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WordPress As Lead/Referral Generator For Your Business

by Amit on February 16, 2012

John Jantsch of duct tape marketing fame, wrote a blog post filled with good advice on how to use WordPress blog as referral generator for business or company.

With any commitment at all your team could produce a local, keyword rich, content asset that would turn into a valuable resource for your clients and prospects and a logical referral generator for every member of the contributing team.

I have quoted one of his idea’s above, go read rest of it on his blog for more useful ideas and suggestions.

If you need help implementing them on your blog then let us know, we are here to help.

Can We Have Indian Language Website or Blog in WordPress?

by Amit on February 14, 2012

On Quora someone recently asked if it was possible to have an Indian language website in WordPress. I am reproducing my answer that I gave on Quora.

Yes it is possible to create WordPress based blogs and websites in Indian language. It is already translated in various Indian languages, and using following plugins, you can write your post in Indian languages.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/indic/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/indic-ime/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/indic-language-comments/

You can download fully localized version of WordPress from http://www.wordpressindia.com

If you need setting up your site in your language do not hesitate to contact us, we are here to help.

Site Launch: Redesign of Lighthouse Insights Blog

by Amit on January 18, 2012

I have know Prasant for some time and had been following Lighthouse Insights, a blog focused on Indian social media news. When he asked us to redesign his blog so that it better reflects various types of content, we were very excited.

After understanding his needs we suggested that he use thesis framework and we created a child theme that better reflected his needs.

1) Home Page

2) Category Page Listing

3) Single Blog Page

What we did for this Thesis site

We created a Child theme for thesis.
Advised them on theme framework to use and why.
Advised and suggested few plugins to use.

By the way if you are interested in social media then you should regularly read lighthouse insights.

Site Launch: Unitedbuzzz, social networking site exclusively for Manchester United fans

by Amit on December 20, 2011

UnitedBuzzz-small - for the love of manchester unitedUnitedBuzzz

Our latest project, an exclusive social networking site for Manchester United fans, on which we have been working since September this year for Aniket Kulkarni, is now out for public beta.

Unitedbuzzz, provides members with all the news they wanted about Manchester United, it’s players, their chants, fixtures, stats, ability to create there own united dream team, chat with other members, follow their stars and during the match ability to follow and comment on matchcast. Now you don’t have to go to ten different websites to get all these information’s.

1) Home Page

2) After You login, you activity feed

3) Quick Overview page for ManU

4) Players Page

5) Matchcast

6) Chat with your buddies

What We Did

Created the UI for the Unitedbuzzz
Created the fully compatible BuddyPress template for WordPress
Created a Plugin for Matchcast
Created many widgets to display various information’s
Used various types of custom post types needed for displaying and managing all the information’s
Integrated Facebook like Video chat on the site.
Integrated and configured various plugins to work together to give full experience.
Hosting it on our servers

WordCamp Cuttack 2012 – 3rd WordCamp In India

by Amit on December 17, 2011

Just Two months back we had WordCamp Jabalpur in India, and now in about two months 3rd official WordCamp is going to happen on ~~11th –12th February 2012~~ 10th-11th March 2012 in Cuttack, Odisha.

This one is organised with help of Soumya Pratihari, with whom i was fortunate enough to meet in last WordCamp. In case you had missed last WordCamp, you can read about it here and here to know how exciting it was, and why you should attend this one.

We are supper excited, and even more excited by the fact that event like WordCamp are happening in smaller cities of India.

P.S. Book your (train)tickets now, or it might be too late Smile .

1 million downloads for WordPress 3.3

by Amit on December 17, 2011

In four days that WordPress “Sonny” 3.3 is out, it has already been downloaded more then 1 million times, and counting.

This shows the popularity of WordPress, and i know there are still sites that have not yet upgraded. Here is a video showing the moment in history of WordPress in case you missed it Winking smile

WordPress 3.3 is Out

by Amit on December 13, 2011

“Sonny” the latest version of WordPress is out, and available for download. Check your dashboard and you should see an option to upgrade automatically, just in case you want to upgrade manually you can check instructions to upgrade.

With WordPress 3.3 you get

Drag and drop uploader.
Ability to upload rar and 7z files.
Now widgets don’t go away just because you changed the theme.
Import from tumblr.
New hover menu for navigation.
Improved admin tool bar.
Pointer tips for all the new features.
Improved co-editing notification
In case you are new, help tabs have been revamped to make it easier to find help when you need it.
Dashboard optimized for iPad’s and touch.
Latest version of jQuery.
Improved editor API, to make it easier to add buttons.
Performance improvement for ‘post slug’ permalink structure.

You can also checkout massive list of changes and improvements on codex.

I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank every one who contributed to code that released for 3.3, here is list of people who made this awesome release possible.

AdamBackstrom, amereservant, ampt, andrewfrazier, arena, carlospaulino, Caspie, cebradesign, David, Da^MsT,deltafactory, demetris, designsimply, dgwyer, Digital Raindrops, dragoonis, DrewAPicture, eduplessis,Eightamrock, eko-fr, Elpie, elyobo, Empireoflight, evansolomon, fonglh, garyc40, GaryJ, goldenapples, goto10,hakre, Ipstenu, Jackson, Jayjdk, jeremyclarke, jgadbois, Jick, JohnONolan, jtclarke, kevinB, kitchin, Kuraishi,Latz, linuxologos, lukeschlather, Mako, MarcusPope, mark-k, masonjames, MattyRob, matveb, Maugly,mdawaffe, mitchoyoshitaka, Mr Papa, mrtorrent, natebedortha, olivM, olleicua, Otto, pagesimplify,paulhastings0, pavelevap, pete.mall, peterwilsoncc, ppaire, r-a-y, Rami Y, ruslany, ryanhellyer, saracannon,scottconnerly, sirzooro, tech163, TheDeadMedic, tmoorewp, vnsavage, wpweaver, WraithKenny

How WordPress Can Help Knol Users

by Amit on November 27, 2011

As you may know Google has decided to shutdown Knol, and sun will set for Knol on 30th April 2012.

While that may sound like bad news, you don’t have to fear, WordPress is here. Smile

All you need to do is setup WordPress, install freely available Annotum theme, and import your knols.

Proper steps to follow these:

Install WordPress on your server
Install the Annotum theme from wordpress.org themes repository
Navigate to knol.google.com and log in with your Google account
You’ll see a link to “Export” or “Download” your knols.

To Download your knols, click the link and follow the prompts to export your Knol data. You’ll need to set up your own WordPress installation to host Annotum, then import your Knols.
Note: If your knols have multiple authors, you’ll need to map those authors to WordPress users, or you can add those users to your journal later.
For more information about using Annotum, please see the Annotum Support Page on Annotum.org.

After you download or export your knols, you can to set redirects on knol.google.com for each knol to let your readers know where to find your new content.

You can also setup the whole thing on WordPress.com.

If you need help setting this on your own WordPress install, don’t hesitate to contact us.

We can help.

Site Launch: Ayurveda Live

Our latest project was to create a blog template for Dr. Shweta Labde, who wanted to share her knowledge of Ayurveda via her blog. Screenshots 1) Home page. 2) Single Page What We Did We created the WordPress Template from PSDs provided by client. Site Configurations and Optimizations. Setting up feedburner for subscribing [ Read the Rest ]

Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals for WordPress Users

WP-lift has good round up of all the deals and coupons available in the commercial WordPress community that you can take benefit of. It includes deals from StudioPress, iThemes, ThesisAwesome and many others. Update: WPCandy has also posted a list of WordPress specific deals.