Hot WordPress Tips

WordPress doesn’t fetch your stats???

Mayooresan — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:43:22 +0000

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?

I’d say, “Don’t worry; there is a way to overcome this problem”.

Stats plug-in looks for tag in your theme, before tag. If your new theme doesn’t have this tag then Stats plug-in will not collect stats. you can manually add this tag or you can go to Design -> Theme Editor -> Footer

Look for the tag . Your theme must have a call to at the very bottom right before the tag.

That’s it now your stats plug-in will fetch stats for you :).

WordPress 2.6.1 is now available

Mayooresan — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:11:10 +0000

WordPress 2.6.1 is now available to download. It’s not a mandatory update. If you’re happy with existing WordPress 2.6 don’t worry just ignore the message on admin panel.

Images with caption

Mayooresan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:02:35 +0000

Now you can upload pictures with caption to WordPress.com. It’s pretty interesting isn’t it? When we get pictures using Zemanda we can see pics with caption, with description about the source.

Happy to see that WordPress.com is coming up with new innovative ideas.

WordPress 2.6 is out…

Mayooresan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:26:33 +0000

Now WordPress 2.6 is available to download. WordPress has published a video on WordPress 2.6. I just embed it in my site bcz it’ll be easy for you to listen here in my site.

I’ll explore and let you know more about WordPress 2.6 in comming days.Good luck..

WordPress.com and Google Gears

Mayooresan — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:02:52 +0000

Now WordPress.com brings another feature to its users. This time, they are bringing in a third party tool made by Google to enhance user experience over wordpress.com blogs.

According to WordPress.com, this feature is a turbo. That can bring more fast browsing experience to their users. You need to install Gears on your browser to enable this turbo feature.

To enable this, go to your admin area or dash board and click on the turbo link on right top corner. A window will appear and it’ll ask you to install gears in your browser. Just accept it and install it to improve your browsing experience.

PS: Images, files will be locally Cached in your machine, so don’t use this feature in shared machine, because others can easily gain access to your sensitive materials.

Multiple WordPress Blogs in One Database

Mayooresan — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:07:44 +0000

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.

If you don’t know anything about installing a WordPress blog then read WordPress manual and come here again.

To do this, open your wp-config.php file

Initially you’ll have something like this..

$table_prefix = ‘wp_’;

Change the “wp_” into something else (“myblog” or “main” or “cinema”) and upload it to the relevant directory. Then run the install. That’s it you can make multiple WordPress blogs in one Database.

But don’t forget that it may result in negative way as well. If your Database is crashed then all your blogs are gone. if you happen to have multiple databases for blogs then, even if one crash other sites will be up and running.

Have fun with WordPress

Sitemaps for WordPress.com

Mayooresan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:39:55 +0000

It’s good news for all wordpress.com users. Yes, now wordpress.com offers site map for your wordpress.com site. If you have a self-hosted WordPress web site then you have to use a third party plug-in.

Site map will help you with SEO and will bring more users from search engines, because site map easily explains more about your site to search engines. Already WordPress posts are good in SEO compare to Blogger, now they are going to be even better!

Zemanta for Bloggers

Mayooresan — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:15:34 +0000

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.

Pictures are mostly suggested from Wikipedia, Flickr so you won’t be encountering copyright problems. It’ll work perfectly with English posts but when I tried it with my Tamil blog it didn’t work. May be Zemanta can’t understand Tamil

WordPress.com stats are now one click away

Mayooresan — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:18:57 +0000

Now wordPress.com Stat is only a one click away. Earlier you need to log-in and then later click stats blah blah.. Now you can login point your mouse pointer on My Account in admin bar, then u can see that stat also listed in that drop down list.

Go ahead and click it… It’s now only one click away!

Blogger Vs WordPress.com

Mayooresan — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:51:03 +0000

As problogger.com says, blogger have more users than WordPress.com. Here in this post I’m not going to compare self hosted WordPress and Blogger. Self hosted WordPress is highly customizable but you can’t customize WordPress.com as you wish (as a free user).

To make it fair I’m going to compare Blogger and WordPress.com, because both of this blogging services are free. Blogger is owned by internet giant Google and WordPress.com is owned by Automattic.

You can’t customize the theme or CSS in WordPress.com. If you really wanna edit those CSS files then you need to pay and get the permission. Personally I think you can buy a hosting for that money. In the other hand blogger offer you the opportunity to customize the template as you wish. XML enabled blogger themes helps no-voice user to edit CSS and design the layout as they wish without paying a penny.

To avoid SPAM comments you may enable Random Letters protection, but most of the users around blogosphere found it more irritating and annoying. WordPress.com is helping you to hunt down SPAMS using a technology ASKIMET. It’s very effective and it’s almost catching SPAMS.

Earlier WordPress.com didn’t support that Visitors’ stat. It means you don’t know how many people visited your blog, where in Blogger you can use almost any third party stat counter in your blog. Now WordPress.com also offering a wonderful stat tool which you can use also in yourself hosted blog.

You can use your customized header both in Blogger and WordPress.com, but when you’re using WordPress.com make sure the theme you use can supports the customizable header. Some themes don’t support this feature.

You can’t embed any JavaScript in your WordPress.com blog that means you can’t use third party blogging tools such as stats, feedburner’s email delivery, Pay Per Post, Adsene etc. As I said earlier you can embed almost anything in Blogger by editing the theme.

Incase if you want to move your blog from Blogger to WordPress, then WordPress.com got wonderful tool that can help you to migrate your posts, author even categories, but Blogger doesn’t have such feature where you can migrate your posts from another Blogging platform.

It is said that Blogger offering unlimited storage for image storing where WordPress.com offering 3GB (not a bad size) space for your blog. I’m using blog for 2 years and my blog still has not reached even 100MB so I don’t think 3GB will be a problem. It’s more than enough.

An optional excerpt is another advantage in WordPress.com. You can show the real punching line in your home page and make user to read the full post. This feature is not available in Blogger.

Now both Blogger and WordPress.com offers widget, so it doesn’t make much difference among both of them.

If you’re an advanced programmer or a person who’d like to play around with codes then please go for Blogger.com. WordPress.com restricts you from editing theme, CSS codes. In the other hand if you really wanna play around with WordPress themes, code, CSS then go for a self hosted WordPress account or become a premium member by paying to WordPress.com.

In my personal opinion I think, if WordPress.com can allow embedding external scripts and allows editing the CSS and themes then it’ll be a much better choice than the Blogger. We can’t predict anything. May be in future WordPress.com will remove the restrictions.