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Add a live webcam broadcast to your Wordpress sidebar, or to any blog for that matter, with this free webcam broadcaster from AnyWebCam.com. ANYwebcam.com LIVE! lets your friends see your real time webcam broadcast on your Wordpress blog page. To get started simply join ANYwebcam.com for FREE and download the Webcam broadcaster. You will then be presented with the code to place in your Wordpress blog… it’s that simple!

The broadcaster also works on quite a few of the social websites including Friendster, MySpace, HI5, Blogger, Xanga and more. Visit AnyWebCam.com to open your free account.

As most of you probably already know, the release of Wordpress 2.7 has been delayed. There is a 2.6.5 version available that addresses some security issues. And please take care when searching for WordPress downloads so that you do not end up on a fake WordPress site. Wordpresz.org looks like the WordPress site but isn’t.

This is just the first of what could be a run on fake sites that take advantage of your misspellings and spoofs the official WordPress site. Pay close attention to what site URL you are actually on after clicking any links, or type out manually http://www.wordpress.org/ and double check the URL before downloading anything from the official WordPress sites.

If you upgraded WordPress to 2.6.4, you are running a fake version. There is no WordPress 2.6.4. The latest version is 2.6.5. The version of WordPress you download has malicious code in the download that opens a backdoor to your blog.

Automattic is looking at ways to keep users informed and warned about these blog hack attempts, but paying attention to details is your best defense. Just check first and know what you are downloading, and from where, before risking your blog.

After I setup a new wordpress blog, one of the first things I make sure to do is to setup what they call “pretty permalinks”. Why use them? Because they help with how your links display which can affect your blog’s overall search engine optimization techniques.

When you first install WordPress, the permalinks default to something that looks like this:

http://adultblogbuilder.com/?p=123

But we want to have the links look like this:

http://adultblogbuilder.com/wordpress/create-pretty-permalinks

So how do you do this?

1. Go to your site via FTP and temporarily chmod your .htaccess to 777. Now login to your Admin panel and activate pretty-permalinks by clicking on Settings and then Permalinks. Now select “custom structure” and type: /%category%/%postname%/

Click “Save Changes”

You’ll get a message back saying your permalink structure has been updated. If you don’t get that message, you: 1. don’t have an .htaccess page and/or 2. you didn’t chmod it to 777

After a successful update of the permalink structure, return to the domain via ftp and chmod the .htaccess back to 644. Congratulations! You’re all done with creating pretty permalinks!

If you want to know more, or have to do some troubleshooting, you can read more about the Permalinks here: Using Wordpress Permalinks

Now this neat little tool probably isn’t one you’ll want for blogs where you’re selling products/sites to surfers, but it is a nice one to add to a blog like this one that offers up resources, tutorials, information, etc to other bloggers. It’s a plugin that displays your plugins. It shows what you have active, and inactive, on that particular blog, and it will automatically update the page as you delete, deactivate, or add more plugins to your blog.

I know I’m often checking the view source on some blogs to try and figure out how something is being handled that isn’t a part of the normal wordpress installation. If a plugins in use page were available, it’d sure save me some detective work! I like the idea of being able to display the plugins that I use on a page for my readers, it is just one more way of providing more blogging information for you to check out and possibly make use of.

So take a look at what I’m using, and pick up a few plugins that you might like to try out on your own blogs.

I was surfing the net and as usual, one link led to another, and I came across a really nice blog design that is just perfect for any of you who are about to setup a gossip and/or celebrity type blog.

Gossip City was created by Design Disease, and while it isn’t specific to the Adult Blogging world, it certainly fits a celebrity niche.

Gossip City Wordpress Theme

 You can demo the theme, download the zip file, and read the release notes here: Gossip City Theme.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I still haven’t upgraded all of my blogs to 2.6 … and version 2.7 is due to be available for download in November, 2008! If you want to grab an early peek at what Wordpress 2.7 may, or may not, have for new features, check out this post at WeblogToolsCollection. The post goes into considerable depth about what this new release will look like (there are numerous screenshots) and describes how it will handle various Wordpress functions.

When writing a new post in Wordpress, under the post box of the page you’ll see: Comments and Pings. “Allow Comments” is pretty clear, it means you’re allowing visitors and other bloggers to add comments to your post, but what is this “allow pings” stuff?

According to Pingoat:
“A blog ping is just a piece of text, in simple words that contains your blog name and the url. It is usually prepared in the XML format. The servers that accept pings have special programs for accepting and processing these ping notifications.”

Updating blogs regularly is a bit like an online news site providing the latest news as quickly as possible to its readers. By the same token a regularly updated blog is more valued by its readership than one that only updates occassionally. But how can you let the world know you’ve updated your blog? Certain web sites perform the task of providing the information relating to the recently updated blogs to users. This is done by a process called pinging. Pinging (in relation to a blog) is the act of informing a web site, like Technorati, (a search engine like Google but it is only for blogs), about new posts on your blog.

Whenever you post to your blog, a message is sent by Wordpress (or whatever blog software you’re using) to the web sites you’ve setup in your Update Services. In case you do not know where that is in Wordpress, just go to Settings and then to Writing and copy/paste or type in a ping list in the box of list of update services you’ll see near the bottom of the page. Be sure your url for each ping site starts on its own line, or it won’t copy in correctly. And save your changes.

Below is a list of English sites gathered up by Wordpress that you can add to your Update Services List. As you get more into the world of blogging, I’m sure you’ll come up with other sites to add to that list, just try to be sure you remove any duplicate listings so as not to be blacklisted for spamming.

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de

If you’re having problems trying to determine which plugins are compatible with whatever version of Wordpress you’re currently using, this Plugin Compatability page should help eliminate some of the guess work.

You may not know this but there is a serious flaw in WordPress that has existed since its earliest versions which is still not resolved, even in the latest version release of Wordpress.

Did you know that by using the WordPress blog software you might get tagged as being a Ping Spammer even though it’s not your fault? It sounds crazy but it’s actually true.  You are unintentionally “over pinging” your wordpress ping sites every time you edit any published post.

But there’s a great solution to this potential problem with the Post Schedule Ping Optimizer plugin you can pick up here for free: Download Maxblog Press Ping Optimizer 

And an additional sweet feature to this post schedule ping optimizer is that it doesn’t ping a post that has been timestamped UNTIL IT PUBLISHES. Right now if you went and wrote a post, timestamp it for a future publish date and time and then hit publish, wordpress pings your ping site list NOW… even though the post isn’t live yet!

Great plugin Pawan, and Thanks!