In the age of blogs, the feedback mechanism which goes hand in hand with blogging is on the brink. It is a sorry state of affair and reasons are far too many.
For starters, we have over a million blogs and users find a new blog for the unique information they may need. So, the question [...]
I was in the midst of a theme change for one of my blogs and when I selected a particular free Wordpress theme, the whole blog came crashing on me. White Screen!!!! I knew that the template was faulty, and I quickly deleted it. And, I knew that if I did so, Wordpress would pick [...]
Although Wordpress is unquestionably the best CMS in the world due to it’s huge base of coders, it’s probably a bane on users such as me. We have a new Wordpress (minor) release almost every week which is great for the world. But, for a self publisher, the time and effort required to upgrade WP [...]
Passwords are bound to be lost. The options to retrieve them are hence on the rise. The most common ways to retrieve a lost password are to provide the email address or an user id, answer some secret questions or enter some personal information that has been already fed into the system.
More often than not, the open source CMS turn out to be your best bets, though some people can’t give up the age old orthodox feeling of superiority of custom built CMS. So let’s take a look at their advantages.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bus Full of Hippies is a cool Wordpress theme recently released and is available FREE of cost! Check this out!
The Bus Full of Hippies Wordpress theme
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 [...]
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. [...]
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.
It sounds scary when our internet movements are tracked and worse, blogged. It might just be a nightmare-come-true with Sweetcron blogging engine which is due to hit mainstream in the coming days.
Sweetcron is capable of synchronizing and recording your activities on the internet. Whether you upload a photo on flickr or bookmark a favorite [...]
When someone decides to start a blog or to simply create a family website it is very common for the person who is in charge of running the site to do some research about companies which provide a computer capable of serving web pages to visitors, most people don’t need to use a lot of [...]
If you’ve been following the micro-blogging service Twitter and it’s 140 character limit isn’t quite what you want, you might consider Tumblr. Tumblr equates themselves with a “scrapbook”, provided you consider weblogs to be “journals”.
However you can’t really call Tumblr a precise alternative for a number of reasons. One is that you can give the [...]
Fighting Comment Spam without Akismet
Disclaimer : I don’t have any biased feeling towards Akismet. Any claims made in this post are purely factual.
I had written an article earlier stating that Akismet does not work as it supposed to. I was referring to the intelligence factor in the linked article while today, I emphasize that Akismet alone is not sufficient [...]