Most bloggers who create and run their blogs on WordPress platform will agree that Spam consumes loads of precious time to clean it everyday. One part of the spam which usually bugs everyone is the trackback spam which gets generated whenever someone else links to your content or webpages. But most bloggers will agree with me that majority of the trackback, infact more than 90% trackback is basically spam and you need to delete them. The problem becomes worse as many anti spam filters including Akismet and Antispambee fail to detect or stop this spam.
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Most of the WordPress blogs run on a shared hosting environemnt and a small percentage of blogs which are big run either on VPS or dedicated servers. Majority of the webmasters are not aware of what version of PHP or mysql their blog runs on their host. As wordpress 3.2 is nearing its release which marks a major change in terms of Server requirements from previous WordPress versions. Is your WordPress blog and webhost is ready for this change? Click to continue…
Looks like WordPress guys dont sleep. Just barely 3 months after the WordPress 3.1 release, another version of WordPress i.e 3.2 is about to be released shortly with a whole lot of bug fixes, performance improvements and new features. WordPress 3.2 beta is released today for testing and is available for download.
The major addition is this release are a new default theme and full screen Editor. Aprt from these two major additions, here’s what that has changed: (Via WordPress News)
- Performance improvements like you wouldn’t believe. What’s that mean? Things are faster!
- Distraction-free Writing. The visual editor’s full-screen composing experience has gotten a major overhaul, and is now available from HTML mode, too. More than ever, WordPress allows you to focus on what matters most — your content.
- Admin UI Refresh. The last major redesign of the WordPress admin was in 2008. This isn’t a major redesign, just a little facelift to keep us feeling young. WordPress turns 8 later this month, you know.
- New Default Theme. Introducing Twenty Eleven, based on the popular Duster theme. Rotating header images, post format support, and more.
- Browse Happy. WordPress is made to work with modern browsers. If you visit your Dashboard using an outdated web browser, we’ll let you know there’s a newer version available.
- Admin Bar. We’ve added more links to the admin bar to make it even more useful.
As it is with any beta releases, you should not install it on any of your running websites. Just wait for the final wordpress 3.2 version to come out.
The new theme comes with loads of options including two versions of theme, a light version and a dark version. You can change logo, adjust header, layout and a bit more.
You can Download WordPress 3.2 Beta 1 here.
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 [...]