One of the things that I often preach or emphasize on a lot here at JaypeeOnline is the importance of backups. I had an unfortunate experience a long time ago when my web host got hacked and all the files were lost. I didn’t have any backups so I basically lost two years worth of [...]
Continue reading...24. June 2010 ·
A couple months back, a faulty server configuration at Network Solutions shared hosting boxes led to many WordPress blogs getting hacked. The security flaw allowed other users on the same box to read other users’ configuration files. At first, people blamed WordPress for it but later on it was determined that it was the hosting [...]
Continue reading...15. June 2010 ·
Do you have a lot of visitors from Twitter or loyal readers who like to share content to Twitter? Then you probably want to make it easy for these people to share your site or blog post with their friends/followers on Twitter, right? Introducing Like it? Tweet it?, a jQuery-powered widget that enables your readers [...]
Continue reading...1. June 2010 ·
Most bloggers these days use social networks like Twitter to promote their latest blog posts. Some tweet manually, while some use a plugin, third-party app or online service to automatically do it for them. For JaypeeOnline, I use the Feedburner Socialize tool. Tweeting your latest blog posts is a very effective way to promote not [...]
Continue reading...12. May 2010 ·
Last week, WordPress released a geolocation plugin for self-hosted WordPress blogs that lets users broadcast and share their exact location of where they’re blogging from. It’s like Twitter’s geotagged tweets or checking in on Foursquare or Gowalla on your iPhone but this time it’s for WordPress. If you’re into the geolocation thing and would like [...]
Continue reading...2. May 2010 ·
Have you heard of Google Living Stories? I’m sure most of you haven’t and neither have I until a few days ago when I read an article about it on ReadWriteWeb. The Google Living Stories project is a new experimental way to read news online. Google developed this project in collaboration with The New York [...]
Continue reading...22. April 2010 ·
Facebook introduced three new components to the Facebook platform at the F8 conference held yesterday in San Francisco. These three components are – Social plugins, the Open Graph protocol, and the Graph API. The one that’s getting all the buzz and attention is the considered as the most important plugin, the Like Button. This is [...]
Continue reading...25. February 2010 ·
Have you experienced manually editing your blog posts to remove pieces of code from an old plugin? I have. Or having to manually go through all your posts to change image directory names/URL paths? I have. Good thing this happened to me earlier when my blog posts numbered only about a couple hundred. What if [...]
Continue reading...9. February 2010 ·
Looking to make extra income from your blog by selling your knowledge, articles, your own products, or plr (private label rights) items like e-books or software? You can do all that by charging your visitors for accessing your special blog posts and product pages with this free WordPress plugin I’m sharing with you today. LockPress [...]
Continue reading...20. January 2010 ·
Embedding Google Maps on your blog can be quite cumbersome. With the help of this cool WordPress plugin, you can now easily embed Google Maps on your WordPress-powered blog. You can use it for your travel blog or any blog that reviews or deals with establishments & locations or if you simply want to insert [...]
Continue reading...24. December 2009 ·
For this Christmas season aside from the falling snow, I’ve added some extra stuff and modified my blog header to add some Christmas graphics – Christmas tree, decor, gift and a snowman. Nevertheless, I have more people commenting and inquiring about the falling snow effect. In the past couple of years, I used a custom [...]
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4. August 2010 ·
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