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Two New Apps for WordPress.com    阅读原文» Earlier this summer we launched a few tools to make it easier for developers to create new apps for WordPress.com . Starting today, you can integrate your WordPress.com blog with Feedfabrik and Empire Avenue . Turn Your Blog Into a Book Have you ever wanted to publish your own book, or a collection of your favorite blog posts? Feedfabrik makes it easy to convert your WordPress.com blog into a book format, and even allows you to customize the cover design and book contents. You can order a hard copy of your book, or a digital PDF edition. To try it out, head over to Feedfabrik , choose Bookfabrik, then select "I'm on WordPress.com." Receive a 10% discount on all September orders with the code "WORDPRESS-INTRO". Grow Your Social Capital Online Empire Avenue is a Social Stock Market, where your social networking activity and engagement earn you virtual currency and determine your virtual share price. It also helps yo...

New Theme: Comet    阅读原文» Comet ―the latest theme addition to our growing collection ―sports a lightweight, faded design with simple and classy typographic touches. Perfect for any type of blog, it works really well for showcasing your writing and photos. Comet home page example. Make it yours by choosing from seven color schemes and four different layout options. Customize it even further with a header image, background, and custom menu. Comet also includes a full-width template for dropping the sidebar on pages. See more information on the Theme Showcase . Designed by Frostpress , Comet is available now in your dashboard under Appearance → Themes and, for self-hosted blogs at the WordPress.org theme directory . 阅读更多内容 该邮件由 QQ邮件列表 推送。 如果您不想继续收到该邮件，可点此 退订 。

How to block traffic from autosurf sites using .htaccess    阅读原文» If you are making some serious money from Google Adsense or other online ads publishing company, you need to read this post seriously. Failure to do so may caused your account Adsense from getting banned or being disabled. Image credit: Free Digital Photos According to their blog , Adsense strictly prohibit any means of artificially generating ad impressions or clicks, including third-party services such as paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, auto-surf, and click-exchange programs. Autosurf is the automated traffic exchange sites or better explained by Wikipedia as thetraffic exchangesthat automatically rotate advertisedwebsitesin one’sweb browser. Therefore, they are capable of bringing a large amount of traffic to the advertised websites. Members earn credits for each site that they view, which can then be spent to advertise members’ sites by adding them to the autosurf rotation. Sites may addi...

Top 8 excuses that stop bloggers from making money    阅读原文» Blogging can be a passion for everyone but not everyone can turn passion into a money tree. The word blogger is definitely not a stranger to us however, to be a genuine blogger or to be more precise, to get involve in the blogging scene professionally definitely requires true dedication with proper planning and targets. Thus, when some newbies that just got their hands in the blogging scene, the first thing that comes into their mind is how do I make my blog into a profitable blog and earn some bucks for myself. To turn your blog into something profitable , definitely it requires a lot of hard work and research to understand on how you blog and how you reach to your audience but the problem with a lot of newbies is that they do not understand the meaning of patience is virtue and they want to see immediate results. When the results does not show, they will tend to come out with excuses as they feel that by up...

Vote for WordPress Sessions at SXSW    阅读原文» Each year, members of the web community from around the world submit session proposals to the South by Southwest Interactive conference, an event that played a role in the birth of WordPress. We head to Austin every year, do a BBQ or throw a party, but despite the fact that almost 15% of the web is powered by WordPress, there aren’t many sessions related to WordPress on the schedule. This year, more than 3200 proposals are competing for about 350 slots, and who has time to read through, vote, and comment on 3200 proposals? Out of those 3200+ proposals, only 8 relate to WordPress! I thought it would be handy to post a guide to the WordPressy proposals for SXSWi 2012, so that if you would like to check them out and vote on them it woud be fast and easy. Leaving a comment in addition to your thumbs up/down vote helps the staff and advisory board know which sessions are likely to have an interested audience, so make sure to ...