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Migrating Wordpress Across Web Hosts

March 20, 2010

Moving to a new webhost without losing any of your blog content is a challenge for many. Such migration is a must if you are moving from a wordpress.com blog to a self hosted blog. It is very important to move all the text content in the form of article, comments and multimedia (images/video). There [...]

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Dot5Hosting – the worst ever webhost

March 17, 2010

Since I bought my own domain 3.5 years back, I have been associated with dot5hosting. At that time I got the web hosting plan at an unbelievable price of $18 for 2 years including domain. I felt so happy to shell out less than $20 to avail both the domain and web hosting account. This [...]

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How to create a Gravatar?

December 19, 2008

Have you been wondering on how to set up an image or photo to appear next to your name while you comment on many websites? If so, this post is for you. This can be achieved by setting up a ‘Gravatar‘ – Globally Recognized Avatar. In other terms, this is simply an avatar image that [...]

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Newly discovered species

December 17, 2008

After upgrading my blog to wordpress 2.7, I have been trying out various features. I am very much impressed with the features and new admin dashboard. Also, came across an article on CNN mentioning about 1,000 newly discovered species along with photos. It is a bit of co-incident that I read Bindu’s blog post called [...]

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Flickr with Wordpress iNove theme

December 3, 2008

iNove theme looks great with WordPress 2.7. Recently I changed my blog to this theme and customization was way too easy and simple. While changing the theme, I also integrated my blog with Flickr photos. You can see that page here. I have been getting a number of mail enquiries on how to set it [...]

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7 ways to increase traffic to your blog

October 29, 2008

Many of you have been asking me on how to promote blogs. I wish to share some of the tips that will be effective in promoting blog yourselves. By following these tips, you don’t need to ask some one to view your blog or strive hard to promote. You just need to utilise the tools [...]

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Yahoo Buzz now open for all

August 20, 2008

Yesterday Yahoo! announced the launch of new product “Y! Buzz” being open to everyone. I got the mail early this morning (IST) today and I have put this Buzz button on my blog… see below. If you are interested in getting a million traffic a day or more, you should consider adding Buzz buttons to [...]

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Disable WordPress Smileys

August 13, 2008

Have you ever thought about turning off smileys on your wordpress blog? If so, this post is for you. It is good to have smileys on blogs.. I too like them but certain wordpress themes doesn’t gel good with smileys. Hence it is good to disable them. To make these smiley characters not to get [...]

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Bomb blasts in Bangalore

July 25, 2008

Dear friends, there have been about 5 confirmed bomb blasts in Bangalore since 1:30pm today. All these bombs are made of gilletin sticks of low intensity and not much of casualty reported so far.
Here is the message for all those who are trying to reach me on phone. Don’t worry, I am safe. All the [...]

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New theme for my blog

July 6, 2008

Yesterday, I came across a nice theme for wordpress blogs and immediately downloaded. This is the new theme by blog2life, it is called WordPress’d. I am still in the process of tweaking the theme a bit to match my requirements. However, it is very much customizable and nice theme. I had to do very little [...]

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