Articles categorized under Web & Hosting

SiteGround Valentine Hosting at only $2

11 February 2010

After Holiday Hosting for $20.99/year last Christmas, SiteGround, now has a Valentine Hosting offer for only $2 giving you the same features of the usual $9.95 hosting.

[How-To] Safely Test-drive Themes on WordPress

1 February 2010

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While switching a theme in your WordPress blog, it’s quite obvious that you’ll put your blog down to maintenance, do all the back-stage work (widgets, tweaks) and finally activate the theme, so your visitors won’t notice your blog’s design being broken if they happen to visit right in the middle of your work. Though the [...]

[How-To] Tracking your Blog Visitors

28 December 2009

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So you have a blog with great content, optimized for search engines and ready to get exploding traffic? But how do you know which of your articles are most liked by your visitors, and how many unique visitors and impressions your blog gets daily? To track these, you’ll have to feed your blog with few [...]

7 Free Christmas Templates [Joomla]

24 December 2009

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Christmas, in few hours from now. If you are looking to dress up your site with Christmas/Holiday-season templates, here are free Christmas templates for your Joomla-based site(s), by SiteGround & DesignForJoomla. SiteGround regularly offers free themes for Joomla, WordPress, Mambo and many other CMSes, also provides hosting for your WordPress, Joomla powered site.

Maintenance Splash Page [WordPress]

19 December 2009

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Though WordPress is the best for Blogging, it lacks few features by default. For instance, Joomla helps you show a Maintenance page with just few clicks, but WordPress doesn’t. Similarly, you can’t set ‘unpublished’ status to categories in WordPress if you temporarily want hide a category. Luckily WordPress’ repository has got over thousands of plugins [...]

Eliminate Comment Spammers [WordPress]

14 November 2009

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A best solution to prevent spammers from commenting is to have a CAPTCHA or Math-based verification as spam bots fail to pass through the verification. A simple solution would be a math-based verification wherein a commenter is asked only to answer simple math questions. Here's a post on how to prevent spammers from posting on your blog.

Block Spammers from Visiting your Site/Blog

30 September 2009

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Block Spammers from visiting your site/blog. A simple guide to block spammers with their IP address using cPanel or by editing .htaccess file or by a plugin for WordPress.