Posts Tagged ‘wordpress’

Wordpress 2.9 is officially out of beta

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

WordPress-2.9.6-available Wordpress has released their most powerful and most awaited WP release for this year 2010. This release has come up with a lot of features of Images and SEO, they have come up with their own canonical URL’s. WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen” named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae.

Here are some of the features that will be available to the end users, chack the official list of the features:

    1. Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete.
    2. Built-in image editor allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who’s boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements.
    3. Batch plugin update and compatibility checking, which means you can update 10 plugins at once, versus having to do multiple clicks for each one, and we’re using the new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new releases of WordPress. This should take the fear and hassle out of upgrading.
    4. Easier video embeds that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).

Just check out this new release and get your blogs updated.

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Easy Comment Firefox Add-on for Bloggers

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

I am a great fan of Firefox and its great add-ons that are available in wide range for it users. I have tried it in range of social bookmarking, rank check (alexa sparky), synchronization, ad filtering, image snapping etc. And recently i had started with a new add-on for improving and fastening my blogging experience and interacting with other blog. This add-on is a easy comment add-on and helps you to automatically fill up the comment form on a blog,just by a single click.

This is how the author describes its add-on.

Automatically fill out Blog Comment Forms. If you’re into the blogosphere, this is a must have!
- multiple profiles ( name / email / url / message )
- shortcut key for commenting
- language mutation

Steps for Installation and Configuration of the Add-On:

  1. Install the add-on in your Firefox browser, Download.
  2. Restart your browser for making it to function.
  3. At the extreme bottom right on the browsers status bar, you will see easy Comment option,
    Right click>> Manage Profiles
    easy comment fiefox add-on
  4. Fill up the settings form, create new profile by the name you prefer.
    Manage easy comment add-on profiles
  5. Leave the comment column blank, during profile creation.
  6. Close the easy comment setting extension and you are done.

Now when ever you move to a blog to make a comment,just click on your easy comment add-on in the extreme bottom right of your browsers status bar. As soon as the click is made, it will look for the forms available on the webpage and fill them up automatically. In this case it will fill up the comment form fields.

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Why upgrade to wordpress 2.8.6

Friday, November 13th, 2009

WordPress 2.8.6 is available Well friends we have moved to the latest version 2.8.6 of wordpress and strongly recommend fellow bloggers to do so. Its a critical security issue, and as far we know this could be exploited easily on multi author blogs.

This is what wordpress has to say about these new security release 2.8.6

2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.

The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch.  The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations.

So, get it upgraded and stay safe. Download

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Lxadmin’s default permalink configuration for wordpress

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Today, i did an wordpress installation for one of my client on a lighttpd server. Every thing was fine in the installation, blog got installed successfully. It was a nice experience working on a new control panel (Lxadmin), but the thing that made me restless was the permalink issue that i got when i tried to customize the url’s to http://example.com/%postname%/. It was displaying the permalink with index.php attached to it like http://example.com/index.php/%postname%/.  If i removes index.php from the blogs permalink settings, it returns me with and error page 404 on the post pages. Moreover, i had a commitment that need to be completed in time. I did a lot of search about it and was presented with very useful and detailed solutions to my problem. There were some great explanation’s from  sudhakar and chrisjohnston to them.

But i was hunting for something more easier, that could be done more easily, and surprisingly i found the solution in the Lxadmin panel itself. The Lxadmin panel comes with a pre-configured permalink solution for wordpress and drupal.

Lxadmin comes with default permalink configuration for many apps. Please select the application and the directory where you have installed it, and lxadmin will add the corresponding rewrite rule into the lighty configuration. Please note that for some applications, permalinks are achieved via setting the 404 error handler, for instance wordpress.

Here is what you have to do for reaching the solution:

  1. Login in into your Lxadmin panel.
  2. Browse to script and select permalink.
    Screenshot hilighting the permalink location in lxadmin panel

    Screenshot hilighting the permalink location in lxadmin panel

  3. Select the domain, location and the application ( only wordpress and drupal are supported, currently).

    Descriptional Screenshot of the fix

    Descriptional Screenshot of the fix


    In the last go to your wordpress dashboard> settings> permalinks> and make the changes for customization, things will absolutely act finely.

Lxadmin panel’s such powerful and light weight functions can help the blogger’s to focus on their writing skills, rather than hunting and looking for solution to their solutions. It just functions like another wordpress plugin provided in the lxadmin panel.

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