The Web-Hosting Season – Holiday Offers & Discounts
This holiday season, take advantage of Holiday offers. Here’s a hand-picked shortlist of the best value-for-money hosting offering cPanel, RAID protection storage, premium bandwidth, LiteSpeed Web Server and R1Soft CDP with Free data migration.
SiteGround Valentine Hosting at only $2
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.
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[How-To] Safely Test-drive Themes on WordPress
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…
Tracking your Blog Visitors
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…
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7 Free Christmas Templates [Joomla]
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…
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Maintenance Splash Page [WordPress]
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Joomla helps you show a Maintenance page with just few clicks, but WordPress doesn’t. Similarly, you can’t set ‘unpublished’ status to categories in WordPress if…
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Eliminate Comment Spammers [WordPress]
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
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.
Optimize your WordPress Database
A Plugin that does all the house-keeping work; removes all post revisions, spam and unapproved comments from the database. Optimizes Database tables.
Find out Broken Links in your WordPress Blog
A Plugin that automatically finds and reports broken links on your WordPress Self-hosted Blog
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Safely Migrating Permalinks [WordPress]
A Tutorial on how to safely migrate/change Permalinks with a 301 Permanent Redirection
WordPress Upgrade Error
WordPress, by default, offers you an easy way to upgrade your WordPress Core by using the ‘Automatically Upgrade’ button that you can find in homepage/Dashboard of your administrator backend. When you use this Automatic Upgrade, you might often end up…
Your Own URL Shortening Service
URL Shortening is extremely useful when it comes to sharing URLs on IMs or Twitter and is easy to be read and remembered by humans. And TinyURL has been doing this for years and is perhaps the most famous Shortening…
WordPress : Track your RSS Readers
I recently blogged on a WordPress Plug-in, Tracked Tweets, that would automatically update your Twitter with your blog posts. And here comes yet another WordPress Plug-in from Jack McIntyre – Tracked RSS.
Tweet what you Blog
Ever felt like having a handy tool that could update your twitter microblog when you create a new blog post, and that could automatically make your url short using TinyURL service and also allowing you to analyse using Google Analytics?…