I have seen many bloggers having an archives page where all their categories and monthly archives are listed. However, I never thought of adding this page into my blog because I always thought that this feature might not be available with the wordpress itself and may be it comes with a wordpress plugin. But, today I did a little search on google and it comes out to be a default feature of Wordpress and it can be done in a minute. I just added this archives page and removed my archives section from the sidebar. I think this will decrease the OBL (Outbound Links) of my homepage without the expense of archival navigation. In short, adding the archives page can save you unnecessary homepage links.

If you are an experienced blogger, I’m sure that you already know how to add an archives page but if you are also a beginner like me, you might wanna read this. To enable your archives page, go to “Write a Page” page of your wordpress admin control panel and create a page called “Archives” or whatever you want. Now, all you have to do is change the Page template whose default value is “Default template” into a “Archives ” Template.

So, you can easily add the archives page. Now. if you want to change the page structure, you can change that in your theme editor’s “archives.php” file and with this simple step, your blog will look much better and become SEO Friendly. Good for SEO Guys.

If you are a football fan, you would never want to miss the English Premier League matches. The English Premier League is the biggest Inter-Club Football Championships in Great Britain and of course it is popular all over the world. If you are a fan of Cricket, you will find a similar enthusiasm in the Indian Premier League. The Indian Premier League is a similar league between cricket clubs in India like the Mumbai Indians, the Royal Challengers and so on. If you are an Indian cricket Fan, you might already know this and you are probably waiting for the first match to come but for those who don’t, the IPL is starting today and if you don’t want to miss the match, I reckon you switch on your TV set right now. But before you go watch this exciting league, you better have a look at these details of the league matches.

For this season, There are eight teams mainly based on eight Indian cities. They play each other in home-and-away-basis. Each teams plays other team twice and finally four teams will get selected for the semifinal and the winners will be playing in the finals of IPL. IPL is starting today and will end on 1st of June. There are many international stars involved in it and for the fans of cricket it is going to be great fun.

These eight teams are Clubs from Kolkata, Mumbai, Mohali, Jaipur, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore. Players were bid in order to form the squads for each team. Those players whose values exceeded more that 1Million dollars are termed to be as Iconic players. Each team has one iconic player. The most costliest bid team is Mumbai Indians. Their cost is US$111.9 million whereas the second is Bangalore Royal Challengers having a cost of US$111.6 million.

Well, if you are going to watch the whole league, you should keep yourself in touch with the latest scoreboards and schedules. But will you wait for your “full of advertisement TV channel” to show you the scoreboards or the fixer. I don’t think that’s a good idea. Because, if its me, I would just go to a website of the Indian Premier League and watch the scores and schedules there. And if you need a little help on it, here it is the non -official website of the IPL-Indian Premier League. There, you can find latest scores of IPL, standings, squads, team profile and other updates related to IPL. Above all, It tells about other scores of matches that are going on. I hope it helps you guys with your cricket enthusiasm and make you keep in touch with the latest scoreboards. Anyway, enough talking. I got to go and watch the matches. So, bye for now. You too watch the matches in Channel ten (Australian) and enjoy the matches.

Today, I just upgraded my wordpress into the latest version of wordpress - the Wordpress 2.5. Unlike the various versions released in the past year, this one has a very different look and has new interesting features. This version marks a major change in the theme of the admin control panel and addition of new features in the admin area like the addition of special features in the writing editor. As I start using this version of the wordpress, I found some interesting new features and some drawbacks too. Therefore, I’m listing some of them here.

New Features of Wordpress 2.5

• It has a more advanced rich editor with more advanced and easy to use buttons like “Add media”, “Add Video”, “Add Audio” buttons.
• IMO, this new version seems to load much faster than the previous one - especially when you are opening the “Write a post/page” page.
• Addition of filenames in parenthesis in the “theme-editor” page. This one is great because in the old version, sometimes we get confused which file to edit especially with “index.php” which used to be listed under the name “Main Index Template”. Now, every file in a theme is listed like “Main index Template (index.php)” and therefore it is easier to identify the file that we want to edit.
• The “Add link” feature has now come under the main tab “Write”. So, next time you want to add a link, first go to “write” and then choose “link” under it.
• The “Blogroll” main tab has been completely removed and some of them has been put under the main tab “Manage”.
• A new feature called the “Media Library” has been added under the “Manage” Tab.
• The “Tags” tab has also been added under “Manage” with which you can see all the tags used in your posts.
• There is an option to change the admin theme colors under the “Your profile” tab in “users”.
• And finally it has a much different theme which looks lighter than the previous one.

In fact, there are many new features in this one and is much better than the previous one but still I have to say that the previous theme of the admin control panel looks more pleasant and is easy to use. The new theme is somewhat confusing. I’m not sure if this new theme will fit me after some time but I do like the previous one. However, in overall, this new wordpress version is much better and I also recommend you to upgrade your wordpress into this new one if you are already using wordpress. You can download the wordpress 2.5 version at http://wordpress.org/download/ . Use it and enjoy blogging  .

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