This tutorial will take you to the installation steps required to install Sweetcron in the XAMPP. I am taking the liberty to assume that you have already installed XAMPP. I
First of all download sweetcron and copy the extracted “sweetcron” folder inside the htdocs folder in the XAMPP directory.
You have to get few things in place before installing sweetcron:
1. Create a sweetcron database using Mysql. You can just put a name “sweetcron” and leave all the other settings such as Mysql connection collation as it is.
Now that you have the database ready you can configure few settings before making sweetcron to work on XAMPP.
2. Open the config-sample PHP file with your text editor (something like Notepad++ or Komodo Edit is recommended) which is located in Sweetcron/system/application/config. You have to make few changes in it.
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Google Adsense has become the most popular online contextual advertising program and proper custom integration with Wordpress can help to increase Adsense earnings. Now on this post we have describe 5 useful wordpress plugin for google adsense. Few weeks ago we did a "10 Wordpress Plugins For Google Adsense ". Wordpress allows bloggers to easily integrate Google Adsense inside wordpress using plugins.
Adsense Integrator : The Adsense Integrator plugin supports lot of programs other then adsense like AdBrite, AffiliateBOT, SHAREASALE, LinkShare, ClickBank, Oxado, Adpinion, AdGridWork, Adroll, Commission Junction, CrispAds, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN so this can be used when you are looking to have adsense as well as other alternatives. The rest of the features of the plugin are same where you give your adsense code into options field and it get inserted into blog posts.
All In One Adsense And YPN : This is one of the most powerful adsense plugin for wordpress. Jut like other plugins, you can use this to insert your ads in the post but the plugin has some really good features like randomness which shows ad at random location in your blog which reduces ad blindness for viewers. You can also stop ads being shown on some pages using tags.
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which is an art and a science that helps search engines discover your content and understand how relevant it is to specific search queries. This post will help you choose the right tags, tell search robots what to work on, optimize your post titles and more. Few weeks ago we had already done a “10 Useful SEO Plugins For Wordpress“.
Automatic SEO Links: Automatic SEO Links allows you to choose a word or phrase automatic linking, both internal and external, set anchor text, choose if it should be nofollow or not and more. One of the best features of this plugin is that it will only do this for the first occurrence of a word in a post so you don’t have to worry about spamming your post with numerous links to the same thing.
Platinum SEO Plugin: The Platinum SEO Plugin offers you such features as automatic 301 redirects for permalink changes, auto-generation of META tags, post slug optimization, help in avoiding duplicate content and a host of other features.
Google XML Sitemaps: An essential tool in any blogger’s armory of SEO tools. While the name only mentions “Google” this plugin creates an XML-sitemap that can be read by Ask, MSN and Yahoo also.
Meta Robots Wordpress Plugin: An easy solution for adding robot metadata to any page you choose on your blog. You can use it to make your front page links into “nofollows,” prevent indexing of search pages, disable author and date-based archives, prevent indexing of your login page and numerous other features.
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Insights is an amazing WordPress plugin that lets you perform more in less time and increases your efficiency and productivity. This plugin lets you do some of the tasks in seconds which otherwise takes minutes. Insights brings the the following abilities to your WordPress blog:
- Search your blog for posts, edit them or insert links to them into the current post
- Insert Flickr Images
- Insert Youtube videos
- Search and link to Wikipedia
- Search Google
- Insert a Google Map
- Search News
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We talked about the WordPress Social Bookmarking plugins some time back and we bumped into another such plugin which has been launched with some preparation. AddInto is the latest plugin which has manged to garner our attention for its clean and sleek looks and being more than just a WordPress plugin.
AddInto comes with bookmarklets which would be supported across all major web browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari including Google Chrome. It can also be integrated with Google toolbar.
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Twitter has become a darling amongst the WordPress folks for some time now as we saw certain plugins and codes created and launched in last few weeks to flaunt twitter updates on your WordPress blog. Twitter is a microblogging service which has become the epicenter for everything social for some time.
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A lot of people I know are twitterholics and I believe the way things are going I might also become one of them. Some of the people have also started to use it as one medium where they can discuss or have a communication around social media because it’s usually the social media guys who you’d see making most noise on Twitter or for that matter friendfeed. In these situations one often feels the need of 140 character limit annoying. I dugg for some twitter based application and services which can bypass the 140 character limit or shorten your messages on twitter.
TinyPaste is TinyURL for text. It allows you to write as much as you can and when you are done, it gives you a tinypaste URL which you can tweet. Your twitter followers can access your message on the tinypaste URL you tweet. If you like this one then you might like to check out its Firefox extension as well.
Twitzer is a Firefox extension which shortens your long twitter messages. After installing this Firefox extension, you can write post or whatever you want to rant on Twitter and if you have crossed the character limit then all the additional text will be replaced with a shorttext link which on clicking will show the full message to the readers inside the browser.
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The beauty on web lies in customization and developers know this pretty well. The immense customization options is perhaps one reason why it is so much loved.
Let’s take a look at some of the essential WordPress plugins you shouldn’t forget while setting up a WordPress blog.
WordPress Database Backup: As the name suggests, this plugin helps you to create backup of your WordPress blog and you may also configure the backup of tables you want to take. A backup is inevitable for any data, be it on your blog or your desktop.
Akismet: There are quite a few spam filters for WordPress but Akismet is by far the most used filter. It works relatively well to keep your blog away from spam messages. Akismet is based on the information from other Akismet users which might drop some legitimate comments or messages in the Akismet spam box.
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If you are always trying to find new ways of getting more hits to your wordpress blog, you might consider making it search engine friendly. Thats where this list comes in handy with some of the best plugins for wordpress that will make your rank better in search engines.
All in One SEO Pack: Take control of your meta descriptions and page titles . You can also post tag with categories. All In One SEO Pack i sthe most popular SEO related plugins because of the essential functions it allow you to perform.
Ultimate Tag Warrior: Ultimate Tag Warrior helps you to add tag which are recognized by search engine like technorati, to each of your post. UTW provides you with a few different options for entering tags, including simply typing your tags when you are entering the post.
Google Sitemap Generator: Google and other search engines use XML sitemaps to find and index all the pages of websites and blogs. By default your WordPress blog does not create an XML sitemap. With this plugin the process is automated. Additionally, it automatically updates the XML file whenever you publish a new post.
Related Entries: Puts up related entries of your post throughout similar tags and words. Good for SEO because more links within the site, great deep linking.Your post will automatically include links related to the post.
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Here are the 10 WordPress Admin plug-ins that expand the functionality of the admin area specially if design isn’t your primary skill set.
Admin Management Xtended: Adds some icons to the posts or pages management panel with AJAX-driven CMS-known functions like toggling post or page visibility, changing publication date and title without having to open the edit screens or reload the page, plus changing page order with drag’n’drop, inline category management and inline tag management, plus much more.
Custom Write Panel: This plugin allows you to add whatever you want to the Wordpress dashboard through PHP and HTML even Sidebar Widgets. You can also wipe the entire dashboard or individually remove some of the more irritating sections like the Dev news, Planet Wordpress and the getting started section.
Ozh’s Admin Drop Down Menu: All admin links available in a neat CSS driven drop down menu. No need to click on “Manage” then “Pages” to edit pages, go to any admin page from any admin page.
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