions for either your whole blog or for individual page by individual page. Another advantage of this plugin is that it is compatible with other WordPress plugins and every beginner can handle it.

2.Permalinks Moved Permanently

A lot of bloggers choose a wrong permalink structure at the beginning of their blogging career. Once you have gathered a few experiences you might notice that the structure needs to be adapted and changed. Herein lays a problem. If you manually change your permalink structure your traffic will come to a standstill until your site is indexed again. This could take a while. This plugin is similar to the Redirect plugin that is also available from WordPress but rather than redirecting traffic it manages your permalink structure.

3.SEO Smart Links

SEO Smart Links is important as it helps you to interlink your subpages to one another. All you have to do is predefine keywords that the plugin should link to other articles that focus on similar subjects. This doesn’t just help your readers to find other relevant posts but it also helps Google to see how well structured your blog is and will eventually turn into a better ranking.

4.Nofollow Case by Case

The Nofollow Case by Case plugin allows you to decide which comment links, comment author links, pingbacks and trackbacks should be allowed to be follow and which should stay nofollow. As all comments are by default nofollow this plugin might come handy if you are a new blogger that wants to attract more traffic and encourage for readers to comment. This plugin should be configured as it otherwise converts all your nofollow links to follow links.

5.Robots Meta

Search engines crawl and index all your pages of your blog. When this occurs, it can happen that it creates duplicate content which you don’t want as Google could punish you for it. The Robots Meta plugin allows you to select which sections of your blog Google should crawl.

Akismet (Bonus)

This Plugin is from the makers of WordPress, and although it doesn’t have that much to do with SEO it is always on top of my list no matter what list I create as it is so handy that ever one should have it installed as it protects your blog from comment spam and pingbacks and trackback that you don’t want.

I hope that with the above SEO extensions you’ll be a lot faster and more successful in your blogging. For further questions and suggestions don’t hesitate to contact me.
About Author:
Margaret Saunders is a part time webhosting consultant for IXwebhosting a Web Hosting company based in Ohio.

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The best option is to remove trackbacks/pingbacks from wordpress posts without disabling it from dashboard.

Why i remove trackbacks/pingbacks from my blog ?

Some posts like top 50 Twitter tracking and analytics Tools have more than 1600 re-tweets and 20+ trackback’s. Some of the trackback’s are from high authority blogs like huffingtonpost but few are from low authority rss ripper blogs which is merely 2-3 months old.
In order to protect the blog posts from spams i completely remove the trackbacks and pingbacks just from wordpress posts. I can still see the trackbacks on my dashboard but it is not coming on the blog posts.

There are some plugin’s to achieve the same but you can easily do this by adding a simple custom function in your functions.php file of wordpress theme.

Custom code to be added in functions.php

add_filter('comments_array', 'filterTrackbacks', 0);
add_filter('the_posts', 'filterPostComments', 0);
//Updates the comment number for posts with trackbacks
function filterPostComments($posts) {
foreach ($posts as $key => $p) {
if ($p->comment_count <= 0) { return $posts; }
$comments = get_approved_comments((int)$p->ID);
$comments = array_filter($comments, "stripTrackback");
$posts[$key]->comment_count = sizeof($comments);
}
return $posts;
}
//Updates the count for comments and trackbacks
function filterTrackbacks($comms) {
global $comments, $trackbacks;
$comments = array_filter($comms,"stripTrackback");
return $comments;
}
//Strips out trackbacks/pingbacks
function stripTrackback($var) {
if ($var->comment_type == 'trackback' || $var->comment_type == 'pingback') { return false; }
return true;
}

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Requirements and Steps

Step 1. You need to create and upload a custom image together with your avatar (You can design whatever you want).The dimension used in my sidebar is 80x66px. Example url http://media.honeytechblog.com/s1/images/avatar.gif.

Step 2.Customize the width and style as per your requirements.

Step 3.You need to change the username with your twitter handle. Right now its honeytech.

Step 4. Place the below script in sidebar or you can also place the script into wordpress widgets. You need to have Exec-PHP plugin if you are placing php code in posts, pages and text widgets.

