This is a symbol of your love and trust in my work. Seeing this goodwill coming, I’m more than encouraged to come up with yet another such theme sooner. And for this time, I would like to use your imagination.

So please tell me what would you like to see in my upcoming free theme. To start with please poll for the type of theme I should create from the following categories. What do you think is The Most Wanted!!

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If you have any other ideas and suggestions please let me know via comments below.

Fully Customizable Free WordPress Theme by CSSJockey

Do you know why my daddy CSSJockey named me thus? I’ll tell you why.

Have you ever seen a Free WordPress Theme in which a single installation comes pre-loaded with 9 different site-wide styles to choose from, with just a click? That means even if you choose to apply one pre-loaded style each day, you could still have a unique look every single day! Seen that??

Pre-Loaded Styles

Alright, I bet you haven’t seen changing my style according to your occasion, mood or preferences! That’s customizing the customized. Now How’s That??

Cool Huh!! Check out what all you can change.

A quick view of my custom theme options

Yup! You can customize my main body, content, sidebar and footer background with images or colors as per your imagination. You can even change the Colors of the text, links and hover to go with the rest of my style in different sections individually. So you can play with your imagination… that’s me!

I can be very courteous too. I can greet your readers with a custom welcome message as per your choice when they land on your website. I have built-in capabilities to handle your Twitter feed or Flickr photo-stream by just knowing your user name. I can help you manage and keep track of your Feedburner RSS Subscribers. I can’t tell you how much you would love to manage your Entrecard widget with me. Assigning a custom heading to your Flickr and Entrecard widget, then aligning them with my custom widget options is a breeze!

Oh, and this secret. If you let me, I can even wear pretty rounded corners.

Enable or Disable Rounded Corners from backend!

There are all the more reasons to choose ME as your blog’s template. I am robust, W3C valid and cross-browser compatible. Best of all, I am independent. I don’t depend on or interfere with your default WordPress database tables to function efficiently. So I am amazingly fast, secure and future-safe.

And could you imagine? I am absolutely FREE!

So ultimately, I am what you want me to be. You choose how I behave or look like.

And thus, I am – your Imagination!

Imagination – A gift from CSSJockey. Please don’t forget to share it with your friends and family

Download in other languages:

Download French Version – by Christophe Sperandio

How to Install Imagination?

• Upload the theme files to /wp-content/themes folder on your web server.
• Login to your WordPress Admin area and click Appearance > Themes
• Click on Imagination theme to install and activate it.

That’s it, enjoy the new look of your website.

Terms of Use

• Imagination is absolutely FREE! as in free speech or as in free beer… Or even as in free speech after a couple of free beers
• We encourage you to share this theme with anyone and everyone as its totally FREE
• Feel free to use Google AdSense or deploy other ad-services with your “Imagination”
• You may deploy Imagination on your clients’ or friends’ websites/blogs but MUST NOT charge a dime for it. Also, the credit notes should be kept intact and must not be altered.

Our Google Group is a great forum for posting questions and suggestions.

]]> http://www.cssjockey.com/free-wordpress-themes/imagination-feature-rich-free-wordpress-theme/feed 35 http://www.cssjockey.com/wordpress/deep-integrating-wordpress-271-and-bbpress-0904 http://www.cssjockey.com/wordpress/deep-integrating-wordpress-271-and-bbpress-0904#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:21:25 +0000 Abhinav Sood http://www.cssjockey.com/?p=674 As WordPress and bbPress both come from the same camp, successfully integrating both of them to share logins as well as template functions has been a buzzing issue for developers. In fact, because both WordPress and bbPress have an almost similar file management structure, it makes all the more sense to integrate bbPress as forums into WordPress rather than using phpBB or SMF or any other boards.

Various resources over the web are trying to explain the process of (deep) integrating WordPress and bbPress without any issues, but mostly they are broken or outdated. In this guide, we’ll explain the process of integrating the latest stable versions of both WordPress (2.7.1) and bbPress (0.9.0.4) step by step in a comprehensive way.

Step 1: Downloading the Latest Stable Versions

Download the latest stable version of WordPress from Wordpress.org and the latest version of bbPress from bbPress.org

Step 2: Extracting the files

Extract the WordPress files into the root directory of your web server (or where you want to install it). Create a new database on your host using your phpMyAdmin or host’s cPanel.

