“Redesign your blog/website” contest

The guys over at Buy Templates are nice enough to sponsor prizes for this contest. I know a few of you have just started a blog or a website, so I’m sure it’ll be great if you can win some good quality templates, logo, and banners for your new blog/site. Everyone who participates will also [...]

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Arthemia Premium Thumbnails not working at HostGator?

June 22, 2009 | 1 comment

If you are a blogger and using the Arthemia Premium theme like this blog, then you might experience seeing blank thumbnails. The post thumbnails are meant to be dynamically generated by the TimThumb.php script. You can try changing the permissions just like the theme installation instructions say but if you are on HostGator (check my [...]

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Reduce WordPress CPU Usage #3 – Reduce your database queries

June 11, 2009 | 21 comments

This is my 3rd post on the post series: how to reduce WordPress CPU usage. Read the complete series on my Blogging Guide series page.
A high CPU usage can be caused by the number of calls that WordPress has to make to the database. On a WordPress blog, almost all data are taken from the [...]

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Reduce WordPress CPU Usage #2: Uninstalling a WordPress plug-in completely

May 28, 2009 | 18 comments

Today, we are going to talk about how to clean up WordPress plug-in left overs / uninstall a WordPress plug-in completely.
Do you know that deactivating and removing a plug-in doesn’t necessarily mean removing its table entries on WordPress database? These tables and also record entries are cluttering your WordPress database and I’m sure it has [...]

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Reduce WordPress CPU Usage #1 – General tips

May 22, 2009 | 28 comments

I’ve been trying to optimize this WordPress blog because of the high CPU usage reported by my web hosting. I’ll post a few tips that I do personally on this blog and hopefully if you are trying to find out on how to reduce CPU usage on a WordPress blog, these series of posts can [...]

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The WordPress’ White Screen of Death

May 19, 2009 | 8 comments

I was trying to upgrade this blog to WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 earlier. Everything went well until the step of upgrading the database was completed: the famous WordPress’ white screen of death. It happened when I tried to enter the WordPress’ administration area.
If you are here because you get a white screen (blank screen) after [...]

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WP Greet Box – Utilize your blog’s traffic

April 21, 2009 | 7 comments

I’ve been using a Wordpress plug-in called WP Greet Box for a while now. WP Greet Box basically detects the visitors of your blog (where they are coming from) and display a custom message to them.
So for example, if a visitor to your blog’s post comes from Digg, the plug-in will display a message specifically [...]

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How to uninstall Global Translator Plug-in properly

April 15, 2009 | 21 comments

On my previous post, I explained on why I uninstalled the Global Translator plug-in from this blog. Here is a step by step process that you should take if you want to uninstall the plug-in as well. It won’t be as simple as deactivating the plug-in from your Wordpress administration menu as Google might have [...]

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Global Translator Plug-in review – To install or not to install?

April 6, 2009 | 20 comments

Here is a plug-in for WordPress that is going to add more international visitors’ numbers to your traffic statistics. Please note that I’ve tried this plug-in for a month but decided to remove it This post will inform you about the plug-in and how it affected my blog last month but my next [...]

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Have you verified your trackbacks and pingbacks?

March 26, 2009 | 11 comments

If you own a blog, you’ll probably want other bloggers to spread and link back to your post. This is where trackbacks and pingbacks come into play. If you want to find out more about trackbacks and pingbacks (and the difference), check out introduction to blogging at WordPress Codex as I’m not planning to [...]

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