I use a WordPress blogging platform. The main reasons I chose WordPress is its ease of access, good security and automatic up-gradation feature. I keep thinking of bettering my blog in order to cater my audience need in all aspects. My carving has led to many enhancements and has succeeded mending the desired functionality with the help of plugins. They had proved really useful and my blog deserved proper attention. [...]
If you run a WordPress blog it is more likely than not you’ve already run into a 500 internal server error or you’re about to. CheckUpDown gives a nice explanation of the 500 internal server error: The Web server (running the Web Site) encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request by the client (e.g. your Web browser or our CheckUpDown robot) for access to the requested [...]
Geotagging (also written as GeoTagging) is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as a Geotagged photograph or video, websites, SMS messages, or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata. – WikiPedia When applied to websites you basically show your visitors and search engines where the post comes from and optionally who the target audience is. You can take it one step further by [...]
A while back I blogged about WPNewsNet, a free Social Voting System, where you could vote on the most popular WordPress Related articles on the web. Over the last couple of weeks, as WPNewsNet grew, a lot of complaints were received regarding the lack of topics available for submission. As such WPNewsNet decided to re-brand itself as World Project News Network, which will have more topics, which include gaming, technology, [...]
If you run a media intensive blog or website which generates a decent amount of hits per month, but yields almost nothing in the form of revenue from contextual or banner ads, I would suggest you give Image Space Media a go. Blogs with predominantly media content can have a very low click-thru rate due to different factors, such as the nature of the visitors, they come, they see, they [...]
I’ve been going all South African blogging crazy the last couple of days, but I promise this should be my last post before putting some internationally relevant blogging resources up. I’ve just added a new South African Blogs category to our blogging directory, meant for all South African blogs, no matter the topic. You can submit your blog here, for free.
The South African blogosphere has grown in leaps and bounds over the last couple of years. This led to the creation of ad networks which specifically target a South African audience, which in theory should mean a higher CTR and CPM for South African blogs and websites. I have only recently been forced to start using South African ad networks as many of my new blogs gathered a mostly local [...]
The WordPress community is massive, with thousands of plugins and themes, which allows almost unlimited options for bloggers. Unfortunately this also means that we will all run into various WordPress related problems as we test out new setups. For that we have the WordPress forums and expert Q&A sites, where sometimes you might have to pay a few bucks to get everything working properly. Unfortunately, again, it is inevitable that [...]
I recently discovered a phpRemoteView hack on one of my busies WordPress blogs. Below I compiled a list of possible uses for the hack and ways to remove it. This is exactly how it happened to me and how I removed it: ATTENTION: IGIT Related Posts With Thumb Image After Posts version 3.9.7 with WordPress 3.2.1 is vulnerable to phpRemoteView Attack. 2 of client’s site were compromised recently. We checked [...]
A while back I told you about the WordPress News Network, which is basically a social bookmarking website for WordPress and Blogging related topics. Recently it had a little bit of a makeover, giving it a new look, easier submission and guest post submission options. All the guest posts run through a moderation panel before activated, so please don’t attempt to spam it because you will be blocked. Features: 1. [...]
