Archive for the ‘WordPress Tips’ Category
WordPress doesn’t fetch your stats???
WordPress.com Stats
You changed your WordPress theme and found that no longer WordPress.com stats catching or collecting stats for your site as shown in the image below. Frustrated and want to revert back to old theme?
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Tags: Plug-in, Theme, WordPress, WordPress.com
Multiple WordPress Blogs in One Database
Many people don’t know that they can create multiple WordPress blogs using one single database. This method is useful, if your hosting service provider strict the number of databases that you can use. All you need to do is simply change the table prefix in wp-config.php file. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Blog, Database, WordPress
Zemanta for Bloggers
Have you ever tried Zemanda in your blog? Zemanda is a Fire-fox plug-in used by bloggers. When you write articles in Blogger, WordPress, etc, it’ll suggests possible relevant pictures, links, tags.
I’m sure it’ll save your time and help you to find relevant information very quickly. Give it a try. Once you used to it, you can’t survive without it. Read the rest of this entry »
You Hate Long URLs?
Some WordPress posts come with long URL. For example http://yourdomain.com/how-to-find-a-good-life-partner-in-life
As you see long addresses are bit bulky and hard to remember. You can easily make small URLs using slug. You can define your URL using slug. Read the rest of this entry »
Default Avatars in WordPress.com
Now WordPress.com offers default avatars. You know that, you can use Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatars) to display a cute picture of a commenter in your blog. Earlier you need to use some WordPress Plug-in or you need to edit the theme manually to support Gravatar, but WordPress 2.5 have a built in Gravatar support. You need to enable Gravatar in your blog (also you need a Gravatar Enabled WP theme).
Think of a situation where a commenter has no Gravatar picture. It means you need to give a default pic to the users who don’t have Gravatar. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Avatar, Gravatar, WordPress.com
WordPress Database and Unicode
Early versions of WordPress create Databases using different encoding such as latin1_swedish_ci. As the result, we won’t be able to see Unicode text. We’ll see some kind of curly scripts in the screen. To overcome this problem, we can use a simple solution. That is open your wp-config.php file and do the following edits there.
define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”);
change it as
//define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
//define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”); Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Character encoding, Database, Unicode, UTF-8, WordPress, WordPress Tips