Complete Wordpress Setup Guide

That was quite simple. The look of our new blog has changed totally all for the power of
a theme. We have just installed, activated and gotten a new great looking WordPress
blog.

Looking at the Address bar, you will see that is www.ososo.com.ng/projects.
It is showing Not Found because we have not published any article or post on the blog
yet. The right column where we have the Search Box, Recent Comments, Archives,
Categories and Meta is what we called Sidebar. The theme is a 2-column theme – 1st
colum is the Post area, while the 2nd column is the Sidebar. The 1st column is where our
Posts will be going into while the 2nd column is where our Widgets will be showing.

Editing the Theme Options

To customize how our blog will look like, we will be working on the Theme Options.
Note that a good theme should have a Theme Options menu. With that, you did not need
to know PHP, HTML or any coding before you can design your WordPress blog to look
professional.

As we can see with our newly installed theme, it has the Theme Options menu. So, we go
straight to the Theme Options menu and start editing and customizing our blog out-look,
functionalities and appearance.

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You can click Theme Options from that two different locations, it will still land you on
the Theme Options page. This is the Theme Options page for our installed theme:

I cannot capture the full page of the Theme Options but I do get the most important stuff
in the image above. I got the Footer and the Advertisement section. The rest are some
simple settings which are base on how you want your post, thumbnails and others, to look
like. I believe you can do this yourself, they are written in plain English…
The Footer is the line at the bottom of your page. Most free themes do not allow you to
edit this portion, if you do, your blog will be rendered useless. So if you get a free theme
instructing you not to edit your footer, please don’t. But for all Premium Themes, you can
edit the footer and any other things because you owned the theme. With this theme, we

can edit the footer to some extent. First this is how the footer looks like:

That is how the un-edited footer looks like. But we can go on to edit this footer.
This is the code of the above (un-edited) footer (can be found in the Theme
Options):
<p><a href="http://bigsellingoptins.com/free-listbuilding-blog-theme/">Listbuilding
Blog Themes</a></p>
<p>Copyright © 2011. All Rights Reserved.</p>
Although that is not all the code in the footer, but that is all we can change about the
footer because it is a free theme and that is the part the owner allowed us to edit.
So our edited footer code will look like:
<p><a href="http://sojblog.com/testing/">My First WordPress Blog</a> |
Designed by <a href="http://naijacyberforum.com">Oyedepo John</a></p>
<p>Copyright © 2011. All Rights Reserved.</p>

Did you see that the footer has changed? Yes, I have added the Blog Title and a credit to
my name - “Designed by Transition Technologies”. If it is a Premium Theme, we can
change everything in the footer to our choice.

Editing the ‘Widget’ Sidebar

In most themes, the Widget goes to either the left or right Sidebar or both (in cases of 3-
column themes). In some themes, there might be a chance to put your Widgets in the
footer just like in this case. In the Widgets, you can put various items like your Facebook
Fan Like page, Twitter, Subscription Box, Advertisements, Recent Posts, Popular Posts,
Recent Comments, and so on. This has no limit; it can be anything at all.
Now, let us add some items into our Sidebar…

In your admin area, under Appearance, click Widgets. This is a typical Widgets
page:

In the Widgets area, we are going to be adding different items to our blog Sidebars and/or
Footer Widgets. To activate any Widgets or items, just click and drag the particular item
into the respective position you want it to be shown. Let us start from the beginning so
you can understand how it works.
I wanted to add a Widget to the Primary Sidebar now…

That is in the process of dragging the Tag Cloud Widget to the Sidebar. Look at the
image below, I have dropped the Tag Cloud into the Sidebar.

As you can see, the Tag Cloud Widget is already dropped into the Primary Widgets area.
You can then edit it right there. In the Title box, I will just enter Tag Cloud, Tags, or
Search Tags. This is what will show up as the title of the Widget. For this purpose, let us
enter Search Tags. I will leave others the way they are, then click Save.
Now, let us look at the out-put on our blog. I will just go ahead to my blog at
www.ososo.com.ng/projects and look at the Sidebar to see if what I just did will take
effect the way I wanted.
This is what it looks like:

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This is what it looks like:

Now to add any other items, all you have to do is follow the same path I just laid down.
However, if you need to add advert codes, Facebook Fan Page Code, or any HTML/PHP
code to the Sidebar or just anything, you need to make use of the Text Widget. This is
also what you will use if you need to add your Google Adsense code to the Sidebar of
your blog. Also, you can add your Feedburner Subscription code to the Sidebar using this
Text Widget.

