Please take a look at our example, of what are we going to create : Here

Let’s start coding :

First create category “videos” and post at least one video from youtube or any other flash video.

Now we will need “video” category id before we will start PHP coding of our sidebar, login to your wp-admin, click on posts, categories , you will see categories list, click on created video category.

In your browser address field you will see something like that : http://penguinationproject.com/preview/wp-admin/categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=3

Category id number  is 3 (cat_ID=3).

Now when we know our category id , let’s start coding.

Click on appearance in your left admin menu, click edit , you will see files list on right menu. Click on sidebar.php

Find html code  <div id=”sidebar” role=”complementary”>

After this code and before <ul> tag starts insert PHP code below , we commented inside of code where you should add your category id number.

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

// take a look at line below, &cat=3 , change 3 to your category id.

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=1&cat=3');

while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
  $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;?>

<?php
$id =$post->ID;
$the_content =
$wpdb->get_var("SELECT post_content FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $id ");
$pattern = '!<embed.*?src="(.*?)"!';

preg_match_all($pattern, $the_content, $matches);
$obj_src = $matches['1'][0];
?>

<?php if($obj_src != '') 

{ 

echo '<b>Latest Video</b><br><br><object width="160" height="120">
<param name="movie" value="'.$obj_src.'"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
<embed src="'.$obj_src.'" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="160" height="120"></embed>
</object><br><br>'; 

}

?>
 <?php endwhile; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Now save the file , go to your wordpress blog’s  homepage , You will see most recent video on your blogs sidebar .

From now once you are adding video in “video” category , it will automatically appear on your sidebar.

We will continue hacking default wordpress theme soon. And we wish you all the best ! Please leve comments.

Good luck.

Grab this code on youtube video collector ! Here >>

Good luck

We will teach you today how to SEO optimize your wordpress blog for better google and other search engines ranking.

If you created your wordpress blog already, first step you should do is  : login to your wordpress admin panel , in left menu click settings, permalinks . In common structure select custom structure and type /%postname%  .  It will make your permalinks human readible, this step is also cool for google and other search engines that regularly visit your website.

Ater that you should install two SEO wordpress plugins :  All in one SEO plugin and  xml-sitemap plugin with your wordpress blog.

Once both plugins installed, post about 15 – 40 quality uniqye ( not copied from another websites ) content. Login to your wordpress admin panel , settings , click on xml-sitemap plugin , create sitemap. From now sitemap will be automatically updated once you create every single wordpress post.

Now you can submit your blog with google. Go to google webmaster tools and submit your site, they will ask you for veryfication. The best method to verify your site is by adding meta tag to your wordpress blog header, in webmaster tools click verify, you will see verification methods, choose “verify by meta tag” and continue, copy provided html code and go back to your website. Login to your wordpress admin panel , click on apperance -> editor. On right panel ( titled as theme files )  click on header.php file. Find lines started with <title  , after </title> tag paste google provided html code, save and exit.

Submit sitemap.xml file. Go back to your google webmaster tools account and click on your website domain , find “sitemaps” in menu , click on it , in the field “submit sitemap” type sitemap.xml  ,  click on submit sitemap button.

Now you are done , continue posting quality content in your blog regularly and you will get lots of visitors, coming from google search.

If you have any suggestions, post it in comments.

Good Luck.

Good day to you Penguins ! Now you can download all our cartoons from youtube ! Take us with you to your laptop !

Download penguination project youtube  videos

Youtube Video Collector is a great tool ! You can search and download any youtube videos online ! You just need internet connection !