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Whatever (files, images or videos) you’ve uploaded s into a self-hosted wordpress, the link path into those files is not pretty. It’ll look like this (in my case): http://fatihsyuhud.com/wp-content/uploads/year/month/image.jpg

From esthetical and SEO perspective, this kind of link is not good. The good one should be like this: http://fatihsyuhud.com/downloads/images.jpg or http://fatihsyuhud.com/downloads/video.avi or http://fatihsyuhud.com/downloads/cpns_deplu.pdf, etc

Fortunately, you can easily change that not-SEO friendly link into the one which is not only pretty but also would help you optimize it in the search result pages.

Here’s how:

1. After login, click SETTING -> MiSCELLANEOUS.

2. In the “Store uploads in this folder” -> delete “wp-content/uploads” and change it into “downloads”

3. Unchecked the “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders”

4. Click -> Save Changes. Done.

Now you have a pretty uploaded URL path. Your uploaded file from now on will look like: http://fatihsyuhud.com/downloads/files.pdf, etc..

See the live demo here. (look at the link path URL)

Notes:

1. You may change the word “downloads” into whatever names you want. Wordpress.com uses “files” instead of “downloads”.

2. If you’ve uploaded some images before this change, don’t worry. The previous url address will not change. It will change only the future uploaded links.

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By default, permalink in self-hosted wordpress is ugly and more important, not SEO friendly. It looks like http://fatihsyuhud.com/?p=22. The pretty permalink will look like this: http://fatihsyuhud.com/year/month/day/post-name. To transform the ugly one into a pretty permalink you need a little work-out. Fortunately an easy one as follows:

I, finally and officially, Quit Smoking and today is the seventh day. 21 March 2008 was the starting day.

It’s been a long while that the intention and willingness to call it a day emerged. What I need was a momentum to start afresh the whole thing. Includng to begin leaving the “chain-smoker” label behind.

And when the moment came, I took it with both hand. Now, it’s the seventh day I live without any cigarette smokes filling my lung. Some friends amazed, surprised and shocked. But it’s just natural to go from one extreme to another if you’re determined to do so. Nothing is impossible.

For WordPress version 2.5+ / 2.6 + and Wordpess.com:
1. After login, click “Desain” atau “Design”
2. Click “Widgets”
3. Click “Add” to Widget you’d like to activate. Example: click “Add” at “Text” or “RSS”.
4. Click “Save Changes”
5. Click “Edit” at the widget you want to edit. Example,
(a) click “Edit” at the widget “RSS” which just been added, put it with a feed from a particular blog or website, Example put my feed to your RSS widget -> http://feedproxy.google.com/fatihsyuhud;
(b) click “Edit” at widget “Text” and put anything there. Example, put this code (copy/paste):

<a href=”http://fatihsyuhud.com/” title=”Blogger Indonesia” target=”_blank”> <img src=”http://fatihsyuhud.com/blog-indonesia.gif” border=”0″ alt=”Blogger Indonesia”></a>

6. Click “Change” and “Save Change”. Done.

Tips: You can drag up and down any activated widget as you like by left-clicking the widget -> drag it up and down.

How to Make a “Read More” or “Read the Rest of this Entry” or “Read Full Story” “Continue Reading” in Wordpress Post

1. After login to your wordpress account, click menu “Write”
2. Under the title box on the right side, there is menu “VISUAL” and “HTML” -> click HTML.
3. There’s menu “more” below “HTML”, clcik it. A code < !–more–> will pop up.
4. Your post which you want to appear in the front page should be placed above < !–more–>, while the rest of article which you want to hide should be placed below < !–more–>

Good luck!

1. Visit www.wordpress.com
2. Click Sign Up
3. Fill up the form
a. Username: -> put a blog name as you wants (at least four character / number)
b. Password: put your desired password (at least six character)
c. Confirm: repeat the same password.
d. Email Address: put your email address. If you still dont have an email make one at gmail.com or yahoomail.com
e. Legal flotsam: check it as sign of your approval to the TOS (terms of service).
f. Check the menu “Gimme a blog” (it’s there by default).
g. Click “Next”
h. Blog Title -> write a title for the blog. Example: Information Technology Blog
i. Language -> choose any language (by default, English).
j. Privacy -> Check it (it’s by-default setting).

4. Click Sign Up
5. There will be a message like this::
Your account is now active!
You are now logged in as (username Anda).
An email with your username, password, Akismet API key and important links has been sent to your email address.
Write a post, change your template or visit the homepage.
5. That means you have sucessfully created a blog. Now you may login to your blog to administer the content. Here are the importants URL address you would need to remember:

a. To login, open : http://your-blog-name.wordpress.com/login.php
b. Write your username (=blog name) and password.
c. Click “Write” to start writing a post/ article.
d. Click “Publish” to make it public.

6. Done (if you want finish it don’t forget to click “Log Out” especially if you are in a public place).

Notes:

• The plus point of wordpress.com compared to blogger.com are (1) comment friendly: visitors easily can make a comment because the comment box shown prominently below a particular posting / article. Those who like many comments in their posts may find this blog suitable for them;
  (2) The latest posts will come up several minutes in the Dashboard of every wordpress.com users, and if a particular post/arcticle attracts much traffic it’ll have a chance to be at BOTD (best post of the day) that is top ten articles / posts that attract the most traffics of the day will be placed in all wordpress.com users dasboard in a language that one chooses. For example, if you choose an Arabic language, you will only see the Best of the Day in Arabic only.
• The minus point of wordpress.com compared to blogger.com / blogspot is: you cannot put any javascript in a wordpress.com blog. Meaning, you cannot put any ads such as AdSense, Chitika, guestbook, or anything that use javascript. This should not be a problem for blogger who just want to blog / write; who don’t have any intention to monetize i.e. to earn money from blogs.