I have seen many bloggers writing about how to increase your FeedBurner subscribers overnight. I don’t want to get into that. Using a few ways, you may get decent hyke in subscribers number. And others may be plain old craps or same known things over & over again. But I am today telling you about a WordPress plugin that can help you to reach to your potential subscribers automatically. [...]
I have found many bloggers asking how to show only the excerpts instead of full posts in WordPress. So I thought why don’t I write a post on it. You can find some plugin to do that. But I personally believe in using as less WordPress plugins as possible, especially for simple tasks. And for this case, you just have to change a line of code in theme file. [...]
As a blogger, you surely want to notify as many services as possible when you update or write a post. That’s why most of us just add one after another ping service url in the Update Services list in WordPress. The list gets huge & we sometimes even forget to care if a ping service is mentioned twice. Then the problem comes. Some servers keep track of the pings & if they find duplicate pings immediately without any time interval, they may take it as a attack of spammer. As a result they might ban your blog for future pings. [...]
In April, I wrote a blog post about .co.cc asking for renewal payments. It was like cheating regular .co.cc users who started using it knowing it would remain free. Recently I noticed that .co.cc has updated & clarified their policy to some extent. If you are using the domain for personal, non-commercial purposes only then you don’t have to pay renewal fees. You can use it for free as long as you wish. That’s certainly a good news to the general user base of this domain. However if you use it for commercial purpose, you can register .co.cc for free but have to pay renewal fee each year. The current renewal fee is $3 per year. But I doubt how many users use it for commercial purpose & if it is really good idea to use such a free domain for commercial sites. [...]
Category filtering feature has been extended to public beta in many English speaking countries including Australia, Canada, USA, Ireland, UK, and India. If you haven’t heard of this feature, let me give you a quick note. It gives you the ability to block ads that fall under some specific categories. You can see a list of categories & can block ads up to 5 categories. The categories are usual, as you see in some online directories like Religion, Get Reach Quick, Dating etc. [...]
As a blogger, I am sure that you are concerned about potential hackers & spammers. Today I am going to tell you about a WordPress security threat that you may not have thought about. Most of us like to try different templates especially on the new blogs. There are tons of free WordPress themes gallery sites around. And you will fall for them surely to try & find out a suitable one for your blog. But are these sites reliable? You can’t say yes for all of them. Now here comes the trick. When these theme galleries collect WordPress themes from the respective authors, they can easily put malicious codes on the theme files before showing them in their sites. These codes can be spam related promoting third party sites or even can be used to hack your blog. You would keep blogging & never notice that someone is taking unwanted advantage of you. [...]