For example, let us add a Facebook Fan Page Like Box to the top of the Sidebar. We
need to get the code from Facebook first. Go to
www.developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ and enter your
Facebook Fan Page URL into the box provided. Then customize it the way you
like and click Get Code.

As you can see in the image above, I entered my personal Facebook Fan Page link into
the box and it brings out the Like Box in the right side. If you copy the code right, that is
how it will look like on your blog. Now let us get the code by clicking on the Get Code
button.
This is the code:

First, click IFRAME because that is what I use. Secondly, click inside the box to
hightlight it and then right click on it and select Copy. Click Okay. Then head straight to
your WP Dashboard, go to Widgets, click and drag the Text Widget to the Sidebar and
past the code into it, then click Save. You can choose to enter a title or leave it blank.
Here I used the title “Join SOJBlog Testing on Facebook”.

Now, after inserting it into the Text Widget and using the title “Join SOJBlog Testing on
Facebook”, and clicking Save, this is how it looks like on our blog:

Ya… that is wonderful, right? But as you can see, the Like Box does not fit properly to it

container. What we need to do is look through the code, and decrease the width of the

Like Box. See the code below:

<iframe
src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fww
w.faceb
ook.com%2Foyedepojohn&amp;width=292&amp;height=290&amp;colors
cheme
=light&amp;show_faces=true&amp;border_color&amp;stream=false&amp
;heade
r=true&amp;appId=172445846146942" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:292px; height:290px;"
allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

See the one in red in the above? That is what we are going to change. Since the size of

the width is 292, let us reduce it to like 270 and see if it will fit into it Sidebar container

on the blog. This is the result:

After the size of the width of the Like Box has been changed to 270px, it now fitinto the
container, as you can see in the image above. That is all about Widgets. Follow the same
path for every item you wish to add to your blog Sid ebar. Now let us move to the next
stage.
Now we are through with installing theme and other things, let us move ahead to
installing WordPress Plugins.

How to Install WordPress Plugins

This is another interesting reason why WordPress is so good and popular in the blogging
community. Plugins are the tools we need to extend the functionalities of our WordPress
blogs. In this section, we will be dealing with installing WordPress plugins, and the
important and necessary plugins you are going to need to start up your blog. While
plugins are very important and necessary, too much of it can slow down the speed of your
blog load time. That is the reason I will be sharing with you the most important and

necessary ones you will need. However, with simple line of codes, you can execute
the same function that some plugins will produce and it used. For example, if you want
to add Google Adsense code into your blog, there are various wonderful plugins you can
use to place these ads on your blog. But you can still do this without using a single
plugin. All you have to do is just paste the Adsense code into your blog files and that is
all.

But if you did not know how to code, or how to do this manually, do not worry. That is
the reason there are plugins. First, let us discuss on the plugins we are going to need to set
up our blog.

WP Complete Backup: This plugin is to backup all your blog, including your blog
posts and database. This is very important as anything can happen to our blog, which
might make us lost our blog contents. This plugin will make it easier to restore our blog
contents with ease.

NOTE: There are other backup plugins that can do exactly what WP Complete Backup
can do, but this is the one I use and it is very effective. To use another type, just search
for the word “wordpress backup” in the Install Plugin page and a list of backup plugins
will show up.
All-in-One-SEO Pack: This is another important, must-have plugin. As the name
implies, it makes your blog Search Engine Optimized. With this plugin, you can set your
Blog Title, Blog Description and Blog Keywords. This plugin has helped me a lot in
terms of organic traffic (traffic from search engines).

NOTE: There are other SEO plugins that can perform the way this one does, but this is
the one I am used to. To get other SEO plugins, you can search for the word SEO in the
Install Plugin page and you will get a list of all the SEO plugins in the wordpress.org
plugin database.