Now, create a folder named forums inside the WordPress directory so that it forms a sub-directory of your WordPress website (for example www.YourDomain.com/forums). Now your FTP directory listing should look somewhat like this:

FTP Structure after creating the Forums Folder

Extract the bbPress files into this forums directory.

Step 3: Installing WordPress and bbPress

Now install WordPress by visiting your website URL in your favorite browser (www.YourDomain.com) and Create a Configuration File using the name of the freshly created database and database username and password. You’ll be done through, quite easily.

To install bbPress as your forums software go to www.YourDomain.com/forums. When the installation page appears click on the Let’s Get Started link to begin with the configuration. Enter the same database name, user name and password as you used for your WordPress install. Don’t check the advanced settings. Just save your database configuration settings.

Step 4: Integrating WordPress into bbPress

The next option is basically where the integration process actually starts. Place a check against the add integration settings. Then place a check against the add cookie integration settings. This enables you to use shared logins.

This is also where the complication comes in, in the integration of WordPress 2.7.1 and bbPress 0.9.0.4. Cookie generation and management mechanism in WordPress 2.7.1 is very different from WordPress 2.5. However bbPress still uses the cookies compatible with previous versions of WordPress. We’ll use a plugin as a work around to downgrade the cookies generated by WordPress to sync with bbPress. Follow the steps below.

Step 5: Filling in the WordPress integration details

In WordPress address, enter http://www.YourDomain.com

In Blog address, enter http://www.YourDomain.com

Now go to https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/ to generate WordPress Cookie secret keys. They’ll look somewhat like this:

define('AUTH_KEY', '3{=J|rF]CLK3XNzzKc+*Bn@2yeMh#y{c$PqfAgmW*WgPevIOEAi6Gl{b1');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', '-P`&G!_+5|1uu`>8y9!$f;.T<6-Oa');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', '3xIsD$9TmGg;FAu.[V,nqb%lE/`N~)h4rE>cO`]@h vkN?`>fA0w;|FFb|_3NW40');
define('NONCE_KEY', '{qBV?O[wCsW5 Y+1^ ].%Y-Mp[0*m`$A@M3:;OHm=>&R*$I4Zlv7^n*+G`ib.#?a');

In your root directory, open the wp-config.php file. Look for 4 lines starting similarly… Replace them with the generated keys. Perform this step carefully.

Now copy the value of 'AUTH_KEY' that is

3{=J|rF]CLK3XNz<DGr|K>zKc+*Bn@2yeMh#y{c$PqfAgmW*WgPevIOEAi6Gl{b1

(whatever is generated for you) and go back to your browser. Paste it into the WordPress Cookie Secret Key field.

Now go to http://www.YourDomain.com/wp-admin/options.php and look for a field named secret. Copy the value of this field and paste it into the next field of bbPress configuration – WordPress Database Secret. Finally place a check mark against the Add user database integration settings. You don’t need to use the advanced settings. Just Save WordPress Integration Settings and proceed to the next step.

Step 6: Finishing bbPress install with Site Settings

Enter the Site Name and Site Address (mostly, it’ll be automatically guessed for you). Select admin in the username drop-down to map it as the Key Master. Type the name for your first forum and save site settings to finish setting up the forums.

Registration – Setting up User Roles

When a user registers on your bbPress forum, your WordPress blog doesn’t know about it (and vice versa). The user will be created, but WordPress won’t know what user role to apply.

In the “WordPress Integration” section of the “Settings” area in your bbPress admin you will find a “User Role Map” where you can set which roles will be applied to users who register on your forums. Users who register on your WordPress blog will have the appropriate role applied to their account when they first login to bbPress.

Setting Up User Roles When Integrating WordPress With bbPress

If you don’t setup a role map, then this will not work. When you do setup a role map (or change it) any users who are missing either role will be updated, but existing roles will not be affected.

Step 7: Modifying the wp-config.php file

Add these lines of code

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');
define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

Just before this line:

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //

This would generally be near the top of the wp-config.php file at around lines 16 to 18.

Step 8: Modifying the bb-config.php file

Create a new blank file path.php and insert the following lines of code into it:

<?php
$p = getcwd();
echo $p;
?>

Upload it into your root directory and access it from your browser at www.YourDomain.com/path.php. It would show you the absolute path to your website and would be something like this: /home/xyz/public_html/sitename/

Copy this path as we will paste this in the bb-config.php file.

