Well its official – WordPress 3.0, codenamed “Thelonious”, has just been released. Time to upgrade now. So how do you do it, without breaking up your site? Its quite easy in fact. There are mainly two ways to get about it, just read on.  (more…)

Its no secret that WordPress is one of the, if not THE best, blogging platforms around. And one of the best things about it is the large number of plugins that it provides from the large community which supports it. So how do you install a wordpress plugin? Well there are 3 ways of which I know.  As always, read on. (more…)

Well I had earlier posted about 8 ways to install related posts in blogger. Nothing wrong in those methods and nothing much great in this one. The only difference is that I’ll post a step by step solution along with a video tutorial. Hope you enjoy it. (more…)

WordPress by default comes bundled with the jQuery framework. You can find it in the wp-includes\js\jquery directory. Many themes use this framework extensively for various effects and widgets alike. Unless you are on a dedicated server or are using a CDN, chances are that jQuery takes a whole lot of time to load. The best way is to speed up this process is to include the jQuery library fomr the Google’s Ajax Libraries API. Read on to learn how to include it in your theme. (more…)

Well before shifting over to wordpress, I was and still am quite active on the blogger platform. Recently when I checked one of my blogs, it showed me that all the pages of my blog had been reported as an attack page! As far as I know Google’s blogger servers should be pretty safe and hacker-proof and I haven’t intentionally placed any malicious code on my own.

I clicked on the ‘Why was this page blocked?’ button in the ‘Reported Attack Page’ in Firefox, and came upto the Google safe browsing Diagnostic page. And now I quote from that page as to the reason why my blog was blocked:

Of the 181 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 134 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-05-25, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2010-05-25.

Malicious software is hosted on 1 domain(s), including manilis.com/.

1 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including bidvertiser.com/.

Oh boy, yeah, bidvertiser! (more…)

Users familiar with Gmail, may have seen the yellowish ‘Loading’ text that appears on top of the page when your Gmail interface is loading. Ever wondered how it would look if you could implement that very same in your own blogger blog? Well look no further, read on. (more…)