Have You Tried One Click Installer?
The OneClick installer is perfect if you want to save time downloading and extracting zipped plugin or theme files then uploading them to your Wordpress blog via FTP.
After you’ve installed and activated OneClick, you’ll be able to automatically install plugins from either their zip file on your hard drive or directly from the zipped file’s URL.
In Wordpress 2.5.1, you access OneClick from the Dashboard. After installing a plugin, all that’s left for you to do is activate it.
OneClick has a plethora of features, all outlined in the Wordpress Plugin Directory information for OneClick. That page also includes a download link for the plugin.
The only problem I experienced with the plugin was not being able to delete one of the plugins (via either FTP or cPanel) that I’d installed with OneClick.
Turns out that had I bothered to read the instructions, I wouldn’t have had to bug Steve, as there’s a fix for that too. It’s called the purgatory module, and is included with the plugin.
The OneClick installer might be the LAST plugin that you ever download, extract and then upload to your wp-content folder, and that’s a GOOD thing.
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How I Got 2198 Facebook Friends With NO Profile
This is the first of a 5-part series about social media marketing using Facebook by guest blogger, Alexander Alaric .
One of the reasons people use Facebook for networking, especially for business, is because it is a protected environment.
Unfortunately, many new users get caught by the Facebook spam Nazis and get their accounts shut down. These guys mean well but unfortunately sometimes the “baby gets thrown out with the bathwater”.
Even seasoned Facebook users have had their accounts disabled and banned. Robert Scobleizer (a long-time and experienced Facebook user) wrote about how his account got shut down here. He later got it reinstated but why make yourself go through the hassle.
So, let’s start out with some of the Facebook basics and avoid having your account shut down. Because after the effort it takes to build up 500, 1000, or more friends you want to protect your account and the time that you’ve put in. Read more
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Another Good Reason to Write Your Blog Posts Offline
In the Super Affiliate Handbook I talk about using a text or HTML editor (as opposed to an online interface) to write your blog posts to avoid losing your hard work should you lose the connection.
Well, here’s another reason.
I’d spent about 20 minutes researching and writing a post about carbon offsets for the Roamsters blog yesterday when I suddenly saw what is in the image above… i.e. NOTHING.
Hoping that the draft hadn’t yet been auto-saved, I quickly closed and then re-opened the browser window.
No luck, still NOTHING there.
Obviously, I somehow managed to delete all the content I’d written and the sad thing about it is… unlike an HTML or text editor, there’s no UN-do button or CTRL-Z function!
Argh.
Maybe one of these days I’ll take my own advice. 
Looking for a good, inexpensive HTML editor? CoffeeCup offers their HTML Editor as a free trial download.
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How to Use PLR Article Packs
After blogging about why I bought Joel Comm’s Instant Resale Templates pack the other day, a few folks got in touch with me through the Support Desk to ask how they could best use a private label rights package.
To answer their questions more fully, I just posted an article titled “10 Ways to Use PLR Article Packs” into our articles database.
NOTE: Although other affiliates are now promoting Joel’s Instant Resale Templates at $147.00 (and the price will go up again), YOU can still get it for the original price of $97.00 through my link.
It goes off the market on May 8th, so if you need PLR content, templates and more; I’d suggest picking it today.
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Why I Bought Joel Comm’s Instant Resale Templates
No doubt you’ve heard all the hullaboo going on about Joel Comm’s Instant Resale Templates since its launch on the 1st of May.
Well, I just ordered a copy this morning and here’s why.
The package includes all of the following components:
Instant Resale Template Collection Components
- 100 HTML Templates (with Resale Rights) $2,500.00
- 100 HyperVRE Templates (with Resale Rights) $2,500.00
- 100 XSitePro Templates (with Resale Rights) $2,500.00
- 100 WordPress Templates (with Resale Rights) $2,500.00
- 100 phpBB Templates (with Resale Rights) $2,500.00
- 100 Headers in 5 Formats (with Resale Rights) $1,667.00
- 500 New PLR Articles (with Resale Rights) $3,000.00
- Sales Letter with Graphics $10,000.00
Instant Website Starter Kit Components
- AdSense Answers Ebook (with Resale Rights) $150.00
- Squeeze Page Success Guide (with Resale Rights) $97.00
- Getting Traffic To Your Site! - Ebook (with Resale Rights) $97.00
- How to Get Free Web Traffic - Ebook (with Resale Rights) $77.00
- The AdSense Traffic Guide (with Resale Rights) $100.00
- Website Content Ebook (with Resale Rights) $125.00
- Omakase Ebook (with Resale Rights) $79.00
- Chitika eMiniMalls Secrets (with Resale Rights) $197.00
- Color Tips Ebook (with Resale Rights) $77.00
- 2 Bonus Ebooks (with Resale Rights) $100.00
- Multi File Editor Software (with Resale Rights) $297.00
- KaleidoSite Pro Software (with Resale Rights) $150.00
- 14 Video Tutorials - almost 3 Hours (with Resale Rights) $1,400.00
EXTRA Templates & Graphics
- 182 Niche Templates (with Resale Rights) $197.00
- 49 Squeeze Page Templates (with Resale Rights) $200.00
- 81 Video Squeeze Page Templates (with Resale Rights) $169.00
- 306 Basic Templates (with Resale Rights) $297.00
- 80 WordPress Themes (with Resale Rights) $100.00
- 76 Photoshop Templates (with Resale Rights) $199.00
- 5 One-Time-Offer Templates (with Resale Rights) $67.00
- 54 Landing Page Templates (with Resale Rights) $79.00
- 88 Marketing/MiniSite Templates (with Resale Rights) $300.00
- 40 Plain Templates (with Resale Rights) $50.00
- 44 Newsletter Templates (with Resale Rights) $100.00
- 300 Website Buttons (with Resale Rights) $100.00
- 45 Extra Header Templates (with Resale Rights) $100.00
The amounts listed represent the approximate value of each component and in my experience, many of those are low.
