Many people consider Open Source can’t be suitable for corporate usage, especially when it comes to blogging. Some blogging platform even put out slogans like “Corporate/professional blog publishing platform”, well if you poke around a bit, soon you will find out that is nothing but just a sales speech. Reason for this post is in fact talking about a particular blog publishing platform, WordPress. In the past I came across quite a large number of people who blindly believe (never did try by themselves)- WordPress might be good, but not good enough to showcase their corporate/professional/enterprise blogging. …

In case you are wondering what is pagination? It’s mechanism to break large quantity of data/text into pages for better usability and accessibility. For instance think you are searching for “Free blog tools” on Google, which will return around 35,500,000 results and if Goggle show you all the results in one single page-just guess how you will react? But they don’t, instead they break the results into several pages and you notice a numbered navigation link (ref: Fig. 1a) bellow each page for better navigation. Not only Google or other search engines but as well many top class web sites …

These are very easy to do stuffs, nothing complex yet in time you will find it useful. Most no-tech blogger intend to do everything through plug-ins, but why install dozens of plug-in while you can get away with just adding few tweaks? So here are five simple tweaks that will make your WP life a lot comfortable.

Denying access to non-referrer request/Spam-bot request via .htaccess

This is simple and straight forward way to deal your referrer spam. Well off course considering your server is …

You better be ready! Since “Dexter”, as in WordPress 2.3 is already launched just a few hours ago (At the time of this posting). I was expecting the release sometime this morning, didn’t expected it almost half day earlier :). So why is this WP 2.3 so special? Cause WordPress 2.3 comes with tons of features that we the users were craving for a long time. Apart from feature richness “Dexter” also took care of over 351 bugs/trouble tickets that were due in Trac. The kick ass features that will rock your blogging- …

Talking about the facts, not all the organization and people run their server under Unix/Linux. In fact a large number of organization/entity prefers windows based server for their hosting solution. Anyway our discussion is not about argument whether to choose Linux/Unix or Windows based server. So what are the blog publishing software/applications for those who seeks windows server based self hosted solution? That’s what we are going to discuss. We all know there are huge arrays of open-source blog publishing application out there, as well as enterprise class self-hosted solutions, but unfortunately very few of them can be hosted on …

Last year I wrote two articles (Blogger’s Gear 1 & 2) featuring some of the most outstanding blog platforms/apps. But a lot of changes came to blogosphere since then, some of those tools grew bolder and some of those lost in thin air. Not only that, we were presented with a lot more new tools /apps for blogging. So I decided to give a blogging tools roundup which are available now not used to be available last year. You can say revision with amendment and affix. As you can feel it’s not possible to cover all those outstanding …

Time between Xmas and New Year while I was having a nice little time with family and friends to loosen up, surprisingly i received some interesting mails from few of my readers. It’s not that i am a hot shot, people ask me for advice often or i have a huge scale of readers. May be unknowingly i did influence a small number of readers, well i am really happy for that. Anyway let’s get to the point, the interesting mails asking about different questions about blog platforms and blog publishing tools. So i decided to open up a “Blog …

Well this is Sunday afternoon, just before the big holiday break of the year. In this lazy afternoon I got some weird idea to check out some paid blog hosting/utilities/CMS. Let’s discuss best four paid Blogging utilities or The “Big Four” according to media available, though these provide trial version or shareware version. Are they really impressive compare to free utilities we use? Are they worth paying the price? TypePad: It’s more like a Blog hosting system rather than a utility. Pc Magazine’s editor’s choice and many more award winner cost starting $49.50/yr up to $149.50. …

Well guys we all know how important is to understand value of keyword, but not without the original content. As I mention in my earlier post jungle of high value keyword populated senseless writing won’t do you any good. So what to do? Why not write contents and compare how much it worth to Google, and what are the definite keywords that Google Adwords advertisers pay for, and already present in your Blog. You might say yeah right! There are thousands of fraud site, claiming to sell Google keyword list etc. etc. Its nothing like that, what I am …

Getting your Blog circulated across the net is the next best thing that people do with Blog and there are two very good motives for doing this. You can include references in your Blog to websites that you own and if you mention them in such a way that they sound worth a visit, then you will get visitors. So the more people you can get to read your Blog the better and one effective way to do this is to get your Blogs onto as many sites as possible. The classic route here is to submit your …