In the forums directory, edit the bb-config.php file and insert these lines of code in line 2 immediately after the opening PHP tag ( <?php )

if ( !defined('ABSPATH') & !defined('XMLRPC_REQUEST')) {
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
include_once( 'PASTE ABSOLUTE PATH HERE/wp-blog-header.php' );
header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
header("Status: 200 All rosy");
}

Then, near the bottom of the file – add these 2 lines of code just before the /* Stop editing */ line

$bb->custom_user_table = 'wp_users';
$bb->custom_user_meta_table = 'wp_usermeta';

Save your bb-config.php file and exit.

Step 9: Installing a magical plugin

Ann Oyama developed a WordPress plugin that enables WordPress to generate cookies that work with bbPress 0.9 so that a single shared sign in can be accomplished between the two! Download this plugin at WordPress.org

Basically the cookies generated by the latest version of WordPress are downgraded to the cookies generated by previous versions of WordPress. Upload the plugin to wp-content\plugins\ and activate it from your WordPress admin dashboard.

After you activate the plugin, you’ll be asked to log in again into your WordPress admin dashboard. Instead of logging in once again – type

www.YourDomain.com/wp-login.php?action=logout

When you’re logged out, clear your browser’s cache and cookies. Restart your browser.

Step 10: There’s no step 10. Bingo!

You’ve successfully deep integrated your WordPress 2.7.1 with bbPress 0.9.0.4. You can now use WordPress template tags in your bbPress theme and style it similar to your WordPress theme… and you’ve a single sign-on shared login set up and running! I hope you find this guide helpful. If you face any problems, feel free to drop us a comment. We’ll try our level best to help you out.

Today, I am pleased to announce the launch our first Big Ship (NEWSLive) in the deep ocean of Premium WordPress Themes.

NEWSLive Demo

NEWSLive is a Premium News/Magazine-style WordPress Theme to please your aesthetic senses and at the same time, provides you with flexible controls that you might have never imagined before. CSSJockey proudly presents NEWSLive which combines a magazine and a blog into one package and unleashes the power of WordPress more than just a blogging software.

NEWSLive provides you with amazing comfort of tweaking and fine-tuning your blog without ever touching the files or code! It is perfectly suited to anyone who wishes to showcase images from posts as a slide show, display featured content and featured videos right in the header. With just a mouse click you can arrange the content and sidebars in various positions. It is so Effortless!! Choose whatever you think works out the best for you.

I am sure you wanna be the first one to get your hands on to it. Before that allow me to introduce you to some Salient features of NEWSLive Premium WordPress theme:

Cross Browser Compatibility and Standards Compliance?

NEWSLive is compatible with all major browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer (including Internet Explorer 6!). NEWSLive is fully xHTML/CSS/RSS valid and complies with the latest web standards. The theme is a pixel perfect development and doesn’t break in any browser.

Compatibility with the latest version of WordPress

NEWSLive is fully compatible with the latest version of WordPress. This Theme does not use WordPress Options (wp_options table) and does not interfere with the core files to provide you the most usable and productive Custom Admin Options. Hence we believe it will be compatible with the future versions of WordPress as well.

No programming knowledge required!

Theme Configuration Options and Widget Options given with this theme enable you to fine-tune each and every part of the theme without touching the theme files or code at all! Services like Twitter, flickr, Entrecard and AddThis social bookmarking are already integrated into the theme.

Custom scripts like Site-Tracking code can be added in the back end itself without updating any of the theme files. These scripts automatically go to the right place where they should be and work like magic. So, all in all, you don’t need to know the “P” of Programming to use this theme.

Custom Header Configuration

All the pages you create appear in the navigation at the top. However, if you wish to exclude a page from the list, you can easily do that from Header Options in the Admin Panel under Theme Settings. Then comes the featured magazine/news headline section in the header which can be displayed either on all pages or you can choose to display it on the homepage only.

Featured Content

In the header section, you can feature the images from posts in a Plasma Display Panel or feature a video or your latest blog article with tags – whatever you wish to use. This, along with the tabs and the tag cloud make navigating through the site a breeze. These tabs can be configured to show as a category and list the posts in it with title and brief description. These options are provided in the Header Configuration in the theme options.

Widget Configuration

You can integrate your Entrecard, Twitter and flickr accounts with your blog simple by entering your usernames. Widgets options allow you to choose how many twitter updates or images from your flickr Photo-Stream you want to display. The cool thing about the widgets in NEWSLive theme is that they resize automatically depending upon whether they are in the smaller or the bigger sidebar.