Working Php Code

<h2> Follow @honeytech On Twitter</h2>
<div style="width:340px">
<div style="float:left; font-family:Myriad Pro,arial; font-size:14px;
padding:5px 0px 0px 81px; min-height:60px;
background:url(http://media.honeytechblog.com/s1/images/avatar.gif) no-repeat;">
<?php
// Your twitter username.
$username = "honeytech";
// Prefix - some text you want displayed before your latest tweet.
// (HTML is OK, but be sure to escape quotes with backslashes: for example href=\"link.html\")
$prefix = "";
// Suffix - some text you want display after your latest tweet. (Same rules as the prefix.)
$suffix = "";
$feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $username . "&rpp=1";
function parse_feed($feed) {
$stepOne = explode("<content type=\"html\">", $feed);
$stepTwo = explode("</content>", $stepOne[1]);
$tweet = $stepTwo[0];
$tweet = str_replace("&apos;", "'", $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace("&lt;", "<", $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace("&gt;", ">", $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace("&amp;quot;", "&quot;", $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace("&amp;lt", "<", $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace("&amp;gt", ">", $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace("&quot;", "\"", $tweet);
return $tweet;
}
$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);
echo stripslashes($prefix) . parse_feed($twitterFeed) . stripslashes($suffix);
?>
</div>

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Interesting Features of Facebook Toolbar

Facebook Toolbar integrates the facilities offered by your favorite social networking website into your browser.

Search Facebook from anywhere

The Search Box allows you to easily search Facebook no matter where you are. Select a friend from the dropdown to go directly to their profile, or hit “enter” to see the search results.

Get Notified

Icons on the toolbar tell you how many new pokes, friend requests, and messages you have. A pop-up will notify you when your friends update their statuses, write a new note or interact with you on Facebook.

Connect with Friends

Click the icon to open the Facebook friends sidebar. You can sort your friends by name or status and easily interact with them and their profiles.

Share Content

The share button lets you share the page that you are currently browsing by sending it to friends or posting it to your profile.

Look and feel

Once the toolbar is installed, you will notice a tab opened that will visually explain how elements in the toolbar works. The chief elements from Facebook Toolbar are – Search option, a drop-down menu having, Quick Links, Home, Five Notification Buttons, Share and Login. Further you will locate a small icon facing Search option, which will offer you to hide or open Friends Sidebar.

In case you are already login at Facebook, the Sidebar will show list of friends that are online. For each of your friends you will have few details such as profile photo, name and date of last updated. Another interesting feature you will find here is quickly send your friends a message with options like write a message, post something on the wall or poke friend. Other options in the drop-down menu of “Quick Links” might impress you with Profile, Photos, Groups, Friends, Notes, Events, Privacy Settings, Links, Account Settings, Videos and Toolbar Settings.

Furthermore, you will have set of buttons on every browser’s page namely Application, Share, Chat, Calendar and Notifications. The deal does not close here; in addition you will find a button next to Quick Links menu that will take you to Facebook Homepage. Here you can find number of unread messages and posts written on your wall.

How does Facebook Toolbar work?

As I told you there is a left side that offers information about your online friends, here you can open or hide the statusbar by clicking on script-like icon placed in search bar. You can next find out more about friend’s status just by keying the name in search box. If you want a picture about the changes made in your profile go to Quick Links menu, here you have posts, short notes, new groups and account settings.

For events information that you have already joined in, click on events link that will give you description of past and future events. Obviously here you have details of event type, location, and guest and attendance status of yours. You can react whether you are Attending, Not Attending or Maybe just by hitting placed without visiting the event page. Also check out on your top-right corner, you will locate search-for-events link that will help you create new events.

Accessing videos is a piece of cake, all you need to do go to Quick Links and click on “Video” and you will find snapshots of every video posted by you and your friends on Facebook. The most interesting feature, which could actually simplify your work, is one that would let you update your Facebook status right from the toolbar. Edit applications page can help you change further settings.

Most important part of Facebook is certainly uploading pictures and this toolbar will help you create a new album or even edit the present one in few clicks. Finally your Facebook toolbar also allows you to edit the Notifications page, which offers you actions that needs to be taken. For example, when you receive a new message, when someone write on your wall or any event invite.

Conclusion

We at Honeytechblog think that Facebook Toolbar is a cool tool and is highly recommended for any user. Even if you already know how to play around with Facebook, this add-on will certainly help you make your work quicker and organized. This user-friendly tool can no doubt will be of fun and help you save time, by maintaining your favorite social network uninterrupted even at work.

Although Facebook Toolbar is here for quite some time, there are many users unaware of it. With that in mind this review is been written. We hope the information was useful to the readers and do share your experience working with Facebook Toolbar with us via comment.

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With increasing popularity WordPress web hosting has become common as many are choosing wordpress as the base platform for their project. In fact, toady you will find many .gov and .org sites are based on wordpress. Here, I have collected Top 10 Government Sites Powered By WordPress.

