One reason social media is so popular is the ease with which new online services help users share the things that are important in their lives. Website comments allow simple conversational threads to be attached to posts, but products like JS-Kit Echo and IntenseDebate help expand the circle of people you can touch by converting your website or blog into a social media outlet as well.

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History

The company behind IntenseDebate was launched in 2007. JS-Kit was one of its many competitors. At the time, IntenseDebate featured a commenter profile system, not yet implemented in JS-Kit. In 2008, IntenseDebate was purchased by Automattic, Inc., the owner of the WordPress blogging software platform and several WordPress plug-ins.

If you have a site on a Rackspace Cloud Server, you can install WordPress on it in a few minutes. You don’t need to install WordPress with Yum at the command line. Instead, you can use RackSpace’s graphical user interface to install WordPress. However, you can install WordPress with Yum, if you prefer.

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Rackspace

Rackspace offers several hosting options from expensive managed-hosting plans to less expensive cloud-hosting options. With Rackspace’s cloud hosting, you pay only for the bandwidth that your site uses. A new site that receives little traffic will not cost much for the hosting service. However, an established site with thousands of visitors a day will cost a lot more. This gives you time to grow your site organically without worrying too much about cost.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or Ajax, has become very popular and is used in many WordPress themes. This popularity, however, does not necessarily mean that Ajax is being implemented correctly. There are a few tips and tricks you can utilize when working with Ajax that will ensure your WordPress site operates smoothly.

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Check for Permissions

A common mistake when using Ajax in WordPress is the lack of consistency when checking for permissions. This creates a security issue because without sufficient checks, a malicious user could gain access to unauthorized areas. To ensure that each Ajax request is made by an authorized user, always use the "current_user_can()" function:

Give away ideas from a Blogger blog to a WordPress blog to give the WordPress blog the look and feel of the Blogger blog. Although not all features and functions of Blogger blogs are directly transferable to WordPress, several customizations to either platform require similar enough modifications that it’s possible to come close. Alternatively, it’s possible to transfer an entire Blogger blog to WordPress.

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Instructions

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Copy HTML code from elements of the Blogger blog directly to WordPress. For example, copy HTML from a sidebar "widget" in Blogger and paste it into a "Text/HTML" widget within the WordPress dashboards. Both Blogger and WordPress interpret simple HTML code the same way.

For those who are not design- or development-savvy, a common practice when contracting a new WordPress design is to "mock-up" the look you want for your site in a Photoshop PSD file. Several WordPress designers and developers specialize in taking your PSD WordPress image layout, and turning it into code that the WordPress blogging system understands. Prices for each vary depending on the complexity of your project.

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Open Adobe Photoshop on your PC.

Most of Tumblr is sequential in a reverse chronological order: a single stream of content, with the newest content on top and the oldest content on the bottom. This holds true on the dashboard, on the tumblelog, on every tag page and on nearly every Tumblr theme — except for the archives. Clustered posts are the standard for Tumblr archives.

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The Tumblr Archive

The archive interface makes it easy for users to look at your content and make a quick assessment of the sort of posts you share. No matter what the theme you use for your Tumblr page, your archive is always the same: a grey header with the name of your blog and a basic navigation interface, with all your posts clustered and set to fill most of the screen. Like the dashboard, the archive uses endless scrolling by loading more posts when you reach the bottom of the page.

The Blogger platform comes with its own built-in lightbox tool for displaying multiple pictures within blog posts, but you can also install a third-party lightbox tool through the Blogger interface. If you are experiencing problems with the built-in lightbox or a third-party alternative, do some basic troubleshooting to attempt to resolve the issue.

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Pictures Not Displaying

If your pictures are not showing in the lightbox, visit picasaweb.google.com and check that your blog’s picture folder contains the right images and is not set as "private." Log in to your Blogger dashboard at blogger.com, then open the relevant post from the Posts page to make sure the correct pictures are loaded. If not, reload the relevant images using the picture icon on the toolbar. In addition, visit status.blogger.com to check for any current problems or issues with the Blogger service.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML allow websites to respond to clicks and display updated content without forcing your browser to refresh the page. WordPress uses AJAX throughout its administration interface, and plug-ins frequently take advantage of AJAX to enable a variety of features. Occasionally a plug-in conflict or poorly written code will cause an AJAX error. Through troubleshooting you can isolate the problem file.

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How AJAX Works

When a visitor interacts with an object on an AJAX-enabled Web page, the page’s JavaScript sends information on that interaction to the server, which in turn sends XML code back to the visitor’s browser. The JavaScript program interprets and displays the new information in real time, without forcing the entire page to refresh. AJAX is considered a "Web 2.0" technology and is used by many popular sites, including Google, Facebook and Flickr.

The Pods CMS Framework gives a key feature of powerful content management systems such as Drupal and Joomla to the WordPress blog engine: the ability to create custom content types with custom fields. Pods is a plug-in available in the WordPress repository. It’s ideal for you if the WordPress post and page templates are not feature-rich enough to create the type of content you need to create.

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Installing and Activating Pods

You’ll need to install and activate the Pods CMS Framework before using it. There are two ways to install the plug-in.

The Internet is filled with bloggers and journalists who share content daily on topics from business and politics to pop culture and education. Writers tend to spend time reading other content on the Internet to help them generate ideas for their blogs and websites. If a writer references another article or blog post on his site, he can leave a trackback to let the website owner know he referenced his article.

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Using Trackbacks

Individuals who share content online typically allow website visitors to leave trackbacks on their sites. The trackbacks show up before or after the comments section of each blog post or article. When a blog or website reader leaves a trackback, by placing a link to his article or blog post in the trackback section of the site he’s referencing, the site owner receives a notification. The notification provides the site owner with a link so that he may see which websites mentioned his post or crafted a response to a post he’s written.