Well, I do it all the time and still end up with some minor typos. Why I am saying you should always edit your post is because I don’t know about other people but I like to write my posts in one go. I am not that blogger who sits back and writes one post in 1 month. So most of the time I write my posts in 10 to 15 minutes max. Don’t publish your post until it has been completely edited and checked for spelling/grammar errors. Read over it carefully and make sure everything flows and that everything is written correctly. Like I said, It doesn’t have to be perfect but you don’t want it to be full of errors either. You also want to make sure all your spelling and punctuation is correct. One good way to do this is to paste it into MS Word and run a spell check. Like I am doing it right now

In the recent past a lot of Social boom has happened so everyone is jumping in the wagon. Therefore the next thing you want to do after you write a blog post is to share your post with as many people as you can. There are a lot of social bookmarking websites on the internet that you can use to do this. Some of the best and most popular are Stumbleupon, Digg, Delicious, Mixx, and Reddit. Make sure you bookmark your post to at least a few of them.

Twitter has really picked up the speed in social networking in the last year or so. Its like the small version of big posts. Sometimes people want to elaborate on their thinking and sometimes they just post a shorter version of that. Any which ways twitter is hot nowadays. So after you write a new blog post you should always “tweet” it. Twitter is really popular right now and it only takes a few seconds to tweet your followers about your post. This can give you extra traffic and maybe even a few people will retweet it or link to your post, which will help even more. So make sure you take a little time to tweet about your post whenever you publish a new one.

Alright, that should be enough to get you started. Just remember that after you finish writing a blog post you aren’t done with the work. If you do the things listed above then you will have a much better shot at building a successful blog.

This in my views is one of the most effective way ot getting traffic to your blog or site. As soon as you write a post, start going to your favorite blogs and comment with url of the new post that you written. Give the Name accordingly. Some Blog admins don’t mind accepting your name as your blog name if the comment adds something to the conversation.

In a nutshell, the idea is that you create a new Blog on WordPress. Upload new media on WordPress and then hotlink those images back to your own blog. See recent posts on this blog. All the images are either hotlinked from original source or they are all uploaded on WordPress blog.

So, What are the benefits ? Well the benefits that you get by hosting your images on WordPress blog are :

1. Unlimited Bandwidth so no need to panic while posting those big images post.
2. You get a control panel of your own to manage your images
3. Can be used for any purpose i.e. with any file type that is supported on WordPress.com
4. You get 3GB space to be used.
5. And I heard Google likes if you link something to other reputed websites, I mean its good for SEO purpose.
6. Your images never ever get expired.
7. Saves you from embarrassment.

If you are really new to WordPress then please leave comments and I shall get you started.

Do you always wonder how some people who posted comments have their personal  image instead of a funny image. Well, that image right next to your comment is known as an avatar.

Revolutioners.com runs WordPress and Gravatar is one service which you can use to get a Global Avatars. This avatar is recognized on every blog on the internet, so not just on Revolutioners, you can use this Avatar on any other blog. You don’t have to register to any blog to comment unless comments are not closed. To get an avatar, you must register (free) at Gravatar.com. Make sure that you use your real email address.

Now when you leave a comment, Use the same email address that you registered with, your avatar will automatically be added with your comment. You can add more email addresses in your Gravatar.com account. Every account will be associated with an email address and every email address will be associated with an image. Whenever you use any of the email address verified on Gravatar while posting any comment. The avatar associated with that email will be visible.

And not only will your avatar be added to comments on Revolutioners.com, but to every blog that uses Gravatar Service, and there are thousands of them as everyone who uses WordPress for Blogging.

And just an FYI. Gravatar is creation of the same guy who developed WordPress

Socialize this post if you like it.

So lets get started. I am using Vigilance Theme. So I will be telling you the steps according to my theme but it should be 99% same in other themes as well. If you face any Challenge then please let me know through comment, I shall try to resolve every possible conflict for you.

