WordPress.com has a nice Follow Button for its users. A similar option is available for self hosted WordPress sites which will mimin the original. Source: Follow Button for your WordPress site – start blog writing
A new WordPress site needs the help of a handful of plugins to turbocharge the reach in the world of blogging and internet. These plugins are feature packed and they will take your site to the next level. With a simple plan and the plugins in place, your blog is ready to accept content. Essential…
On a new WordPress installation, it is recommended that a few settings be implemented immediately so as to have a smooth sailing and no major design changes later on. Also important is pen all of them down on paper. Take sufficient time to go over them as most of them once fixed should not be…
WordPress platform has provided bloggers with a set of tools for easy sharing. The Three Lions of Links, Reblog, Press This and Embeds. For those who began their blogging journey with WordPress.com we all are familiar with Reblog. It provides a simple way to spread popular content across multiple authors and users or readers. And with…
The large screen touch enabled smartphone has made it possible to go as far away from the desktop PC as we want. Had it not been for the age old addiction to Windows and the Mouse, we would had never removed the dust cover from the PC. I recently installed (finally) WhatsApp on my android…
WhatsApp is a very popular cross platform messaging app for the mobile. Its popularity is alarming. But WordPress and JetPack have yet to embrace it in their sharing services. So right now we need to rely on a plugin to provide us the WhatsApp sharing button under our posts. WhatsApp Sharing button for JetPack comes…
Google Adsense Plugin for WordPress is not just another plugin designed to insert ads in your self hosted WordPress blog. Now since WordPress is the number one blogging platform, atleast in the self hosted section, it is important for Google to launch a product which takes on the challenge head on. And what we could…
Meta Widget is responsible for the display of login information for registered users to access a Self Hosted WordPress site. It can be displayed in the sidebars or the footer. For a single author website, it can be hidden altogether. There is no way that the five items in this widget can be changed without…
WordPress maintains a list of popular themes on its website. The top six popular are the twenty series default themes which come prepackaged with the WordPress package, hence deserve not to be checked. The next six have some interesting info. The following themes are in the next six of the popularity list. Zerif Lite –…
Previously we had seen how Blogger integrates with Google Plus to give us an unmatched commenting experience. The competitor blogging platform by WordPress has a similar feast in offing. Similar, but not identical. Since WordPress does not have its own social networking platform, its come up with a unique system to help bloggers. WordPress is distinctly…
This does amount to a certain degree of snooping, but its a way to see which WordPress plugins a particular website is using. Right Click on any empty space on the website as marked below. Unfortunately I could not get a clean screen shot. OR one can simply use the Keyboard short cut key…
The dreaded mail from Google Webmaster finally arrived. Choice was between how good the desktop site will look, but lead to lots of horizontal scrolling on a touch enabled smart phone. The mail read something like this People are buying smart phones like crazy and majority of them big screen touch enabled smartphones. Google needs to…