WordPress offers many tools for all levels of Bloggers. But there is one feature they have not given much attention to in their own administrator panel. However one of the best features WordPress offers is open source code environment. In doing so, many users have greatly contributed in the overall successful of WordPress. One such contribution has greatly enhanced the appearance and the user functionality of the administration panel.

Steve Smith, an employee of WordPress, put together his impression of what an application based environment should look like. As he say’s, the Administration area needed a little “freshening up”. Nicely put Steve, but the appearance of this set of pages wouldn’t fly on anyone of our blogs. The WordPress Administration Panel needs a complete overhaul.

Turn your working area of the WP admin from this:

Into this:

In an instant with one click of your mouse.

Downloading and installing the plug in is as simple as it sounds, and then a click to activate. Steve did an incredible job of increasing the viewing area as well as putting together an organized admin panel together. All the pages have been updated with this common theme.

Take a look at the commonly used areas starting with the Dashboard:

Write:

Manage:

Options:

This great plugin is called Tiger Style Administration, and it can be found at: WordPress Tiger Administration

Enjoy your new “freshened up” working environment! And post your comments bellow.

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I purchased Atomicblogging and it is an excellent product accompanied with an awesome step by step setup guide. I highly recommend it to anyone. Additionally you need to create a comprehensive Atomicblogging Plugin Ping List in WordPress. This is a necessary update to drastically increase traffic to your blog. This will also increase the amount of spider links to track who is linked to your blog and who you are link to with RPC2 services or other websites, all done for you automatically.

With this in mind, it’s now time to add an additional feature to make your Atomicblogging experience even more enjoyable. Here we will boost a Wordpress feature and option that will improve your blog traffic and save your time in posting your blog across the web.

First off we need to create your Atomicblogging Plugin Ping List. Say what? Ping what?

An Atomicblogging Plugin Ping Lists allow you to automatically notify many blog posting update services and search engines that your blog has been posted or updated. Sounds easy and like a lot of fun to be able to increase traffic. I read “The bigger your ping list is the higher the chances of receiving traffic from those sources”. I’ve even found guys out there bragging about how big their ping list is. So being a guy I decided to go look at my own ping list. I was a bit embarrassed when I found my default ping list was 1. What’s with that? And some of these guys were talking over 56 sites. Okay, so their list is bigger than mine, what gives? And what is a good number to have, and should I increase it, or just leave it alone?

So how big is your ping list? It’s OK, go ahead and take a peek yours. You can find your ping list by doing the following:

1. Log into your blog address with /wp-admin extension.
2. Click OPTIONS and under it that, click WRITE.
3. Scroll down to the bottom this page to view.

A good number to start with your ping list is one. Less than one would mean that you don’t want to broadcast your blog to the web. Ping-O-Matic is the default blog posting update service that WordPress has setup. Ping-O-Matic will broadcast to multiple services notifying them that you’ve updated or posted a new blog.

When building your ping list keep these considerations in mind:

A) Prevent multiple pings from the same post to a single blog post service to avoid the SPAM flag, 3 seems to be the limit most blog post services excepted before spam becomes an issue.

B) Validate your ping list to ensure that none of them time-out and that you have a valid URL address. Each additional ping will increase the amount of time required to post or update your blog. There are freeware programs available to ping sites to get a response, I used Utility ping.

C) Verify - Certain web hosts - particularly free ones - disable the PHP functions used to alert update services. If your web host prevents pings, you should stop WordPress from attempting to ping and consider using other blog post update services such as Feedburner Pingshot.

D) Add - There are WordPress widgets available that help you control when you send out pings. They help with scheduling posts updates and or whether to post only for a new post and not when updating existing posts. Look at these plug-in widgets very carefully while you choose and install them. If not setup up properly they may cause inadvertent pings, threaten your blog site status.

I combined a manual ping list from information posted on various blogs by WordPress, Elliott Black, SEO Blog, SEO Black Hat, RPC and RPC2 services lists and Dicontas Blog. I then went to each listed ping site a requested a ping, all the listed URL’s below returned a valid response.

My Manual A+ Qualified English speaking Ping List starts with http://rpc.pingomatic.com/,

And then includes the following:

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de

The following pings are not included in my list as they either timed out or I received an invalid access message:

(NOTE: Some key featured update services didn’t respond to my ping inquiry)

http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.weblogs.se/

Ping-O-Matic duplicate pings removed as mentioned above from my manual list:

http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

If you are not comfortable with a manual list, I suggest this short list of automated blog update service sites:

http://www.pingomatic.com
http://www.pingoat.com
http://www.kping.com/

This list doesn’t include all blog post update services. So please feel free to post any of your new or additional verified English URLs’ or services so other bloggers can enjoy the fun. Enjoy your new Atomicblogging Plugin Ping List.

Remember,

Life is short, keep it EZ.