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Wordpress by default displays all the pages and the sub-pages you create in the main menu or the navigational menu of your blog. However, there are situations where we don’t want certain pages from being displayed on the main menu but still retain their functionality. Sometimes when you have too many pages in your blog, your navigational menu starts overflowing from one horizontal line into two and more …

In the article, I will tell you how you can hide pages in WordPress and prevent them from showing up on the navigational menu of your blog.

Method 1 : Write and save a page as a Draft

Yes, this simple method lets you retain all the functionality of a page. You can still access this page by searching for it and this page will still be accessible if you type in the URL of that particular page.

So, create a page as usual and then under Page Status menu on the right hand side, choose Draft and hit save
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The key to any successful blog and while you are at it, making money online is your Site Traffic. Quality articles contributes to increase in site traffic. However, the Blogosphere has become huge with almost 200,000 new blogs everyday. So, how do you let people know of the quality content on your blog.

Enter BlogRush to the rescue. BlogRush is one of the fastest and Easiest way to instantly increase site traffic and drive a flood of targeted readers to your blog .. Absolutey Free!

How does BlogRush work?

BlogRush is a “Cooperative Syndication Network”. When you sign up at BlogRush, you run a “widget” on your blog. Each time this widget is loaded, it will contain 5 clickable headlines to other users’ posts. Visitors to your website can launch these related posts in a new window. This is sorta like sphere, which provides related content to your blog.

How would BlogRush increase your site traffic

Being a syndication network, your blog articles would be posted on thousands of related pages on different blogs bringing in traffic from all those blogs and also added promotion. Now, if you run the BlogRush widget on your blog, which gets say an average of 1000 page views / day. This means that headlines from your blog will be viewed 1000 times on other blogs running the BlogRush widget. Everytime you refer another blog to the network and say that is a popular blog with 10000 views, you will get your headlines shown 10000 + 1000 (your traffic) = 11,000 times. And then someone gets refered from their link, you get your headlines displayed based on their traffic too. This can go on upto 10 generations.

Still confused … check out this video which explains how BlogRush works and learn how this powerful service works to exponentially increase your site traffic.

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If you are a webmaster or have your own blog, uploading and sharing pictures from your own or hosted webserver usually is a pain especially if you exceed bandwidth limitations and you end up paying extra money to your host ISP. To avoid all this, I use Flickr and before that I used to use Photobucket.

I have come across this free service called Shareapic which not only matches the quality levels and ease of use of Flickr and Photobucket but goes a step further that makes it different from the rest. You also get to make Money $$$ simply by sharing your photos online. When you host a picture gallery on Shareapic, you can shown this gallery to your family and friends and also to your blog visitors. Every time someone views a picture, you get paid.

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If you are getting a database error like this after upgrading to WordPress 2.3

WordPress database error: [Table ‘yourdb.wp_post2cat’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT cat_ID AS ID, MAX(post_modified) AS last_mod FROM `wp_posts` p LEFT JOIN `wp_post2cat` pc ON p.ID = pc.post_id LEFT JOIN `wp_categories` c ON pc.category_id = c.cat_ID WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ GROUP BY cat_ID

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php:160) in /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-comments-post.php on line 67

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php:160) in /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-comments-post.php on line 68

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php:160) in /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-comments-post.php on line 69

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php:160) in /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 391

The cause of these database errors where wp_post2cat does not exist is due to a single plugin which is not compatible with WordPress 2.3

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If you bought an iPhone, the first time you plug into your computer and link it up with iTunes, you have to agree to some legal terms and conditions. Following is the Apple iPhone Software terms and License Agreement.

U.S. - ENGLISH

IMPORTANT: BY USING YOUR iPHONE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE FOLLOWING APPLE AND THIRD PARTY TERMS:-

A.    APPLE iPHONE SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT
B.    GOOGLE MAPS TERMS AND CONDITIONS
C.    YOUTUBE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

APPLE INC.
IPHONE SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT
Single Use License

PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT (”LICENSE”) CAREFULLY BEFORE USING YOUR IPHONE OR DOWNLOADING THE SOFTWARE UPDATE ACCOMPANYING THIS LICENSE. BY USING YOUR IPHONE OR DOWNLOADING THIS SOFTWARE UPDATE, AS APPLICABLE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE, DO NOT USE THE IPHONE OR DOWNLOAD THIS SOFTWARE UPDATE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THE LICENSE AND HAVE NOT USED THE IPHONE, YOU MAY RETURN THE IPHONE TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU OBTAINED IT FOR A REFUND.

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StumbleUpon has released a new toolbar version, version 3.15 which enables SearchReviews opt-in and improves existing Facebook integration.

This new SearchReviews as part of the new StumbleUpon toolbar shows which of your friends have rated a site a thumbs-up. You can see this with star ratings along with icons indicating which one of your friends like the site. This in turn allows for search personalization. You can also add people whom you think are experts in a particular category as your friends so that you can view their search result endorsements.

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