If you’re a regular here, you know i love WordPress. And this infography presents some cool information of one of the most popular blogging platform content management system on the planet.

The Power of WordPress by Tech King

Lifestream is a very cool WordPress plugins. It shows your’ lifestream’ throughout your social networking account feeds.

Weirdly enough, i experience this several times, the plugin gone after updates. And if you use WordPress 2.7. and up, there’s a chance that, if your not techie enough to know about PHP/MySql like me, you’re going to try re-install the plugin through WordPress’ own automatic installs.

However, re-installing doesn’t work. But it could, by following these steps:

1. Open your FTP client, and browse to yourdomain.com/wp-contents/plugins
2. Find ‘lifestreaming’ folder and rename the folder into anything you like.
3. Go to your plugin page at WordPress admin, search for Lifestreaming plugin then install.
4. Delete (recommended) the renamed lifestreaming folder.

When you delete the old plugin folder, it doesn’t delete the database. So on your new installation, you still have your configured Lifestream in the page where you put lifestream plugin’s shortcode.

Please note that this method might also work for re-installing other plugins.

Enjoy Lifesteam plugin & here’s my lifestream.

RobinMalau.com uses Wapple Architect Mobile WordPress plugin for mobile browser compatibility.

Before i install the plugin, this blog look like this in my iPhone 3Gs.

It looks like the desktop version only smaller. It’s hard to read or browse the blog since the layout was actually made & optimized for desktop browsing.

After i install Wapple Architect plugin, this blog looks like this picture below. Definitely easier to browse its posts and pages.

The good thing is, this plugin is actually redirect you to Mobile version, when you arrive using your mobile device. And when you scroll down the page in mobile version, you can actually find a link to display this blog into desktop version (if you prefer that better instead of mobile version).

To make things cooler, the Wapple development team choose this blog to be included in Wapple’s Architect plugin in WordPress plugins directory‘s screenshots. You can download the Wapple Architect WordPress plugin here, or you can go to Mobile Web Junkie website for more information.

Awesome!

Update June 2nd, 2010: It’s gone from WordPress.org showcase, which is great because i’m thinking of changing the theme of this blog

Thanks WordPress!

Mostly basics, but awesome.

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According to Odesk, the winner is WordPress.

Just yesterday i posted about WordPress 2.7. RC 2 then suddenly i found below known notification:

So i immediately update this blog to the newest and coolest WordPress version.

Next task, train my clients on the new version. Ah.

It gave me a big headache back then when i migrate this site from Blogger.com to WordPress last year. I remember i got email assistant from a kind WordPress employee (his name was Mark, couldn’t find which famous WordPress’ Mark) but i believe i can’t find a complete step by step Blogger.com to WordPress migration, especially from SEO perspective. I lost my backlinks because of the change of permalinks structure and lucky to still get a PR 2. I did the same mistakes on some of my other blog which is suck a lot.

However, SeoBook’s Aaron Wall has just posted a complete (i believe the most complete in SEO perspective) tutorial on how to migrate from Blogger Powered Blogs to WordPress.

I have one PR 3 Blogger.com powered blog left to migrate to WordPress, what a time to find this post.

If you’re in need to migrate your blog from Blogger.com to self-hosted WordPress (you should if you plan to treat your blog seriously), go to SeoBook.com and check it out.

Amazon affiliate program is probably the oldest and the most successful internet affiliate program in the world. They provide a wide range of supporting tool for their affiliates. However, among those fancy and helpful tools, my favorite is always their aStore.

aStore is a program for Amazon affiliates, that wishes to have their own niche online store, without having to buy inventories, managing payment and shipping. Affiliates can choose on what products they want to sell in their aStore and able to customize the look to meet their website and niche look.

However, there are 3 ways to display aStore, whether it’s a (1) standalone site, and integrating to affiliates website using (2) inline frame and (3) a frame set. The 2nd and 3rd option is super cool. Imagine this, your visitors can shop on your aStore without leaving your website. How cool is that.

This tutorial is using the second option, by using inline frame, which can make your aStore look and feel match with your website as it still using the same Header and Footer. Now let’s see what we can do here.

Customize Your aStore look

The first step is of course you need to set up your aStore. Some notes on this step are:

1. Choose products that fit your niche for super wide range Amazon products.
2. In aStore set up wizard, don’t use the Header as it will be contrast with your blog’s default header.
3. If your blog’s sidebar located at left side, then choose the store’s sidebar, and vice versa if its at right.
4. It’s better to edit your store’s CSS to match the feel of your site.
5. When it’s all finish, choose to display your store using inline frame. Copy the code and put it to notepad.

Create a new Custom Page for your aStore

This step is pretty tricky. But if you follow step by step, then you should be ok. I use this technique found at Kristarella’s blog (more info on developing pages at WordPress.org)

1. Copy your page.php file using FTP, rename the file to store.php or whatever you like.

2. Edit the store.php file using your text editor. To remove the sidebar (because you’ll be using your aStore’s sidebar), find this line of codes and delete it:

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

After that, add this codes at the beginning of store.php file:

<?php

/*

Template Name: Store

*/

?>

Finish? Save it and FTP the store.php file to your template folder.

3. Now find this (or by the likes):

<div class="post">

And change it to sort of like:

<div class="post store">

and then styled in the CSS using:

.store { width:30em; } (my aStore was 70em)

4. Back to your WordPress Dashboard, write a new page, name it Store.

5. Scroll down and find Page Template drop down, choose Store template. You might need also to set the Page Order for your store page.

6. Now copy your inline frame code from Amazon, and paste it to your new page (don’t use Visual mode, use HTML mode instead).

7. Publish your Store Page and you’re done.

Final Result

I implement this to my Manchester United Blog. As the football club has just finished their season in high as Champions of England and Europe with super dramatic fashion, i figure what can be a better moment to put the aStore to my blog as its traffic reach the all time high from Manchester United fans all around the internet. Before i integrate the store, it was a standalone site which look like this:

Now, it’s integrated with my blog and look like this. Much cooler aight?

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I have upgraded this blog to new released WordPress 2.5.1. From the development blog, i found that the team at WordPress also include Media Uploader fixes which in the past i found error several times.

But at top of that, this is an urgent security release, so you will need to upgrade yours.

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