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Branding your WordPress blog

“Branding” is basically the process of giving a market identity to a product. For blogs, it’s essential. Not all WordPress blogs look alike, but with common themes and way too many cookie cutter templates, anything which makes your blog stand out is a plus. For marketing purposes, you have to do a lot more than [...]

WordPress becomes more secure with the latest update

WordPress 3.0.5 was released this week. I know you are hardly wait for the new and improved 3.1 release but it will not come so soon. The release candidate 4 of WordPress 3.1 was also announced this week. Further testing and feedback is required to it can hit an official release. In the wordpress 3.0.5 [...]

How to prevent your wordpress from brute force attack

For who doesn’t know what brute force, it is a technique of finding a password by repetitive attempts. A hacker who wants to find your password will make a script that will automatically try to login with all combinations possible of passwords. How hard is this to be completed ? Depending on the password and [...]

WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 3 available

A new release candidate for the long waited WordPress 3.1 has been released. Let’s hope it is the last one before the final release. WordPress 3.1 should have big improvements over 3.0, including: internal link building, post formats, theme search, etc, but unfortunately, one of the coolest features, ajaxified admin was excluded because of high [...]

Need help setting up wordpress ?

The installation and set-up of WordPress as a blog is very easy, you practically need a domain, a hosting account and to download some files from the wordpress website, upload them to your website, set up databases, and then run the web installer. Things may look very simple for someone who knows what is FTP, [...]

WordPress default search vs Google custom search

The search is a very important part of every website. I search on my own website many times a day. Friends are asking me for help and I direct them to one of my articles, but before I get the link I have to make a search in the blog. On this website I am [...]

Bye Bye Live Spaces, Hello WordPress

Change is a good thing. Actually, let me prequalify that “when you are ready to make a change”. For many Windows Live bloggers, this is a sad day. You have done a great job maintaining your blog but all good things must come to an end. Microsoft is officially ending its Live Spaces Blog program [...]

WordPress 3.0.3 released

A new version of wordpress has been released today. It is 3.0.3 and it is the third release after the big move to 3.0. This version comes soon after the 3.0.2 version which was reported to have serious issues. This release is to fix the problems in the recent 3.0.2 release.

What to do if you lose WordPress admin panel password

This is something you don’t want to happen, but maybe it will. Maybe not to your main important blog, but to a blog you run. There can be many reasons you lose your password: if you lose your e-mail account associated with the wordpress url, or if some hacker get access trough a badly coded [...]

Why you should outsource your work

When you start your small online business or just a simple website you will be more likely to do all the work for yourself. It is a right decision, because you are not sure where to drive your money ( if you have any money ) and you have a lot of time. If you [...]