Time stamp (date, time/day/month/year) will automatically be shown in every post and page in a wordpress. If you don’t like them or just want to remove them, do the following:

Removing Date Time Stamp from Posts / Article only (still shown in the mainpage)

1. After login to your self-hosted wordpress blog -> Appearance -> Editor
2. Click Single Post (single.php) -> find this code < ?php the_time('F j, Y'); ? > or <?php the date();?>
3. Remove the code and click Update File. Done.

Removing Date Time Stamp from Posts in Single Post and  the Main Page

1. After login to your self-hosted wordpress blog -> Appearance -> Editor
2. Click Single Post (single.php) -> find this code < ?php the_time('F j, Y'); ? > or <?php the date();?>
3. Remove the code and click Update File
4. Now go to main page (index.php) -> find the same code: < ?php the_time('F j, Y'); ? > or <?php the date();?>
5. Remove it and click Update File. Done.

Removing Date Time Stamp from Static Pages

1. After login to your self-hosted wordpress blog -> Appearance -> Editor
2. Click Page template (page.php) -> find this code < ?php the_time('F j, Y'); ? > or <?php the date();?>
3. Remove the code and click Update File. Done

Removing Date Time Stamp using  Date Exclusion SEO Plugins

1. Download the plugins here (in a zip file) or just can search through your WP Admin -> Plugins -> Add New -> Search
2. Install it the easy way. Activate it.

Functionality of the plugins:

Gives your blog a feeling of freshness by turning off the display of date information after a specified number of days or immediately after posting. You also have the option of removing dates from Category and Tag Pages as well as the Front Page of your blog. You also have the option of providing alternative text for each type. You now have the option of turning off specific posts using comma delimited list of post ids. Additionally it allows you to turn on and off the date functions depending on your theme used. More

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Is removing Date Time Stamp a good idea at all?

Daniel Scocco of DailyBlogTips has an interesting discussion on this in which he quote Darren Rowse as saying:

If the content is timeless and not ‘newsy’ in nature I think that
removing the timestamp from a blog is a very worthwhile thing to do. I’ve been doing it since the start of Digital Photography School (digital-photography-school.com/blog) a year ago and have noticed a few interesting things:

1. I get a lot more links on ‘old’ posts over time. On my blogs with dates on them I find that despite them getting traffic from Google that they are rarely linked to after a week or two. On DPS I’m constantly getting links from sites on posts even after a year.

2. I get more comments on old posts. Even though I leave the dates on comments (so people can really tell how old a post is from that) I find that not promoting the date gives a perception of ‘freshness’ in people’s minds and makes them more willing to interact with the post.

Update: I use this code myself, the result was not so good. I decide to remove it. So, use it with care.

A wodpress user asks in WordPress Forum about wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?

This seems very odd. I am getting direct hit to /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php with over 27767 hits.

I am sure there is something wrong so if anyone can help me out i will be very thankful. Below is the screenshot of the same.

What’s wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?

It’s a vulnerability about WordPress that gives the attacker the possibility to find out your admin login username and the md5 hash of your password.

How to solve it?

1. Upgrade to the latest version of WordPress.
2. If it still happens, put the following code in your .httaccess (public html -> .httaccess here)[1]
<files admin-ajax.php>
deny from all
</files>

Warning: There are some side effects though if you are using this code one of which are you cannot create new categories and can’t insert a picture. So, there more comfortable solution is needed to fix this problem.

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Notes:

[1] To access and edit the .httacess,
(a) login to your cpanel at yourwebsite.com/cpanel;
(b) File Manager -> public html -> .httacess (if you can’t see it, find it out using search tools)
(c) Check .httcess -> edit -> add the above code -> Save.
Courtesy: PhpHelp

• Furter reading

If you run a self-hosted wordpress blog, you may put the following Update Services to ping them about the newest blog post you’ve just written.

The purpose is apart from driving traffics, to get your latest articles indexed quickly by search engines

Where to put them?

1. After login -> Setting -> Writing -> Update Services
2. Put the following ping URLS into the box below “Update Services”

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://www.feedsubmitter.com

http://blo.gs/ping.php

http://www.pingerati.net

http://www.pingmyblog.com

http://geourl.org/ping

http://ipings.com

http://www.weblogalot.com/ping

3. Klik “Save”. Done.

Kyle Eslick has compiled a great collection of SEO friendly wordpress themes. Good for those bloggers who are not good in coding and clean up some coding mess themselves.

Divided into two and three columns themes, the review help the self-hosted wordpress bloggers to pick easily some of those free themes for maximum use.

