Gratis Work. Free Blog Setup

Ok, let’s go back to my favourite subject - creating your own social network using Wordpress. I wrote about Buddy Press - wordpress social network software already. Today I’ve found another plugin for the same purpose. It is called Mingle. Mingle has almost all features that ere necessary for creating nice social network and may be implemented in almost every Wordpress theme. This is a bug plus, because Buddy Press can be used only with it’s own theme. So if you want to change design for social network created by using Buddy Press, you have to employ a programmer and pay some extra money. With Mingle you don’t have such problem. However, from my point of view, Mingle is a bit more simple - it does not have all features that are implemented in Buddy Press, plus needs some time to set it up properly (Buddy Press can be installed with one click of the mouse). Anyway, it is worth looking on both of them before choosing the one that suits your needs.

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1) Login to your FTP.
2) Find htaccess.txt file (normally in public_html folder) and rename it to .htaccess
3) Go to Joomla! admin panel => Global Configuration => Site
4) Change select yes to all three SEO options. The action of the three parameters is as follows:

• Search Engine Friendly URLs. Converts the URLs from the native Joomla! format to the SEF format.
• Use Apache mod_rewrite. Uses the Apache “mod_rewrite” function to eliminate the “index.php” portion of the URL. If you don’t want to use mod_rewrite, set this to “No” and don’t rename the htaccess.txt. The SEF URLs feature will still work. The only difference is that you will see “index.php” in the URL, for example, http://www.yoursite.org/index.php/faq.html.
• Add suffix to URLs. Adds “.html” to the end of URLs.

Done! Now your site will have search engine friendly URLs.
Enjoy!

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A few days ago I wrote about Buddy Press - plugin that transforms WP blog into social network in just 10 minutes or so (depending on your experience). Today I want to introduce you a lead developer of this plugin Andy Peatling. By clicking on his name, you will open his Twitter account and will be able to follow his day-by-day life and ask him questions (if you have Twitter account as well).
Enjoy!

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