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Famous Bloggers Rock and Roll on Blog Engage

Hesham Zebida — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:37:21 +0000

It’s a very busy month for all of us, I wish you all a happy Christmas, and I thank all the participants on our Best of the Best Famous Bloggers Contest so far, they are doing a great job of writing their articles and promoting them, and I really like all the articles of the contest, and this makes me think the contest idea is a very good one, and these articles worth more than $1200 Dollars to me, and I really don’t know how to thank our contest participants for this informative and excellent articles, but I am going to do my best to find a way to show appreciation.

Our contest participants have succeeded to bring the joy and the smile to Famous Bloggers blog by sharing their awesome articles on our pages, and I am going to share with you some information about our Famous Bloggers blog which is only 2 month old, for me it’s amazing, but I would like to hear your opinion:

We have published 50 posts and have at this moment 1251 comment on our posts!
Alexa Rank is 76,688 (plz review us on Alexa)
354 Fans on Facebook
351 Followers on Twitter @FamousBloggers
Google PR is of course a big zero

And here is a screen shot from our Google analytics dashboard just to show you what’s going on so far this month! Of course our best traffic source till now is BlogEngage Community, so don’t miss this opportunity and if you are not already a member then join BlogEngage now and start promoting your posts and get to know awesome people.

Famous Bloggers Google Analytics

It’s not only one Contest everybody!

Maybe you know that we have another contest running at the same time with the Best of the Best contest, it’s our Famous Commenter Contest, and as we promised we will give away $30 via PayPal and a free one year ElegantThemes membership to enjoy its beautiful WordPress themes. WE have time still, there 10 more days left to end the year and the contest, so if you have a useful comment add it to our posts, and if you add value to our Famous Bloggers posts you may be the winner of our contest.

1500 posts or 1500 readers?

If you didn’t read our contest articles, I am going to mention it for you here so you make take a look, just remember that we don’t have too much articles on Famous Bloggers blog yet, we have only 50 posts till now but it doesn’t matter how many posts we have, but the important thing is how much value on our posts and how many people read them and get benefit of them!

So, who you think is going to win our Best of the Best contest?

It depends on you, add a comment on post you like most, be sure it’s a useful comment and add a value or a personal experience of yours, retweet it and Blog Engage it and remember it’s not too late to give your best article and participate on our Best of the Best Famous Bloggers Contest

Breaking News: The Latest Stable Release of WordPress Version 2.9 “Carmen” is Available

Hesham Zebida — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:57:30 +0000

Good news everybody, WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen” is ready, I sow the upgrade is available on WordPress.org, and I also did an upgrade for one of my blogs when I notice the upgrade notification on the top of my blog dashboard, but maybe so many of you didn’t get this notification yet, maybe it will show soon on your admin page, Anyways I am there to tell you about it, so.. Check the WordPress official website if you would like to upgrade now.

I have done the upgrade successfully to My Golf MK2 blog, and almost all the plugins work fine with the new version. But only if you are using simple tags plug-in then probably you will have this message on the top of your blog dashboard “Simple Tags can’t work with this WordPress version!”, but rather than that everything works great, and actually I am running a quite good number of plugins.

I am sure that all of us are waiting for WordPress 3.0 to come to the light, but why not upgrade to 2.9 if it’s easy and fast using the one click upgrade option?! (Just remember to backup your database and code like usual before upgrading!)

Wordpress 2.9 is out!

Matt says: 2.9 has been an exciting development cycle, and I must say it has whetted our appetite for 3.0, which is coming next (probably this spring) and will include at the very least the merge of MU with the WordPress core, and a new default theme. We can’t wait to start working on it. But first, some Carmen McRae tunes and a beer.

I believe that WordPress 3.0 is going to be awesome; I wish you all happy blogging.

Good News and new Hotness for Thesis Theme Developers

Hesham Zebida — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:59:14 +0000

Almost everybody -bloggers- knows about Thesis theme, but in case you don’t know about Thesis and you have a WordPress blog running, let me say that you will love Thesis theme specially the new Thesis 1.6 version. You will really like to get Thesis theme for your blog, it’s not only because the options it has, but also because it will introduce you to another level of blogging and will teach you so many blogging and theming tips that you never know about them, and using Thesis is quite simple. We are proud to use Thesis theme on Famous Bloggers blog.

I just got an email from DiyThemes team, they have great news for Thesis members and especially for Thesis developers and they came with new enhancements to user experience on the DIYthemes site that will make it much easier to navigate the website, let me put this in points!

For Thesis members

DiyThemes website has a new DIY Dashboard, which you’ll find atop the site once you log in, there is handy links added to the best Thesis resources on the DIYthemes site, which will help you to find the information you need quickly and easily, and this is not all! You will be able to download Thesis, upgrade your account, purchase Client Site Options, and even join Thesis affiliate program. I consider this a great add to DIYthemes site, don’t you think so?!

For Thesis Developers

Client Site Options has been expanded to include 5 and 10-site packages, now you can save money when you develop sites for your clients by purchasing in bulk, the 5-site option cost only $36/site, and the 10-site option is only $32/site. Isn’t wonderful?!

For Thesis Affiliates

All Thesis Affiliate members are invited to check out the newly-redesigned home page on DIYthemes, I have just visited it now and I really like it. It’s clear, concise, and rich with information detailing the benefits of Thesis, all this will help you to increase you affiliates with Thesis.

I would like to hear what you think about DiyThemes website enhancements and updates, and also what you think about Thesis as a theme for WordPress! just say it in the comments