Managing RSS Feed Subscriptions

You can choose to manage your feeds using your feedburner account. If not, the default WordPress feed setup is always there for you. Managing your feed subscriptions was never any easier.

Let’s sneak peek into what’s inside:

Custom Options Demo

View Demo

Click here to view NEWSLive in action.

Get our themes for free!!

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This quote by Alexander Fleming explains all what I am going to share with you today. I am pretty sure that you are aware of Google Search Suggest and Yahoo Search Assist feature. This feature helps you effortlessly find exactly what you’re looking for. No doubt, it lists a few suggestions to keep the user looking for more and more.

As you type something in the search box, it automatically offers search terms and phrases in real time. How nice will it be to have the same feature on your website or blog. In this post, I am going to explain an easy way to add search suggestion feature on your WordPress blog or website.

Things You’ll Need

jQuery: You can download the lates version from jQuery.com
Autocomplete Plugin: Download this plug-in by Jörn Zaefferer from http://bassistance.de

Now let’s play with some code

Include this code within <head>..</head> tag.

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.autocomplete.pack.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="js/jquery.autocomplete.css" media="screen" />

Here I am assuming you are using “js” folder to keep all your java scripts and supported files. You may need to update the location of these files based on your folder setup.

Here’s the actual jQuery code to enable this feature on an input box:

<script type="text/javascript">
var data = "Search Terms Separated With Spaces".split(" ");
$("#myInputBox").autocomplete(data);
</script>

Variable “data” hold the terms that you would like the user to see in the search suggestion list and $(“#myInputBox”) is the id of the search input box.

Let’s check out how we can automatically call WordPress tags in our search suggestions, using WordPress wpdb class:

<?php
global $wpdb;
$search_tags = $wpdb->get_results('SELECT name FROM $wpdb->terms');
foreach ($search_tags as $mytag){
echo $mytag->name. ' ';
}
?>

Here I am using WordPress wpdb class to fetch all tags assigned to the posts.

Here’s the complete code to enable this feature on your WordPress blog. Just replace the folder name with actual folder and the jQuery selector $(“#myInputBox”) with the actual id of search input box.

<script type="text/javascript" src="<?PHP bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/REPLACE_THIS_WITH_THE_ACTUAL_FOLDER/jquery.autocomplete.pack.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/REPLACE_THIS_WITH_THE_ACTUAL_FOLDER/jquery.autocomplete.css" media="screen" />

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
var data = '<?php global $wpdb; $search_tags = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT name FROM $wpdb->terms"); foreach ($search_tags as $mytag){ echo $mytag->name. " "; } ?>'.split(" ");
$("#ID_OF_SEARCH_INPUT_BOX").autocomplete(data);
})
</script>

Download this file which contains the above mentioned code.

If you face any issues or need help implementing this code on your blog, feel free to post your queries in our forum. Don’t forget to add your inputs in the comments section below.

Best CMS, Ever!

If you think WordPress is yet another blogging platform, take a quick look at other pages of CSSJockey (right from the homepage). Do you really think we could do this with  “Just-Another-Blogging-Software”? Absolutely not!!

Custom Pages, Custom Widgets, Photo Galleries, Portfolio, eCommerce! What, out of these, and even more hasn’t been set up using WordPress.

Only recently, I updated my portfolio with more websites that I had finished, which were not under non-disclosure policy. After adding these projects in my portfolio, I realized that in accomplishing 90% of my work, WordPress plays the role of a CMS. With all the work done so far I am amazed by just how much of its capability I have discovered and how much of it is still unknown to me. Here are a few things that my clients ask when I recommend using WordPress, even for static websites, and what I’ve to say to back my recommendation.

Is it easy to use?

It is The Most Robust and Feature-Filled Platform, which is not only easy to use, but also, very much user friendly. So far all my clients are really happy with the decision to use WordPress as a backend. Moreover, Wordpress.tv has made our lives much easier. I refer my clients to this website to learn the features and backend functionality while I am busy creating the best solutions for their requirements.

I need a blog as well…

I guess everyone has realized the value of blogging for their personal and professional web presence by now and most of my clients ask for a blogging platform with a unique and custom website design. It’s really easy to create a few custom pages within WordPress, rather than, creating a WordPress theme that matches the website design. And its really easy to embed WordPress features on these static web pages.

