We are added new theme suggested by Rico Chan. Refresh theme is designed by Beng Hafner. It’s very nice and useful theme. Thanks Rico and Beng Hafner!

[tags]Wordpress Theme, WP2 Theme, Theme Design[/tags]

We are provided two blog address for your blog.
You may use http://yourusername.blogates.com or http://blogates.com/yourusername as your blog address.

If you plan to use your own domain with your blog, currently you may redirect your own domain to your blog address, like this norasun.com

Register your own domain here

Yes, All of your data would still be safe and you also may download your data at your blog control panel. (Login your blog and click Backup to download)

Oops! Sorry NO. If there is a plugin that you feel is useful and would benefit users on the site then leave your comment here! Tell us what plugin you interest, where it can be downloaded and most importantly, why you think it should be included in the site. We will try to include into our blog system. Thanks.

[tags]Plugin, WordPress Plugins, WPMU Plugins[/tags]

We are installed a lot of new theme into our WPMU. Login your blogates account and choose Site Theme to switch theme design.
Modern 0.9 by Ulf Pettersson

Dapit Hapon 1.0 by Gail Dela Cruz A truly Filipino theme: classy and romantic, an original by The Filipino Web Designer.

Lonely Lemon 1.5 by Template Monster
Tropical Grunge 1.5 by Template Monster

Pop Art 1.0.5 by Beng Hafner A simple 2 column design (based on Equix Theme of M. Sader)

Weblogs.us 1.4 by H P Nadig A blogger style

Squible Beta 1.1 by Theron Parlin and James Carppe

Regulus 2 by Ben Gillbanks

Sweet Blossoms 1.0.01 by TalkXHTML.com & PhoenixRealm.com

Simpla 1.0 by Phu Ly

Wheatgrass 1.0 by Michael Martine

[tags]Wordpress Theme, WP2 Theme, Theme Design[/tags]

Want to download WordPress and run it yourself? We are try recommend some host provided wordpress installer.

Evled Hosting offers free WordPress auto install, 1.5 GB of disk space and 300 GB of data transfer. Free domain and 12 subdomain. MySQL databases, Python, Perl, Php, PHP support in HTML files, Over 3400 Perl modules and Crontab support.(Spam Filter Included) Also supporting true 24/7 technical support.

Nomonthlyfees Offer WordPress auto install, 600mb of web space and ultra high speed bandwidth. Ulimited MYSQL Database, Email account and Subdomain. Free domain and domain parking with cpanel control. Supporting true 24/7 technical support.

If you don’t need the flexibility of a full web host, you may consider getting a free blog on Blogates.com.

[tags]Wordpress Host, Web Hosting, Dedicated Server[/tags]

Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog’s popularity.

It’s great! Enjoy!

[tags]Pingoat, Pingging[/tags]

Google Video support is coming! Google Video Plugin has plugged into your blog, This plugin allows you to add videos from google directly into you blog, player and all. here example:

[gv data=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DnwAAAMVdt5cfRlxZb5dSZ7ClVV5r043J6LqGeFeqk9_ki_i3sswXtthFWNhWtKGTKzf7rXswrqz9PGF6uOztCkfJNfEQF8f3O8NKjQaSvP1D3jLRYAP4NV87ZphQOmfw8kLesO0OwWO8pv-fOhxUeVSE-7LLhyODAtPL-eswldEtszhdg_-82jbnLEU_gxSyVSlDJjC1ZjbfOvt2SmYn3L6XWPs%26sigh%3DkzRgfIem_uYT2yM3qj57v-duBSA%26begin%3D0%26len%3D179999%26docid%3D-7338331716994198128&thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer%3Fcontentid%3D79e1366b4d7f0e1b%26second%3D5%26itag%3Dw320%26urlcreated%3D1142173536%26sigh%3D8wwYsXwCEl7DcuJs5QJMkE7sJs0&playerId=-7338331716994198128&playerMode=embedded”][/gv]

This is the code that displays that video (Second spaces added to force word wrap:
[ gv data="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=
http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D
0%26secureurl%3DnwAAAMVdt5cfRlxZb5dSZ7ClVV5r043J6LqGeFeqk9_ki
_i3sswXtthFWNhWtKGTKzf7rXswrqz9PGF6uOztCkfJNfEQF8f3O8NKjQaSvP
1D3jLRYAP4NV87ZphQOmfw8kLesO0OwWO8pv-fOhxUeVSE-7LLhyODAtPL-es
wldEtszhdg_-82jbnLEU_gxSyVSlDJjC1ZjbfOvt2SmYn3L6XWPs%26sigh%3
DkzRgfIem_uYT2yM3qj57v-duBSA%26begin%3D0%26len%3D179999%26doc
id%3D-7338331716994198128&thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.goo
gle.com%2FThumbnailServer%3Fcontentid%3D79e1366b4d7f0e1b%26se
cond%3D5%26itag%3Dw320%26urlcreated%3D1142173536%26sigh%3D8ww
YsXwCEl7DcuJs5QJMkE7sJs0&playerId=-7338331716994198128&player
Mode=embedded"][/gv]

1. Write a new Post
2. Open the video from the Google Video Website
3. Select the “Put on site� Link on the Left.
4. Copy the code into a text editor
5. Find the line data=�http://video.google.com/….� (it will be in the code twice)
6. Copy the FULL URL start with “http://� and ending at “&playerMode=embeded�

Related Topic
Google Video Plugin

[tags] WPMU Plugin, Google Video, Video Blog[/tags]

Blogates has installed Flickr Post Bar into your blog. It’s allows you to easily insert your Flickr photos into your blog posts. This plugin will display your most recent Flickr photos as thumbnails in a bar across the bottom of your post form.

Screenshot of this plugin in action:

Click the Plugin on the menu and active the plugin. Next go to Options and set-up your Flickr Post Bar. Now you may start post your thought with flickr photos. Click on a thumbnail to automatically insert it into your post.

[tags]WPMU Plugins, Flickr, Photo[/tags]

Just try interesting tool, this tool will query Google’s various data centers to check for any changes in PageRank values for a given URL. Usually all data centers will output the same, but if queried during an update, you might get a glimpse of any upcoming changes in your chosen URL’s PageRank value.

Try it! OdditySoftware Future-Pagerank