As we know that wordpress grows time to time, and develop the existence version to new one, so everything become better. There are two ways to upgrade wordpress, automatically and manually. To update wordpress automatically, you need just by clicking the link in new update banner, in the top of your admin page with the anchor text please update now. You can also upgrade automatically by going to Tools then select Upgrade menu. Update automatically is very simple than upgrade manually, it is very important to backup your database first before doing upgrade.

Sometimes, we find error during upgrading wordpress automatically such can not write file to the server host or any other reason. In this way, upgrading wordpress manually is your choice, although this need your patient during uploading files to your file hosting.

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I’m sure you already know what a blog is, Blog is contraction from Weblog, it is a type of website that maintained usually by personal people with regular basis of content or post. People use blog for some reasons such as express their activities, sharing information or knowledge with others, or even for individual business like introducing a product.

For people that is not familiar with internet, may have a question how to make a blog?. When start learning, it is not so bad for making a blog freely using free domain and free hosting. What is domain? domain is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS). Hosting is internet service where you store data files of your blog, so that your blog can be accessed thru the World Wide Web.

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Blogwalking is an activity of blogger to surf from one blog to the other blog, read its content, give comment, ask for link exchange or just leave comment in shout box. Blogwalking is very useful to promote our blog, increase Alexa rank and the most important is to make friendship among bloggers.

Some people blogwalking just leave message in shoutbox in hoping the owner visit back to their blog, maybe like me, this is the easiest way instead giving comment on post because we should read the article first, but when we read any article we get something useful and add our knowledge.

There are some service that offer us free chat box or shout box such as Cbox, Shoutmix, Meebome, Oggix, Sbox, and others. The most famous shoutbox or chat box I know is Shoutmix. During blogwalking I found many shoutmix chat widget than other services. As I know that shoutmix is very simple, easy but very interesting. We can customize our chat widget so looks different than others.

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Themes is one thing that can’t be separated from blogging, we can think wether a blog good or not by seeing the themes being installed. Themes arrange everything object in a blog started from header, post and comment, sidebar widget till footer.

There are many service that offer us themes that has already featured, but of course it is not free, sometimes we must spend more than $70 to get great themes, so for you and me who don’t have budget for that, free themes is the right choice.

Many website has offered themes freely for us, the themes is nearly as good as charged themes. You just go there and choose the themes that you feel right. To get free wordpress themes you can go to the following address:

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I have experience when I posted a thread in a forum that I should type very long URL, although eventually I just copy and paste it. Obviously, having a long URL sometimes make you inconvenience, when you writing an email, or when you should post that have word count limited, making your URL shorter is better choice.

There are many services that offer you shorten URL, but right now, I just explain mostly with TinyURL service. Basically, TinyUrl is a URL forwarding service, or people well known as URL Cloaking, URL Masking, that mean the techniques on the World Wide Web for making a web page available under many URLs.

To get your shorten or tiny URL, simply go to TinyURL, then fill the blank field with your long URL, example: http://www.hasannudin.com/tips-and-tricks/using-seo-friendly-urls-for-better-search-results/, then press Make TinyURL!, a tinyURL will be created for you.

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