What about Search Engine Optimization?

I am pretty sure you are not new to this term and would want your website to be listed in top search results. With WordPress, you can use plugins like All in One SEO Pack, just to name some, that does most of the work without user intervention. SEO is a wide topic and there’s a lot that needs to be done to achieve good search engine rankings. However, a WordPress installation with a few plugins can help you get there without much hard work. You might want to check a few posts I have written on search engine optimization.

What all WordPress can do?

Honestly, I can’t deny that after using WordPress I haven’t even cared to search for any other CMS. WordPress is an amazing platform which can be customized to create Personal websites, Portfolio, e-Commerce, Galleries and Photo Blogs, Magazine or News websites, Article Libraries and a lot more. If you are comfortable with custom functions and template tags you can actually do wonders with just a single custom WordPress theme.

I don’t know programming?

While creating websites for my clients, I make sure they don’t have to spend their valuable time learning xHTML/CSS to update their websites. I have taken WordPress customization to next level where it provides a separate section in admin area to update the front end of our custom themes. It also has WYSIWYG capabilities where you can update and stylize the content which is not a part of WordPress post or page.

Moreover, these custom functions don’t save any data in core WordPress database tables (wp_options) so there’s no chance it won’t work with any other plugins and features.

Here’s a screenshot of Custom Theme Options I provide to make my client’s life a bit easier.

Click to Enlarge

That’s not all, to add a few more features in the list…

• Wordpress is Free and Opensource
• Wordpress is easy to install and upgrade
• WordPress is standard compliant
• WordPress is Popular (CNET, Ford, ZDNET and various other popular sites has used Wordpress as a CMS)
• Free support from a vibrant and amazing community of developers and contributors
• Huge amount of documentation is available
• Plugins are available for almost everything you can think of

I bet no other CMS can compete with this master piece. If you are using WordPress as CMS please drop your website links in comments. Don’t try to spam as a very powerful spam protection plugin (Akismet) comes with its default installation

Pinging Site Update Services

As this Wordpress Codex page explains,

Update Services are tools you can use to let other people know you’ve updated your blog. Wordpress automatically notifies popular Update Services that you’ve updated your blog by sending a XML-RPC ping each time you create or update a post. In turn, Update Services process the ping and updates their proprietary indices with your update. Now people browsing sites like Technorati or Sphere can find your most recent posts!

There are several site update services up and running which you can add in WP-admin >> Settings >> Writing, in the update services section. Add one service URI per line. Once you update your Wordpress website with a new post or new page, these services will automatically be pinged. Then these pings are processed and associated indices (plural of index) are updated with your update.

You can have a list of active update services from this Wordpress Codex page and copy them into your update services section (WP-admin >> Settings >> Writing). As easy as that!

Tuning your website’s permalink structure

Having title of the post or keywords from the post in the URI of your web page is obviously better than having numbers, question marks and other symbols. Not only humans can identify the subject of the page from its URI but search engines also find it easier to identify and assort web pages in this manner. A link like this: http://www.cssjockey.com/seo/search-engine-optimization-google-juice-hard-to-get-but-tasty-to-drink tells you and Google bots clearly what the page is going to be about. However the WordPress default, which for the same page is http://www.cssjockey.com/blog/?p=469 (click to see that it’s actually the same!), which is not at all intuitive.

You can easily figure it out that if you are Google’ing from a specific keyword then obviously the results will list URI with these keywords in the link higher than the URI containing numbers and/or symbols.

Note that this tip is very effective for static websites as well. Always name and link your website and web pages with the title of the page, or keywords relating to the subject of the page instead of serial numbers.

Customizing permalinks in Wordpress

You can learn further more about what permalinks are and how to use them on Using Permalinks page of Wordpress Codex. The Wordpress default link structure, also known as Ugly permalinks structure is the least SEO friendly link structure. However changing your permalinks is easy.

On CSS Jockey and my other websites, I am using /%category%/%postname% structure which has remained pretty fruitful for me. You can optimize your own links by following these steps:

1. Login to Wordpress Admin Area
2. Open the Settings Menu and Click Permalinks
3. Click Custom Structure and customize the link structure.

Refer to the Using Permalinks page to see various tags that you can use.

Please note that websites hosted on Windows based hosts (Microsoft IIS Servers) experience issues setting up SEO friendly pretty permalinks. So in case you’re on such a one, stick to the ugly or almost pretty permalinks to avoid issues, or migrate to a Linux based host.

