The Wordpress Blog Carnival

Welcome to the September 19, 2008 edition of the wordpress carnival. Thanks to everyone who submitted their splendid posts. We had more posts than we could publish this month so thats a good sign for the future.

Note: We will be taking a short break from publishing the carnival while we decide what the best structure and format is for future editions.

ThemeLib presents Fix wordpress smilies problem when styling images posted at ThemeLib , saying, "Pictures say a 1000 words. Adding images and style your images are important in your articles in two ways, first they add up in a good look and feel of your article and second it make you gain credibility as an author. But you should be aware of the problem with smileys …"

Edith presents BizTechDay - Use Technology to Grow Your Business, Saturday October 25 San Francisco posted at BIZtechDay .

Carl Ringwall presents It?s Important To Feed Your Data posted at Data SystemsPlus .

Alex_Sysoef presents Extending Blog Into Info Product posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er , saying, "As a blogger writing in a specific niche you might already have nearly everything you need to create your very own first product… an eBook, report or a guide in any other format. Successful info product does one of the two things (well, perhaps more but we concentrate on the 2):* Addresses a burning need by providing solution * Saves time"

Rod presents Managing images with the WordPress media manager posted at Hippo Web Solutions , saying, "The WordPress media manager can take the pain out of using images and other media in your posts. Here’s a tutorial which walks you through the steps."

Jemima Holbert presents Finding a good SEO Company in India posted at Cignus Web’s - Blog .

Andre Thomas presents Boosts Your Traffic With This Simple Plugin posted at Web Copywriting Tips And Secrets By Andre Thomas .

Cindy King presents Adapting Products To Different Markets posted at Cindy King .

jcr8392 presents Common Mortgage Terms Explained posted at Truthful Lending dot Com , saying, "This is a glossary of some of the more common, and most important mortgage terms. This list will help to familiarize you with some of the terms you should know to find the best mortgage program for your needs."

Carl Ringwall presents Create Product Data Feeds For E-Commerce [E-Course] posted at Data SystemsPlus .

Carl Ringwall presents Automate Blog Carnival Submissions For Backlinks [E-Course] posted at Data SystemsPlus .

WordPress Hacker presents Auto Create Navigation Tabs for New WordPress Pages posted at WordPress Hacker , saying, "In this article I explain how you can setup your blog to automatically create main navigation links/tabs when new pages are published by using custom fields to mark those pages you want to appear in the navigation menu."

Cade Krueger presents Finding Free Home Business Opportunities posted at Write To Right .

Dale Ducatte presents Some Thoughts On WordPress 2.6 (and Plugins Galore) - Part Two posted at afewgoodpens.com , saying, "I wrote a series of articles on WordPress 2.6 and the plugins I was using on two sites … this is the main article in the series, where I described the plugins by grouping them into functions."

Andrew Warren presents A Fish Called Fugu… posted at FIRST WAVES , saying, "I am a kook. That is, I am a beginner, someone who is learning who to surf, but really doesn’t know what he is doing yet. But I’m trying."

jess j presents Ravatar wordpress plugin at GrokCode posted at GrokCode , saying, "Plugin page for the popular Ravatars wordpress plugin. This plugin can be used to spice up the comments section of your blog with custom avatars. The blog owner has the ability to fully customize the avatars - a hiking blog might use nature scenes, or you can select avatars to match your blog’s color scheme."

Allison Nazarian presents Can your Virtual Assistant blog and website be one and the same? posted at CopywritingForVAs , saying, "Now you’d like to create a blog, and you’re wondering if your site and your blog can be one and the same.
The answer is, actually, yes. In fact, there’s an easy way to set them up together."

Nesher presents AdSense Ads Management Plugin for WordPress Blogs posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World .

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of the wordpress carnival using our carnival submission form . Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page .

Technorati tags: the wordpress carnival , blog carnival .

Welcome to the August 29, 2008 edition of the wordpress carnival. This is our largest carnival so far so we are looking forward to the October edition having an even bigger response

Note that I have had to decline some posts as they were not about wordpress or contained inappropriate content, but I must say that the quality of posts is consistently good.

