Ok, so I have posted a few times that I was actually beta testing wordpress 2.7 on Balkhis. I even posted a review a while back. Well since that point on, wordpress made some very good changes into the look which makes wordpress admin panel look like that you are using a mac. A lot of mac style graphics.

But that was not the reason why I switched back from wordpress 2.7 to wordpress 2.6.3. I actually switched because some parts were not working. One of them was scheduling a post. If you guys haven’t notice most of the time Balkhis post goes live on 7:30 a.m EST unless planned otherwise. Well I don’t really get up that time and hit the publish button. Scheduled posts feature lets me do it automatically. But for some reason it didn’t work in wordpress 2.7 Beta edition. I am sure it was a minor bug, but I couldn’t deal with it. But I said lets give them a day to fix it.

I tried again, and it wasn’t fixed. But the major downfall was that all of my affiliate links stopped working. Meaning WP-Affiliate was not working with the new version of Wordpress. Now I cannot afford to lose that. I am making most of my revenue from those affiliate links embedded into the posts. If that plugin does not work, I can’t make any money from this site.

That was the main reason why I decided to degrade balkhis from a beta wordpress version that is rich with a lot of other features to the most stable version wordpress 2.6.3.

As a blogger if you are known only to bloggers then you are a nobody. You only become a somebody once people from other industry start noticing you. People who have nothing to do with webmaster industry. Maybe some one you inspired to start a blog. I will tell you that before social media I was a nobody. Ofcourse, I was well reputed on forums like Digitalpoint, and Namepros. But again those were webmasters. People on these forums have something to do with webmasters.

One thing that I have learned is that it is very lame if you are only known by webmasters. I have been following bigger bloggers like Merlin Mann, and Darren Rowse. Their presence is very widely known. People who are not even into blogging know about them. I have seen even mommy and daddy bloggers naming these two guys as an inspiration. The reason why they started a blog.

So I will share with you how I became a nobody from a somebody by using Social Media.

I started with Digg. Where I was relatively unknown. But I started finding nice articles and getting those in. Even though those articles weren’t my own articles. I was not affiliated with those. Well I added a few people as my friend. Now I have over 520 friends, and I can tell you that over 75% are mutual friends. Does that say anything. It says people who add me as their friend, don’t remove me from their list. These people doesn’t really have to be in the webmaster industry.

So if I really digg, and shout to all these people, imagine how many diggs I can get in a few minutes. Well that is the power of being somebody rather than being a nobody.

When I started this blog, I was popular in the directory industry. Before that I was that kid who have a big proxy network. Before that I was in domaining. So people have been following me since then. I started Balkhis with a bare of 90 – 100 readers that have followed me from the directory industry and previously. Now I am almost hitting 1800 subscriber mark.

The reason for that is that I market myself rather than marketing my product. If I start a website, and start marketing that using social media. Make all my profiles for that. And then end up selling the site. My efforts went worthless. Well It did good for that site, but now again I am a nobody. That is the reason where ever I go, I try to use my name in it. Balkhis for Balkhi, Syed as a combo of last / first name, or I try to use Syed Balkhi as many places. I have been known around for smub (my initials) on a lot of places also. So people can recognize me wherever they see me. Not by the owner of a certain site. While I would like to keep those in my portfolio as well, I don’t want people to know me as an owner of idk.in, and when I sold idk, they still think I am the owner. You don’t want that to happen. So market yourself.

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Have you ever made a mistake in your wordpress posts and realized it once it was posted. I know I have, and I am sure that every blogger has made this mistake more than once. What about if the post you made a mistake on was not your recent post. It was something that you wrote about 4 months ago. Your user reported a typo or some sort of error. Well then you waste your time going to view all of your posts and find this specific one. Then edit it.

Well what if I tell you that you just have to add an edit code in your wordpress themes and you will just have to click edit and you can edit that post. Well most smart themes come with this code already embedded, but for those starters who are wondering how you do something like this. It is very easy.

To add an edit code in your posts, simply open your single.php and add this code at the desire place:

<?php edit_post_link(__("| Edit |"), ”); ?>

Not just posts, you can do this with comments as well. I am using Brian’s Threaded Comment, that already have this code in it. But if you still are wondering what are the codes, copy and paste the following codes into your comments.php

<?php edit_comment_link(__("| Edit |"), ”); ?>

You see how simple these are. O and you might be wondering my whole audience will see these buttons. No they will not. Only administrators, and authors will see this tag, and no one else.

Wordpress now a days is being used as more than a blog. People are using it for many different reasons. One of the cool parts of this software or any other blogging software is that it lets you post mark the date the article was published on. Which is great. But what if you have to make updates and still let the readers know that you updated it.

So basically if you are running a contest, and it is one of your featured posts, so your readers can check it. You can use these codes to display the last date the post was modified on, so they know how recent the information on that contest page is.

Well I was thinking about it and I came across a site called Adramis where I found this code.

So basically all you have to do is head over to single.php and/or page.php and search for

Posted on: <?php the_time(‘l, F jS, Y’) ?>

It might not exactly be like that but definitely have something like that. Well now all you have to do is replace it with the codes below:

Posted on <?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?>
<?php $u_time = get_the_time(‘U’);
$u_modified_time = get_the_modified_time(‘U’);
if ($u_modified_time != $u_time) {
echo "and last modified on ";
the_modified_time(‘F jS, Y’);
echo ". "; } ?>

Now when you write a post, it will show the post date, but once you have modified anything the date will change. This looks like a great tool that you guys can use and implement into your site.

So yesterday was the day when we stop arguing and start loving our neighbors again. Yeah most people were voting for Obama and the Change to be elected. I was the minority voting for McCain but that is alright. At least our country now have a leader, and we can work on it together to get this country out of the economic crisis.

I will say that I am happy that election is over because now twitter / plurk and all the other social networks won’t have this retarded election tab which is so annoying. So that will not be an issue now.

This election was a historic one because the 44th president of America is the first African American President to be elected for US President.

The resuts was a land slide, all I will say that we will see whether the president will do what he promised all of us.

Ladies and Gentleman if you ever doubted the power of America into being a place where anything is possible. Anyone can be Successful. This is your answer.

Change Has Come to America