Right since the beginning of my blogging career, I’ve been using Akismet in conjuction with Bad Behavior to weed out spam from my blog. Akismet is as a natural choice since it comes parcelled with WordPress installations. As for Bad Behavior, I decided to use it after reading plenty of...
While I was away on my sabbatical (read coping with the all-new fatherhood), I occasionally managed to catch a glimpse of the latest action dramas unfolding on the net – primarily because the WordPress dashboard made it a point to present them to me on a daily basis. One of...
Finally… decided to shake off that writer’s block and squeeze some time out of the demands of fatherhood and get back to serious blogging. Oh Yes ! For those who didn’t know, I was blessed with this beautiful little bundle on the 10th of February, 2008. Life has never been...
Just today I performed an upgrade to the brand new WordPress 2.3. Problem #1 The upgrade went without a hitch but the moment I refreshed my site I got this long error message that went like… The same error kept appearing on the top of every single page. Now be...
FeedBurner Email Subscriptions are a great way to spread your blog’s content far & wide – by sending your post feeds directly to the inbox of your subscribers. It’s a particularly viable option for the subscribers who don’t want to get into the hassle of firing up their feed reader...
A brief intro… Past few weeks I’ve been extremely busy designing a Property Investment site for a client. The primary requirement was a custom CMS (Content Management System) – which I had to build from scratch. While it drove me over the edge at times overall it was a thoroughly...
Here’s a short but sweet one. If you’re daunted by the task of creating OpenSearch plug-ins for your site or any of your favourite sites, fear no more. OpenSearchFox is a cool new Firefox extension that can create such plug-ins for you with a single click. Is it really that...
Following the tutorial(s) I posted on creating OpenSearch plug-ins for Firefox that can search Invision Power Board based forums & WordPress blogs, I received quite a few requests for help in creating such plug-ins for a wide variety of blogs/CMS/sites. To make the job easier for all of you, I...