Posts filed under 'WordPress'

Many wordpress bloggers test a simple math question for posting comments for spam protection. I recently installed the Math Comment Spam Protection and comment spam for moderation is almost zero, and Akismet spam is down to a minimum. (more…)

Do you need to hire a WordPress Blogger, Wordpress Designer or Wordpress Programmer to create that professional branding for your site? Or maybe you are Wordpress Blogger, Designer or Programmer looking for a blogging job. Welcome to Jobs @ Wordpress. (more…)

What happens if you remove your blog spam filters completely for one day? By turning off Akismet, can you manage the huge spam that flows in? Participate in the Spam Filter Free Day and recognize how anti-spam tools are indispensable for the modern blogger. (more…)

In the last tutorial, you learnt how to widgetize your wordpress theme to support wordpress widgets. Now this tutorial explains how to create multiple dynamic sidebars to add various combinations of widgets to customize your wordpress theme even more. (more…)

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 of the Blix wordpress theme, which does not support widgets… (more…)

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. Have you ever looked up how this file has changed over the year? Have you ever upgraded wp-config.php? (more…)

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. Hundreds of posts later, I decided to open up comments, but it was a difficult task to turn on comments in existing posts as you had to do it manually for each article… then I found a simpler way! (more…)