Tips and tricks about blogging with WordPress and doing it like a pro.
This tutorial explains how to create multiple dynamic sidebars to add various combinations of widgets to customize your wordpress theme even more. I suggest you… Read More »How to Create Multiple Dynamic Sidebars for WordPress Widgets
WordPress Widgets are an amazing way to customize your blog besides wordpress plugins. How to widgetize your wordpress theme? I use a heavily modified version… Read More »How to Widget-Enable WordPress Themes in 3 Easy Steps
Whenever a new wordpress version is released, and we upgrade wordpress, there is one file we never upgrade: wp-config.php which has the MySQL database details.… Read More »Should You Upgrade WordPress wp-config.php?
When I started the tumblelog, the idea was short tips and I had disabled comments and trackbacks for all posts via the default wordpress settings.… Read More »How to Turn On-Off Comments and Pings for Multiple Previous Posts
I have been playing around with Yahoo! Pipes for some time now and have found it an amazing tool to customize multiple feeds in any… Read More »How to Join, Split, Cut, Sort, Mix, Mash Multiple RSS Feeds
FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin detects your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. Feedburner reports the… Read More »FeedBurner FeedSmith Security Update: WP 2.3 Fails to Notify
I have been tracking the web crawl diagnostics in Google webmaster tools for quite some time, and over the last few weeks have been noticing… Read More »Google Shows 405 Errors with wp-comments-post.php
In case you visited the site a few hours back, it was down with internal server errors. Unlike last time when the site was down… Read More »WP-Cache Bug Strikes Back: Site Down 17 Hours
The new version of WordPress 2.3 is released and a cool, much requested feature is that wordpress now automatically checks for new wordpress versions and… Read More »Disable WordPress Version and Plugin Update Checking
Though many wordpress bloggers talked about email spam from wordpress contact forms, it was never a problem here… until yesterday. It seems someone found a security… Read More »Secure Your WordPress Contact Form: Block Spam Emails
I usually use the Google Toolbar spell checking feature to correct spelling errors in my articles. However, I learnt that the if you do not… Read More »Stop Google Toolbar Spell Check Before Publishing Blog Post
Why would you use a 4-Column WordPress Theme? As monitor screen resolutions get wider, bloggers are expanding the width of their blogs to fill in more… Read More »4-Column WordPress Themes for High Resolution Wide Screens
Feedburner MyBrand is a Pro feature for showcasing your feedburner feed on your own domain name. Recently Feedbuner MyBrand became free and now bloggers can… Read More »How to Setup Feedburner MyBrand on Your Domain
There is a big debate raging that Google will penalize sites buying and selling text links. However, Matt Cutts, the Google search quality engineer speaking… Read More »How to Make Your Paid Text Links Ads Google-Friendly
A newbie blogger was having difficulty in locating Permalinks for blog posts which he wanted to quote as a source for his articles. Permalinks are… Read More »10 Easy Ways to Find Permalinks of Blog Articles
Matt Cutts, the Google engineer gave some amazing tips at WordCamp 2007. I discussed some lessons learnt and new WordPress updates, that were revealed at… Read More »3 New WordPress Security Tips I Learnt from Matt Cutts
Everyone wants to blog and with a host of popular free blog hosting solutions available, WordPress.com is a popular choice. However, everything that comes free… Read More »15 Benefits and Limitations of WordPress.com Blogs
WordPress 2.2.2 is released and its upgrade time again. The best way to upgrade is the recommended way, but since this is a minor update,… Read More »Superfast Way to Upgrade WordPress with Changed Files
When you upgrade WordPress, your blog is offline for the period of time you upgrade and your visitors see all sorts of php and mysql… Read More »Upgrading WordPress: Notify Visitors with Maintenance Mode
WordCamp, a 2-day WordPress conference for users and developers in San Francisco is over. Attendees returned as better bloggers and the development and future of… Read More »15 Lessons from WordPress WordCamp