Reports

These reports are provided each month to ActiveBlogging.com PLATINUM and GOLD members (Gold members get the current issue and previous month). Login required to download each. If you’d like to now how to get this timely information just check out our Offer Details Here

‘The ActiveBlogging Report’ is a Member’s-Only Monthly Guide to WordPress and blog-related topics. The following issues are available for download:

April 2008 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• What’s New With ActiveBlogging
• What’s New With WordPress - WordPress 2.5 Is WP 2.5 worth the wait - or should you wait a little longer? Here’s the scoop on upgrading to (or starting with) the latest version of WordPress.
• What Is Adwords ‘Smart Pricing’ And How Can I Fix It? Smart Pricing is great for Adwords - but can kill an Adsense site. What is it, and is it the problem everyone seems to think it is?
• What To Do If Your WordPress Blog Is Hijacked By Spam Links Your site is offering links to credit cards and worse - how can you get rid of them and get your blog back to mint-new condition?
• ActiveBlogging’s New Credit System Started last month, members now get credits instead of ABTheme ‘rentals’ - here’s the scoop on the new plan.
• Fun WordPress Tricks: How To Shuffle Posts (Or Reverse Post Order) On The WordPress Home Page Posts DON’T have to be in order - and with a few lines of code you can do many WordPress tricks, like multiple columns of posts, or randomize them.
• The AB Affiliate Program AB Members can get ‘free’ membership (or better) simply by encouraging others to join, with the ActiveBlogging affiliate program.
• Internet Offers
• Current Deals

March 2008 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• What’s New With ActiveBlogging
• Video On Your Blog - A Good Idea? Just add a link and put video on your WordPress blog - but there’s more than that to consider if you want to add to your blog, instead of subtracting from it.
• Blogs, Bandwidth And Bad Video Performance Think you know all about videos and WordPress? You’d be surprised how easy it is to hurt your blog (and website) if you don’t plan ahead.
• How To Put Video On Your Blog - Safely AND Simply Video on your blog can enhance it and get you more attention - but only IF you do it right. Avoid common mistakes with these tips.
• ABTheme 4.05 Is Ready! THE simple yet flexible solution for WordPress theme design is ready with a new version incorporating fixes, features and enhancements in security.
• How To Get Camtasia Videos Working On Your WordPress Blog Camtasia videos are a great way to teach techniques. But putting them on a WordPress blog can be a real chore - unless you follow these steps.
• Emergency WordPress Recovery Tricks - What To Do When ALL Is Lost! No backup? No existing copy of that vital blog article? No problem - with these neat tricks to recover just about ANY blog post!
• Internet Offers
• Current Deals

February 2008 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• What’s New With ActiveBlogging
• Microsoft Live Writer - Worth The Trouble?
• Securing Your Site With “Top 10 Tricks To Protect Your WordPress Blog Online!”
• Quick And Easy Backups Of Your WordPress Site - With XML
• Smart Quotes And Dumb WordPress - How to Stop Unwanted Article Formatting
• WordPress MU - Is It For You?
• Internet Offers
• Current Deals

January 2008 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• What’s New With ActiveBlogging
• The Perils of Permalinks
• Membership Sites Part 2 - Membership Levels
• How To Add PHP Easily To Your WordPress Posts
• ActiveBlogging Changes For 2008
• Play ‘Tag’ With Your Articles - For More Traffic!
• Internet Offers
• Current Deals

December 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• What’s New With ActiveBlogging
• Speak And Write - Easy Blog Posts With Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.5?
• Easy WordPress Forms With Dagon Form Filler
• The New Business Section in ActiveBlogging
• Creating Videos With Camtasia For Free
• Easy ABTheme tweaks
• ABTheme - the Future
• Business 101: Membership Sites
• Internet Offers
• Current Deals

November 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• What’s New With ActiveBlogging
• ABTheme 4 Is Ready!
• Transfer Your WordPress Blog To Another Site - Without Pain!
• How To Customize The WordPress Admin Easily
• A Warning About Subscriptions And PayPal
• When EXACTLY Does WordPress Ping?
• Internet Offers
• Current Deals

October 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• What’s New With ActiveBlogging
• WordPress 2.3 Arrives
• Setting Up a Help Desk
• Integrating Your Help Desk With WordPress
• Off-line Promoting, Part 2
• WordPress Linking For Rankings, Part 2
• Pages Or Posts - Which is Better?
• Add A ‘TinyURL’ To WordPress
• Internet Offers
• Current Deals

September 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• What’s New In The ActiveBlogging Report (and On The Site)
• ActiveBlogging And YOUR Input
• Are You Planning NOW For December?
• Two More WordPress Versions This Month
• How To Hide Your Pages
• Off-line Promoting, Part 1
• WordPress Linking For Rankings!
• Internet Offers
• Current Deals

August 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Items mentioned:
Code clips with the FlashFader demo files (zipped)

Topics:

• What’s New
• Easy Ad Rotator For WordPress - Or Anything Else
• WordPress Again!
• RSS - Should We ‘Feed’ Them Everything?
• Great Plugins: Fancy Flash Effects on WordPress
• Does Your Site Have a Favicon?
• Internet Offers
• Current Deals

July 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• What’s New
• WordPress 2.2.1 - REALLY Worth An Upgrade?
• Is Your WordPress Theme Exposing Your Site To Hackers?
• More Videos!
• WordPress And Static Websites
• Internet Offers
• Current Deals

June 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Items mentioned:
Code clips and the WordPress admin password change script wp-fixlogin.php (zipped)

Topics:

• What’s New
• Are You Losing HALF Your Search Engine Rankings?
• ABTheme Now At ActiveBlogging!
• How To Deal With A Forgotten WordPress Login
• ABTheme Designs
• Internet Offers
• Current Deals

May 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Items mentioned:
Joomla Introductory Reports (zipped)

Topics:

• What’s New
• WordPress 2.2 - And Widgets!
• Welcome Platinum Members!
• Is Joomla Right For You?
• Easy (Bulk) Article Posting
• Internet Offers
• Current Deals

April 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Items mentioned:
CamStudio Screen Recorder (zipped)
Cascading style Sheets Beginner’s Guide (PDF; zipped)

Topics:

• Make 404s Count!
• Videos, Videos, Videos
• PLR Is DEAD! Or, Why SnowFlake Articles?
• Beginner’s Guide to CSS
• Screen Capture: Should You Use Camtasia Or A Free Solution?
• Current Deals

March 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• WordPress Security Update - And Do You REALLY Need To Upgrade?
• Tell A Friend (TAF) Scripts And Why They ARE Bad
• Is Email Safe For Your Blog Anymore?
• Adding SAFE ‘Post Notify’ Emails to Your Blog
• ActiveBlogging Reworking
• Which WordPress Version is Which?

February 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Addon Files - Files to accompany ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’.

Topics:

• WordPress Revisions Galore!
• How To Add Non-WordPress Pages to Your Blog
• Top 10 Tricks for 2007 Now Available
• Add a Sitemap To Your Blog
• Fixing The Internet Explorer 7 Affiliate Bug

January 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Addon Files - Files to accompany ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’.

Topics:

• 2007 - My Predictions For The Year Ahead
• ActiveBlogging for 2007
• ‘Easy’ WordPress Farms with WordPress MU
• Alternate ‘Simple’ Install For Multiple WordPress Blogs
• Bonus Guide - 118 WordPress Plugins

December 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Dec 2006 Addon Files - Files to accompany ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’.

Topics:

• The WordPress Forum - bbPress
• Easy Edits to Your WordPress Template
• Blog Popups - The Final Word
• WordPress Makeover Results
• Title/MetaTag Plugin For Older WordPress Templates

November 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

It also references a new section on ActiveBlogging for beginner video tutorials.

Topics:

• New Version - WordPress 2.05
• A Busy Week For Viral Marketing Techniques
• Do YOU Need a WordPress Makeover?
• Do It Yourself WordPress Makeover
• Easy Web Techniques Videos

October 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

It also references the free download of the ‘Unlimited Profits and Traffic‘ Report

Topics:

• GoogEdit and Adwords
• Download: Unlimited Profits and Traffic
• A Mini Guide to Adwords
• The WordPress MySQL Database Made Easy
• Easy WordPress Database Fixes
• Incredible Resource is Now Free

September 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• Increase Your Profits With One Time Offers!
• Using The Schizophrenic Blog Page Plugin
• PowerTool: PSPad
• How To Use Impact Popup on a Blog

August 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• ActiveBlogging Changes
• Manual Updates
• Emails, AutoResponders, Sign up Forms, and Your Blog
• MySpace = MyProfits - New Videos
• How to ‘Tell a Friend’ and Become a Spam Gateway!
• Popups - Using Them on Your WordPress Blog

July 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• Should You Use Google Sitemaps on Your Blogs?
• Is ‘Smart Pricing’ Killing Your Adsense Income?
• How to Set Up a Site Map in WordPress
• The WordPress Easy Install On Existing Sites
• The AB Member’s Plugin - Setting It Up For Maximum Search Engine Rankings
• Blog Headers The Easy Way!

June 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• The Latest and Greatest - WordPress 2.0.3 is Here!
• What is Tag & Ping?
• Quick and Easy Forums for Your WordPress Blog
• Simple WordPress Installer
• The ActiveBlogging Member’s Code and Plugins
• Using The ActiveBlogging Members Plugin
• The ‘Top10Tricks’ SEO Friendly Template

May 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Addon Files - Files to accompany ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’.

Topics:

• Auto Randomize Your Posts - and Look Human!
• How to Get Noticed - Testimonials!
• Cheap Hosting - Or, Would YOU Pay 1 Cent for a Month of Unlimited Domain Hosting?
• The Power of Online Video
• ActiveBlogging.com Videos Tutorials for WordPress
• Exploring the WordPress Template, Part 5: footer.php

April 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• Grab Attention and Interest - With WordPress Polls
• Using the WordPress Survey Plugin
• Placing PHP Directly Into Your Posts
• The ActiveBlogging Member’s Bulk Posting Program
• Bulk WordPress Article Posting - Tricks and Techniques
• Exploring the WordPress Template, Part 4: style.css

March 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Addon Files - Files to accompany ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’.

Topics:

• Are Your Blog Pages ‘Section Targeted’ by Google?
• Open Source and WordPress - A Problem?
• Can YOU Profit from Plugins?
• Basics: The Care & Keeping of Your htaccess File
• Exploring the WordPress Template, Part 3: header.php
• Blog Code: Blog Lockout Plugin

February 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Addon Files - Files to accompany ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’.

Topics:

• Should You Upgrade to WordPress 2?
• Exploring the WordPress Template, Part 2: index.php
• Basics: Editing Your WordPress Template
• Blog Code: A Simple Contact Form

January 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

• Why Use WordPress?
• Exploring the WordPress Template, Part 1
• Basics: What is Pinging?
• Plugin How-To: ‘Coffee’ Plugin
• Blog Code: A Simple Counter