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Gravatar – Private Beta

February 7, 2007

Gravatar, the service which lets weblogs display user provided pictures is now in private Beta. Gravatar was taken down few weeks back for various reasons. Just when many people thought that the service was dead Gravatar 2.0 was announced. If you are interested in joining the private beta leave a comment on this post. If [...]

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Akismet Admin Page

February 5, 2007

Akismet, one of the best anti-spam webservices has helped lot of websites in identifying and blocking spam comments and trackbacks. However the Admin page of the Akismet plugin in WordPress has always been annoying. Prior to version 2.0, all the comments caught by Akismet Webservice were shown in a single page. In version 2.0 the [...]

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Fix UTW plugin to avoid tag loss !

January 31, 2007

Ultimate Tag Warrior, one of the best plugin’s for WordPress is broken on WordPress 2.1. Yesterday I noticed that some of my popular posts were showing “No Tags“. These popular posts were among the few lucky posts in my blog which receive some comments. It turns out that the comments themselves were the culprits which [...]

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.1

January 26, 2007

Two days back I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 and as mentioned in my earlier post, there are lot of new features added to 2.1 release. I saw many blogger’s mentioning the “AutoSave” feature as the highlight of the release. As far as I know “AutoSave” would be the least useful feature for regular blogger’s since [...]

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WordPress 2.1 RC1

January 20, 2007

WordPress Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for download here. Some of the new features in 2.1 include Efficient database code, faster than previous versions Autosave Tabbed editor Lossless XML import and export for moving between WordPress blogs WYSIWYG spellchecker Search engine blocker for private blogs You can set any “page” to be the front [...]

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Manage WordPress Categories

January 15, 2007

Batch Categories is a nice little plugin which will help you in organizing your WordPress blog categories. Managing categories is a painful task in WordPress. The problem arises when you realize that you are writing more posts related to a topic and you decide to put all these posts under one category. The only way [...]

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Switching to a minimalistic theme – 281

January 13, 2007

I switched from K2 theme to Freshy some time back and though the theme looked nice, there were quite a few problems with the Freshy Theme. Too many images in the theme (including bullets etc) made the page load very slow. A part of it is also because of the hosting speed (GoDaddy) The theme [...]

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WP Tiger Admin 3.0

December 14, 2006

WordPress is truly a great publishing platform. It is written completely in PHP and is backed by a MySQL database. The true power of WordPress lies in the extensible plugin architecture. Also you can change the look and feel just by a click ! However the Admin interface of WordPress has always looked dull and [...]

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New look and feel !

October 15, 2006

Since I wrote this post , I have been constantly searching for a good 3 column wordpress theme. I found a few good themes, however when I compared them with the K2 theme, something was always missing ! Today I have finally upgraded to a new theme called Freshy. Thanks to Thilak for finding out [...]

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Ping Google

October 6, 2006

When it comes to searching content in Blogs, the default search engine many people prefer is Technorati. The Technorati engine is totally dedicated for searching within blogs. Bloggers/Publishers can ping the Technorati service to notify Technorati of new content in your blog. In many of the publishing software including WordPress, this can be be done [...]

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