To fix this, you can just use normal http connection while submitting blog comment. For this you need to change comment form submit url in the template php file. In most cases your WordPress theme will use its own custom function for showing comment box in your WordPress blog post page. So find comments.php file under your WordPress theme folder. On that file search for something like:

<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">

The problem is with this <?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?> as it will take the value of your site url defined in WordPress admin General Settings which is just the shared SSL secured path of your root directory. You can just remove that portion and instead use:

<form action="/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">

That will append the domain name before wp-comments-post.php and it will redirect over normal http connection to the comment page.

define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://cp32.hostable.com/~USERNAME/BLOG_DIRECTORY');
define( 'WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://www.waveofweb.com/wp-content');

I guess most of you have heard of AddThis social bookmarking and sharing service whether you have actually used it or not. If you haven’t really used it, here is another reason to add it to your WordPress blog. After you install AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget you will have the option to choose from one of the already existing  widgets which are really cool, and most importantly in this case one with the Google +1 Button already a part of it.

Now if you are still unhappy, you can easily make custom AddThis buttons from the plugin interface with only the services that you prefer. I am not going to the other features like you can track and analyze the data and how your posts are getting shared across different bookmarking services. It’s totally customizable and you can choose where you want to show it in your blog whether above or below the posts or also in other pages.

I guess you have liked the button in the screenshot. I like it pretty much and I am currently using it to show Google +1 Button on my blog posts. Hope this helps!

Go to this official page for Google Site Verification Plugin and you get all the info including verification steps and plugin download link.

I was searching for tlds which is still available with word “wordpress”. I found that wordpress.im is available. I was just going to buy it before I thought about the trademark. Hence I searched a bit and thought this info worth enough to share with you

The current list of post formats is on the Codex page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats.

• aside – Typically styled without a title. Similar to a Facebook status update.
• chat – A chat transcript.
• gallery – A gallery of images.
• link – A link to another site.
• image – A single image.
• quote – A quotation.
• status – A short status update, usually limited to 140 characters. Similar to a Twitter status update.
• video – A single video.

There has been suggestion of an “audio” format, which makes sense given the other multimedia posts. Another one recently suggested to me was a “code” format, which I could get behind.

So instead of writing traditional blog posts, you can precisely use it to post short updates about your status. And it is the same kind of thing that Tumblr is known to do.

Look at the  post formats that Tumblr supports. Now with WordPress you will be able to do the same without need of any custom themes. And any WordPress theme that will support these formats will be able to show your posts in a way that makes sense like “aside” post will be of few lines without any title or “video” post will contain space to show your video properly. When the current WordPress themes take it as a standard, it will be as portable as ever can be.

I don’t like new things that much. I want to lay back and enjoy old as long as possible, especially when it is really gold. Blogs are not meant to be update your status, especially when you have services like Twitter

But you  can never be sure. And WordPress perhaps wants to stop Tumblr being the only one to take advantage of the busy bees

It is called DreamHost Apps. If you don’t want a paid hosting from DreamHost, here you can find free application web hosting that includes several popular open-source web applications like WordPress, phpBB or Drupal. Obviously you won’t have FTP access or can’t install new themes or plugins. You have to be happy with the pre-installed ones. But that is the case with any other free WordPress blog hosting. And like WordPress.com you have no restriction on space or bandwidth. But unlike WordPress.com, you can map your custom domain free of charge. And though you can’t modify your themes code at will, at least you can add Adsense or any other ads code through widget in sidebar. I just checked with their support. And there is no policy against showing your own ads.

The most important change in this version was to merge WordPress MU with  normal WordPress. So if you have multiple blogs, you can use WordPress 3.0 to run all your blogs from a single WordPress installation. But just like MU, you can only install blogs in sub-domains under a domain name( like example.anirbanroy.info and blog.anirbanroy.info under my domain name). Most likely you are using different domain names for your WordPress blogs. Then you need to use the WordPress MU Domain Mapping Plugin to map your WordPress blogs under a single installation to separate domain names.

Another very important feature is that WordPress team has released a whole new default theme called Twenty Ten that will support all the features of the current WordPress version. You can use custom menus, backgrounds and page headers with this new theme. And custom means custom! You can practically handcraft your navigation using custom menus. And you can even choose to show different header images for each of your blog post! By the way, don’t worry, Kubrick theme is still there if you are a legacy fan

Admin dashboard colour has gone lighter and currently as I can see you will get any update notifications like for plugins and themes also in Dashboard settings in the left sidebar. There you can bulk update all those from a single page. Get Shortlink option has been added to the blog post to ease url shortening through WordPress without need of any third-party url-shortening services.

I thought of adding some screenshots of these new features. But when you find a more than decent video from WordPress official site, it is better to just embed it

Just go to Settings> Reading from your WordPress dashboard. There you will find the option to add any page that you have created in your WordPress blog like “Who Am I” or “Contact” as your homepage. And you can switch back to show your latest blog posts as the home page any time. You don’t need any custom template for that.

This is just another example why people say that WordPress is flexible

That’s where I have found this WordPress plugin real handy. Without any hardship you can show a real pro-looking maintenance page to the users. And moreover you can give access to the real state of the blog depending on the WordPress user role. Like your blog administrators can have access to both front-end and back-end while subscribers can only have access to the back-end i.e. WordPress dashboard and they will see maintenance mode in front-end.

And you can write your own custom message and use dynamic placeholders to show your  blog url, title and expected time when your blog will be live again. But one thing that you have to remember is that maintenance mode will not get deactivated automatically. But that is not that serious issue as you can show different message instead of expected time in that case. You have option to show messages like “coming back soon” when the time that you entered expires automatically.

Another nice little thing that I found worth mentioning. You can select urls that you want to exclude from maintenance mode. Suppose you want to keep your About And Contact pages working. Then you just have to specify the url paths in the plugin’s options page. And you can keep your trackback and feeds active on the same page.

Lots of options, easy interface

If you experiment with your WordPress blog a lot, then it is good to have it.