Tag Archives: Blog

Help with RSS

RSS is the short form of Rich Site Summary or sometimes Really Simple Syndication. RSS can be used to read a blog without actually opening a browser and typing the address, although you still need to have an RSS aggregator software. An RSS document (which is called a “feed”, “web feed”, or “channel”) includes full [...]

WordPress blog painfully slow except for front page

If you cannot access the admin page of your WP blog because of a plugin mishap you suspect, here is a trick.You an activate all your plugins at once using this trick.

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TinyMCE editor problem after wordpress2.7 install

TinyMCE editor may not work for you after you upgrade to Wordpress 2.7. This may be due to some plug in that directly modifies the user interface. The problems include not able to edit in Visual mode. Losing the interface completely when going back to normal HTML mode etc..

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Setting a FAVorite ICON for your site

This post is an Answer to the comment posted by Carol A Ranney on “How to make custom icons”. A favourite icon commonly known as a favicon is the small image shown near the URL in the address field of the browser. Now a days these icons are also used for bookmarks. You can easily [...]

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Add free online contact form to your web site

If you want to add a contact-me form on your web site or blog, there is a free service on the net. It is easy to use and has got a CAPTCHA to secure you from spam.

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Browser hogging CPU when taking wordpress write post page!

Does anybody notice the rising CPU usage of your browser when you are at the create post page (Tiny MCE) of your self hosted WordPress blog? Previously when I was using Firefox the CPU usage rose to 50 percent and FF was running fast like a snail. I thought it was because of problems with [...]

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What to do when you can’t log-in to blogger

Some times Blogger will show a “server was encountering a problem” message when you try to login and will give you an error code and say that an engineer had been notified. There are some things you can try to login to blogger when such an error occurs. If Blogger home page won’t load or [...]

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Blogger template tags to customize your layout and design

This post is mainly in reply to a comment from a fellow blogger Shankar Ganesh which read And I have a question: how did you hack the code to display Adsense units under each post header only when a particular post link page is loaded? The basic idea behind the Ad placement is the correct [...]

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Download RSS icons – in different colors

I have edited some commonly found RSS icons into different colors. The dimensions include 32px * 32px, 150px * 150px, 300px * 300px and a 60px * 60px reflections. The icons have been zipped and packed dimension wise.

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How to secure your WordPress installation against hackers

Matt Cutts last day did a post on securing your WordPress installation from hackers. He had some really nice tips which are highly useful. So I decided to do a reflection here. Here is the link to the original article by Matt Cutts. What he means basically is that you should not allow the public [...]

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