If you used a Facebook application and don't want it to run there any longer you need to take the following steps:

Log in to your Facebook account. Then go through these steps: Account -> Application Settings -> Edit Settings -> Additional Permissions. On the last page you should un-check the checkbox next to the application you don't any longer need and save the form.

To update and replace some value of a key we would need to run this command:

UPDATE `pages` SET `content` = REPLACE(`content`,”wrong text”,”right text”) WHERE `id`=”1″;

Sometimes it is important to insert a youtube video into your blog post.

I tried and found it was easy for me to do it.

I searched for the video I wanted to publish. In the right sidebar I found the line: “embed” and clicked inside the box with the code. The code immediately got highlighted and I could copy it. But first I clicked the button next to the code and saw the drop-down dialogue. There I could select color of the border, size and some other parameters.

I entered my blog — > wp-admin — > posts — > add new and switched to HTML code.

I pasted the code I had copied on You Tube.

I clicked “publish” and that’s it! The video is available on the pages of my blog.

I want to add some text, so I switched to the visual mode. The embedded video was displayed like a square shape and I typed in the text after that shape.

Do you see only visual mode and can’t switch to the HTML mode? Go to users — > your profile. Un-check the box in the upper line of your profile.

This is how it looks like in my blog.

I created categories, tags and pages, but I didn’t see the list of them on my site.

I had to create menus in the sidebar of my blog which would provide an easy access to my content. All these menus have been already created for me by wordpress. I had to only activate it with widgets. Widgets are sections in the sidebars of your site. You can easily add them, remove and rename widgets in the admin panel — > appearance –> widgets.

Drag and drop the necessary widget to the destination side bar. If you have three-column theme, then you will see two sidebars in the “widgets” section.

Each widget has a drop-down menu. The name of the widget can’t be changed for wordpress, but you can change it for the readers of your blog by typing in the title. The title will be displayed as the name of the widget in your blog.

Don’t forget to click save each time.

What widgets to add?

If you have created tags, categories and pages, and you want readers to see them, add the correspondent widgets.

I would advise to add the “meta” widget because it has link to admin area and the log in/log out link. You can even put some text in your sidebar. This can be an advertising or an announcement.

This is how my sidebar looks now.

The popularity of a blog depends on how many people had a chance to notice, to read and to subscribe to your blog. Popular social networks, like Twitter simplify blog advertising greatly and enlarge my audience.

1. 1. I searched for the plugin.
2. 2. I selected the plugin “Twitter Tools” and downloaded it from www.alexking.org
3. 3. I installed the plugin to my blog.
4. 4. I activated the plugin “Twitter Tools” in my admin area by checking the boxes next to this plugin and by applying the bulk action: “activate”.
5. 5. I entered Settings — > Twitter Tools in the admin panel. I typed in my twitter account information. I configured the other options as I liked. There is an option to create posts from your tweets and I switched it off.

I excluded some categories from Twitter.

In the Appearance — > Widgets — > I found the “Twitter Tools” widget and dragged it to the Sidebar 1.

Now I can publish to twitter from the sidebar of my blog. It also can display my recent tweets. But it doesn’t display tweets that were created from posts.

I can also publish to twitter from the admin panel. Posts — > tweet subpanel appeared there.

When publishing a post, I can also specify if I would like to publish post to Twitter right under the Categories.

6. I was satisfied with the results. There were three tweets published from different places in my blog.

The tweet from post had tweet prefix (1) I configured in Settings — > Twitter Tools, the name of the post (2), the URL of the post (3), and the tag (4).

The URL of the post can be shortened with Bit.ly. The option is supported by Twitter Tools and can be activated in Settings — > Twitter Tools.