This theme just goes out to say how versatile the WordPress platform is. The most important thing you notice is that when you use this theme on your WordPress site, it won’t look like a blog at all. It looks like a shopping  site with some lovely design ! Even though your backend is WordPress and every entry you make is just like your typical post, you can set custom… Continue reading

Wordpress today announced their newest update 2.6.3 post to a possible vulnerability detected with the current version. As per their official release – A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today.  WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard.   Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately.  2.6.3 is available for download right now… Continue reading

Looks like Goog folks are inspired with the new Wordpress design. Or is it something else? The old layout was pretty okay..I mean nothing drastically wrong to cut your usability there..still the folks at Goog plex have gone for a redesign of the Analytics dashboard. Interestingly, the new layout and style looks strikingly similar to the Wordpress dashboard preview we had last time. Check out the new looks compared. Somebody… Continue reading

Why you ask ? Well….as a thanks may be. I know trackbacks does the same job but we need something more flexible and “configurable” I thought. This is a wordpress plugin that lists down all the blogs that are linking to the current posts in a neat list below the post. It basically uses the Google backlinks feature on Blog Search. I like this plugin for the following features. It… Continue reading

  From the buzz around, we can sense that Wordpress 2.7 is going to be one of the best upgrades ever. Bigger with all new interface and packed with all new features. Many bloggers are even holding back the current upgrade waiting for the 2.7 upgrade. That means, this is going to be very interesting. Let’s see what the wordpress community has to offer in Wordpress 2.7 What’s new in… Continue reading

You would’ve seen those cool “flash boxes” on certain sites that slides away featured articles and images with custom text on it right ? I think they are pretty good to show off your content to the five second visitor who may not otherwise notice it. It’s in fact a good way to increase page views all the while giving your blog that cool modern look. If you’re wondering… Continue reading

Dinu, a fellow blogger from Cochin is pretty impressed with Amy Mahon’s  wordpress theme over here, and was wondering what’s that funky text doing at the post titles ? Watch closely and you’ll find that the post titles are replaced with cool text effects rather than the plain text. Right click on the title and you’ll find that it’s an image instead of text. Well, this can be accomplished by… Continue reading

One way to increase the page views and user participation on your wordpress blog is to introduce a discussion board. Of course, you should have a good reader base for the discussion board to function well. And there are theories that a discussion board will take the limelight from the blog and that it could harm your reader base. I think it might be a good idea to add a… Continue reading

A complete customizable, slick twitter plugin that auto refreshes without page reload. If that’s what you’ve been looking for then head over to Kishore Asokan’s blog. He has released a Wordpress plugin that does just that.Here are it’s features, and I’m sure you’ll love it.Update twitter status from your blogUpdate twitter status from your blogView and display public updates on your blogView and display your followers updates on your blogSimple… Continue reading

Just to let you know that there are some minor yet noticeable changes in the DSB design right now.Apart from this, there are some major design changes coming up soon, where there will be lot more cool things happening. This is a minor change, however.I am in talks with a couple of Wordpress theme designers to finalize things. There are some promising entries, and exciting things ahead.Why post this ?I’m… Continue reading

Now, that you and your friends are tweeting more these days, it’s not alarming to see someone come up with the plugin. And that someone is – Richard X Thripp, and the plugin in a simple wordpress one, that adds a cute twitter bird image on top right corner of all of your posts, which when users click takes them to their twitter homepage with a shortened URL for the… Continue reading

There’s something with themes with large headers that others don’t have. Well, large headers have the added advantage of making an impression on the visitors, despite your well written content. They make an impression with the bright images and also provides more real estate for SEO. More than anything else, you have an extra option of adding more copy there on the very top. Good – Is it not?… Continue reading

Were they always meant to annoy you? Sometime the yellow error sign, or sometimes the page not found black and white message..so boring, if only you could do something about it.I found this cool wordpress plugin last day, it actually does a lot more than replacing your 404 error page with a custom fancy message. In fact, you won’t even know that you’re on a 404 page.This is what you… Continue reading

On wordpress, threaded comments have not been a big issue so far, but with code tweaks and DB updates required, most of the plugins that “promised” a threaded reply comments were not popular if not with some hardcore Wordpress coders and the like.Well, to end this situation, we have a brand new wordpress plugin that let’s you reply to comments on non-threaded comment templates by adding a simple “@” sign… Continue reading

Hotlinking is the process by which a website uses an image from another website, thereby using his bandwidth. Some see it as theft while some think it is a free world so it’s okay.Sometimes we all bloggers do it and it’s not good in the sense that it’s as same as theft. Stealing others bandwidth is a crime. Though often, bloggers credit the original source, many people do miss it… Continue reading