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I wonder why it never struck me to complie a list of SEO friendly wordpress themes on my blog as I am constantly searching for them myself!

I usually have a select of 10-20 themes which I use on most of my niche websites mostly because I have heavily modified them myself or find them to be perfectly coded for Search Engines. This is my list of 10 Search engine friendly wordpress themes.

1. Green Park 2 -

2. PlainTxt -

3. A Dream to Host -

4. Dateless Sniper 1.0

Some of you might be aware that I have been spending time on Cochin Square, my portal for my home town of Cochin, India. It was a different experience moving away from single author blogs to multi-author blogs. Thanks to the wordpress plugin developer community, I have been able to get the best plugins to run a wordpress based multi-author site with ease. Here is my list of plugins which I use on Cochin Square, hope it helps those running a single installation, multiple author wordpress blogs.

WordPress wins hands down as the best CMS platform ever built. I build all my sites using wordpress and then customize them to become SEO powerhouses. I can confidently assure you that – I eat SEO for wordpress!

If you are looking for some basic SEO tips, I suggest reading my post – Free Search Engine Optimization Tips to get a head start. For those looking for some wordpress seo tips, lets start!

1. Permalinks – The most important and the most power SEO tip for wordpress. It basically changes your links from sitename/page_id=12 to a more human readable format as sitename/postname. You can find it under Settings>Permalinks. Simple huh?

Sometimes, it becomes necessary to run a PHP code in your wordpress posts or pages to display a plugin output or for other reasons to make use of wordpress as a powerful CMS. There are virtually countless plugins which allow you to run PHP in wordpress.

“WordPress PHP exec” is a plugin that lets you execute dynamic PHP code in posts. It masks PHP code before balanceTags, and unmask them afterwards, so it should be safe to use PHP code that has literal HTML tags in it, for example: code which print out HTML.

For example, you can put you PHP codes like

Guess what came in the mail last weekend?!

WordPress sent me a whole lot of goodies so that I can keep enlightening the world about how wonderful they are! Thanks guys, you rock!

P.S: Thanks Arun at MillionClues for letting me know about this schwag.

I just found that wordpress have come together to release something called WordPress.Tv. According to the site,

WordPress.tv is Your Visual Resource for All Things WordPress

They have video tutorials for a lot of things to do in wordpress like adding a about me page, or writing and publishing a post. Must visit for all wordpress newbies and gurus alike. I hope to contribute to the site some day with my own little hacks and breaks on wordpress. It will help all those people who love how-to videos for doing new and unfamilier stuff with wordpress. Good thinking on the video site from wordpress. Life just became easier!!

I used to have the number of subscribers on my blog displayed as text on the sidebar of this blog for sometime, but when my feeds got migrated to feedburner.google.com which was incentivized to me with their Adsense for RSS, my subscriber count just stopped updating and it was showing me errors.

Binny is one of the very few social networking programmers I know of. Most of the programmers and coders that I know spend hours in front of the computer and have close to zero social life. But Binny is different in the fact that he attends almost every tech related camp in Kerala in spite of his busy programming schedule.

Binny is now on a mission to challenge himself by creating one plugin a day all this week. Thats about 5 plugins in this week, considering the fact that he does not like working on Saturday and Sunday.The contest already started off and so far he has given us these plugins

It is really simple to create the style of theme you want with wordpress that you can do a wordpress magazine style homepage and theme like my homepage with almost no expertise in wordpress theming!

Until recently my hompage was a php page with only page! I did not really bother with converting my homepage into wordpress since I did not have much of a content to post there anyways. But my tastes keep changing all the time and individual php files were of no use if I had to change the design. So I posted that exact php into a wordpress theme in less than 60 seconds. How?

Last week I was again struggling with server issues and downtimes on all my sites which made me look at ways to reduce the load on my poor server. I currently have about 50 wordpress installations and some 10 php based sites on the server.

Though wordpress is considered to be a efficient script, having 50 of them at the same place can be a problem, or so I learnt! Going through the “ways to speed up wordpress tips” across the google results on the blogosphere, I noticed the regular tips like

1. Upgrade wordpress to the latest edition