Recent articles not showing on self-hosted WordPress Blog

If you're a blogger running a self-hosted wordpress blog , then sometimes you find your recently written or created posts/articles absent from the home page. They are not only absent from blog homepage, but also from Recent posts widget in the Sidebar. You have emptied the browser cache and done everything else, but the problem persists.  Your self-hosted WordPress Blog homepage is looking like this to everyone, including you:

When in reality it must look like this:

So what is the way out?

Try to do this: Install and activate another Theme to your wordpress blog. You can even install a free wordpress theme. Visit blog, to see if the recent posts/articles are visible in the new theme. If yes, then reinstall and activate your previous theme. It may solve your problem.

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What is self-hosted wordpress blog or website?  

A blog created by installing free WordPress.org CRM or platform on purchased hosting. It is different from free wordpress.com. Here all you need is a domain name and web hosting. The CRM comes free with hosting.

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Recent articles not showing on self-hosted WordPress Blog

Anil Singh Wednesday, May 16, 2018

29 Ways to improve your WordPress Website | Book shares

If you are running a self hosted WordPress blog or WordPress website, there's high likelihood that you may have a wish to improve it, so that you get more traffic. I'm emphasizing on "already running" aspect, as in order to clearly acknowledge that mere content can't pull the website up and help the WordPress website grow, a blogger must have spent some time running a website.

It may look rude, but only after some months and sometimes years of blogging, a blogger gets into the proper blogging mindset. A mindset where content creation and website improvement go together. What does working on site improvement mean? It means making site likable to search engines, get more website content indexed at key positions on search engines, bringing search traffic from search engines, building good website reputation/authority and using tools/services both within and outside the website to help it grow.

The 29 ways to improve your WordPress Website, are actually shared in a book titled -- 25 Ways To Improve Your Website by Vinny O'Hare. Why this dichotomy?  As whatever the tile suggests, the author shares with you 29 ways to improve your WordPress Website. The Book is divided into 29 chapters, and shares information from everything about Website aesthetics (importance of colors used, Ad placement, layout etc.) to title tags, alt tags, meta tags, meta description, good site navigation, importance of internal linking, building back-links, content and last but not the least 5 Social networks one must focus on.

Who the book is for:

Can't say for sure. It's quite vague for new WordPress website owners. It's quite generic for those WordPress blog or WordPress website or Website on other CMS (Content Management System) owners, who spent some time with the CMS. In addition, the latter Website owners will find the book one of the many such book present online. There are some tips though, from which both kind of website owners can benefit.







  

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29 Ways to improve your WordPress Website | Book shares

Anil Singh Friday, January 30, 2015

Improve Blog Comment Quality with New Wordpress Plugin

Does conversations in the comment section of your blog, help your blog become popular? Many expert Bloggers believe so.

A new WordPress Comments Plugin Creates Conversations on blog. Not only just conversations, but quality conversations. Comment Conversations which are stimulating part of your website.

The new Wordpress comments Plugin:

Urtak's offering aims to change the way your visitors interact with each other by allowing them to ask each other questions -- seated where your comment section normally rests.

An Urtak window displays questions that your users have submitted for each other to answer and records how they answered in a little interactive pie chart (great for some secondary intelligence).

Benefits of Urtak Comments for WordPress:

1) Urtak makes your content more engaging.

Accordingly to their internal research, “on average, Urtak users spend 90 seconds (1.5 minutes) more time on articles or videos”.

2) Increases shelf life of your blog content:

Urtak employs a smart algorithm to ensure that the questions people care about most get thrown to the top of the stack. Those topics which are least debated see their comments at the bottom of the pile.

3) A great Feedback module: You can Get feedback from your readers as well, about your blog, content quality etc. To allow to get better intelligence Urtak also allows you to dig deeper with their cross tabulation tools and find out how different types and demographics of users responded.

4) A noticeable difference you will see is increase in politeness and friendliness in your comment section. This may be due to timely redressal of comments; as readers themselves comment some questions for you. Plus since a user has to log in with Facebook and Twitter, before asking questions; hence non-serious comments are cut.

5) Moderation is Still there: You can choose to personally moderate all questions that are submitted, rather than relying on community moderation.

6) Is able to handle great traffic: Don't worry about Urtak slowing down your site, it is designed to handle the traffic of mega blogs like Mashable, Techcrunch etc.

Price:

FREE

Availability:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/urtak-for-wordpress/ OR Search at Wordpress Add new plugin Page
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Improve Blog Comment Quality with New Wordpress Plugin

Anil Singh Friday, September 21, 2012

Design Approval System WordPress Plugin Review

Design Approval System is a free WordPress plugin from Slick Remix. It aims to provide a more efficient and effective method for showcasing and sending the preview or draft version of a design to a client. The latest version of the plugin is compatible with WordPress 3.0 and above.

