I just managed to install a plugin in my wordpress blog, just thought of sharing the steps with you all.

1. You can find many WordPress plugins from WordPress Plugin Directory.

2. Download the plugin you want.

3. There is always a “readme.txt” file inside the downloaded plugin folder, it is helpful for you to follow the instructions and install the plugin.

4. Upload the plugin folder to the wp-content/plugins folder in your WordPress directory online.

5. Login to your WordPress Administration Panel, and expand the Plugins section at the left pane.

6. Click on “Installed” link to view the list of installed plugins.

7. Click on “Activate” link to turn the plugin on.
You will be able to see the difference once you have activate the plugin.

I had this question when I wanted to set up this blog, with some helps from others and some trials-and-errors, I finally managed to set this up. So, I am just thinking it’d be good if I write down the steps on this topic.

1. Sign up 000webhost and get the free web hosting.
2. Download the latest release of WordPress. (The current latest version is 2.7)
3. Unzip the downloaded file to a folder on your hard drive.
4. Login to your 000webhost account, and you’ll see the list of your domains. Click on Go to cPanel link then you’ll see a list of tools/services available.

5. Click on MySQL icon.

6. Here you’ll need to create a new database for wordpress use. Enter the database name, database username and password, then click on “Create new database”. Remember these information and also the host name (which is mysql4.000webhost.com for new 000webhost users).

7. Go to the folder you’ve unzip the wordpress files, and rename the file "wp-config-sample.php" to "wp-config.php". Open this file and modify the following information accordingly.

define('DB_NAME', 'yourdatabasename');
define('DB_USER', 'yourdatabaseusername');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourdatabasepassword');
define('DB_HOST', 'mysql4.000webhost.com');

8. Upload the WordPress files to your 000webhost. I’d recommend to use a FTP client which is easier to upload files, though 000webhost also provides web based file manager. Click on FTP details to get all the information you need to connect to the server through FTP, or click on File Manager to access the web based file manager.

Just upload all the WordPress files to the public_html folder.

9. After you have uploaded all the files, open a new web browser, and run the WordPress installation script, by entering http://yourdomainname.com/wp-admin/install.php in the address bar.

10. You’ll see the following page, just enter your blog title and email address, then click on “Install WordPress” button.

11. After you’ve successfully installed WordPress, you’ll be told your username and password. You can change your password later.
To login to your wordpress account, just visit this site:
http://yourdomainname.com/wp-login.php

12. That’s it! Now you can start blogging with Wordpress hosting in the free web host - 000webhost.

You can read the details guide to install WordPress here.

000webhost offers free web hosting service, without any advertising. It’s perfect for staring a new online community, blog or personal website. I am now hosting my wordpress blog in this free web hosting site.

000webhost offers:-
- 1500 MB Disk space
- 100 GB Bandwidth
- Free subdomain or your own domain
- cPanel control panel
- Easy to use website buider
- FTP access and web based file manager
- 5 MySQL Databases with full PHP support
- Free POP3 Email box and webmail access
- Fantastico 1-click Autoinstaller to make installing popular scripts easy
- No Ads at all!

Feel free to get your free web host at 000webhost.

This is another site where you’ll get paid by writing review and also rating others’ reviews.

Payment information:
- Pay rate per extended review (with more than 1000 characters): $1.00
- Pay rate per quick review (with less than 1000 characters): $0.25
- $1.00 bonus for the first extended review on any product
- Pay rate per rating review: $0.01 (Every tenth rating you’ll get a bonus of $0.25)
- Refer a friend, and you’ll get $0.25. If your referral writes a review, then you’ll get $0.75.
- Minimum payout: $20
- Pay to PayPal account

My experience:
I’ve just joined this site, and written one extended review. I also rated 10 reviews, and now I have $1.35 earnings so far. It’s all being done in less than 30 minutes.

Feel free to join ComparedBy.us

This is another paid-to-participate site I found after mylot two years ago. This site has been lauched in 2005, and it’s a social networking site. When you spend time enjoying the community, you’ll be rewarded Gather Points, then you can cash them in for gift cards or for cash through PayPal.

What you can do in Gather?
- make new friends
- write any posts
- upload pictures and videos
- comment on others’ articles, pictures or videos
- join a group of common interests

Payment information:
- There is not expiry dates for Gather Points.
- Minimum payout through PayPal: 1565 points for $25
- You can also redeem some gift cards from the Gather partners, such as Dunkin’ Donuts, Starbucks Coffee, Borders, etc.
- Currently, the redemption is only eligible for members who live in the United States, whereas for members who life outside of the U.S can always earn the Gather Points. They may consider to expand the cash redemption to International users if they are able to work it out. I am waiting for this.

My experience:
I have joined this site for more than one and a half year, as I am not staying in U.S, so I didn’t really participate actively there. But it’s really fun to spend time there, and it’s easy to earn the Gather Points, it’ll be good if you are staying in U.S. Here, you can post whatever you like as long as you follow the community guidelines, the topics are really free. You will always have lots of funs there, there are some word games too. The people there are really nice and friendly. So far, I have 842 Gather Points. Of course, I do not have a payment proof, as I’m not eligible to cash out.

Feel free to join Gather.

I have found this blog from a member, who is also participating in the paid-to-post forum Size Of Paper.

If you want to learn more about earning money online, I think this is a good blog that you can get some useful information and good tips. The blogger explains the methods of earning money online in a detailed and easy to read way, so you’ll find it interesting reading the articles, and the most important is you’ll learn how to earn money online.

Feel free to visit the blog: Make Money Online
Read more about how the blogger made his First Sale from Clickbank

I’ve just found this Microsoft website recently, where you can play some online games and earn some tickets, then you can use the tickets to redeem prizes.
The only thing is, the prizes can only be sent to U.S. address, except for music download.
You can also use the tickets you earned and donate to the charity.

You need to have Windows Live ID before you can register to this club.

There’s also a promotion, to download this Search Perk! (Must use Internet Explorer 6.0 and above)

- Every time you did a search in Live Search, or you logged in to hotmail or MSN messenger, you’ll get a ticket. (Maximum 25 tickets per day)
- You’ll get 500 tickets on registration
- You must register before 31/12/2008 in order to receive this offer.
- You must redeem the prize with these tickets earned from Search Perk! before 15/4/2009.

I think it’s pretty good if you would like to play online games, and here you can either get some prizes or donate to charity.

Have fun in Live Search Club!