We host polls on our blog too and I’m thankful to you guys that you take precious time of yours and answer those simple questions. In our last poll, I asked the question that how much money do you spend on hosting every month and as expected and thanks to shared hosting plans, almost 55% of bloggers spend less than $10/month.
I’m planning to start an information website soon and for the first time I’m looking for a solution other than WordPress. It’s not that I’ve lost faith in the power of WordPress, it’s just that WordPress generates dynamic pages and I’m looking for a solution that will generate static content.
Gravatar, the global avatar service which was acquired by Automattic will now be a core feature in Invision Power Board forum software. The software will have this feature in it’s upcoming version 3 and here’s what IPB has to say about -
It seems like Automattic team is planning to take away the traffic from all those WordPress showcase blogs/websites which display the best of the designs for WordPress. Of course, they did that for Themes and Plugins already by launching WordPress themes directory and WordPress plugin directory.
Sometime back, I’d written a post that how can one utilize WordPress template system and customize a 404 error page and ensure that the visitors will be able stick to your blog even if they end up landing on 404 page. Here’s a quick and simple tip which will help in ensuring that in case a visitor lands up on 404 page, they’ll be presented with an HTML based Sitemap with all the articles listed with categories.
The team Automattic has released another update for WordPress and now the version moves ahead to 2.6.3 just before the release of much awaited WordPress 2.7. Although the benefit of this particular update is just to ensure that your blog doesn’t get hurt with a particular security vulnerability and that’s why it’s good to act fast and update the WordPress as soon as possible.
One of our readers Simon, asked a wonderful question from us that how can one move a locally installed blog on to a live blog? I can only say thanks to Simon for asking this question as this is indeed one of the common practices of launching blogs with content present on them.
