Pathik Shah

Wordpress automatically saves post revisions of every post you create, everytime you edit it. This feature may be useful if you are trying to collaborate with other authors on the same post or if you want to automatically take backups of any changes you make. But most of us don’t need it; it just adds redundant rows in the wp_posts table and adds unnecessary bulk to your database.

To disable post revisions-

Edit the wp-config.php file in your blog directory and add the following line at the end

define(’WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false);

To delete existing post revisions-

Download the WP-Optimize plugin and install/enable it on your blog.

Go to Dashboard > WP-Optimize and tick Remove all Post revisions. Click on the Process button and all the post revisions will automatically be deleted.

There are many methods which you can use to improve your Alexa rank, and most of them do work. You can find plenty of tutorials on the internet which can help you boost your Alexa Rank, I’m just listing the two easiest ways to do so.

1. Install the Alexa Toolbar

The Alexa Rank is decided by the number of visits you get from users having the Alexa toolbar installed in their browsers. So the best way to improve your rank is to find as many PCs as you can, install the Alexa toolbar and set your website as the homepage.

To Download the Alexa Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox, visit Alexa Toolbar Download

2. Add the Alexa Rank Button to your Website

Each visit to a blog with the Alexa Rank button installed is accounted for by Alexa and helps in improving your Alexa Rank. It’s not as effective as the first method, but does work.

To Create a Alexa Rank Button for your website, go to Alexa Widgets, enter your site details and paste the code in your website.

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Some bloggers often inflate their feed counts in attempts to popularize their sites. But we can find out the exact reader count of their blog if they use Feedburner to burn their RSS feeds.

To Find the Real RSS Reader Count of any Website,

Just check out the URL of the RSS Feeds to get the Feed Name.

For example,

http://feeds.feedburner.com/PathikShah

Here PathikShah is the name of my Feedburner feed.

Now go to

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/PathikShah

(replace PathikShah above with the Feed_Name you want to check)

You should see the actual RSS count in a Feedburner chicklet.

BTW, you won’t get any result for my feeds as I haven’t enabled it yet.

Well this is a very basic WP tutorial, most of you may know this already. Creating an Archive page is very important as it helps your readers by making all the blog content easily accessible on a  single page. It also helps in indexing.

Check out my Blog’s Archives

There are many plugins / hacks available to create a simple archive on your Wordpress blog but none as simple and clean as this one.

To Create an Archives Page for your Blog,

1. Download the Clean Archives Reloaded Plugin

2. Extract the files in the ZIP file using WinZIP or WINRAR and upload them to your wordpress_directory/wp-content/plugins using a FTP client or through the web interface of your hosting provider, just as you would any other plugin.

3. Next, log in to the Wordpress Admin Panel (WP-ADMIN) of your blog and go to the Plugins tab.

Activate the Clean Archives Reloaded Plugin.

4. Create a New Page and add the code
[ cleanarchivesreloaded ] (without spaces)
wherever you want the Archive list to appear.

Set the Page Title to Archives and the page slug to /archives.

Publish that page. You should see the Archives page in your blog now.

Amazon has started a service using which you can publish your Blog (RSS feeds) on the Kindle using a subscription model. Kindle users can then subscribe to your blog for a small fee, 30% of which will be shared with you.

To publish your blog on the Amazon Kindle, you will first need to register on the Amazon website (you will have to create a new account, existing ones won’t work).

To register, follow this link – Kindle Publishing – Amazon, and enter your details.

Next, sign in to your account and click on the Add Blog link. Enter the RSS Feed address, the Blog title, tagline, description, website address, search keywords and other details. You can also upload your blog banner or screenshot. You can also see a preview of your blog on the Kindle using the Blog Preview Generator tool.

When you have finished entering the details, just click on the Publish Blog link to Kindle. Your blog should be available to Kindle users in about 1-2 hrs.

Note: Amazon currently doesn’t have any verification process in place to confirm if you are the owner of the blog.