Pinging maximum number of Site Update Services and tuning your link structure play a good deal to get you listed in Google search results or other search engines in less than 30 minutes! Try implementing these magic tricks on your website and let me know how well did they work out for you.

And for the next part in this series, we are going to discuss how to use various social networks to promote our websites and blogs. We’ll talk about what all services you can use and how they are important for you and your website. Till then, see you.

Google Juice - Hard to Get But Tasty To Drink!!

What is Google juice anyway?

If you’ve been blogging for a while I am pretty sure you are not new to this term. For everyone else, I’ll take a few words to explain what it is and how to get it to save you valuable time and several hours of study and research.

In search engine optimization (SEO) terminology, Google Juice is a term which means the unique visitors coming to your website from search engines (primarily Google, because of its domination in Search Engine market). This is also known as organic traffic which only stops by if your website is optimized for search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.

Importance of Google Juice

The more you get, the better it is for you. As per a research done by forrester.com, 80% of Internet users find websites by searching for keywords on popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN Live, Ask etc. and it’s really important that your web pages are listed in the results. If for a particular search term, pages from your website are listed on the first page of the search results then you are going to have loads of visitors stopping by on your website if they are looking for that search term or related stuff.

Pages from your websites stand a chance of getting some visitors even if they are listed on the second or even third page of the search results. Otherwise you shouldn’t (actually, you can’t!) expect significant traffic coming in from Search Engines unless the person who’s looking for something is patient enough to dig a couple of pages of search results for some search term.

How well are you ranked in Search Engines?

Technically speaking what makes your web-presence known is by your search engine ranks. Simply put, how well you are known online is determined by the rank your website enjoys in search engine. Page Rank (PR) by Google is one such important metric assigned to websites listed in Google Search Results which web-masters and advertisers often use to judge the quality of a website. The higher it is (on a scale of 10), the better a website is considered and the higher it is listed in Google Search Engine Results. Obviously, it enjoys more Google Juice than lower ranked websites.

Get listed in Google within 30 minutes

All those SEO and Make Money Online websites next door will try to show you ways to scale the first page of Search Engine results once you’re listed but what they won’t tell you is how to get listed in Google search results within 30 minutes!

We’ll consider scaling the front page of search results in a later post in SEO series but right now concentrate on how to get your web pages listed so soon.

This post is the first part of this series (Get Listed in Google within 30 minutes) and will be focused on websites and blogs built with WordPress as CMS. However, a lot of these tips apply to static websites as well. So, let’s start sharing best practices…

Wordpress Plugins and SEO

With the popularity of WordPress and the contributions by the WP community, managing websites and implementing SEO has become a lot easier. There are various WordPress plug-ins that are available for SEO purposes but the 2 plug-ins I would like to recommend to you are:

1. Google XML Sitemaps
This plug-in will create a Google Sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Every time you edit or create a post, your site map is updated and all major search engines that support the site map protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

Once you activate this plug-in go to plug-in settings and create the sitemap for first time. You can see the output with this URI: http://www.your-domain.com/sitemap.xml. Now we have our sitemap ready so let’s tell Google about it. Type http://www.google.com/sitemaps in your browser and login with your Google ID and Password.

On this website you can submit your sitemap to Google and Google will start indexing your website. This process requires site verification where you need to add a Meta tag or upload an HTML file to your web server. It’s very easy to complete and you can get step by step instructions on Google website.

2. All in One SEO Pack
This plug-in optimizes your WordPress website/blog for Search Engines. It automatically optimizes page titles for search engines and generates META tags. This avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs. For Wordpress 2.7 (the latest version) you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want while writing the posts or pages. You can fine-tune almost everything related to search engine optimization. To get most out of it, do a little keyword research for the content and use best keywords while writing the posts and pages.

Tomorrow, I will further dig into SEO stuff relating to getting listed in Google within 30 minutes of updating your blog/website. Next thing I’ll talk about is services that your Wordpress can automatically ping and notify them about updated content. I’ll also tell you how to fine-tune your link structure (permalinks) as they are not very search engine friendly by default. Stay tuned…

UPDATE

This post was indexed within 8 minutes of being published, publish time was 16:02 and Google indexed this post at 16:10.  Check out the screenshot.

I am enjoying the Google Juice!!