Posted on 09 September 2008
Google limits us to display 3 ad units and 1 link unit on any given page. In Wordpress, if we would like to add adsense on the homepage, we would be limited to header, sidebar and the footer. If we add ads at the end of an article, the loop repeats the ad at least [...]
Tags: Adsense, google, Wordpress
Posted on 08 September 2008
The title of this post could be misleading. Tech Pedia is not moving to Joomla. However, I am pondering upon moving another blog of mine from Wordpress to Joomla. The main deterrent is the database tables and the syncing of structures. I checked the web and there is no easy one click script to get [...]
Posted on 30 August 2008
If you are a regular reader on this website, you probably know that my articles originate from absolute necessities. Recently I was looking around for a wordpress theme for one of my blogs and found one that I really liked. Unfortunately, it had an encrypted footer with ads embedded on it. I respect the template’s [...]
Posted on 01 August 2008
Akismet is probably the leading Wordpress plugin for filtering spam comments. There is no doubt with the ability of the plugin to capture most of the spam comments that gets posted onto our blogs. But, there is a weakness that can go against all the goods done by the plugin; Akismet plugin does not learn. [...]
Posted on 27 July 2008
WordPress for iPhone is here. I just tested it and there appears to be some bugs still. When I setup my blog on the iPhone app, it auto inserted a couple of blank posts that did not have anything in them. Hopefully we’ll see an update soon ;-)
One bigger issue is that the iPhone still [...]
Posted on 25 July 2008
An upgrade to the latest Wordpress 2.6 almost put Tech Pedia out of action. To my utmost shock, all the categories residing on my site went missing after the upgrade.
Posted on 13 September 2006
Google has come out with a beta of a list of all the books that are either banned or challenged. Some of the books in the list are classics that would be missed in the next generation. Presently google has listed 42 books in its banned section and they include classics like The Great Gatsby, [...]
Posted on 08 June 2006
I’m a hopeful writer. Now I don’t mean that I write articles which are rosy in their outlook - I mean that I hope to be published one day :p So this means that I have to constantly send out manuscripts (or partials of manuscripts) to various publishers and agents so [...]
Posted on 29 May 2006
Everybody and their grandmother today knows that two of the key players to watch out for new stuff (I hesitate to say innovations since some might disagree :p) are Google and Microsoft. But the question usually is, how do you know what they’ve each got brewing at their respective camps? Sure, you know about the [...]