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How To Configure Windows Live Writer For Self Hosted WordPress Blog

Amit Sharma — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:21:31 +0000

When it comes to desktop blog publishing tool, Windows Live Writer is the one that echoes in my mind. Windows Live Writer is sure the best offline blog publishing tool, but sometimes configuring it for especially WordPress blogs, creates a lot of problem. It’s the very start that creates a bit problem, rest is just [...]

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Add Custom Breadcrumb with Post Tags in WordPress Blog

Tanmay — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:43:03 +0000

Breadcrumb list is a good choice to give the reader a better navigation experience. Users can easily reach at your different content pages through a bit different taste. But it is wondering that most of the popular WordPress theme neglected this part. The matter of fact is that the breadcrumbs are not only for the [...]

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7 Tips To Secure Your Website

Tanmay — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:02:28 +0000

In an age where hacking is prominent in the web space, one has to take steps in order to protect your web hosting account so that your efforts it doesn’t land up in the wrong hands. So, let’s check out some ways with which you can easily secure your web hosting account. Update with the [...]

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Get The Most Out of Dropbox

Tanmay — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:16:14 +0000

For those who simultaneously work with internet and access multiple computers from different locations, Dropbox works like a lifesaver. It is popular for its robust syncing feature and user friendly interface. I am a great fan of Dropbox as it made my cloud computing safe and easier. Initially, Dropbox gives you a free space of [...]

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Lazy Loader Plugin Loads Images on Demand to Improve Page Loading Time

Tanmay — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:25:02 +0000

Images play a vital roll in page loading time of your blog. If you use several images in your posts to describe the article more easily, you should also care about the total page load time of your pages for the following manners. 1. If the images take a lot of time to load, the [...]

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Integrate and Customize Outbrain Related Links Widget in WordPress Blog

Tanmay — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:08:59 +0000

Outbrain is a free service to ingrates the related links with thumbnails in your blog posts. It is pretty easy to use, good looking and all over, it consumes a great traffic for your site. Recommended reading: Insert Pagination in Custom Archive Page for WordPress Blog. Outbrain supports WordPress, TypePad, Blogger and other blogging platforms. [...]

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Build an Advanced Custom Archive Page for WordPress Blog

Tanmay — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:34:41 +0000

Previously, I wrote an article describing about how to build archive page for WordPress blog without plugin. I was also using exactly that same procedure in this blog for the complete archive page. It works properly, but the problem with that procedure is that it shows all the date based archive posts from the blog [...]

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Add Twitter Follower Widget Like Facebook Fan Box

Tanmay — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:16:54 +0000

There are number of Facebook plugins and widgets available for WordPress, Blogger, and other platforms. Facebook like box is one of the most used Facebook plugins which takes a great roll in creating community for your site. If you want to embed a widget for your Twitter followers as same as the Facebook fan box [...]

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Set WordPress Trash to be Empty Automatically

Tanmay — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:14:41 +0000

The Trash in WordPress is there to prevent you from deleting permanently the post or comments accidentally. It works like a “Recycle bin” to contain the deleted posts or comments so that you can easily recover them if you think those useful later. However, if you are not too habituated of clearing the “Trash” regularly then [...]

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How to Display Ads Only on Older Posts in WordPress Blog

Tanmay — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:30:53 +0000

Advertisement is the best and easy way to monetize your blog. Google Adsense, Chitika, Infolinks and many advertisement programs are available to earn some bulks. But too many ads on your blog may play a negative role. Readers do not like too many advertisements when reading a pages as the content becomes bit distracted. So, [...]

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Allow Readers to Translate your Post in Their Own Language

Tanmay — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:02:00 +0000

Allowing readers to read your blog posts in their native languages is quite good way to keep them back to your site. Visitors from more than hundred countries are visiting your blog and you are serving only one language English. It is not a good judgment for your readers who actually are not comfortable with [...]

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8 Things to do When Your WordPress Blog Sucks

Tanmay — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:10:03 +0000

WordPress is a great blogging platform and it makes everything easy for you. There are tons of plugin considering your demands, a great tutorial forum to solve your problems. Nothing worth to say that you do some experiment with your blog, may be with design, plugin and even with the WordPress core files. But some [...]

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How to Add RSS Feed Subscription Link in WordPress Tag and Category Pages

Tanmay — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:54:36 +0000

Serving the RSS feed subscription for your blog readers is good idea to engage them reading your new articles. By default WordPress has it’s own technique for showing the RSS feed link at the address bar for your blog feed and for the individual category, tag page feed as well. Tip: Add Extra Widget Section [...]

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WordPress ShortCode: Automatically Publish Monthly RoundUp Post

Tanmay — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:32:54 +0000

Publishing monthly roundup is not only a great way to add some extra value to your blog SEO but also it helps to rewind the old articles for your readers. But publishing your roundup posts manually is tedious one. So here I’ve found out a simple way to ease your effort. Don’t worry! You need [...]

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Schedule WordPress Database Backup to Dropbox Account

Tanmay — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:50:15 +0000

Storing your database backup in Dropbox will assure you about the availability of your important data as it will synchronize that files automatically to your computer. I searched the web for a plugin or script that allows to schedule the database backup and send it directly to the Dropbox account.