Email sender: Blogger
Hello,

Your blog at [website.com] has been reviewed and confirmed as in violation of our Terms of Service for: SPAM. In accordance to these terms, we’ve removed the blog and the URL is no longer accessible.

For more information, please review the following resources:

Blogger Terms of Service: http://blogger.com/terms.g
Blogger Content Policy: http://blogger.com/content.g

-The Blogger Team

I then logged in to my blogger.com admin, and request for restoration of the blog (by clicking the “Restore” button).

Today (two days later), I got another email stating that the blog in question was NOT in violation of Blogger TOS. Meaning, the Blogger Team has WRONGLY deleted my blog. So, the blog is back. Here’s the second email:

Hello,

Your blog at has been reviewed and confirmed as in violation of our Terms of Service for: NONE. In accordance to these terms, we’ve removed the blog and the URL is no longer accessible.

For more information, please review the following resources:

Blogger Terms of Service: http://blogger.com/terms.g
Blogger Content Policy: http://blogger.com/content.g

-The Blogger Team

This is not the first time that blogger.com has wrongly disabled/ deleted some blogs I created for alleged spam which has NEVER been true. The most shocking was when it deleted my favorite afsyuhud.blogspot.com which had Google PR 6 back then and because of which I moved to fatihsyuhud.com untill now.

Blogger.com seems never want to improve its spam detection tools. So many victims of Blogger outdated anti-spam-machine which make them move forever to another free blogging platform like WordPress.com or go to a paid hosted blog. If I may advise the Blogger team, they should turn off the anti-spam detection tools and check the suspicious blogs manually so that this kind of unnecessary case no longer happen in the future. This really create a very bad image to blogger.com.

I am sure, if blogger.com still stick to this kind of policy i.e. punishing a blog simply based on automatic anti-spam report, blogger.com will be left out by so many of its users.

Act before it comes too late, Blogger.com!

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Lessons learnt for newbie bloggers are these:

1. If you are interested in personal blogging / writing without any interest in making money online, create a blog in a free blog like wordpress.com.

2. If you want both expressing your free speech and making money online at the same time, create a blog in a self-hosted wordpress blog.

3. If you want to make a niche blog, ie a blog with specific content, for making money, run the blog in a self-hosted wordpress blog as well.

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There is a recent case in which a popular music blog has been mistakenly deleted too by Blogger.com team. This is from Blogger Team official blog (emphasis is mine):

We looked into this issue further and identified one case where a blogger did not receive notification of any DMCA complaints before their blog was removed. We’re sorry about this.

We’ve contacted the blog owner and restored their blog, effective immediately, and we fixed the bug that caused the termination without prior notification. We’re also looking into additional preventative protections. We know the DMCA process can be difficult to navigate, and we’re working on ways to make this process as smooth as possible.

Read also:

1. Auto-Generate Meta Description for Blogger Blogspot
2. Each Post Different Meta Description Title-based for Blogger Blogspot

First, improve the meta tag description for the blog.
Second, create different meta tag description for each and every post.

More on this just listen to what the Google Webmaster Team has to say:

Using identical or similar descriptions on every page of a site isn’t very helpful when individual pages appear in the web results. In these cases we’re less likely to display the boilerplate text. Create descriptions that accurately describe each specific page. Use site-level descriptions on the main home page or other aggregation pages, and consider using page-level descriptions everywhere else. You should obviously prioritize parts of your site if you don’t have time to create a description for every single page; at the very least, create a description for the critical URLs like your homepage and popular pages.

The first point is easy. Google it on how to create meta tag description, you’ll find it right away.
The second part is also easy if you have a self-hosted wordpress blog. Just use Platinum SEO Pack plugins and set the tag or category as your automatic meta description of any particular post / article.

However, if your blog is run on blogger.com / blogspot you have to use meta description on each post manually.
Some tutorials on how to create a different meta tag for different post/article in blogger.com / blogspot can be found in the following links:

• Hack by Bloggertricks
• Metatag for Blogger
• Informationtypes

Wish you luck!

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The top commentators can also be set to change every month. Like the one in this blog sidebar (see, Top Ten Blogrolls for Being top commentators of the Month).

Download here for free!

Setting screenshot: See the screenshot below to customize the plugins after you install and activate it.

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• Name: 000a
• URL Address: http://www.000a.biz/
• WebSpace: 11,000 Mb or 11 GB
• Adverts: No. Meaning, you have full control over it.
• Your Ads: Allowed. Meaning you may put Adsense and others in it.
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Notes:

Using free domain and free hosting services are good for practicing purpose only. Once you get used to this technology, you should step into a paid domain / hosting. Especially, if you want to monetize your blog i.e. earn some money.

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