I stumbled onto this interesting backup service for WordPress a few months ago, but somewhat couldn’t endup writing a post for it. Most of you use different WordPress plugins to create a backup of your WordPress database and store it in your mailbox or hard disk. Though nowadays you get enough space in your inbox or hard disk, but still what about saving a bit of space especially if you can store it in a secure server? This service is provided by Backup Technology and like your normal WordPress database backup, you need to install their WordPress plugin. [...]
Each time you edit your blog post WordPress sends a ping to the blog pinging services automatically. So if you edit the post several times after it has been published, WordPress will send pings same number of times unnecessarily. Blog directories and blog ping services like Ping-o-Matic track those pings & based upon the frequency of those pings they may consider your blog as a potential spam & ban it from their services. [...]
I have seen many WordPress blogs taking this approach. They use to close comments after 30 days or 2 months of writing the blog post. So if you have some current affairs blog or a blog that updates your on offers & price of products, you can think of trying it. But I am not a big supporter of this method. Even with those blogs you may want to comment something so that later users get the correct info for that time. Only solid reason that I find is for dofollow blogs. If you have a dofollow blog, other webmasters might try to take advantage & there is every possibility that they would make a meaningless comment on an old blog post that has nothing to do in current context. [...]
Just few days have passed & WordPress developers have been forced to release a maintenance version for WordPress 2.9. The main issue is that current WordPress 2.9 is triggering a bug in certain versions of PHP’s curl extension & for that pingback & scheduled posts are not working properly in different hosting environment. Besides, they have fixed 14 tickets in this maintenance upgrade. [...]
At first I thought I won’t mention it as existing WordPress users can see the upgrade notification from their dashboard. But still there are so many bloggers who are interested about WordPress & still don’t use it. So just to let you know WordPress 2.9 is out & I have upgraded to it without any difficulty. [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote a post comparing Blogger.com & WordPress.com free hosting. And one of the demerits of WordPress.com is that it doesn’t allow the use of free custom domain. So now I thought of letting you know about a free WordPress blog hosting where you can use your own domain for free. Moreover, there is a revenue shaing program where you can earn 75% of revenue from your blog through Google Adsense. [...]
Security is always a concern. You love your blog & want to protect it regardless whether someone finds it worth enough to hack or not 
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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. [...]