Fortunes America http://blog.fortunesamerica.com Affordable Web Design & Hosting Company Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:28:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Useful Tools/Links http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?p=47 http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?p=47#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:26:18 +0000 admin http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?p=47 http://www.just-ping.com/

Ping your website from various cities in the world and know the response time from each of these locations.  Useful if your target audience are scattered in various locations.

]]> http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?feed=rss2&p=47 0 Configure Google Analytics to your Wordpress blog http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?p=41 http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?p=41#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:12:42 +0000 admin http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?p=41
  • If you don’t already have Google Analytics account, register your site at:
    • www.google.com/analytics
    • Click on “Sign up” and add your site/blog name there
    • You will be given a unique UA-xxxxxxx-xx number.
  • Login to you blog admin page by going through http://{blog-url}/wp-admin
  • We pre-install Google Analytics plug-in, if not go and upload the plug-in from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/
  • Activate the plug-in if you uploaded in step 3
  • Go to Plugins–>Google Analytics for WordPress–>Settings–>Enter the Analytics ID(from Step 1)–>Click on “Update Settings”

    • Thats it!  Now you can track blog visitors from your Google Analytics account.

    ]]>     http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?feed=rss2&p=41 0     Must have Wordpress plug-ins http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?p=35 http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?p=35#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:31:15 +0000 admin http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?p=35 We install and configure the following popular plug-ins while setting up your Wordpress site.  We can install any custom plug-ins on request, or you can install yourself.

     

    • Disable Trackbacks

    Globally disables trackbacks to cut down on spam. Very, very few people legitimately use trackbacks and spammers love them, so it’s worthy tradeoff.

    • Google Analytics for WordPress

    This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog.

    • NextGEN Gallery

    NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

    • Akismet (You need a key to enable this, so we will have this installed by our customer)

    For many people, Akismet will greatly reduce or even completely eliminate the comment and trackback spam you get on your site. If one does happen to get through, simply mark it as “spam” on the moderation screen and Akismet will learn from the mistakes. If you don’t have a WordPress.com account yet, you can get one at

    ]]>     http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?feed=rss2&p=35 0     Avactis http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?p=33 http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?p=33#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:07:40 +0000 admin http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?p=33 Avactis

    ]]>     http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?feed=rss2&p=33 0     How to rename livezilla.php and create customized free chat to your site? http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?p=4 http://blog.fortunesamerica.com/?p=4#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:36:06 +0000 admin http://fortunesamerica.com/blog/?p=4 LiveZilla is another great open source software, very easy to install, up and running in 10 minutes.

    As it is open source, you can customize the way you want.  Ofcourse forward compatibility is not there, but if you know what you are doing, it is okay.

    Four step process:

    1. Update Header (You can do this while installing itself, there is an option in the setup).  It is straight forward.

    2. By default, it will install it to livezilla folder, you may want to rename it to generic term.  You can do this also during the installation process.

    Rename all occurances of filezilla.php to {newname}.php in the following files{installation folder}/templates/chat.tpl
    {installation folder}/templates/index.tpl
    {installation folder}/templates/jscript/jsbox.tpl
    {installation folder}/templates/jscript/jsextern.php
    {installation folder}/templates/frames/lz_chat_frame.3.2.login.1.0.tpl
    {installation folder}/templates/frames/lz_chat_frame.3.2.login.tpl
    {installation folder}/templates/frames/lz_chat_frame.3.2.mail.tpl
    {installation folder}/templates/frames/lz_chat_frame.3.2.chat.1.0.tpl
    {installation folder}/templates/frames/lz_chat_frame.3.2.chat.tpl
    {installation folder}/_definitions/definitions.files.inc.php

    3. Renaming livezilla.php.  You need to change several files as described below:

    4.  Remove File Zilla footer:

    lz_chat_frame.4.1.tpl

    Note: I tested with 3.1.7.7 version.  You can check at www.fortunesamerica.com

    Good Luck!

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