Techie Blues

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” Out

Wordpress has launched the much awaited Wordpress 3.0. Named as "Thelonious", this is the thirteenth major release of WordPress. The major changes in this new version are a new default Wordpress theme and Multi Site functionality.

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WordPress 3.0 Release Candidate Out

WordPress team has launched the release candidate (RC) of WordPress 3.0, coinciding with the 7th Birthday of WordPress. This release means that the development of WordPress 3.0 is almost complete and will be out soon.

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WordPress 2.8.1 is out

Just after a month of the release of Wordpress 2.8, Wordpress 2.8.1 has been released. Well I guess, this version of Wordpress is out only to fix the bug fixes found in 2.8.

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Show Related Posts in WordPress without any plugins

It is always good to avoid as many plugins as you can and instead implement the feature with a code, since too many plugins hamper the loading time of the website and thus leading to a very slow website. How to implement Related Posts in WordPress without any plugins? It is very simple. Just go [...]

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Highlight Author Comments in WordPress

I always wanted to know how to highlight my comments so that it always appears distinct from other comments and also appear easily to the other visitors. Here are few steps through which you can achieve the same

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WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 is out

WordPress, one of the most popular blogging platform, has released 2.8 Beta 1 today and it seems they have added a lot of features to this version of WordPress. Some of its new features are

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Post By Email to WordPress.com blog

WordPress.tv has released a nice how-to video on how to post to your wordpress.com blog via email. And, With the mobile internet growing exponentially day by day, this video might come in handy for all the bloggers using wordpress.com.

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Turn off Post Revisions in WordPress 2.7

Though I just love the new features of WordPress 2.7,  one of its most nagging things is "Post Revisions".  If you don’t know what Post Revisions is, well it is a wiki like tracking system for both Posts and Pages which might come in handy for multi author blogs. It keeps every post revision in [...]

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Optimize your wordpress database with Optimize DB plugin

MySQL is an Amazing Database but one of its biggest grouse is that it cannot clean by itself. And as the time passes, the clutter in your wordpress table keeps on increasing, making your blog load slower. Therefore it is always good to optimize your database once in a while. Optimize DB from Joost De [...]

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WordPress gets updated to 2.6.5

Few Days back the Wordpress team found a major security issue in the wordpress 2.6.3 and released the version 2.6.5. The security issue is an XSS exploit that affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. Along with the security issues, 2.6.5 also rectifies 3 other minor fixes. [...]

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