WordPress has been the best blogging software on this earth and the community of developers has embraced this master piece with both of their hands. That is the reason why it becomes easier for bloggers like us to build their blogs or complete websites on this platform. Although, as Jeff pointed out that many developers feel the pain of not getting the appreciation for the plugins they provide to the community for free and even provide the support for the same.
Today, my friend Vivek was having a chat with me on the phone and asked a common however, a difficult question – “how many blog subscribers do you have and how to increase the subscriber base?” The first part of the question is not difficult at all, as I can easily track my subscriber base with the help of Feedburner and currently this blog’s subscriber base hovers between 920-950 subscribers. It is the second part of the question that is slightly difficult to answer as it has been already answered by most of the professional bloggers who have more than 50,000 subscribers.
What is BuddyPress?
BuddyPress is a suite of WordPress plugins and themes, each adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact.
First of all, Wishing you a very happy holi to all of you! For your convenience here’s a small excerpt from Wikipedia that tells you more about the festival of Holi.
The main day, Holi, also known as Dhulheti, Dhulandi or Dhulendi, is celebrated by people throwing coloured powder and coloured water at each other. Bonfires are lit the day before, also known as Holika Dahan (death of Holika) or Chhoti Holi (little Holi). The bonfires are lit in memory of the miraculous escape that young Prahlad had when Demoness Holika, sister of Hiranyakashipu, carried him into the fire.
I would like to apologize for not putting updates about the competition, however here I am with all the entries. In all there are 10 entries (I definitely expected more entries) however, I’m very happy with the kind of posts which we’ve got in the contest. The quality of the posts are awesome and I’m sure that judges will surely have difficult time in choosing the winners. Here are the entries -
Around 30 odd hours before, I did the best thing for my blog. I installed IntenseDebate WordPress plugin on my blog. Although, this takes away the beautiful comment form (for which we’ve been featured as well) still it was worth putting the plugin as it gives various other features which make my life simple. In another news, IntenseDebate became available for everyone.
Task Series – Task # 4 : Make comments on blogs!
As we discussed in our last post, that today’s task will be about making comments on other blogs. Now don’t think that this task will be simple for anyone of you and even for myself. The task is one week long and that it will surely help you in improving your blog’s visibility. This task will surely help you in increasing your blogs traffic and will help you in finding new readers.
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