OK, so you have decided create your very own website, with your own domain name and everything. The very first thing you will need is a domain name, and then a web host. You can register a domain name for an initial cost of about ten bucks, give or take a couple. Then you only [...]
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Yet another upgrade has been announced to WordPress. Version 2.8.3 was released early last week, and today 2.8.4 has been announced. Look at the timeline. 09-Jul 2.8.1 20-Jul 2.8.2 03-Aug 2.8.3 12-Aug 2.8.4 Once again, it is termed a security release. According to Matt, if you are still using 2.8.3 a specially crafted URL could [...]
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I think the pace at which WordPress.org releases WordPress upgrades is a little bit too fast. It is kinda good, because this tells us the people at WordPress are working on it all the time, but it does add some admin work for us bloggers. Even though upgrades are now a breeze thanks to the [...]
Last month Google had announced on its Custom Search Blog that transliteration had been enabled in Custom Search for a set of languages, “making it easier to find news in Arabic, Indian news in Hindi, your favorite Bollywood song lyrics, or local content in a bunch of other Indic languages – Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and [...]
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WordPress 2.8.2 has been released just 11 days after WordPress 2.8.1. Today’s entry on the official WordPress blog warns us of an “XSS vulnerability” that could cause comment author URLs to be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site.
If your blog is not on blogger, setting up Adsense on your blog can be quite a chore, particularly adjusting the font colors, background, link colors, etc and then obtaining and adding the code to your website. However, if your blog is on blogger, and you are using the “new blogger” templates, adding the Adsense [...]
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I just added a contact form to my blog, now proudly running on WordPress 2.8.1. Since WP 2.7, it has become a breeze to add and delete plugins. It no longer involves searching for the plug-in outside your dashboard, downloading, unzipping the plug-in package, uploading it to the server and then activating it. Now you [...]
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Three main reasons why people use or should use domain email like me@mywebsite.com are: 1. It is a cool thing to show off — myname@compusutra.com sounds much cooler than myname@gmail.com to me. 2. It is good publicity for your website. People who receive your email will know that you own a domain, and may own [...]
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Gmail enabling typing in Hindi and other Indian languages is a really welcome feature. Thanks, Google. It was announced today on Gmailblog as well as Googleblog. This will help so many new people to write emails in Indian languages. But, isn’t Google getting ahead of itself when it claims, Until now, there hasn’t been a [...]
Reverse Order WordPress Comments
Sometimes you may want the order of comments on your WordPress blog to be reversed, i.e., want the newest comments to appear on top. While simple plug-ins have been available to accomplish this (I liked Sudar’s the best), now there is a much simpler solution. Now WordPress dashboard itself allows you to reverse the order [...]
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