First of all lets look at my 404 Page. Once you are done watching it, just click back button on your browser.

Alright, so did you see there was so much stuff for someone who has landed on an error message rather than just saying that whatever you were looking for just does not exist . So what all can you display on your 404 page.

Note : All changes will be done in your 404.php file which should ideally be in your theme root folder.

How to display an Image :

Open 404.php find, remove everything from your 404.php and leave this only. This is how my 404.php file looked like before filling it up. You can actually do it in  WordPress Admin Panel as well under  Appearance>>Editor>>Your Theme and Select 404.php on the right hand side.

Warning : Please copy the whole code in a text file before you start the modification. Just to be on safer side, In case there is any accident

OK, Lets move on. Now after backing up your file delete everything and leave the code similar to the one below.

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div>

</div><!–end entry–>
</div><!–end content–>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

OK Now add this after

<img src=”location of your image file” alt=”error 404″ width=”500″ height=”667″ />

Check the height and width dimension as well basis your theme’s height and width.

How to display Recent Posts :

Anywhere in the 404.php file copy the below code to display Recent Posts from your blog.

<h2>Recent Posts</h2>
<ul>
<?php
query_posts(‘posts_per_page=10‘);
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” title=”Permalink for : <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
</ul>

Change the number to whatever number of posts you want to be displayed in this code posts_per_page=10

How to display Categories :

To display list of categories copy the code mentioned below.

<h2>Categories</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_cats(‘sort_column=name’); ?>
</ul>

How to display Tag Clouds :

To display list of categories copy the code mentioned below.

<h2>Tag Cloud</h2>
<?php wp_tag_cloud(‘smallest=8&largest=36&’); ?>

If you want to save your time then please copy and paste the code below. Its my 404.php file’s code. You can customize it according to your need. Don’t forget to upload the file and give location to image.

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div>

<img src=”http://www.revolutioners.com/wp-content/themes/vigilance/images/error-404.png” alt=”error 404″ width=”500″ height=”667″ />

<h2>Recent Posts</h2>
<ul>
<?php
query_posts(‘posts_per_page=10′);
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” title=”Permalink for : <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
</ul>

<h2>Categories</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_cats(‘sort_column=name’); ?>
</ul>

<h2>Tag Cloud</h2>
<?php wp_tag_cloud(‘smallest=8&largest=36&’); ?>

</div><!–end entry–>
</div><!–end content–>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Please leave comment if you want to add anything to the post.

I have been trying to figure out the best Social Bookmarking plugins to be used on my blog. Now after 2-3 days research and checking n number of blogs, I have come to a conclusion that the below mentioned plugins are best in business. Highly recommended, especially the way described below.

1. SexyBookmarks

This is the first plugin that I am using and is the most attractive plugin available on the internet. The plus point is that it supports WordPress 2.8 as well. Though it does not support hell lot of social bookmarking websites but whatever it supports is more than enough for you. If you want more then there is another one that I suggest you use which is…

2. Sociable

Now this plugin supports more than 80 Social Bookmarking websites. Its one of the most popular Social Bookmarking Plugin available at this moment.

I chose to use both of the plugins because one provides the uniqueness and sexyness on my blog and the other one provides the variety of Social Bookmarking site support.

Important : Now its really important that you configure both the plugins as suggested below to maximize their usage.

1. Only enable Sociable to be displayed on front page by unchecking everything and selecting “Front page of the blog” only as shown in the image below.

2. Now goto SexyBookmarks settings and select Posts Only from the drop down “Posts, pages, or the whole shebang?” Please refer to the image below for your reference.

and when people open the post they will see the SexyBookmarks only and Sociable will not be displayed. Like this ..

Thats it ! you are done configuring the most intuitive and impressive Social Bookmarking plugins on your Blog. Please comment if you like my post.

Credit : Google and Flickr

If you want to add more then please leave a comment with the file location and I shall add that here as soon as possible.