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11 Jun, 2011
Techattitude is now open for guest bloggers. Bloggers and writers can guest post on Techattitude and have benefits. Guest posting helps you increase your blog’s visibility and gain backlinks as well. Even if you aren’t a blogger, you can write articles for Techattitude. As Techattitude is a technology blog,
2 Jun, 2011
Google wants to make the Google +1 ubiquitous on the web and thus lets webmasters to embed the button on pages throughout their website. You can easily add the plus one button to any page on your website by simply using the code snippet provided by Google for various sizes. There is also a Wordpress plugin for the same. But what if you want to add Google +1 button to Wordpress homepage? Well, its easy and you just need to modify the standard code a bit.
26 May, 2011
On Wordpress , if you have set the www version as the default canonical URL and have redirected the non-www version to the prior, you’ll get an error saying that the sitemap’s stylesheet is missing. Same is the case if you set non-www as default and redirect the www version to the prior. The sitemap thus won’t load. This can cause a problem while submitting sitemaps to Webmasters or other places if you don’t use the default canonical URL form. Well here is a trick to fix it.
10 May, 2011
You might be interested in using subcategories for categorizing your posts in a better way. Wordpress by default lets you have the category name in the permalinks but if you use subcategory, both the category and subcategory slug appear on your permalinks. If you need to remove the parent category slug from Permalinks in Wordpress, you can do it using a plugin or modifying your theme’s functions.php file.
5 May, 2011
Wordpress has lots of developers contributing to its development. Wordpress regularly releases updates and each version is a big enhancement from the earlier version . Well you can also contribute to Wordpress 3.2 development even if you aren’t a developer. You can help improve Wordpress by reviewing Wordpress 3.2 Beta and the new Twenty Eleven Theme.
2 May, 2011
Getting a simpler login URL for Wordpress admin is basically helpful if you are working on a Wordpress project for a client who doesn’t know much about Wordpress. A simpler login URL would be much easier to remember. You can change the login URL of Wordpress by simply adding a line to your .htaccess file.
7 Mar, 2011
Simple tags is a very useful plugin that helps in adding tags to your posts. It automatically populates a list of tags as you start typing in the tag section. It also has an option to link to the tag pages through posts. If you are using simple tags and use permalink redirect plugin, its high time that you updated Simple Tags plugin for Wordpress 3.1.
2 Mar, 2011
After installing Wordpress 3.1, a user may find a lot of new options right out of the box but also find some things missing. Like, if you are fond of adding excerpts to your blog posts, you’ll instantly miss the text box for adding excerpt in the post area. You can enable this from the Screen Options.
1 Mar, 2011
There is an issue with custom permalink structures in Wordpress which don’t happen to work on localhost on default settings. Here is how you can use custom permalinks issue in Wordpress when testing it on localhost.
23 Feb, 2011
The most awaited version of Wordpress, Wordpress 3.1 has is now available for download. Wordpress 3.1 also called “Django” can also be updated from the dashaboard. Django is named after the Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.
12 Jan, 2011
To manage a Wordpress blog and to customize it, one needs basic HTML, CSS or PHP knowledge too. A new blogging platform “Yesblogs” has been recently launched. This blogging platform doesn’t require you to know any HTML or CSS techniques as the developers say.
14 Dec, 2010
Visitors to any post on your blog may land there for a bunch of different keywords. A visitor could be intrigued by a section on your article and thus write a comment regarding it. But he will have to scroll all the way down to the comment section and type the comment referring to the particular section on your article. Highlighter is a Wordpress plugin that enables your visitors to highlight any section of your article and add comment to it.
30 Nov, 2010
Its easy to setup a blogger blog and start writing right away. But after a certain time, users prefer switching to Wordpress because of better customization options in Wordpress. Blogger to Wordpress migration is easy as there is a dedicated Wordpress plugin for the migration purpose. Redirecting Blogger blog to Wordpress can be done with meta refresh. But that sort of redirection isn’t much search engine friendly.
21 Nov, 2010
What plugin do you use for caching your Wordpress blog. Well the most widely used cache plugin is the WP Super Cache. But with advanced options, the W3 total cache is becoming immensely popular among bloggers. If you are a blogger with a blog setup in wordpress, you should give W3 Total cache a try and I’m sure you’ll love it. But if you have already been using W3 Total cache plugin, you must have noticed that the “www” form of your blog URL doesn’t redirect to the “non-www” form or vice versa.
17 Nov, 2010
Skype is rapidly growing with around 560 million registered users. Skype is best known for voice and video calls over the web and many people prefer to use it as a standalone messenger as well. Skype online status is a Wordpress plugin that enables you to add a fully customized Skype button to your blog. Well its not just a plain static button; it can display your online status on Skype as well.
29 Oct, 2010
Many popular websites have been added interesting easter eggs that are triggered by the Konami code. If you are fairly good at programming, you can implement the Konami code Easter egg on your blog directly with the Konami-JS on Google Code. If you want things to be easy, there are a handful of Wordpress plugins which let you add and create Konami code eas ter eggs. Here are some Wordpress plugins for inserting Konami code to your blog.
27 Oct, 2010
Wordpress by default provides the option to import a blog from Blogger. It is very easy and can be accomplished by a few button clicks; that’s it. But in some hostings, an error is encountered due to the lack of secure connection. In such cases, the content should be first exported from and then imported to Wordpress. This process can take a bit longer but works perfectly for everyone.
18 Oct, 2010
Facebook is the one of the biggest places for sharing photos and videos online. Facebook practically allows a user to upload any number of photos and videos so there’ isn’t a problem with sharing media on Facebook. You can also use pictures and videos on Facebook for embedding in your blog.
16 Oct, 2010
The popular blog engine Wordpress will release a new version of Wordpress, namely Wordpress 3.2 next year. But, the version will strictly require PHP version 5.2 and MySQL version 5.0.15 in the least. If your server doesn’t have PHP 5 support, you won’t be able to run this version of Wordpress. So, is your Wordpress blog ready for getting upgraded to Wordpress 3.2? You can check if you blog is ready for Wordpress 3.2 with some online tools.
15 Oct, 2010
The Like Button on Facebook is just a One Time sharing function. Imagine if you could transform it into a connection for ongoing updates and sharing based on user interest; wouldn’t it be great? Ingboo, a very handy online utility that answers your question and helps you do just that.
