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 how to Widget-Enable WordPress…
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,…
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…
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…
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 possible way you like. I…
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 plugin has a security issue…
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 a Google 405 Error with…
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 new plugin releases and notifies…
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 loophole in the php script…
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 stop the spell checker and…
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 content, widgets and advertisements. A…
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 easily change the feedburner url…
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 at SES San Jose conference…
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 the permanent links for the…
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 WordPress camp. Now Matt Cutt…
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 has its limitations, and it…
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, with no database upgrades and…
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 database errors displayed. A better…
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 WordPress were highlighted. With a…