ThemeLib presents Sociable - Social Bookmarking for Wordpress blog posted at ThemeLib, saying, “Sociable is a wordpress plugin which adds social bookmark buttons to your posts, and does so easily, beautifully.”

Carl Ringwall presents For Creating Good-Looking Posts, LiveWriter Rocks! (It?s also free) posted at Data SystemsPlus.

Paul Gallion presents Learn to Blog for Fun and Profit posted at Paul Gallion.

Carl Ringwall presents I Heartily Endorse 3WayLinks To Get Backlinks- Why: posted at Data SystemsPlus.

Carl Ringwall presents How Useful are Automated Social Bookmarking Tools? posted at Data SystemsPlus.

Carl Ringwall presents Create A WordPress Membership Pay Site [E-Course] posted at Data SystemsPlus.

Anya Portnik presents What one thing do you wish that you’d known when you started out in sales? posted at Gavin Ingham.

Carl Ringwall presents Add A Shopping Cart To Moodle? [E-Course] posted at Data SystemsPlus.

Rod presents How to exclude pages from WordPress’s page listings posted at Hippo Web Solutions, saying, “How to take control of your WordPress page listings without hacking.”

Anya Portnik presents What are your favourite sales questions? posted at Gavin Ingham.

Anya Portnik presents Why practise makes perfect when sales training posted at Gavin Ingham.

Shelley Larson presents Wordpress Business Blogs Disk 1 posted at Libertad Pura S.A..

Alex_Sysoef presents Blog Templates For WordPress Review posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, “Web design for WordPress always comes down to evaluating which Blog Templates (or what is commonly knows WordPress Themes) fit your needs the most! This review of available options for choosing best blog template for your WordPress will concentrate not only on their visual appeal (web design factor) but also functionality!”

Alex_Sysoef presents CommentLuv Plus DoFollow Equal Unlimited Link Love posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, “Link building is a never ending process for the bloggers and everyone knows that the more incoming links we get - better we rank in SERP’s and more traffic we get. I have already previously wrote about CommentLuv plugin that help you do just that and what perhaps even better - do it by simply commenting on other blogs!

In this post I will discuss several important aspects to get it just right in order to receive greatest benefits not only in form of traffic but also getting DoFollow links to the deeper internal pages of your blog. I promise not to leave a stone unturned and get you all the info you need!”

Raymond presents The Best Credit Card Rewards For Google Ads and Search Advertising posted at Money Blue Book.

Jacob Share presents 78 Tips to Increase RSS Subscribers for Your Blog } Group Writing Projects posted at Group Writing Projects, saying, “This is the list of tips that were submitted for points by participants in the Building RSS group writing project, including some WordPress plugins that help increase RSS subscriber numbers.”

Christopher Johnson presents Blogging With Wordpress posted at CoffeeBreakEarnings.com.

Save Money presents Blog Theme Designers Given Up on IE 6? posted at Web Development 2.0: Web Design, CakePHP, Web 2.0.

Yancey Grantham presents Best Theme for WordPress, Thesis Makes WordPress Fun and Easy posted at Top Color Blogs.

Justin Briggs presents Zombie Sniper SEO Wordpress Theme posted at Nashville SEO Zombie, saying, “A search engine optimized black Wordpress theme for Adsense niche blogs.”

Richard P. McLaughlin presents WordPress Translation Plugin posted at Cheap Keywords.

Nesher presents Spice your Blog with relevant content with Zemanta Plug-in posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World.

Sudhanshu presents Blogger to Wordpress posted at Gyaan Sutra.

MoneyNing presents Spend Money On Good Web Hosting posted at Busy Blogging Dot Com, saying, “Don’t be cheap about web hosting! You won’t be sorry in the long run!”

Rod presents WordPress statistics plugin posted at Hippo Web Solutions, saying, “Here’s a cool plugin to pull your traffic stats directly into your WordPress dashboard.”

Call Center Consultant presents Why Start a Professional Survey Call Center posted at Call Center Jobs, saying, “Before developing new products, business owners conduct market research to find out whether or not a product will be of value to their consumers.”

Raymond presents Battling Blogger Burn Out and Lack Of Blog Posting Frequency posted at Money Blue Book.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of the wordpress carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Technorati tags: the wordpress carnival, blog carnival.