If someone asks me about promoting a blog, I always say that content comes first, content comes second, design comes third… and social networking stuff comes somewhere in the middle of the long list of things that need to be taken care of. Sure, some say that sharing is the king, but such people usually don’t care if they have crappy content, they only think about PR, link exchange, keywords, and so on. Well… today I’ll think about Embedly (embed.ly, [...]

A friend of mine asked me about some project he should work on. To be more accurate, he wanted to start working on something to sell, but didn’t have a clue on the topic. “Some Twitter tool,” I said, and it seems I was right. No, he didn’t become a millionaire yet, but since I see so many Twitter-related tools showing up these days, some of them selling for pretty high prices, I think he has a chance. Anyway, today [...]

Despite the global economic problems, the Internet continues to grow with each day, and this opens doors to people who are willing to spend some time and money to try starting an online store. Some will succeed, some may fail, but if you do things right, your chances are higher than in the “real world,” at least that’s how I see it. While I won’t say anything about the market niche to choose, today I will point you to a [...]

One of the most interesting things I’ve read about the near and not-so-near future is the forecast regarding evolution of commerce. What about it? Well, online shopping becomes more and more popular, especially in emerging countries, and the same happens with ecommerce shopping cart solutions. Today’s choice is called CS-Cart, and if you were thinking about starting your own online shop… this will surely come in handy!

While it’s not free, CS-Cart is “an “out of the box” ecommerce software solution [...]

For me, WordPress is pretty easy to use, but I must be a fool to admit that using it and harnessing its power is something as easy as it gets for someone facing its first blogging script. Sometimes, people simply need to share things online without knowing anything about the script allowing them to do it, and Storytlr may be the right tool to choose…

According to the official page, “Storytlr is an open source lifestreaming and micro blogging platform,” allowing [...]

Developing WordPress themes can be a real pain in the back, especially if you want to do this for a project of your own and you come up with new ideas on a daily basis. In times like these, you realize how easy can be to feel like killing some of your clients who have only one fault: no accurate idea on what they want, so new things appear during the entire development process. Today, you may get lucky – [...]

If you encountered difficulties reading your WordPress based website or blog on your mobile device, WPtouch is the solution. WPtouch is a lightweight, fast-loading, feature-rich and highly-customized “theme application” which includes an admin interface to let you customize many aspects of your site’s presentation. Also included on the admin panel is a compatibility suite which will help with setting up pages automatically display supported WordPress archive and links functions, as well as help with detecting supported or conflicting plugins.

With WPtouch [...]

Registration Validator is a plugin that helps you to fight against spammers. With Registration Validator you can block not only usernames or IP addresses but also you can block domains and subdomains.

Blocking an entire domain (including subdomains) is very easy. Just put before the domain a full stop (e.g. “.webdev3000.com”). Any entries without a leading full stop (period) are treated as specific (i.e. only that domain and none of its subdomains are blocked) .

To block an IP or [...]

If you have multiple blogs, you need a simple tool to maintain all of them very simple and easy. Kish Multi is a perfect tool for you. It helps you to maintain multiple blogs from a single blog. Kish Multi uses Ajax, this way there is only one page to load.

With Kish Multi you can write new posts for all your blogs. This means you can write text with TinyMCE editor, assign categories, upload images, add videos, add tags, schedule [...]

Everybody knows what is Tweeter. Some people use it to stay in contact with their friends and others use it to post their thoughts. Today I recommend a plugin for WordPress which gives you total control and ownership of the photos you post to Twitter.

TweetPress not only helps you to post your photos from your WordPress blog, but also sends traffic back to your own blog instead of a third party site. Until now you could post your photos to [...]