1. America.gov

America.gov is produced by U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP), which engages international audiences on issues of foreign policy, society and values to help create an environment receptive to U.S. national interests. IIP communicates with foreign opinion makers and other publics through a wide range of print and electronic outreach materials published in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Persian, Russian, and Spanish. IIP also provides information outreach support to U.S. embassies and consulates in more than 140 countries worldwide.

2. Congressional Budget Office

Congressional Budget Office blog is maintained by the director Douglas W. Elmendorf. He oversees the agency’s work in providing objective, insightful, timely, and clearly presented information about budgetary and economic issues. The Director also supervises the numerous analytical papers and cost estimates produced by the agency, and he testifies frequently before Congressional committees. In managing the agency, the Director is responsible for a staff of about 235 people and an annual budget of roughly $40 million.

3. Broadband.gov

Blogband is the official blog of the United States National Broadband Plan. A great way to create a connected America is to involve all Americans in the development of a National Broadband Plan. The FCC welcomes civic participation, and also look forward to more interaction through this website as they new features and functions. Through this blog, broadband tries to help spread the word about the available and imminent plans and promote what FCC is doing to educate people about it. Blogband is also one of the FCC’s major ventures into blogging and social media.

4. National Center for Preservation Technology & Training

NCPTT protects America’s historic legacy by equipping preservation professionals with progressive technology-based research and training. NCPTT advances the application of science and technology to historic preservation. Working in the fields of archeology, architecture, landscape architecture and materials conservation, the Center accomplishes its mission through training, education, research, technology transfer and partnerships. NCPTT serves the community that fostered its creation and, in turn, serves the nation and the world.

5. Speaker Nancy Pelosi

This blog belongs to Nancy Pelosi who is the Speaker of the House of Representatives, having made history in 2007 when she was elected first woman to serve as Speaker of the House.  Speaker Pelosi has proved to be a strong, pragmatic leader, unifying her House Democratic caucus more than any other leader in the last 50 years to pass critical legislation moving America in a New Direction after eight years of Republican rule. With Speaker Pelosi at the helm, the 110th Congress has built an impressive record that has focused on the priorities of the American people and brought needed change to Washington and across the country.

6. Official Site of U.K’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown

This is the official site of the U.K Prime Minister’s (Gordon Brown) office. It is the complete source of information on Prime Minister’s performance and activity. The news feature will continue to be central to the site, allowing you to keep up to date with Prime Minister’s work. The Number10 TV channel also provide a wealth of video material, photos updated quickly to the Number 10 Flickr channel, and he will also be posting frequent messages through Twitter to keep you in touch with his day to day activities. With this site he discover what are the current issues faced by the country and locates solution to it.

7. Brazilian Culture Ministry

It is the official web site of the Brazilian Culture Ministry. Apart from daily updates, the sites shares huge information on Project support, Bids and Awards, meetings and forums and videos.

8. Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library’s mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The Office of the Librarian is tasked to set policy and to direct and support programs and activities to accomplish the Library’s mission.

9. Directgov | innovate

Directgov is an Directgov | innovate developer site to provide an innovative, collaborative, open source environment for Government and developers to interact, share new ideas and showcase work. The success of this space is dependent on open participation and the ability to have conversations around best use of government data, development of applications and use of new and innovative technologies.

10. Power of Information Taskforce Report

This site offers report on Power of Information Taskforce. The Taskforce brought together a group from government, industry and the third sector who all share a passion for using ICT to enable better public service delivery. All members have contributed in a personal capacity rather than on behalf of their respective organizations and this independence of approach is reflected in our conclusions. The group has itself worked largely through web 2.0 tools – communicating as a web group, publishing our progress via a blog and RSS feed, and producing this draft report on a wiki.

All these sites are powered by WordPress and doing a great job out there. Do share other wordpress based websites (only .gov) if you come across. Meanwhile, if you are a blogger then let’s join hand together via Blogger on Twitter.

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Note – You must first make sure on what you have to track, as social media comprises various kinds of tracking. Set your goals, do you need to track on how people are sharing your blog/website/social networks? Whether you are interesting in tracking any specific social media message/campaign? Or, you just want to track the real-time buzz across the web and more like that. So, as the requirements are different, there are different social media tracking tools to be used. And to list out the most important, honeytechblog is sharing Top 10 Social Media Tracking Tools that you must try.

