It’s no secret that a major design change is coming to this year’s WordPress development cycles in the form of a new default WordPress theme, but that’s not all. Jane Wells has announced plans for all things design—open source design, that is:
* Creation of the wp-ui mailing list for design-related updates
* Return of the design [...]
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 [...]
Beware! If you are running a self hosted Wordpress blog that is not upgraded to version 2.8.4, chances are that your blog has already been hacked or will be hacked very soon. So, if you haven’t already, buck up and do the necessities.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]