Blogging Mints

Mint Credit Card

Many people get scared when they hear “credit card” since it give thoughts about high payment, the taxes, etc. But there is one credit card that won’t ruin your economy. It’s called Mint Credit Card. This uk credit card has no annual fees, 14.9% APR, and up to £7,500 in credit limit. You can get a free additional card for a friend or partner and free online account management. It’s a pretty good deal people!

5 plugins you can’t live without!

The most wonderful thing with WordPress is the wide range of plugins you can add. And you can get them to do almost everything for your blog. Here are 5 WordPress plugins that I can’t live without!

• WP-DBManager - This plugin is for more advanced users. With this plugin you can optimize, repair, backup, restore, delete backups, drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Very useful!
• SRG Clean Archives - I look at my archives quite often and I think it’s good to have a useful and clean looking archive! This plugin will do the trick!
• PlugInstaller - With this plugin you don’t have to download a plugin, upload it to your FTP server and unpack it manually. All you have to do is to add plugin URL in the admin and you’re all set. It will also make your plugin page look cleaner.
• Exec-PHP - Allows PHP tags inside the content or excerpt of your posts and pages to be executed just as in usual PHP files. Useful if you want to write tutorials and want to show your visitors your PHP coding.
• All in One SEO Pack - To get search engines to like us more - this is the tool for the job!

I have many more favorites I thought I could share later. Which plugins can’t you live without?

Tools that will help you check your site

If you are a coding geek, you might want to check that your site validates, maybe you want to find out your Google pagerank, number of backlinks, how many subscribers you have, etc. Here is a list of tools you might want to check out.

• Xinu - Will check pagerank, backlinks and much more at the same time.
• Sitescore - Will rate your site and check your coding for errors.
• Blog Juice Calculator
• WebsiteGrader - Will check almost everything, you can also compare your site with competing sites.
• The Scrutinizer - 283 tools in one place!
• dnScoop - Does pretty much it all
• Text link ads calculator - Calculates how much a link on your blog is worth
• And of course W3C’s HTML validator and CSS validator.

Wordpress tip: Wordpress Theme Generator

A couple of people in my feeds have talked about this nifty little generator already, but I think it’s worth mentioning again!
And yes, you read righ, it’s a Wordpress Theme Generator which allow you to actually see the design while you are working with it!
Then it’s just to click “save” and download it, and then extract and upload it to your theme folder. Incredibly simple!

What is RSS?

What the heck is RSS?

Newcomers to the blogosphere probably ask this question. And let me help you answer that question!

Here is a quote from the Wikipedia about RSS:

RSS (which, in its latest format, stands for “Really Simple Syndication”) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. An RSS document, which is called a “feed”, “web feed”, or “channel”, contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that’s easier than checking them manually.

Still quite don’t get it? Here is the best link for you. This site explains RSS in the Oprah way!