Blogging

If you have a wordpress blog, you must have noticed in your admin settings page that you cannot change your login name once it is set. So, you believe that once you get some stereotypical name like Admin(default) you cannot change it later like you MSN or Gmail username. In case of single author blogs, people generally leave the username to default i.e. admin, which everyone can pretty much guess on. Even if you have a multi-author blog, you might need to change the username for other contributing writers for some reasons. You cannot do it via the Admin interface but can do it very easily from PhpMyAdmin.

My blog was facing a malware issue in the last few days. Well I wasn’t aware of this fact. About 5 days ago, when I tried to open my blog in Google Chrome, it showed a malware warning. I was pretty much surprised to see that, because my blog was running smooth on Chrome just the day before. I thought either there’s something wrong with my computer or Chrome was screwed up.

You want to show your readers the posts that are most popular on your blog. If you use Wordpress for maintaining your blog, you can use or must have already used plugins that show off the most popular posts. Placing such widgets help you get more traffic to your quality posts. But the wordpress plugins basically display the popular posts based on the number of comments, i.e. the more comments a blog gets, the higher is its rank on the popular posts widget. The posts that get the highest number of comments are not necessarily the posts that get the maximum number of traffic. So, what if you want to put a popular posts widget that shows the posts getting maximum number of traffic?

Adsense is by far the best and the easiest tool to monetize your site. You can easily place ads on your site by putting the Javascript code snipped in the html of your site or blog. If you use Wordpress, there are a number of plugins that are available for inserting Adsense. These tools allow you to insert adsense very easily without having to put the whole javascript code in your templates or on your posts inline. But what if you want to test Adsense on your site by placing them in appropirate places so as to generate more clicks? If you repeatedly open up your site to test Adsense visiting as a normal user, you’ll make a number of impressions to the ad which Google Adsense won’t entertain. And there are chances for accidental clicks as well. So, how will you test adsense the legitimate way on your blog? Well here’s how you do it.

If you want to share your presentation but don’t want to bear the hassle of uploading it on Youtube and then embedding on your site, you can use Google Spreadsheets to create presentation and then embed it on your blog or website.

why not create a podcast for your blog so that people won’t need to strain their eyes reading but enjoy the content just by listening? Or just magnify the exposure to your blog to people who are addicted to nothing but podcasts? Odiogo is a service that can convert your posts into high quality audio files and demands you to do nothing but sit back and relax.

If you are a blogger then you must be using feed management services like Feedburner, Feedblitz etc. In case of Feedburner you get a code to paste on your blog and to let people read your blog via email subscriptions. Subscribing via email is a surefire method for your readers to keep updated to your [...]

People are fond of using Desktop weblog applications like Windows Live writer, Scribefire, Zoundry etc. They are much easy for writing, publishing and managing posts. But do you know that you can also write posts and publish them on the fly through your email?

Favicons are very useful because they add a touch of professionalism in your site and if saved in .ico format they can also be used as desktop shortcuts for your site. The main advantage however is that it makes the viewers easy to locate your site in Bookmarks or favorites list. Here I’ll show you how to add these favicons to your sites.