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Add Facebook Social Plugin: Like Box to WordPress Blog

Tanmay — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:14:07 +0000

Facebook is a leading social media that bloggers like, to promote their blog posts. Adding the Facebook like box for your Facebook fan page in your WordPress blog makes you readers comfortable to share your content with his friends directly from the blog. Facebook has released numbers of social plugin and Open Graph protocol. Obviously, [...]

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4 Awesome Free WordPress Themes for Photography Blog

Tanmay — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:48:57 +0000

If you are a photo-blogger then you might be tiered searching for appropriate WordPress theme for your photoblog. Generally, the Photography blogs should be some thing different by looks and features from the other blogs. Managing the images in your photoblog is the most important and tedious task. So it is wise to choose the [...]

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How To use Relative & Absolute Positioning in WordPress Stylesheet

Tanmay — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:21:36 +0000

If you want to design your WordPress blog theme yourself then the style-sheet of your theme template plays the main roll. There are many rules to design the template. I won’t go in details about that. Rather, I will discuss here about the interesting operator “position”. [Tip: Learn how to Add Thumbnails Automatically in Home [...]

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10 Things You Must Apply to Secure Your WordPress Blog

Tanmay — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:16:24 +0000

WordPress is the most used blogging platform in the world. World’s top blogs like Tech Crunch, Mashable etc. use WordPress as platform. The main reason behind that is WordPress provides a well structured and secured blogging interface for you. But hackers are not spending their holidays. They are also trying to hack the WordPress blogs [...]

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Use WordPress Plugin PostLists to Show Posts From a Tag or Category

Tanmay — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:25:21 +0000

Do you want to highlight some posts with their url in WordPress? There is a cool plug-in to to do so. You can show the list containing any number of posts in a widget section. You can place the list at any position but generally, the sidebar widget is the best place to show the [...]

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How to Block Unwanted Person to Visit Your Blog

Tanmay — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:29:13 +0000

If you are a professional blogger then you would like to work in your blog whole the day. You do all the stuffs to launch your blog and get a better position in search engine. You do give best to boost your blog performance. But think about that if any body copies your hard works! [...]

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Move WordPress Core Files in Custom location to Protect from Hackers

Tanmay — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:59:13 +0000

Nowadays, the WordPress has become the best blogging platform and mostly used by people. But do you know that a lots of hackers are always trying to get into your WordPress system? They, generally use some SQL injection in your WordPress admin templates. Most of the blogger install the WordPress in the root directory and [...]

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Install and Control Multiple Sites in WordPress 3.0

Tanmay — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:27:23 +0000

WordPress 3.0 has released and people are crazy to use it as many new features have been included in WordPress 3.0. One of them is multiple site installation and control. If you’ve installed or upgraded to WordPress 3.0 version then you can install many sites without installing the WP again. You can install those extra [...]

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Add Thumbnails Automatically with Home Page Excerpt

Tanmay — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:33:06 +0000

Adding a thumbnail to the post excerpt in your home page is not the tough one. You can add a thumbnail in your homepage by defining a custom key in the index.php and assigning an image at that key from WordPress admin section. But this is not so handy as it requires you to maintain [...]

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An Ultimate Guide to Make your WordPress Blog Faster

Tanmay — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:55:25 +0000

Sometimes back, I’ve described how to reduce the page load time and speed up your WordPress blog. But, there are some more issues still left behind. You can improve the page load time optimizing images and CSS. But, when your blog grows by leaps and bound, you will notice that the page load time has [...]

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Create Featured Section with Thumbnail In WordPress Blog

Tanmay — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:04:36 +0000

Well! If you want to create a featured section in your blog home page to show the post url with thumbnail then numbers of plugins are available that allows you to create a featured section in WordPress blog. There are many features are available in those plugins. But those plugins increase the page load time [...]

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Host Images of WordPress Blog in a Subdomain for Better Speed

Tanmay — Fri, 28 May 2010 08:05:24 +0000

In some previous articles, I’ve described about how to reduce the page load time of your WordPress blog [ 1. Speed Up Your WordPress Blog By Improving Page Load Time 2. Install Contact Page in WordPress Blog Without Any Plugin3. Reduce Page Load Time Installing Tweetmeme Retweet Button Manually ] . Another issue is still [...]

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Reduce Page Load Time Installing Tweetmeme Retweet Button Manually

Tanmay — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:19:15 +0000

Tweetmeme Retweet Button is very popular WordPress plugin to retweet your blog post. But some time the retweet button participates in moving down your site performance as it increases the page load time. The Tweetmeme plugin is awesome but it slow downs your pages. You must know that Google has now decided to give more [...]

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Install Contact Page in WordPress Blog Without Any Plugin

Tanmay — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:09:55 +0000

A few days ago I described about the reduction of the page load time of your WordPress blog and if you read that article thoroughly then you can find I’ve mentioned the fact about the contact form 7 plugin which participates in slowing down your page load time. I recommend to uninstall that plugin which [...]

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Migrate WordPress Blog From Old Domain to New: The Easiest Way

Tanmay — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:03:25 +0000

There’s nothing to introduce WordPress to the daily blogger. In the blogosphere WordPress has made its position high among others by its user as well as search engine friendly interface. Nowadays, most of the blogger use WordPress as a platform to create their website. Assuming that you are familiar with WordPress and have a blog, [...]

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