Informations should be free! I love freebies and I know many of you are also like something that is free. Especially girls… (Want to say something, girls?) 
Well today, I want to talk about free Wordpress SEO tips. Every bloggers who want to get huge traffics from search engines must know how to optimize their website to be search engines friendly. By doing so, your website will get rank better in the search engine results and you will get more traffics to your website.
Guys, I don’t want to say too much and don’t want to take your time to read my boring words. Lets get straight to the point. Carrie Hill and Mary Bowling have taken their time to write an ebook which covers about Wordpress SEO. I recommend you to get a free copy of this ebook now and implement the tips to your Wordpress blog.
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I am busy lately and really don’t have time to pay attention to my Wordpress plugin development. Recently I received many emails and complaints about the problem with my Site Statistics plugin. The plugin does not count the category correctly. It is because Wordpress is using new table structure which is it combines category and tag in the same table.
And thanks to Fabian Terh for the fix. New version has been released today. Site Statistics v1.7 is the latest version which is compatible with Wordpress v2.3 and above. If you found any problems about the plugin, feel free to contact me.
I found this effect at Neo’s blog. I don’t think it is suitable to use on my website so I use it on my personal website instead. You can see the demo at my personal blog or just visit Neo’s blog.
To setup this effect is not difficult. It only involves CSS and a shadow image. First what you need to do is download this shadow image and upload it to your theme image folder. Like in my case, I uploaded it into /images.
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My website was once hacked by a hacker from Saudi Arabia. He managed to get into the server and replaced the index.php file with his own index file. I don’t know how he can get into my server but I have learnt many things from that bad experience.
Always upgrade your Wordpress to the latest version - It is really recommended to upgrade your Wordpress to the latest version. It is because each new version contains bug fixes and patches to vulnerabilities that exist in the older version. So make sure that you upgrade your Wordpress when the latest version is out.
Files and folders permission - In Wordpress, we need to set permission to certain files or folders to make it works properly. Especially when using plugins that need special CHMOD 777 permission. When you doing this, make sure that you give permission to the correct files and folders only. We don’t want other peoples can upload and run script through our server, right?
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Yes, if you are looking to get free $1000 (around RM3400), this is the only chance you are waiting for. But first, you must be an expert (not really) in designing and coding Wordpress themes because to get the $1000 cash you must design your own coolest, prettiest Wordpress theme ever.
This contest is hold by Lunarpages. Anybody can participate but with a few exceptions. You can submit your theme here and let see if you can win either one of the 3 prizes from Lunarpages.
- First Prize is $1,000 cash and 5 years free hosting on our Basic Plan
- Second Prize is 3 years free hosting + $300 cash
- Third Prize is 1 year free hosting + $100 cash
So, what you are waiting for? Grab your photoshop, slice your design and make it into a real Wordpress theme. Hope will see your theme on the winner list. Good luck! 
For more info you can get at Lunarpages Wordpress Theme Design Contest page.
Just to let you know that I have upgraded my Site Statistics plugin to version 1.6. This new version contains the fix for the Wordpress 2.3 categories issue.
Wordpress has changed the way it handles the database. The categories table has been changed to terms table. That is why plugins that point to categories table will get an error saying that the categories table is not exist.
Just in case for those who don’t want to download Site Statistics v1.6, you can fix it by yourself by open the plugin file with your favourite text editor. Then, find and replace “categories” to “terms” and upload the edited plugin file to your plugins folder.
Btw, I will not support Wordpress version 2.2 and below from now on. In fact, there is no problem if you are using Site Statistics v1.5 on your Wordpress 2.2 and Wordpress 2.1. Site Statistics v1.6 is only for Wordpress 2.3 onwards. If you have any problems regarding this plugin, feel free to send me email or leave them in the comment form below.
Download: cypher_site-statistics.zip (version 1.6)
I am running WP-Cache plugin on this website. Since I use it on my website, I can feel the difference. The time taken for my website to load up is much faster when I using it.
WP-Cache is a plugin that will cache your Wordpress and stores them to static files. When a page is requested, Wordpress will load the static file instead of compiling the PHP code and building the page from the database. This will really reduce the time from several tenths of seconds to less than a milisecond as said by the plugin author, Ricardo Galli Granada.
The installation is not really difficult but you might having a problem to create the symbolic link because you need to have a shell access to do it. But thanks to Torkil Johnsen for sharing this method to us.
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If you are Malaysian and use Wordpress as your blog engine, I want to invite you to join our community at www.wpmalaysia.com/forum/. There you can ask for supports, give opinions and help other members to solve their Wordpress problems.
I know many of Malaysian Wordpress users are afraid to ask at Wordpress support forum because they need to use English to communicate. But here at WP Malaysia, you no need to afraid because we use Malay language to communicate to each others.
But, if you prefer to speak in English, you are still being invited. We, the community members still will give you supports and entertain you with our helps as long as we could.
What are you waiting for? Let’s register and keep posting! 
It is time for you to upgrade your Wordpress to the latest version, Wordpress 2.3.1. This new version has over twenty bug fixes. Some of the fixes are:
- Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
- Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than their WordPress Address
- Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries
- Link importer fixes
You can see all the changed files at the Wordpress Trac. Get the latest version from Wordpress download page or you can use my compiled version which only has the changed files.
Download Wordpress 2.3.1 (changed files only) - open until 27th November 2007.
For me as a Wordpress theme coder don’t like users to remove my link from the footer. I really hate them (not really but don’t like) when they remove my link and make like the theme was made by them. So, to protect the PHP file from being edited by the users, I have encrypted the file so they can’t edit the footer file. But, how do I do that?
I use an encoder to encrypt and lock the file. Free PHP Encoder will encrypt the source code and can only be decoded when the users request the file from their internet browsers. Although they can request the file, but they can’t modify it. Even I can’t retrieve back the source code if I lost the original file. So with this encryption, your link on the footer will be safe.
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