Blog Spam by Math Reloaded: This is a must-have plugin also. It function is to scare
away comment spammers. With WordPress comment spammers, blogging can be a hell
of headache. But you do not need to tackle them manually, there are plugins for that.
Although the Askimet plugin happens to be one of the default anti-spam plugins that
comes with WordPress installation, I prefer to use Block Spam by Math Reloaded
because it simplicity, effectiveness and the ease of setup.
NOTE: There are other anti-spam plugins you can use if you do not like this one. Just
search for it in the Install Plugin page.

Easy Adsenser: From the name, you can easily de-code it function. It is used to place
Google Adsense ads (or any other ads) on WordPress blogs. It is effective as it can place
your ads inside your blog posts (beginning, middle or bottom of post), and at the Sidebar
(as a Widget).
NOTE: Easy Adsenser is not the only advertisement plugin you can use. If you wish to
use any other one, search for it.

W3 Total Cache: This plugin is also important. It function is to make your blog load
time speed faster. This is important because search engines like faster blogs and also,
your blog visitors will like it so.

Feel free to use any other cache plugin if you don‟t like this one.
MobilePress: From the name, it converts your blog into a mobile friendly version when
viewed on a mobile device. This is important because some of your blog visitors will be
using mobile phones to view your blog and it will be nice if your blog shows up nice,
neat and easily viewed on their phones. Also if you intend using Google Adsense on your
blog, you will need this because you can now use Adsense for Mobile on WordPress via
MobilePress Plugin.

And of course, there are various other plugins that can convert your blog into a mobile
format on mobile devices. Search and use your desired mobile plugin.In my opinion,
those are the must-have WordPress plugins, at least for a starter. As time goes on, you
will need some functions on your blog, then you can install more plugins but do not
install too much of it because it will slow down your blog load time. Other plugins that I
believe will be useful to you are as follows:

 Email Subscription Box After Post Content
 Facebook Comments
 Facebook Comments
 Top 10
 Shareaholic
 SEO SearchTerms 2

I just picked those plugins at random; you can go beyond that, depending on what you
want your blog to do. If you want to use WordPress to build a business website or

company website, you might not need much plugins except for the basic ones I
mentioned above.

How to Install a WordPress Plugin

Enough has been said about plugins, now let us go ahead to install a plugin. For the
purpose of this guide, I will be installing Block Spam by Math Reloaded plugin.
So log into your WordPress admin area, under Plugins, click Add New. This is the page
you will see:

In the image above, #1 is where you will enter your search terms, and then click Search
Plugins (#2).
So since we want to install the Block Spam by Math Reloaded, I will enter the term
“block spam by math”, or “wordpress anti spam” or “block comment spam”. Just
anything that sound well with what you are looking for. Now I have entered the search
term “block spam by math”, these are the Search Results:

You can see our search term in the search box and the plugin we are searching for is the
number 2 on the list. Now that we have gotten the plugin we need, all you have to do is
click on Install Now under the name of the plugin. A confirmation message will appear,
click OK to confirm and a successful message will come up on the next page. If you have
sucessfully installed a plugin, you should see something like this:

You see the ones I underlined? We have just successfully installed the Block Spam by
Math Reloaded. Then to make it work on our blog, we need to activate it. So, click on
Activate Plugin to activate Block Spam by Math Reloaded plugin. Most times, after
activating a plugin for the first time on your blog, you may need to further set it up. Just
like our newly activated plugin, we need to do some basic settings to make it suit our
needs.

Most times, you will find the plugin under Settings by the left in your admin area. Click
on it and the setting page will come up. For this anti-spam plugin, all I did was to alter
the Login forms aspect. Then scroll down to click Save Changes. The reason I chose no is
because I wouldn’t like passing through the security question every time I wanted to
login to my admin dashboard.

That is quite easy, right? To install any other plugins, just follow the same path as this
one and you are all set. If you have already downloaded a plugin and you want to install
it on your blog, you did not need to use the search function. All you have to do is click
Upload, clickBrowse and choose the plugin you want to install from your PC, and then
click Install Now. On the next page, click Activate Plugin. That is all!

So, follow the steps in the image above to upload your plugin, install and then activate it.
Note that the plugin must be in .zip format. Some Plugins has their settings page. Check
under the Settings tab to check the name of the plugin you want to make settings to and
edit as you desire.