Update1:

Radian6 is one of the most popular and widely used social media analytic tool for measurements. It is a flash based application that gives various variety of pie charts an graphs based on desired filers and keywords for brands. It is commonly used for social media measurement, web analytic and have integration of comscore API.

Lithium is another measuring tool for Social Media and just like radian6 it have options to source data from twitter, blogs and web forums.

Update:2

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Socialmention – Social Mention is a social media search and analysis platform that aggregates user generated content from across the universe into a single stream of information. It allows you to easily track and measure what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web’s social media landscape in real-time. Social Mention monitors 100+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google etc. Social Mention currently provides a point-in-time social media search and analysis service, daily social media alerts, and API.

Bit.ly – You already know how interesting this tiny URL shortener is and if you haven’t tried it then go ahead you will fall in love with it for sure. This is a web tool that shrinks long URLs, along with statistical tools to track down the popularity of shortened links. Once you have an account there, it will be easy for you to track down the real time clicks that are made on those URLs that you shorten. Working with bit.ly is not only easy, but also fun to play with.

SocialToo – SocialToo can help you be a social networking power user. It let you keep your follower lists in sync across networks, and learn more about your relationships. Impressive features would include – creating surveys and sending them to multiple networks, track social media stats, auto follow, auto filtering and much more. You will also get daily email on who is following you and who unfollows you on Twitter. There is much more with this giant – get it now.

Twitteranalyzer – It is an interesting tool that helps to get all kind of statistic chart about you and your friends behavior at Twitter site. If you love using Google Analytics then this tool is sure to impress you. Some exciting features of Twitter Analyzer are – you can see how followers are online presently, who retweets your messages, what people are writing about you, Twitter following stats, your Tweeting habits and many more. It is pretty simple to use, so give it a try, I’m sure you won’t regret.

Xinureturns – This is one of the best social media tracking tool you would come across to get dashboard overview of your website on social networks and search engines. Once you run a report, you get the most in-depth information on Technorati, Googe Pagerank, Social Bookmarks, Indexed Page, Ranking and backlinks to your website. Just type in the URL and click “Go” there you have most of the report you would expect from Syndication to Screenshot.

Tweetstats - Ever wondered how your twitter stats graph looks like? Well, Tweetstats is the tool helps you analyze your tweets in various ways in form of graph. Twitter graph would include your tweets per hour, tweets per month, tweet timeline and reply statistics. You can also graph of “Today’s Top 10 Twitter Apps” and “Today Top @’ed Tweeps”. Another cool feature you would find is TrendCloud option to locate which word you use most in your tweets. And then there is color change option for the cloud also, so go ahead check your graph now.

Twitalyzer – Twitalyzer is a free tool to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on dozens of useful measures of success in social media. In other words, Twitalyzer is the tool that gauges your presence and popularity in Twitter. Some interesting features would be your virtual influence, Links to URLs, the signal-to-noise ratio, your clout, generosity, your tendency to share good info and tweets with others by retweeting and other useful measures of success in social media. All you need to try out this is input your screen and hit the button “Twitalize!”

BlogPulse – This is an awesome tool for “buzz tracking”. BlogPulse Trend Search allows you to create graphs that visually track “buzz” over time for certain key words, phrases or links. Compare search terms/links in isolation, or use all three fields to compare search terms/links against others. Use the Trend search to create your own graphs that plot “buzz” about specific search terms (issues, people, companies, brands, sports, etc.) in the blogosphere. Choose from three different time parameters—one month, two months or six months. Be creative!

PostRank – PostRank originally known as AideRSS monitors and collects social engagement events correlated with online content in real-time across the web. PostRank gathers where and when stories generate comments, bookmarks, tweets, stumbles, and other forms of interaction from a host of social hubs. Publishers and people interested in their content use PostRank Data Services and Analytics to gauge influence and reach with audiences. It can do wonders for blogs/websites which are loaded with content.

Broadtracker – If you actively participate in forums then you would love this. BoardTracker.com, is an innovative forum search engine, message tracking and instant alerts system designed to provide relevant information quickly and efficiently while ensuring you never miss an important forum thread no matter where or when it is posted. Boardtracker brings the most targeted audience closer to the boards, by being a search engine only for boards and by supplying a categorized and highly effective searching and browsing experience to users. Create an account and get started.