For example, Joel includes 500 New PLR Articles which he values at $3,000.00. I don’t know where he gets good articles for $6 a pop, because in my experience it costs at least $10 to get a ghostwriter to write a semi-decent article and then you still have to do some rewriting to make the article presentable.
Too, I’ve spent $250 and more for developer editions of Wordpress templates, which includes a licence that allows me to use the template on more than one site. Joel values his Wordpress templates at $25 each and not only can you use them more than once, you can resell them.
I’ve paid more than twice as much as Joel is selling the whole Instant Resale Templates package for, AND it includes resale rights… AND there’s a whole lot to be made in reselling ‘chunks’ of a package.
All in all, I thought it was a great deal and will be even after the price goes up later on today. (See note below).
Check out Instant Resale Templates now.
NOTE: OTHER affiliates are selling the package for more, but I got a special link from Joel, so YOU can still get it for the original price $97.00.
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Blogging for Change
No… “blogging for change” doesn’t mean blogging for pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.
By ‘change’, I mean using your blog to make things happen!
Case in point.
On Earth Day night, I couldn’t help but notice the ugly glare from the HUGE lamp standards at our local baseball field than burned for hours on end while no one played… AGAIN.
As a local taxpayer and someone concerned about the environmental damage caused by wasteful energy usage (not to mention how we should be conserving every precious kilowatt), I had already phoned City Hall about the issue.
However, despite assurances to the contrary — nothing happened.
So, that night I took photographic evidence of the bright empty field, uploaded the pics to Flickr and then blogged my utter disgust in a post at Roamsters.
What do you think happened when I phoned City Hall the second time and said “Oh and by the way, if you Blog search Google, you’ll see a blog post entitled “Wasting Energy: How Penticton Celebrates Earth Day” right at the top of the listings?
You’re right! Changes started to happen the very next day!
The Parks guys programmed the system so the lights turned off at 10PM the following night, rather than 10:30PM. A couple of nights later, one of the Parks guys went out to the field on his own time and seeing that is was empty, turned the lights off at 9PM.
A couple of days after that a switch was installed at the field so the lights will only work when the team is there and actively turns the lights on and a discussion was held with the local baseball league to inform them of their responsibility to turn the lights OFF when they leave.
And best of all (from my selfish perspective), a Parks rep visited our home and a link to the blog post was sent to the company that installed the lights. By result, in the next few days the company will adjust them downwards to reduce the glare from our (dis)advantage point.
How’s that for effective blogging?
For me personally, the effect is hugely satisfying… moreso even than if I’d made a pot full of money blogging about something else. It feels really good to be able to effect quick change on a level that benefits both my community’s environment and budget.
Would the response have been as quick if I’d said, “go take a look at my website” instead of “blog search Google”?
Based on previous experience, I don’t think so. I believe the quick response was by and large a result of how effective blogs are in scoring points with Google.
And I’m sure I’ll have opportunity to test that theory sometime in the not-too-distant future… but next time I’ll upload video to YouTube!
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BlogClassroom: You Asked, We Took Action
Anik Singal’s and my BlogClassroom V.2 launched last Tuesday and the response to our video blogging tutorials has been FANTASTIC to say the least…
There was however one issue that has now been rectifiied.
This morning we introduced a 3-Payment plan to make it easier for you to get started on your blogging business.
Added to our “”DOUBLE Your Money Back Guarantee For 60 Days!” policy and you can’t lose.
Just as a reminder as to what you will get when you become a BlogClassroom student, there are:
- 110+ Videos – The A to Z of Blogging…
- 4 Weeks LIVE Webinar Training
- Look Over Our Shoulders As We Build…
I look forward to working with you to achieve your blogging goals inside the BlogClassroom.
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