Chapter Ten
How to Create Pages and Posts

Let us start with pages first. Pages are very important in a blog, be it a business website
or a personal blog. Here, I will be discussing the important pages you should have on
your blog. Pages do not show up when you get to a site unless you click on them. In some
cases, if the blog owner makes a certain page the landing page, it will show up.
See this image to understand what I mean by Pages:

In the above image, the parts I circled in blue are what I meant by Pages. The most
important Pages that you should have on your blog if you are a blogger are:

 About Us (to let your blog visitors know about you, what you do and who you are)
 Contact Us (to let anyone contact you by filling and submitting an enquiry

form)
 Privacy Policy (very important if you are a Google Adsense Publisher)
 Products/Services (this is where you will add any services or products you offer, if

any)
But for a business website, you should Endeavour to add according to your desire. Here
is a sample:

 About Us
 Company Profile
 Personnel
 Contact Us
 Products/Services

How to Create WordPress Pages

In this guide, I have decided to help you get everything you need to get your WordPress
blog up and running like a pro. So I will be taking you through these entire Pages one
after the other.

About Us Page

The About Us Page is very important, either for a business website or a personal blog. It
is very good to let your blog visitors know about you and or your business, what you are
upto and why you are there. So to create an About Us Page, login to your WP admin
area, under Pages, click Add New

So to get started, 1. Click Add New, 2. Enter the title of the page, 3. Enter the body of the
page and 4. Click on the Publish button.
See below to see an example:

Did you notice the underlined link? That is the link to our new page and the circled one
confirmed our page has been published. Now let us view our newly published page by
clicking the View Page or go to www.ososo.com.ng/projects/about-us. This is what you
will see:

The above image is the About Us page we have just published. Notice the one in circle
(blue color)? That is the Page tab. If any of your blog visitors click on it, they will land
on this page.
That is all about the About Us page. Just write enough content on this page and make it
look professional too. Now let us move to the next page.

Contact Us Page

The Contact Us is very important too. You need to provide a way that your blog visitors
can use to contact you. This is very simple. It is just like sending you a message to your
email address. But instead of dropping your email address, you should create a Contact

Us Form where they can fill the form and submit it. And their messages will be delivered
to your preferred email inbox. Now to create a Contact Us page, there are different means
we can do that.

There are several plugins you can use to create this page. Personally, I use Contact Form
7. It is a very popular contact form plugin that various bloggers used to create a contact
form on their blogs. So go to the Add New Plugin page, search for “contact form”,
install and activate it. Then set it up to suit your taste.

However, another means is by using a free online tool at www.contactme.com. I just
discovered it not so long and this is what I use for my client‟s blogs and websites. So for
the purpose of this tutorial, I will be using the contactme.com free tool to create a Contact
Us form on our blog. Now let us visit the website www.contactme.com and create a
contact form, then copy the code and insert it into our blog‟s Contact Us page.
On getting to the site, create an account by clicking “Sign Up for Free”. And fill in
the Sign Up Form.

The next page should bring this:

Fill in your correct Email address and Password and then click Create My Account!.
This is the resulting page:

That is inside our account page. All the series of import contacts and so on you are seeing
are not necessary. Just go straight to click Create a contact form. Then customize your
contact form the way you desired. See image below:

From the above image, the one in red is the Contact Form. In the left, you can edit and
customize it from there. After all, then click the Save Form button. If it is successful, you
should see a page like this:

Then click Get Code. And you will get the code, copy this code and paste it into your
page.

To paste the code into our Contact Us page, go back to Add New Page and do as shown
below:

You can see the code inside the message box. Also the title of the page is Contact Us.
Then click the Publish button. To see how our newly published page looks like,
click View page or go to www.ososo.com.ng/projects/contact-us. See the image below:

That is how our Contact Us page looks like. Isn’t it nice? Yes, of course. Now let us
move to the next page.

Privacy Policy Page

The Privacy Policy page is essential as a blogger, especially if you want to apply for
Google Adsense program or you are already an Adsense Publisher. Having this page is a
criterion for Google to accept you into the program. Now let us see how to create this
page with ease.

You do not have to start writing all the „jargons‟ of privacy policy content. Just go to this
website www.serprank.com/privacy-policy-generator and generate your own version of

Privacy Policy.

