Blog Pinging Services Tools

Yesterday I reviewed a wordpress magazine style template, one which loved by wordpress bloggers in recent days. And I told you in that post that wordpress is the most powerfull blog platform which used by million of bloggers. Well, have you ever thought that you need ping services to tell some social bookmark that you have updated your content so that they will send their spider to crawl your new content? Well, if you use wordpress, you can set it under your administrator option menu. And here are list of some pinging services so taht you can do multiple pinging with a single click.

1. Pingomatic - the most popular. Pings several popular services and specialized services. Create a bookmark for each ping url.
2. Pingoat - Pings a huge collection of 52 blogging services, including special services and non english tracking services. You can easily select all services by selecting the category.
3. King Ping - Pings multiple services - 18 in all. Easy to check and uncheck boxes. And you can also create a bookmark with your settings.
4. Blogflux Pinger - Pings 32 services, including several specialized services and language specific services too.
5. Feedshark - Ping, submit, & promote your blog, feed, or podcast for free to multiple services.
6. BlogBlip - Just enter the blog url and it will submit to 15 popular blog tracking services.
7. Ping The Empire - Pings 18 common blog tracking services.
8. Pingates - pings 37 services including several many Japanese ones
9. Ping.In - notifies several Blog Search Engines and blog directories, much like pingoat.
10. Autopinger - will automatically ping your selected blog services. Has a XML-RPC interface too.

Thanks quickonlinetips for this useful compilation.

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Wordpress Magazine Style Themes (1)

News/magazine style Wordpress themes become very popular among bloggers in recent days. Wordpress is the most powerfull blog platform which has been used by billion bloggers. Start from now, I will collect a series of wordpress magazine style themes so that you can choose the best one for you. and for this first time, I choose BranfordMagazine wich you can download for free from der-prinz.

Download the latest language pack (includes all languages mentioned above)

FEATURES:

Tabed section and the lead story
BranfordMagazine features a lead story with a photo, a category title, an article title and an excerpt. This is part of the tabed section on top of the homepage. The content of the tabed section will be defined and configured in the “ui.tabs.php” file. Everything that is displayed as a tab and its content has to be configured here.

Featured articles
The idea behind the featured articles is to have a category for teasers, specials and whatever you like to show in a featured way.

Middle homepage column
In the middle column you can teaser the first article of any other catagory except the News and the Featured Articles (of course you can show these as well but does that really make sense?). The excerpt of the most recent article of each category will be shown here. In the demo you see the first one with a thumbnail image and the others without. If you like to give it a thumbnail you have to use custom field again. The key for this custom field is “rightcolimage” and it works in the same way as for the Featured Article and the Lead Article.

Special Page Templates: The Featured Page
This theme comes with two additional templates for static WordPress pages. One is the “Featured Page” template. Its purpose is to build a page that has some featured content on top that comes along with an image of the same size like the homepage image in the tabed section (300×200px). You have three different areas you can edit seperately by using - you guessed it - custom fields again.

Special page templates: The 3-Columns-Page
This template gives you the opportunity to display three different categories in a static page. It can be a nice starting point if you use it e.g as the entry for a news section with three sub-categories. You don´t have to enter any content via the WP write panel since this page shows the most recent posts from three categories that you define.

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