My wife and I run several WordPress powered websites and try to stay on top of things on all things WordPress. But, one place we heavily rely on another person’s expertise is with robots.txt and .htaccess rules. Sure, we can handle the simple tasks with those files. But, when someone like Jeff Starr, author of […]
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Search Engine Optimized WordPress Theme
I would like to introduce my readers to a good friend of mine. I have been reading Garry Conn‘s blog since day 1 of starting my blog and I still do. Every time I visit his blog I come away hevaing learnt something. He has to be one of the most helpful bloggers around. Hello […]
40+ Best WordPress Plugins for 2011
One of the things I love about WordPress as a blogging platform is how Plugins extend its functionality hundred fold. Just like how Firefox becomes more than a browser with its 1000’s of available extensions. Searching for a good WordPress plugin in the WP Plugin directory can be like finding a needle in the proverbial […]
Popular WordPress Plugins Compromised
If you use popular WordPress plugins such as AddThis, WPtouch or W3 Total Cache and upgraded it in the last 1 or 2 days, read this. Matt Mullenwag of Automattic has published a blog post saying that they noticed suspicious commits to the WordPress plugin repository for several popular plugins. In fact, their suspicions were […]
Check for WordPress 3.2 Compatibility
WordPress 3.2 release date is just around the corner with some awesome new features like distraction free writing, a new admin dashboard, etc. However, WordPress 3.2 comes with its own set of pre-requisites. I was looking at the requirements to run WordPress 3.2 so I will be ready to update our blog network as soon […]
How to Avoid WordPress Firefox Redirect Loop Error?
Scenario: I had an existing site with this in the .htacess file which basically redirects anything without a www to a www address. Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on rewritecond %{http_host} ^mysite.com [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [r=301,nc] Now, I installed WordPress in a sub-directory and the site was setup without a www prefix. Now, I cannot log […]
How to Backup WordPress to Dropbox?
If you haven’t heard of Dropbox I highly recommend checking it out. If you are already a reader of our Dropbox hacks, you are going to love this one too. Dropbox is a file sync service that seamlessly syncs your files across PC, Mac, Linux, and other mobile devices like iPhone, Android phones, iPad, etc […]
WordPress as a Development Platform [Video]
This is something I have been aiattemptng haphazardly through various websites. I really liked this presentation from Japheth Thomson at WordCamp Melbourne. { Via WPCandy – Japheth }
Create a PDF Book of All Your Tweets
I have attempted to store all my tweets in a WordPress blog so I can browse it as well as create my own searchable backup copy. I just came across another cool service that lets me download my tweets in one shot as a PDF ebook. You just need to sign in with your twitter […]
WordPress 3.1 Available for Download
WordPress 3.1 code named Reinhardt has hit the streets. This version has a quite a number of new features and I am quite excited for a few of those. WordPress 3.1 New Features New Linking Workflow – makes it easy to link your own posts Admin bar – like the one you see in WordPress.com […]
Tip: Adding jQuery Scripts to WordPress
I was just trying to add a simple font-resizer jQuery script to a WordPress theme. This example seemed really simple but it just won’t work. After a while, I stumbled on this page in WordPress Codex where it suggested replacing the jQuery shorthand – $ symbol with the word jQuery. For eg: $(document).ready(function () { […]
WordPress Wins Best Overall Open Source CMS Award
PacktPub awards Open Source CMS Awards every year. To my delight, WordPress has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award for the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. In the last 4 years, this is the first time WordPress has won this award. Plus, it was named first runner-up in the Best Open Source PHP […]
WordPress.com Adds GeoLocation Feature
Location awareness is becoming ubiquitous. With iPhone apps like Brightkite & Loopt, web apps like Flickr have embraced geo tagging and ability to search people or pictures by location has been around for a while. Most recently, Twitter added goetagging to the tweets so you can look up tweets by location. Now, my favorite open […]
How to Exclude Adsense from Specific Posts Without Editing WordPress Code?
If you are running a WordPress blog monetized with Google Adsense, you have probably looked for a way to hide Adsense ads from certain posts. You will be surprised how easily you can achieve this. Google Adsense is a great program for publishers to monetize their blogs. It is a great way of funding your […]
Turn Your Computer Into A Web Server with Opera Unite
I try to dedicate Fridays to entertainment/media related posts in the spirit of the upcoming weekend. Today, I have something for you that is pretty exciting and takes web browsers into the next league. I use TVersity media server to stream music, movies and pictures in my computer to my Sony Bravia via Playstation 3. […]