Enter your blog URL, your email address, tick Yes, we use cookies and select the
advertisers you have or wanted to use on your blog. Then click Create my Privacy
Policy and the next page will bring up your Privacy Policy article. Copy the whole
Privacy Policy content. Then go to your WordPress admin area, and add a new page titled
“Privacy Policy”, and then paste the content you copied from the website into the page
and click Publish.
That is all. You can then view your newly published Privacy Policy page.

Products/Services Page

This page is optional. If you have a product or services you can render, you can create a
page for it. Just follow the same path of creating a page and that is all.

How to Create Posts

After creating a blog, I believe you will want to write and publish some articles on it.
This tutorial will explain how to post articles in details, with pictorial guide for better
understanding.
First, login to your WordPress Dashboard, under Posts, click Add New. On the
Add New Post page, enter your Post Title, then the Content, choose the Category that
best suit the post, and then click Publish.
See an example below:

As you can see in the image above, I have written an article starting with a title, then the
content. I chose First Blog as the Category, and then click Publish. Now let us take a look
at our blog by going to www.sojblog.com/testing to see how it looks.

Now the “Not Found” error has disappeared. That is our first blog post on this newly
created WordPress blog. You can see the Title, the Published Date, and the Author of the
Post which is Admin (the name I used while installing WordPress via Fantastico De Luxe
in the cPanel).
There are few things you can do to format your articles. You can use the Format Menu
above the content box to edit and customize how you want your content to look. If you
will be having more than one article on the front page of your blog (which I believe you
will), it is advisable to use the „more tag‟ so as to make it look neat and not too long.
This also means visitors will have to stay longer on your blog reading articles and they
will be able to comment on your posts. To use the “more tag”, click more in the Format

Menu and the code <!--more--> will be placed in the position you want. Or instead of
clicking on the “more” button, you can just type it in the desired position. See the image
below:

You see the “read more” code in circle? Now let us view it on our new blog.

You can now see that the whole of the post is not showing. The link “Continue Reading”
will lead to the full article. You can place the code any where you want in the article
body - that is left to you. To post more articles or contents to your blog, just follow the
same steps above. It is that simple.
This brings us to the end of chapter ten. Now let us proceed to chapter eleven.

Chapter Eleven
How to Tackle Comment Spam, Approve, Reject & Reply Comment

After getting your WordPress blog online, you will surely get visitors and gradually, your
visitors will start dropping comments on your blog. Comments will come in form of
compliments, questions, feedback, answers and other type of contributions. But the issue
is, spam comments will surely come your way.

Spam comments are made by bots and different software to automatically post comment
sparsely on blogs (especially WordPress blogs). These comments are readable, while
some are readable but will contain grammatical errors. And some will make no meaning
to your particular post.

How to Tackle Spam Comments on Your Blog

Having the above statement in mind, you should be prepared to fight these spam
comments because whether we like it or not, spam will surely come. So to easily fight
and reduce these spam comments, we will be using Anti-Spam Plugins. Comment also
has plugins; that is why I so much love WordPress because of it too many extended
functionality; so congrats, because spammers will hate you for this.

Anti-Spam Plugins are used to scare away bots and other automated scripts that tend to
post comments on blogs by providing extra functions to the comment box. These
functions will make the bot or spammers to answer questions, tick a check-box,
enter a captcha or solve some mathematical problems. One of the most widely used anti

spam plugin is Askimet, although I am not using it, but it is effective in battling comment
spam. If you are planning to use Askimet, you will need to generate an API key for it to
work. However, there are many other plugins that are also effective in reducing comment
spam on your blog. Currently I am using the “Block by Math Reloaded” Plugin to fight
comment spam but as I said earlier, there is no 100% method to prevent spam, it can only
be reduced.

However, in no time, I will be changing to another anti spam plugin, not because my
current plugin is bad, but because I wanted to test the effectiveness of another one I just
stumbled on. It is called GASP. Don‟t worry, I will talk about it later. So to help you run
a more user-friendly, hassle-free comment system, I will be mentioning 10 good Anti
Spam WordPress Plugin you can use to minimize the amount of comment spam you
received daily. Below are the lists of few anti spam plugin I know (that are quite
effective):
1. Askimet: Probably the best of all. Askimet can separate spam from real comments

but sometimes, real comments got stuck in the spam folder.
2. GASP: Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin is my second chosen plugin because of it

ease of use and effectiveness. It adds a checkbox below comment form asking
your commenters to confirm that they are not a spammer. I love it because it is a
lot less trouble to click a box than it is to enter a captcha or solve math problems.
3. WP-HashCash: A captcha-based anti spam plugin that claims to be 100%
effective at blocking spam and no real comments.
4. Comment Spam Trap: This add a hidden spam field and an identical but required
captcha field for commenters.

