In case you wish to publish a wordpress blog post in future then you can schedule the publication date rather than saving them as draft and publishing every day or posting every day.

This is a very useful feature in case you wish to write more than one post a day but would like to post them in future on regular itnervals.

To schedule a post in future, you can change the publication date from the Publish tab in right column in Admin.

While you are writing post (of if you have already saved the post then edit it) click on Edit in “Publish immediately Edit” line.

It will open date edit box. Change the date to be the one when you want to publish it and click on OK.

Next click on the Schedule to accept the changes.

Once it is done you will see that publication date is changed successfully.

Click on Update Post to save any changes and you are done.

Following are some of the most essential wordpress plugins which you should have in your wordpress blog.

Essential Wordpress Plugins

Following plugins are the most essential which are must for any wordpress blog

1) All in SEO Pack

All in SEO pack plugin is used to convert the dynamic URLs into SEO friendaly URLs and it is one of the most esential wordpress plugin.

Download All in SEO pack plugin

2) Akismet

As soon as you download the Wordpress, install it and let Search Engines access your blog you will be flooded with spams in comments. Akistme comes to rescue. This pluging is part of Wordpress so you will nothave to install it seperately.

3) Sociable

If you want to promote your blog in Social Media then you need to have this plugin installed. Provides social bookmarking icons added on pages/posts and nice and easy backend features.

Download Sociable Plugin.

4) Google XML Sitemap

Comes handy to generate Google .xml sitemap. This plugin also inform Google and yahoo about the new sitemap wheneve it is generated.

Download Google XML Sitemap.

6) Top Level Category

You will need this when you are using All in SEO pack plugin to make the URL have category name in it

Download Top Level Category.

7) Wordpress Automatic Upgrade

Woduldn’t you like to have an automatic wordpress tool to keep your blog updated with the latest Wordpress release which keeps on being release ebery month or so? This plugin comes to rescue you from doing manual upgrade which is a real pain.

Download wordpress automatic upgrade plugin.

Optional wordpress Plugins

Following are some of the optional wordpress plugins which you might find useful depending on your requirements.

1) Feedburner feedSmith

2) NextGen Gallery

I’ve been facing a strange problem in Wordpress. When I try to edit a post and then save it the page /wp-admin/post.php goes blank, the post was saved though.

However I could go back to the Admin and access other menus normally.

It happened when I moved my blog from one host to another.

First I thought it might be file permission problem but it turned out not to be a file permissions problem.

With Internet search and some debugging I discovered that All in SEO plugin was causing problem which I discovered by disabling all the plugin and enabling them one by one.

http://themes.wordpress.net

http://wordpressthemes.pro

Following is a list of most useful Wordpress plugins.

Make sure that these plugins are compatibble with your installed wordpress version. It is common that some of plugins might not be immediately updated to be compatible with latest Wordpress release.

Wordpress Plugin Directory

Wordpress SEO

All in One SEO Pack

SEO Title Tag

Top Level Categories

Google Sitemap Generator

Sociable

WYSIWYG

Adsense Manager

Most of the above plugins can be seen in action on following blogs
SwamiWebDesign Blog
SwamiSEO Blog
target=”_blank”Ajay Kumar Singh
SwamiPC Blogs
SwamiLaptop Blogs

By default you will see the URL of your wordpress blogs with category name after base URL

E.g.

http://blog.swamiwebdesign.com/category/wordpress

http://blog.swamiwebdesign.com/category/wordpress/how-to-export-links-in-wordpress.html

Obviously you wouldn’t like to have category in the URL.

To remove category appearing in URL there are various ways, if you are php expert then you can modify the rewrite rules and play with permalinks.

Here is the simplest solution

Install this plugin http://fortes.com/projects/wordpress/top-level-cats/

Follow the instructions in the readme

If it doesn’t work then save yourself from reading all the comments and do followings

Options -> Permalinks

Change the Custom structure: to followings

/%category%/%postname%.html

Click on update and enjoy

You can export your Wordpress links from this url

http://www.your-blog.com/wp-links-opml.php

Replace www.your-blog.com with your blog url.

E.g. for my blog http://blog.SwamiWebDesign.com the export link URL would be

http://blog.SwamiWebDesign.com/wp-links-opml.php