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WordPress 3.0 Custom Menus Hidden Settings

October 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The other day, I was playing around with the new WordPress menus that came with version 3.0 and up; I created a new menu and throwed some pages and posts in the same menu, which was a cool and an easy task. I figure out that  you can create a custom link with whatever you like in it, so I added all my social networks in a sub-menu, which was an easy task too, until I find out that when you click one of this external links on the menu, it opened on the same page, and since I didn’t want my visitors to leave my blog but to open the external link in a new window, it got me thinking that this was worthless. I started looking into the code which took me a lot of time and no results, then I started browsing the web and stumble upon a thread at wordpress.org that had the answer to my problem. While reading it, I felt so stupid because the answer was just standing in front of me all this time. I found out that day that WordPress is becoming extremely friendly and easy to manipulate, We … [Read more...]

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Figthing SPAM with Akismet for FREE

October 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Akismet or Automattic Kismet is a spam filtering service. It attempts to filter spam from blog comments and spam TrackBack pings. The filter works by combining information about spam captured on all participating blogs, and then using those spam rules to block future spam. It is an Incredible tool to use if you have a WordPress Blog or Site. I receive about 10 to 15 spam comments daily, if those add up at the end of the month I will end up with 450 or so spam comments, Akismet will  handle this for you in a very efficient way. But there has been some controversy on how AKISMET started charging for its service, when they use to be free. Most people will go and try to create an account, but will get the surprise of a paid service. Well let me show you how you can get it for free. First you need to create an account at http://akismet.com/ Then you need to select a package, which now is a little confusing since every package has a paid amount, but don’t you worry , you … [Read more...]

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Removing unnecessary code for Performance and Security

October 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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A few lines of extra code in your header probably won’t slow your site down or risk performance, but you would like to keep things as clean and efficient as possible, since it only takes one line at the time to end up with a load of unnecessary code piled up on your wordpress blog, and that will surely slow it down from time to time. This tip will not only help add up to your Blogs Security but will help with performance by removing unnecessary code from your Blog. Since Wordpress uses the function wp_head() to add a bunch of code to the header of each page. Some of it is absolutely unnecessary. By default, many WordPress themes include the version information in the document this information proves very useful for the hackers as they can easily target blogs that are using the older version of wordpress software. Here is what many themes use to display this info: <meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> To prevent this … [Read more...]

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Giving an article a private members only feature

October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Do you want certain articles from your Wordpress Blog to be accessed only by logged-in members? You don't have to install a plugin to turn your Wordpress Blog into a membership site, you just have to unlock some features that Wordpress comes with out of the box, but many users simply doesn't know about. You can use this feature for: Online education centers where registered students can access their learning material Share download links or information for member only visitors A place to gather ideas for a project restricted to team members only. Valuable Information worth sharing to subscribers You can password protect it so that only the users that are logged in to your blog are allowed the access to your post. This option is available on your ‘add new post’ under the publish box. You have to click on ‘edit’ next to ‘visibility public’, change the settings and add a password if you want it protected and then click publish. Giving an article a … [Read more...]

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My blog crashed | Best day of my Life

July 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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So I woke up this morning and of course went to my computer and began checking on my blogs. So I typed in the url at my browser and sit back on my fake leather chair zipping my espresso-like morning coffee, as time passed by when I noticed that my blog wasn't loading I got closer to the screen and the message from hell appeared “ 500 server error “ , I typed in my second blog’s url and the same happened , I typed in the third one and the same happened, what the $%·& , my life is over. Of course I panicked, I went to my web host manager at my VPS and checked what was happening, nothing relevant, I checked my Google analytics account and there it was a huge horizontal line with an Everest Mountain Like peak at the end with more than 30K visits, I didn't´t know if I should Laugh or cry, well I did both. So you see I was doing about 4K daily visits in one of my blogs, my monetization mediums where rewarding me and I could see the gold at the end of the rainbow; Until that … [Read more...]

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Blog Publishing via Word on Linux

November 18, 2010 By 1 Comment
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So everybody is used to Microsoft LiveWriter using it as a blog desktop client, with all the facilities, Image control, etc, but have you tried Word as a blog client?, is great , just look at it now is even better than live writer, you have more image handling tools, presentation forms, text and titles designing , well so much more. You can ad tables just as in live writer, and equaly handle several blog accounts at a time. I am Using the Helvetica Font at a 14 pt size. You can easily ad tables and forms to get your article even more visual Adding Tables is Easy Insert Images So far it is imposible to install LiveWriter under Linux, but you cn easly install word 2007 under wine by using playonlinux and use it as a desktop blog client. … [Read more...]

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HOW DO I START A BLOG

June 24, 2010 By 2 Comments
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Blogging is no longer only for the techno geek if you use wordpress. Wordpress has made it so simple that anyone can create a blog using it. Wordpress has so many options that it is possible to make a unique web log without having to know anything about the codes that are working behind the whole process. All the background stuff has been done by the wordpress programmers. Wordpress blog services let you start your blog easily and quickly, but don’t let that distract you from going along a planned strategy; you should at least know the outcome that you want, so that you can plan accordingly. Starting a blog with the correct strategy is very necessary if you don’t want your blog to end as one of the abandoned ones. POINTS TO BE KEPT IN MIND WHILE CREATING YOUR BLOG Decide on the type of blog you want and the target niche. Knowing your niche will help you to use your blog to communicate specifically about that topic. Create your strategy keeping in mind … [Read more...]

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What is a blog

June 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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A Blog is like any website, build under the same platforms and programing code languages such as PHP, AJAX, JQUERY, HTML, etc with some differences and features, such as: A Blog is updated regularly A blog is an expression of an individual or group of individuals A Blog is usually arranged in chronological order A Blog uses Categories and Tags to ease the search process A Blog often evolves around a certain theme or niche A Blog is the just a website that connects with users in such a way that they become part of it. A Blog lets the users interact with the author by leaving comments and joining the conversation. If you have a look at some of the entries of a blog you would get an idea what that person likes to write about. Now a days a blog is not used only by individuals with a point of view but are used by almost every major company in the world, which is great by the way since with a blog they can finally listen to their customers,  help them, and improve their … [Read more...]

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MATTHEW CHARLES MULLENWEG

April 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Matthew Charles Mullenweg, was born on January 11, 1984 in Houston, Texas. He did his schooling in Houston. Mullenweg graduated from the high school for the performing and visual arts in 2002. In June 2002 he joined the University of Houston. He started using b2cafelog blogging software to complement the pictures he was taking on a trip to Washington DC, after some time b2 stopped working. He started Wordpress with the help of Mike Little (from b2 base code) and Michael Valrighi (b2 developer). By the year 2004 he also founded ping- o- Matic. Later that year he moved to San Francisco where he joined CNET networks which he left in late 2005 to start his own company Automattic. He thus is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, California. He is the founding developer of the open-source blogging software WordPress and writes the popular blog Photo Matt. He is the founder of Automattic, which is the company behind wordpress, Akismet, Gravatar, bbpress, IntenseDebate, … [Read more...]

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