Imagine that you are a graphic designer and you want to show a draft of your latest project to your client or customer. Without the plugin, you would normally email the image of the draft design as you wait for your client’s approval. That could be quite underwhelming especially when you’re trying to boost your credibility as a graphic design professional. However, if you decide to use the Design Approval System plugin by Slick Remix, you will be able to use your WordPress blog to publish your ‘design posts’.

How It Works

The plugin is very easy to use. After installation, you will be prompted to customize the appearance of your plugin by providing your company’s name, email address and logo. You are also allowed to customize the texts that you want to appear on the design post. After which, you can create your first ‘design post’. Just look for the ‘Add New’ design post option on the Design Approval System panel of your Dashboard. It is like creating a new post sans the lengthy paragraphs. You will upload the image or screenshot of your design instead of typing some words. Plus, you are required to fill the blank fields with your client’s name, email, project due date, design title, etc. Once done, you can publish and view your post. You may then click the ‘send email’ button (located under the ‘Designer’s Notes’) and the plugin will automatically send an email to your client/s prompting them to accept or deny the design that you have posted on your blog.

Wrap-Up

It doesn’t matter if you’re a graphic designer, a custom WP template maker, a photographer or a web developer. As long as you have something that you want to showcase or deliver in a more efficient manner, you can definitely take advantage of the plugin’s cool features. Plus, it’s a good way to show that you can professionally manage your projects. There will be times wherein you will encounter a couple of errors or glitches but that can be easily resolved by tweaking your plugin settings or by simply reloading the post. Thus, the Design Approval System plugin deserves to have an overall rating of 9 out 10 stars.

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Design Approval System WordPress Plugin Review

Kent Maureen Monday, August 13, 2012

WPHypnoLinks Automated Affiliate Link Cloaker for WordPress Unleashed!

Is it possible to have an automated affiliate link cloaker that would allow you to automatically add your affiliate links to your blog? The answer is YES. It is very much possible. That’s if you have the WPHypnoLinks plugin installed.

It doesn’t really matter if you are a blogger or an internet marketer. The plugin will work as long as you have a WordPress blog. As a matter of fact, it’s not just a link cloaker. The plugin also works as a URL rotator. It is fully automated and it will manage your cloaked affiliate links through rotating URLs. Of course, there are those who are quite cynical and would question the credibility of the said affiliate link cloaker. Well, you just have to know that WPHypnoLinks is created by Andy Bailey, the creator of the ever popular comment system plugin – CommentLuv.

The WPHypnoLinks plugin for WordPress is a very good tool that can be used to optimize and maximize the use of your affiliate links from Commission Junction, Shareasale and ClickBank. That being said, these links will be automatically linked to any related key phrase or keyword on your post. You can finally say goodbye to manual linking as it would obviously consume a lot of your precious time.

Some of the features of the new WPHypnoLinks affiliate link cloaker plugin for WordPress are as follows:

• Creates masked or cloaked links that points to your blog but would eventually redirect the user to the target URL of your choice
• Google Penguin proof, the plugin won’t add the links unless the user would view your page or post
• Uses hypnotic effects that would captivate the user’s eye with glaring or subtle link effects and styles
• Easy to configure with free lifetime updates
• Integrated Click Stats via Google Analytics
• One click updates with Import and Export link option
• One-time usage fee for unlimited blogs

To take advantage of the features of WPHypnoLinks, you may purchase the plugin for a discounted price of $47. This is a limited offer and would only last for a couple of weeks. After this offer, the plugin can be yours for a one-time fee of $97. The plugin is fully compatible with today’s widely use browsers and mobile platforms such as iOS, Android, FireFox, Chrome and Opera. You may also click this link to avail of the plugin's 2-day Free Trial.

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WPHypnoLinks Automated Affiliate Link Cloaker for WordPress Unleashed!

Kent Maureen Monday, July 30, 2012

Facebook launches Wordpress Plugin

Facebook hours back launched a new Plugin for Wordpress.

The plugin makes it easy to cross-post stuff from your blog to your Facebook profile and even has cool additions like the ability to tag Facebook friends from the WordPress editor and have the post show up on their Timeline.

Te Facebook can be a real power for Social bloggers out there, who are looking to cross-post content between their self-hosted WordPress website and their Facebook timeline and pages.

Get the plugin here, or use the “Add New” function in Plugins in your WordPress Admin Area.

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Facebook launches Wordpress Plugin

Anil Singh Sunday, June 17, 2012