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How to publish posts to WordPress blog via Email

tw — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:13:33 +0000

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: » » »

Robots.txt made simple

tw — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:30:13 +0000

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 ? in the default permlink format. » » »

A Plugin to Show Tag Clouds in Animated Flash

tw — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:58:58 +0000

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. » » »

Reorganize Categories and Tags

tw — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:59:03 +0000

“I’m Knight” provided some valuable insights on the reorganization of categories and tags under WordPress » » »

Change Category Names under WordPress

tw — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:54:03 +0000

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. » » »

Offline Blog Editor for WordPress

tw — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:34:47 +0000

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. » » »

A Breif Review of Qumana — the Heinous Blog Editor

tw — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:47:51 +0000

Warning: Do not use Qumana (version 3.0.1) to edit the old posts which has html code in it. » » »

Upload images in WordPress 2.5.1

tw — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:12:00 +0000

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

tw — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:38:50 +0000

Here is the Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) translation of drket3 version 1.9. » » »

How to find the perfect theme for your blog

tw — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:21:24 +0000

Finding a theme is as important as choosing a name for your site. Once you pick a design or presentation for your site, it becomes your identity and you generally don’t change it. Every blogger wants to have a perfect theme for his blog. Here is how I located my perfect theme. » » »