Urdu Theme for Wordpress 1.5
I was waiting for the final release of Wordpress 1.5 to work on my Urdu theme. Here is my Urdu blog, I still need to modify a few files and add some javascript buttons in my comments form. Please have a look and let me know what you think of it. This theme has different templates for categories, individual posts, comments, search, sidebar, links etc. I will soon add it in Urdu Wiki with installation instructions and a wp-admin.css to change the font in wp-admin section.
There are some bugs in this release of Wordpress, like mt-import doesn’t work at all. Best way to move a movabletype blog to wordpress is to install wordpress 1.2, run the import-mt.php and then upgrade to 1.5.
I had a little discussion with Nabeel bhai about search engine optimization for Urdu blogs and webpages. I think that we don’t need to worry about it because if there is content somewhere then Google is quite good at indexing it and including it in relevant results. Like this Urdu blog is listed in Google while Urdu wiki is not yet indexed. The reason is not that we have something missing there in Urdu Wiki but its the fact that Google gives priority to blogs. Their bot totally ignores meta tags such as keywords and description. They also ignore the repetetive keywords in the body tags.
Their pagerank system works on how many people link to you and with what text. Like if you search for Danial my blog appears at the top. Search for Urdu blog and Salambazar’s Urdru blog appears at the top, search for Urdu and BBC Urdu tops the results. Why BBC Urdu tops the result? Because people are linking back to every thing they have with the keyword Urdu in it.
I liked the idea of offering cute little graphics for publicity of Urdu Wiki. Why people offer these tiny gif files? Because that way you can make people add a link back to your site using your own words.
March 1st, 2005 at 6:33 am
->Danial: Yes you are right about pageranking system of google. It has some unique dynamics. And yes your contribution is mashaAllah very nice. Is it supposed to be a bilingual blog or and urdu-only edition? becuase if it is the later one, then there is no need to put the english test post and in the bilingual case, the formatting requires a little bit of improvement.
Nice work!!
March 1st, 2005 at 12:23 pm
Dear Danial
Thank you very much for sharing your information about the search engines. I have put up instructions on installing phpBB and setting up Urdu support here. I have also modified the overall_header.tpl file to obtain its style directly from subSilver.css instead of loading it from the database. This makes the task of customization much easier. Our friend Qadeer has sent me some results of his ongoing work on phpBB’s translation. I have put these images here. These are an indication of the things to come, so fasten your seat belts.
March 1st, 2005 at 4:48 pm
Asif bhai it is Urdu only theme. Before making it public I am thinking about someway to deal with trackbacks and comments. How could I guess that the trackback I am recieving is in Urdu? I want to use Nafees Web font for every thing in Urdu and I don’t want to use Tahoma for English comments. Now if I play around with wp-* files then it would become complicated to install. I need some solution that fits in the theme files.
Nabeel Bhai screen shots look really impressive, I need to install it on my computer and give it a try.
March 4th, 2005 at 10:16 am
->Danial: WP 1.5 is already out :), I mean officially.
March 5th, 2005 at 1:13 pm
I just noticed that the link to instructions for installing phpBB and setting up Urdu support in my previous comment is wrong. It should be http://www.geocities.com/simunaqv/urdu_phpbb_setup.htm.
March 5th, 2005 at 7:05 pm
->Nabeel: That looks real good. Aray Nabeel bhai why dont you put it on UrduWiki? Or are you waiting for the localized version?
March 6th, 2005 at 3:25 pm
Good idea Asif. As you can see, this is still very alpha. I will put is on UrduWiki whenever I find time. Similarly you could put up instructions on providing Urdu support inside WikkaWiki. I installed WikkaWiki some time ago and would like to experiment with the Urdu support.
January 24th, 2007 at 6:51 am
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January 24th, 2007 at 6:51 am
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November 9th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
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December 10th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
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March 12th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
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fajar ki namaz our hamari kotahi,
masail-e-mastorat,
khawateen ke makhsos masil our unka hal,
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March 30th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Main urdu blog likhna chahta hoon, or google par search k doran yeh site samnay aa gaee, koi batay ga k is site par urdu kahan hay ?????????
May 12th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
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