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There are some parameters which can customize your requirements like:

• $xml_file = Feed Url for example i use $xml_file = 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/honeytechblog';
• Value of i for no of links, for example i<5 shows 5 links of the feed

Alternate Code

(tested on various clients blogs)
<ul>
<?php
error_reporting(0);
$url = "http://feeds.feedburner.com/micro-news";
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);
echo $xml;
if ($xml == "")
{
echo "Feeds are down, Try again later";
}
else
{
$blog = $xml->channel;
for($i=0; $i<3; $i++) {
?>
<li> </li>
<?php
}
}
?>
</ul>

If you wants to run this php code apart from the WordPress themes i.e in wordpress posts and pages then you need plugins like Exec-PHP. Exec-PHP will executes PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets .

This post is dedicated as an answer to amitbhawani question

Is there any WordPress Plugin which shows 5 Recent Posts of any Feed in a WordPress Page? Ex :Show my news blog latest posts on about page

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How to hide categories from WordPress Feeds

1.In your current theme(template) files, open functions.php

2.Copy the below mention code in your functions.php file

<?php
function my_cat_exclude($query) {
if ($query->is_feed) {
$query->set('cat','-ID1,-ID2,-ID3');
}
return $query;
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts','my_cat_exclude');
?>

add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’,'my_cat_exclude’);
?>

Where ID= your categories ID’s

Note: If  you don’t want to digg into code, use this awesome plugin named as Advanced Category Excluder which not only hides the posts from displaying on home page but can also hides the posts from search results, your RSS feed, your category, your recent post, and from web crawlers.

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How to decide the robots.txt for WordPress blogs

A common example of robots.txt file used at honeytechblog is listed as below
Sitemap: http://www.honeytechblog.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
disallow:

Explanations of the common exclusions and agent used in the robots.txt files

1.Sitemap: http://www.honeytechblog.com/sitemap.xml

Used to define the sitemap location for the bots, these will create ease for search bots to detect your new pages.

2.User-Agent: *

Already described above

3.Disallow: */?mobi*

Used to exclude the pages containing “/?mobi”. I used this feature to avoid the content duplicacy issues generated for mobile users.( It is not necessary for you )

4.Disallow: /wp-admin/

Used to exclude the wordpress admin pages from the search engine. It is necessary to avoid the listing of any hack prone page or errors.

5.Disallow: /wp-includes/

Used to exclude the WordPress includes folder which also necessary to avoid from the searching bots. It is necessary because some times when your WordPress faces any plugins or update issues, it floats a serious errors which can be easily indexed by the search bots or hackers.

6.Disallow: /wp-content/

Again it is not necessary to index all the files in the wp-contents.

7.Disallow: /wp-

For security purpose its better hide all the core files and pages.

8.Disallow: /*.css$

For exclusion of all the style-sheets. (If you want to further protect your css files)
Note: Disallow: /*.”fileextension”$ can be used to exclude the “file extension” from the reach of bots. Where “file extension” can be any extensions you want like *.txt$,*.php$ ,*.jsp$, or *.jpg$

9.Disallow: /*?

Used to disallow all the urls having “?” in it. (Used to avoid content duplicacy issues, tracking urls and custom features from the reach of bots)

10.Disallow: /name/

Used to disallow any directory ,folders or categories. for example you want to disallow “admin” folder then you can simple use “Disallow: /admin/” , if you want to disallow a category named “download” then you can simply use “Disallow:/category/download*” and for uncategorized category use can use “Disallow: /category/uncategorized*”

Extra:

To allow all the images bots (like google image bot) to search and index all images of the website / blog

disallow:
Allow: /*.png$
Allow: /*.jpg$
Allow: /*.gif$
Allow: /*.jpeg$
Allow: /*.jpg$
Allow: /*.ico$
Allow: /images/

To allow all the adsense bot to crawler with ease on entire site

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
disallow:

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]]> http://www.honeytechblog.com/how-to-decide-the-robots-txt-for-wordpress-blogs/feed/ 13 http://www.honeytechblog.com/how-to-hide-a-categories-posts-from-home-page-without-any-plugin/ http://www.honeytechblog.com/how-to-hide-a-categories-posts-from-home-page-without-any-plugin/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:28:27 +0000 Honey Singh http://www.honeytechblog.com/?p=5412 WordPress is full of possibilities and options but when you wants to use it as exclusive CMS then you need to consider few hacks and patch. There are  many contents on the CMS which is not required to display on the home page, do you have any idea how to fix it without plugins?

