Dealing With Comment Spam
Spam comment takes up our precious time. This post has information on how to activate Akismet plugin to automatically flag spam comments…
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Upgrading WordPress 2.6.5 to WordPress 2.7
The WordPress team announced the availability of WordPress 2.7 today http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/
After checking through the features, I got really excited and must upgrade to WordPress 2.7 as soon as possible…
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WordPress Smilies
On the post Playing with Permalink, I happened to use 3 smilies. Out of those 3, I only knew the text equivalent to one of them 
After digging the WordPress Docs, here is the list…
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Playing with Permalink
By default, WordPress URLs are in the format of:
http://blogtipper.com/index.php?page_id=1
This looks really cool and I love it but as I play more with my blog, I experienced an inconvenience…
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How to change the sort order of the Pages?
After creating my “archives”, “useful links” and “about” pages => the pages got displayed sorting by letter or the “about” page got displayed first => then “archives” then “useful links”.
I was interested in getting the “archives” page displayed first so…
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How to make post summary on the main page?
When you write a “Post” => scroll down => click on “Excerpt” under “Advanced Options” => the excerpt menu will get expanded with a form => you would enter the post’s summary into that form => this summary will …
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Glossary of Blogging Terms
Audioblog: A blog where the posts consist mainly of voice recordings.
Aggregator: A program or webpage which enables users to read the content of blogs using RSS or Atom Feeds…
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What is Blog?
What is blog? Why is it so popular? What is blog history?
Blog, shortened from “web + log”, is a personal or corporate website in the form of an online journal, with new entries appearing in sequence as they are written, especially as dealing with reflections or opinion…
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