5. Did You Pass Math?: This plugin requires your commenters to solve a simple
math problem like “what‟s 1+2?”
You can try any of the above anti-spam plugins and see which one best work for
you.

6. Block Spam by Math Reloaded: This is also an anti spam plugin that ask your
blog visitors to solve a summation. It is also effective in tackling spam comments.

7. Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam: It is a full-featured captcha-based anti-spam just like
the Askimet plugin. It requires commenters to identify a random word before
comment submission.

8. reCAPTCHA Plugin: This is yet another popular plugin. Just like the rest, it is
captcha-based.

9. Word Verify: Also another captcha-based anti spam plugin.
10. bcSpamBlock: This is a javascript-based anti-spam plugin that uses JavaScript to
filter out spam quietly and discretely.

You can try any of the above anti-spam plugins and see which one best work for you.
NOTE: You can download these plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory at
www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins or in your Install New Plugin page of your
WordPress Admin Dashboard. Just search for the name of a particular plugin and you
will find it in the list of search results, then download or install it.

How to Reject & Approve Comments

When you start getting real comments on your blog, you will need to approve them so
that the comments will appear on your blog. If you have chosen to approve comment
manually, which should be, you must approve the comments before they appear on your

blog.
To make a reply to comments, it is not compulsory to logged in as the admin, but you
need to login to see the Pending Comments, i.e. Comments that are awaiting your
approval.
To approve submitted comments, log in to your admin area. If you have awaiting or
pending comments, you will see the number of pending comments in 3 different places -
in front of the Comment tab, in the Post summary and in the Comment icon at the top.
See image below:

To approve the comment, click on any of the three links and it will land you on the
Comment Moderation page. From there, you can Approve, Reject/Trash or mark a
comment as Spam.

How to Reply to Comments

When real comments start coming into your blog, you will need to reply each comment
so that your blog will be interactive. Or answer questions that might arise from your
visitors, or reply to appreciate their comments.
So to reply to comments, if need be, you can do it from your blog or from your admin
dashboard. If you wanted to reply to comment directly on the post, go to the particular
post and click Reply, then type your comment and hit the Comment button.

NOTE: If you are not logged in as the admin, you will need to enter your Name, Email
and URL. But if you are logged in as an admin, you only need to enter the comment.
To reply from your Admin Dashboard, see the image below:

From the image above, I just point my mouse towards the pending comment and the
hidden function came out. From there, you can decide on what to do with the comment.
To approve, simply click Approve, to do something else, simply do otherwise. Or you
can click on any of the 3 links I pointed out earlier notifying you of a new pending
comment. That will take you to a Comment Moderation page where you can accept,
reject or spam a comment.
NOTE: The above screenshots are taken from my main blog because our new blog do
not have enough comment and spam to illustrate this tutorial.

Chapter Twelve

Optimizing Your WordPress Blog for Mobile Devices

Mobile phone is gradually taking over from computer in the aspect of internet.
Worldwide, mobile devices are now used the most in accessing the internet and that is the
main reason you should optimized your blog for mobile users. This is because most of
our blog visitors will be using mobile phones to access our site. You can still feature most
of the things you have on PC view on mobile view like integrating Google Adsense to
your mobile blog format.
These are some of the reasons why your blog should be mobile-friendly:

 It increase user experience
 Faster page load time
 Easier navigation
 It improves readability
 It can also be monetized.

So How Do I Make My Blog Mobile-Friendly?
With WordPress blogs, everything is easier with plugins. You optimize your blog for
different mobile devices such as Smartphones, iPad, iPhones, Android phones, Palm,
Blackberry touch phones, Nokia, etc.

However, there are both free and paid mobile plugins and themes, but you can still get
free stunning mobile plugins that will work fine with your blog and also insert ads into it.
Below I will be listing some free plugins you can use to mobilize your blog for mobile

users.

