Tag Archives: wordpress

WordPress 2.8 Plugin Browser bug

Since WordPress 2.8 “Baker” went gold today, I decided to immediately upgrade. I took the essential backups and hit the automatic upgrade link in the WordPress Dashboard. Voila! WordPress 2.8 was up and running in an instant and seemed perfectly bug free. The reality though, was different.
I decided to update some of my plugins as

Using Indian languages on the Internet

This post is a follow-up to my previous post titled How to blog in your mother tongue. Since that time, a number of advancements have been made in this field. Typing in your own mother tongue has become even easier. Literally hundreds of tools are now available on the Internet that enable us to communicate

WordPress StatPress plugin with empty table option

I use the StatPress plugin on this blog installation to gather some basic and live statistics of the visitors to my blog. I also use the WassUp plugin to capture some similar statistics. While both plugins have their own pros and cons, there is one thing that used to bother me about the StatPress plugin.
While

Migrate/move your WordPress blog to a new domain/server

Well since I just finished migrating this blog over to this new domain, I thought I’d just describe how I actually did it. Firstly, login to your existing blog, Goto Settings, Permalinks and activate the default permalink structure. I recommend doing this because I’ve been locked out a dozen times while updating my blog

Domain change

This is gonna be short and sweet. It was long overdue… I’ve migrated this blog over from http://www.uthfull.org/blog to http://www.rahulsarin.com.
So, if you notice any bugs, such as broken links, errors etc., kindly gimme a buzz and let me know.

Fighting Spam

The spam bots have waged a war on my poor blog.
Everyday, at least 50 comments are held for moderation and all of them advertise viagra or similar drugs.
So now I’m using three tools to protect my blog

Akismet
Bad Behavior
Did You Pass Math?

I had installed Spam Karma 2 also but it didn’t let any comment through.
50 useless

I Like Wordpress!!

Well its been a breeze installing and configuring this software (wordpress)
Its just too good. The themes are nice, the plugins are available!!
Best of all, its free!!
If you wanna host your blog… go register on some free blogging sites which offer Wordpress like blogsome.com.
I’m falling in love with blog stuff!!