Archive : Blogging

I see lot of bloggers getting addicted to Twitter. Most of the famous bloggers are on twitter and all they do nowadays is to just keep sharing links on Twitter and searching for new inspirational content! I’m sure twitter is going overcapacity with all the information, but really bloggers? Common, we’re all awesome at blogging about new stuff and I think we need to stick to the basics instead [...]

WordPress 3.0, named “Thelonious.” was just released. In the new version, there are couple of new features. After merging with MU + WordPress, there is an option of having a single installation for multiple blogs. I’m going to start reviewing WordPress 3.0 shortly. Here is a short video: Here are some new features I noticed after installation: - WordPress is now more SEO friendly, - [...]

Observations are having a good relationship with your readers is amazing. Having good content is amazing. > For humans, content is  boring than good content. > For Google, the relationship with your readers is all that matters (your popularity -> links). So I think, that’s the reason why XKCD is popular today : - The key to a successful blog is to create a relationship with your readers. - [...]

That’s the question every new blogger thinks about. If you ask me why Alexa Rankings? its simply because of the Money and Search Engine listings. * Advertisers who want to advertise on your site look at Alexa ranking before bidding for the CPC rate Ads. Lower the ranking, more advertisers would flock to advertise on your site. * Thinking about search engine listing, if your blog has a <200k [...]

Ping or Update Services are tools that you can use to let other people know you’ve updated your blog (or in simple words, its just notifying sites, and letting them know that you have new content on your Website). WordPress automatically notifies popular Update Services that you’ve updated your blog by sending a XML-RPC ping each time you create or update a post. In turn, Update Services [...]

There was a bug with WordPress 2.9, where scheduled posts and pingbacks were not not processed correctly due to incompatibilities issues. So this new WordPress patch, version WordPress 2.9.1 would fix all those minor bugs. Download 2.9.1 or upgrade automatically from the Tools->Upgrade menu in your blog’s admin area.

Did you update your Blog’s footer copyright notice with the new year? Here is 2 simple ways to let your footer auto-update itself with the new year . If you’re running WordPress like me, then all you need to: * Open the footer.php in your theme folder * Paste “<?php echo date(“Y”); ?>” instead of the copyright year * Save the file And if you like JavaScript [...]

After the release of WordPress 2.8.6, WordPress engineers started working on a newer version of WordPress and they had made up their mind that they would launch a newer version of WordPress within this year (2009)…. And they kept their words by launching it yesterday!! Congrats to the WordPress team . Let me discuss some import and new features in WordPress 2.9: Trash em’, instead of Delete: [...]

One of my friend who got inspired by my tips started blogging recently. Although, he wasn’t a geek like me and didn’t know more about web hosting\costs\privacy and stuff. His other friend helped him setting up a website for a cheap cost with minimum bandwidth\space and he finally kick started his blog. When I checked the whois information for his domain, I could get all his personal information [...]

More security patches for your WordPress. WordPress 2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended. The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press. The second problem, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain [...]