Today we are going to discuss a common hacks to hide a categories posts from Home page without any plugin. Follow the following listed process to hides the categories from posts

A normal index.php page of WordPress theme (i took a default sandbox theme) looks like

<?php get_header() ?>

<div id="container">
<div id="content">

<div id="nav-above" class="navigation">
<div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link(__( '&laquo; Older posts', 'sandbox' )) ?></div>
<div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link(__( 'Newer posts &raquo;', 'sandbox' )) ?></div>
</div>

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>

Post the below described code after the container (for your theme you can try to post it after header)

<?php if (is_home()) {
query_posts("cat=-ID");
}
?>

For excluding more than one categories use this code

<?php if (is_home()) {
query_posts("cat=-ID1,-ID2,-ID3,ID4");
}
?>

Where ID= your categories ID’s

Note: If  you don’t want to digg into code, use this awesome plugin named as Advanced Category Excluder which not only hides the posts from displaying on home page but can also hides the posts from search results, your RSS feed, your category, your recent post, and from web crawlers.

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]]> http://www.honeytechblog.com/how-to-hide-a-categories-posts-from-home-page-without-any-plugin/feed/ 3 http://www.honeytechblog.com/how-to-check-broken-links-of-wordpress-blogs/ http://www.honeytechblog.com/how-to-check-broken-links-of-wordpress-blogs/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:47:02 +0000 Honey Singh http://www.honeytechblog.com/?p=5376 Sometime we have errors in the links because of change in  url locations and sometimes referring links in the posts floats “404 errors”. We also have possibilities that Wikipedia images used in our posts may be deleted, linking sites in the posts  may expire or  may stop working.  All these errors comes under observations when you have an eye over the response of all the urls associated with your blogs. It is quite impossible to check all the links manually if you have more than 1000 posts in your blogs.

Broken Link Checker is a WordPress plugin which automatically checks all the post and pages for errors in links and images. It will auto notify about the errors at the WordPress Dashboard. This plugin checks  for the errors within defined interval of time(you can change the time interval from the plugin options)

Dashboard Demo of the Broken Link Checker

Editing and Management of Broken Link Checker

Broken Link Checker – Plugin Options

• Plugin Page
• Developer Page

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]]> http://www.honeytechblog.com/how-to-check-broken-links-of-wordpress-blogs/feed/ 7 http://www.honeytechblog.com/how-to-backup-all-your-valuable-comments-with-backtype/ http://www.honeytechblog.com/how-to-backup-all-your-valuable-comments-with-backtype/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:36:07 +0000 Nikita Porwal http://www.honeytechblog.com/?p=5323 Comments are the most important part of blogging these days – they can be done for fun, sharing information or just to convey gratitude for a great post. Any good post does not wait to be on top of the popularity chart, but of course anticipate knowing what people think about it. Hence, we denote comments as “Valuable Material”. Such comments are not only a social action, but also serve the purpose adding more importance to the post. In fact, you can be a good commenter by talking and engaging in discussions on your and various blogs across Web 2.0. We all learn about improving our comments idea via do-follow blogs and forums, but wouldn’t it be great to consolidate all the information shared? Of course it would be.

Of late, I have got few comments asking on how do I keep track of all my comments under one roof. The two word answer is “BackType Plugin”. “BackType is a real-time, conversational search engine. We index and connect online conversations from across the web in real-time, so you can see what people are saying about topics that interest you”. BackType Plugin is nothing but a “Twitter for Comments” that simply combines comments from various blogs and into a single and searchable stream. In simple term, what BackType does is offer you system to keep up with all comments you have made and also allow you to “follow” other people in order to preserve the comments they leave.

Working with BackType

Working with BackType is as simple as tweeting. You only need to create an account and give your e-mail Id that you use while commenting. That’s it BackType will store all the comments you have made and will make it available to you whenever required. Your profile will accommodate all your approve comments, which can also be shared with other members. Searches for RSS feeds are available and also supports various platforms.

Exciting Tools and Features

BackType Connect – BackType Connect shows you all of the conversation surrounding a post or article. All you need to do is to enter the URL of the post or the page and get the results showing references to that particular article/post around internet.

TweetsCount – This is an excellent tool that shows the number of times your posts have been linked on Twitter and let readers retweet.

BackType Alerts - BackType Alerts sends you e-mail updates whenever a search term is mentioned in a comment. These Alerts are highly useful for people wanting to track what’s being discussed about them.

BackType Subscription – BackType Subscriptions sends you e-mail updates whenever someone comments on a post you specify. You will receive the updates as they take place on daily or weekly basis. Further you are free to monitor your subscriptions via RSS Feeds. Hey nice one.

Overall BackType service is great and the team has done a solid job!

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