For some reason trackbacks won’t even display on my blog (presumably there’s a template tag missing from my heavily customised theme). This used to bother me, but actually I’ve come to realise that I find trackbacks get in the way.As you say, they’re generally out of context. Also they tend not to give enough information to glean the context they were written in, you have to leave the current page in order to read them, and often their authors are referring to the original post but not actually commenting on it.If I ever get around to figuring why trackbacks won’t display on my blog, I might try bunching them together at the end of the comments. That way they should make sense as a group, and not interfere with the discussion.

After combining some code from several other people who have posted about this online, here’s a function I wrote that doesn’t use GUIDs, and even works with image thumbnail URLs:function pn_get_attachment_id_from_url( $attachment_url = '' ) { global $wpdb;$attachment_id = false; // If there is no url, return.if ( '' == $attachment_url )return; // Get the upload directory paths$upload_dir_paths = wp_upload_dir(); // Make sure the upload path base directory exists in the attachment URL, to verify that we're working with a media library imageif ( false !== strpos( $attachment_url, $upload_dir_paths['baseurl'] ) ) { // If this is the URL of an auto-generated thumbnail, get the URL of the original image$attachment_url = preg_replace( '/-\d+x\d+(?=\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$)/i', '', $attachment_url ); // Remove the upload path base directory from the attachment URL$attachment_url = str_replace( $upload_dir_paths['baseurl'] . '/', '', $attachment_url ); // Finally, run a custom database query to get the attachment ID from the modified attachment URL$attachment_id = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb-&gtrepare( "SELECT wposts.ID FROM $wpdb-&gtosts wposts, $wpdb-&gtostmeta wpostmeta WHERE wposts.ID = wpostmeta.post_id AND wpostmeta.meta_key = '_wp_attached_file' AND wpostmeta.meta_value = '%s' AND wposts.post_type = 'attachment'", $attachment_url ) ); } return $attachment_id;}

You have to have site that is popular in order to get hits. Take myspace for example it very popular among kids thus the word of mouth advertisement is used. This I think is the best way to increase traffic. The second best option is to go around and post your website into all the search engine databases you can find. Also you might want to try Googles adsense program which can get you some money also. Most big search engines like Yahoo! or Google will let you also put a ad on their results page. Linking with othersites is really not that great. If you are using that as your main source of getting people to come I don’t see how you got 200 700 daily comming.

Hii.. I have checked the tip published by you.. but I have a small or may be a big question regarding this. Suppose I have a blog site which is established by me a long time back and some or more SEO has already been done on that website and then after that I implement the things which you described above, then what about those old SEO Links placed with verious websites and search engines..??? will those links work in the same way or will be broken up..?? This question striking in my mind again n again just because you havn’t mentioned the back end process i.e. How wordpress redirecting the links in this process..?? We simply call it a redirection because our installation directory is different than root. Please let me know the answer to my query. Thanks in advance.Sham

Hi! I was just writing because I am currently making some changes in my blog and I saw that you had some pretty good tips here. I am also a big fan of a blog you guys designed paper glitter. I was trying to edit the pages in my blog and I wanted to make these image headers that when clicked would act as &#8220ages” in the blog and direct the reader towards the information labeled on the header. Like the header picture would say “crafts” and when you click it you would go to a page within the blog with all the crafts. In the paper glitter blog there is something similar in the “free printables” page. There is the images that say for example “stationary kit” and when you click it you go tot a page that gives you the information about the freebe as well as the link to get it. Anyway I wanted to know if you could help me with this. I am a big fan of you guys, thank you for all your tips! You can check out my blog to see what I mean, I have published the pictures with a notification that the page in under construction until I figure out how to do this. Please contact me at my email! Thank You! Laiana