1. WPtouch Plugin

WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress website into an application like
theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects when viewed from the most
popular mobile web browsing devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, Android mobile
devices, Palm Pre/Pixi and BlackBerry OS6 mobile devices. Click here to download
WPtouh Plugin: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wptouch.1.9.37.zip

2. MobilePress Plugin

This one is my favorite mobile plugin. It is easy to use and has an easy way to integrate
Adsense into it. MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog
on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. Click here to dowonload
MobilePress Plugin: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/mobilepress.1.1.5.zip

3. WordPress Mobile Pack Plugin

The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site
and blog. It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is
visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a
mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out
and about. Click here to download WordPress Mobile Pack Plugin:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-mobile-pack.1.2.4.zip

4. WPtap News Press Plugin

WPtap is a WordPress specialist in developing mobile-friendly themes/plugins that can

instantly turn your WordPress site into a web-application experience. The themes
currently support iPhone, Android, and Touch-based Blackberry series.

5. WP Mobile Detector Plugin

The WP Mobile Detector WordPress plugin automatically detects if the visitor is using a
standard mobile phone or a smart phone and loads a compatible WordPress mobile theme
for each. Click here to download WP Mobile Detector Plugin:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-mobile-detector.1.7.1.zip

Personally I use MobilePressbut I am trying to change to WP MP Mobile Detector
to see how it works. However, it is to be noted that I have been successful in
integrating Adsense to MobilePress Plugin with ease without any third party site or tool.
So feel free to choose any mobile plugin to optimize your blog for mobile users. From the
onset you can choose a good wordpress theme that is mobile friendly to save you the
troubles of installing a plugin. You can also find other several mobile plugins either in
the WordPress Plugin Directory at http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins or by
searching in the Plugin page in your WP Admin Dashboard.

Chapter Thirteen

How to Create a Personalized Email Address
We are almost through with creating and designing; but this chapter will help you get a
customized email address. It will be better and professional to have an email address like
[email protected], instead of [email protected]. The personalize email address will be
@ your domain name.
So let us begin….
We are going back to our cPanel. I hope you have not forgotten how to get into your
cPanel? Point your browser to www.YOURDOMAIN.com/cpanel and login with your
Username and Password. Then click Email Account (you can find that under the Email
tab).

Click Email Accounts (number 2 above) to get into the Add New Account

Fill in the form starting from the email address you wish to use. In the above image, I
used info. You can choose to use any word(s) you desire such as admin, support or even
your name. Next, choose your domain name. Then use the Password Generator button to
generate a Password for your email account. Then click Create Account.

You can reduce the Mailbox Quota size if you did not have enough Disk Space on your
server. If that is successful, you should see a success message. Then confirm it by
looking down the page to see something like this:

That is the personalized email address we’ve just created. Now how do we enter the
email account to check for emails and/or send email messages out to friends? Read on…
Go back to the homepage of your cPanel. Under Email tab, click Webmail.

After clicking on Webmail, it should lead you to a page like this one:

Click “Go to Secure Webmail Login”, it will bring up about three Email Clients which
you can use to view your email account. You can choose any of the 3 but I usually use
the first one, horde. Click on it and login with your Username and

But it will be a hard work if you will keep logging into your cPanel and check your email
messages every now and then. However, there is an easy way out. You can forward the
personalized email address to your usual Gmail or Yahoo mail. By doing this, every
email that goes to your personalized email account will also be sent to your Gmail or
Yahoo email inbox. Isn’t that interesting? Yes of course.
Now let us look at how to direct every email messages from the personalized email to
Gmail or Yahoo email. Note that the email messages will be delivered to both email
accounts. Now go back to your cPanel homepage, under the Email tab, click
Forwarders.

This will lead you to the Forwarder page. See the image below:

Click Add Forwarder. On the Add Forwarder page, you need to fill up the form:

Firstly, enter the newly created personalized email address you just created. Here, I
entered the one I’ve just created which is info. The second is the Destination. This is
where you want to forward your email messages to. It can be Gmail, Yahoo, or any other
email accounts that you own. Here, I entered [email protected].
Then click Add Forwarder.
If that is successful, you should see a page like this one:

Can you see the underlined words? We have successfully directed all email messages
meant for [email protected] to [email protected].

From now on, any email sent to the personalized email address will also be copied
to my Gmail account. It is that simple!