Tag Archives: blog
How to publish posts to WordPress blog via Email
I am actually writing this post in my Gmail account. Here is what you
need to do when you want to publish a post to your Wordpress blog by
sending email messages: Read more »
Robots.txt made simple
For beginner WordPress bloggers, creating a search bot friendly robots.txt is a headache sometimes. This is particularly true for me: I first blindly copied a robots.txt from some site, which resulted in the blocking of all my posts from the search engines. I later found out the robots.txt I copied deliberately blocked all posts with [...]
A Plugin to Show Tag Clouds in Animated Flash
I stumbled upon a cool Wordpress plugin called WP Cumulus. It animates the Tag Cloud widget using Flash, and renders tags into a rotating sphere. I am a little tired after an overhaul of my blog a few days ago, so I’ll bookmark this plugin in this post and implement later. It appears to support Wordpress 2.5. Read more »
Reorganize Categories and Tags
“I’m Knight” provided some valuable insights on the reorganization of categories and tags under WordPress Why reorganize? consolidate into fewer categories and make it one level only. No more hierarchy category. the tag feature is build-in now. I can just make a open source category and tag each entry with more specific tag like Debian [...]
Change Category Names under WordPress
When I tried to change category names, WordPress simply prompted “category not updated”. I digged into the WordPress forum and find the solution in this post. The issue may be that you are trying to change a category slug description to a category slug description that already exists within your blog. No doubles are allowed. [...]
Offline Blog Editor for WordPress
Writing directly on the WordPress interface can be very time consuming. I realized how much time I wasted in the process of formatting and publishing a blog entry. The solution, it seems to me, is to write blog locally and publish it with a click of a button. I asked this question on WordPress forum [...]
A Breif Review of Qumana — the Heinous Blog Editor
Warning: Do not use Qumana (version 3.0.1) to edit the old posts which has html code <!–more–> in it. Because Qumana can only see the content before <!–more–> markup in your post, and the rest of the content will be permanently lost if you edit your old posts and save them under Qumana. I have [...]
Changed the permalinks on my blog
I am frustrated with Google for not crawling into the individual posts on my blog, and I can only search my front page hitherto. After some investigation, I think I found the cause of Google’s reluctance to look into my site:
Upload images in WordPress 2.5.1
When I attempted to upload an image to WordPress 2.5.1, I was prompted to input my login and password in the image uploader. After feeding the information to it, it just gave me an error and no image was uploaded at all.
Simplified Chinese Translation of Dkret3
Here is the Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) translation of drket3 version 1.9. Read more »