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WP power the coolest
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 no way I am claiming that WordPress is perfect, it does have it fare share of issues, short coming but it’s evolving. If I tried WordPress 1.5 and comparing its short coming till now, you are comparing 16th century with 21st century . But regardless of its short coming, due to regular upgrade and easy to use functionality WP no longer treated as just another open source. Smart decision makers are using WordPress as blog engine as well as CMS for their organizations. Here is the small list of cool organization’s blog/Web Site powered by none other than WordPress: 1. CNN blogs—each…
WordPress Tweaks: Pagination
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 like New York Times, BBC so many others. Pagination is all about increasing usability where certain article turns into epic J After all when your user can navigate easily, your article/stories get more attention/affection or whatever you are after. Fig 1.1 Now our issue is how can we bring that pagination to our WordPress blogs? There are several plug-in available on WordPress plug-in directory who do paginations together with other tasks. But for the sake of just pagination why add another plug-in, and total freedom of customization cannot be achieved if you use a plug-in. WordPress got very simple and…
Few simple yet useful WordPress Tweaks
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 Apache with mod_rewrite module installed. Since all the games played in the wp-comments-post.php file and spam-bots usually does not leave a referrer, we can detect and deny their access to wp-comments-post.php file by just using these few lines on .htaccess file (located on the root WordPress installation directory). If you don’t have any .htaccess there but your server does support one you can just create one on notepad (save as->file name- .htaccess, save as type-all files) and upload it via FTP. Don’t forget to replace *myblog.xxx.*(on line 3) with your own domain name,remember no www or http:// 12345RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*myblog.xxx.* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$ RewriteRule (.*) ^http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$ [R=301,L]…
Are you ready for WordPress: Dexter?
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- 1. Automated update alerts- This new feature lets you know when there is a new release of WordPress or when any of the plugins you use has an update available. api.wordpress.org collects all the info of your WordPress version and plugin version in order to accomplish that. So no more painful upgrade headache. As far as I remember I have seen this in the Idea section of WordPress site, cool job by making this into reality. 2. In-house tagging system- For a long time WP users were using Technorati tagging, or category to tag their posts. But with the 2.3 in addition to category users will also…
Making your WordPress site/blog faster
Most of the time we all talk about increasing readership, this time why not we will go for performance enhancement. Few days ago one of my subscriber expressed that, he experienced sluggishness on the back end while using WordPress as a CMS with high number of pages. He isn’t the only person who came across this problem, a lot of WP users experience related problem generally. Question is whether these problems resides in the core of WP or occasionally forced by some other issues? Actually there is no simple answer for that, any CMS whether Drupal or WordPress can experience same issues caused by numerous reasons without anything to do with the core itself. I will keep the focus of the discussion on the WordPress (self hosted) related issues to narrow it down. Why not we turn the spotlight on the fundamental reasons first, so that it would be easier to eliminate them? Your WP (WordPress) powered site may experience sluggishness for- MySQL server or connection issues. PHP Memory Limit. Apache log rotator problem (for Apache server). Broken/Degraded PHP code in template/theme files. Excessive plugin uses/ use of plugin(s) with broken codes. Some particular third party widgets/ JavaScript codes. WordPress Dashboard’s display of RSS…
Five must have WP plugin
Over the course of time WordPress has changed a lot so are the plugins associated with it. If you compare WordPress’s earlier versions and the latest one, you will notice it’s completely different. Lots of plugins that used to work with WordPress 1.1 are no longer worked with WordPress 2+. Some of those are even no longer needed, as WordPress already have those within. Not every plugins you find in WordPress is worth adding; some of them are even irritating and might cause you a lot of trouble. In my opinion these five plugins are must have kind, because of usability, flexibilities not to mention the usefulness. WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-DBManager This is at the top of my list, every time I set up a blog the first plugin I will install is always this one. This plugin allows you to optimize database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database and run selected queries. Remember everything you do in your blog stored in database, and in case something goes wrong with this you are doom. Yes by default WordPress 2+ have a built in plugin for database backup, but for flexibilities and maintenance I prefer this one. This gives you…
WordPress goes enterprise
This post is a quick post for those readers who do not know/visit my other blog. WordPress announced it’s enterprise version few hours ago with the association with enterprise RSS vendor KnowNow. This new version of WordPress will be known as KnowNow WordPress Enterprise Edition (KWEE). KWEE will have all the functionality of WordPress MU (multi user) in addition with some enterprise class exclusive tools. You can find the full details on this WordPress bulldoze SixApart with KWEE, which I posted in my 451 press blog. [tags]WordPress MU, WordPress Enterprise, KWEE, KnowNow WordPress Enterprise Edition [/tags]
WordPress Tutorial : Session Four
Through last three sessions of my WordPress tutorial I already describe the simplicity of installations, features as well as admin interface details part by part. Now that you are well familiar with WordPress, let’s discuss WordPress design, theme and layouts. Since choosing a theme for your blog does include a great deal of factors. Not all designs, or layout is suitable for every blog and not all themes are equip to provide everything. some people has a wrong impression that these themes are just skins like we used in Winamp, WordPress themes are a lot more then just a dress up. WordPress has over few thousands of free themes as well as you can buy themes from different web design stores, alternatively you can build your own or ask someone to build for you. But basically WordPress theme layout are following: Single column: The most oldest layout of webpage. No sidebar, one column containing all the contents and navigation are usually at the top of the page. I found this layout very boring and less user friendly. If you use this kind of layout for your blog, you can’t show list of categories, archives, blogroll etc. side by side with your…
WordPress Tutorial: Session Three
Ok in last two parts of tutorial I already explain how fascinating and limitless WordPress features can be and the simplest installation process among all CMS. As I promised this session I will concentrate on WordPress Admin interface. WordPress admin interface is neat and clean yet resource oriented. As WordPress support multi author blogging according to user level Admin interface will change. If you intend to use your blog as a one man show, just like this one, then you really don’t have to worry about these user level stuffs. But let’s say for the sake of general discussion we cover that part too. WordPress admin interface login link generally located within the template, but not always. If you can’t find the admin interface link in your blog after installation, you can locate it in this URL: Your blog URL/wp-admin. When you install WordPress for the first time you will be given a generated password and default user name: Admin, which you can always change after the first login. WordPress Admin interface have 9 tabs, when you logon as an administrator, means full access. The tabs are as follow: Dashboard: This Tab will be visible to all level of users…
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