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
Sitemaps for WordPress.com
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.
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Tags: Blogger, SEO, Sitemaps, WordPress.com
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 »
WordPress.com stats are now one click away
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!
Tags: WordPress.com
Blogger Vs WordPress.com
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Blogger, Blogger Vs WordPress.com, Compare, WordPress.com
WordPress as a Community Network Site
Yeah, it’s not a joke. Soon you will be able to change your WordPress MU into a community network site, with the help of BuddyPress. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BuddyPress, WordPress
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′);
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Tags: Character encoding, Database, Unicode, UTF-8, WordPress, WordPress Tips
Upgrading to 2.5.X
You can easily upgrade to WordPress 2.5, also WordPress 2.5.1 covers more security patches. You can easily upgrade from 2.5 to 2.5.1
Tags: WordPress 2.5