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 to your [...]

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:
First go to your stylesheet ( The file would be mostly style.css) and add this following code
.authcomment {
background-color: #B3FFCC [...]

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:
A Whole New Theme Installer routines
Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors
Add Documentation(function) lookup to Theme and Plugin editors
“Custom Header” [...]

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.

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 the [...]

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 Valk [...]

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. [...]

The first public beta of Wordpress is out finally. According to Wordpress, the design is almost completely implemented but final touches are yet to done and also the Beta version provides the best experience in Firefox and Safari but facing some glitches on IE and Opera.

Wordpress team has found a vulnerability in the Snoopy library . Snoopy is used by Wordpress to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Download the following 2 files to upgrade to 2.6.3