Wordpress.com, the hosted platform has now enabled ‘Comment via email’ functionality – enabling authors to reply to individual comment via email. In order to enable this, head to ‘Discussions’ menu (under Settings) and check the ‘Reply via email’ feature. Next time you receive a comment, you can post your comment via replying to the comment...
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WordcampIndia is scheduled for Feb 21st- 22nd at Noida (orgainzed by Delhibloggersbloc). If you are a wordpress user, you definitely cant afford to miss this event – as Matt Mullenwag, founder of WP is attending the event (also Om Malik of Gigaom is coming over). Early birds  (i.e. if you register before 18th Feb) can...
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Well, feel free to blast us..feel free to call us names..but we had to do this. We had to change the overall look and feel of pluggd.in – not by choice, but we were forced to. Here is why: traffic went up massively – the earlier theme (magazine style) wasn’t the most optimum (failed to scale...
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Wordpress 2.7 is finally released and here are some features that I found so damn interesting: One-click plugin installs (no more FTPing files) – How about doing the same with themes as well? Turbo - i.e. implementation of Google Gears Shortcut menus - shortcuts menu in the header near the blog title allows one-click access to...
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Wordpress 2.6 has been released (a month ahead of schedule) and has couple of cool updates: Post Revisions - Like Wikipedia’s version control system, Wordpress now allows you to check out the revisions made to your posts. Press This!:  – Post from wherever you are on the web to your wordpress blog. I guess, most useful...
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If you are a serious blogger, I strongly recommend you to use Windows Live Writer – it’s the best blogging tool available in the market (free, works only on Windows). As Wordpress has a strong focus on usage of tags (and there are tons of cool tag-based plugins available), it’s really important for you to...
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I am planning to overhaul pluggd.in and if you are a wordpress designer, I’d want to talk to you. As far as the new layout is concerned, I have couple of ideas and we can use a base theme and build on top of it. The consulting work is only for layout changes and not...
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Well, this has been one of the most requested post, so after shedding all my laziness, here is a step by step guide to move your blogger blog to wordpress (and maintain the permalinks intact) Wordpress has an Import feature – what’s the problem then? Blogger’s default generated URL is way different...
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