If you are a small blogger and can not afford to buy a Content Delivery Network CDN package for your blog, you need not worry. Using W3 total Cache plugin, you can use your server FTP as self hosted CDN for your WordPress blog without buying a CDN package from somewhere else. Obviously, this is not as effective as normal CDN (which serves your files worldwide using servers located near to the destination of the files being served.)
For using the self hosted CDN feature, you need to create a sub domain from your cpanel or any other control panel of your web hosting. Create images.yourdomain.com on your server (or any other name instead of images) . You need to update your DNS zone too.
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Most of the Bloggers know that Twitter can be a good source of generating traffic for your blog posts if it gets viral. Most of us connect our twitter accounts with our wordpress blogs to tweet automatically using services like twitterfeed, feedburner etc. whenever a new post is published. Sometime Bloggers even schedule tweets at regular intervals to gain maximum advantage. Click to continue…
Every blogger who uses WordPress as the main platform on which the blogs are powered on need to do a lot of image editing before they upload it to their blogs or insert into blog posts. Some of the minor things that need to be done with almost every image are cropping, resizing, rotating, and watermarking functionality. Every small functionality if done on the system consumes lot of time and can be saved if the functionality is available in WordPress itself.
Thanks to Scissors plugin you can have all these functionality of cropping, resizing, rotating, and watermarking right inside your wordpress itself. It integrates itself quiet well inside the WordPress image upload and management dialogs .It also let you automatic resizing of images while uploading images and supports automatic or manual watermarking of images. By default, it maintain the Aspect ratio of the image too while the images are being re-sized.
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How to retrieve Email/ Names of commentators from Article
by AvinashMany bloggers including me organize giveaways often for readers of the blog. Even though Giveaways hep both readers and Blogger to reap some benifits like Licenses etc for readers and Subscribers for blog, its a cumbersome task to retrieve Email address/ Names of commentators from the giveaway article as its a manual process and needs [...]