The Why and How of Using WordPress as an e-Commerce Platform

Posted by Roko Nastic on Jul 28, 2010 in Goodies, Tutorials, Web, Wordpress Plugins | 4 comments

WordPress started in 2003, and has quickly become one of the most popular self-hosted blogging and CMS platforms. Traditionally, e-Commerce websites required a large amount of time and technical knowledge to create, but WordPress has made creating an e-Commerce platform easy. Let’s take a look at why WordPress is a great e-Commerce platform and how it is done.

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WordPress 3.0 Hits The Streets!

Posted by Pubudu Kodikara on Jun 19, 2010 in News, Web | 3 comments

Our most favorite blogging platform have finally released its next major version with loads of new features which will even take it beyond just blogging! The new WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” had taken 218 contributors and have about 1,217 bug fixes and more new features like custom posts, custom menus, more lighter admin panel and a great new default theme! What do you think? Isn’t it worth upgrading right now?

Update to WordPress 2.9.2 to Protect your Blog from Logged in Users!

Posted by Pubudu Kodikara on Feb 16, 2010 in News, Web | 12 comments

Yesterday (February 15), WordPress have released another small security update. This new update will protect your blog from the logged in users! If you have some untrusted members in your blog, then you must install this update!

WordPress : Redirecting Your Original Feed to Your Feedburner Feed

Posted by Pubudu Kodikara on Jan 28, 2010 in Tips and Tricks (Hacks), Web | 28 comments

Most of us bloggers use Feedburner to burn our feeds. The main reason to do this is, that Feedburner have lots of features than the normal RSS feeds. Just sending our feeds through Feedburner won’t help us. We need to tell our readers that we use the service! But, still people prefer to use the original feeds which appear on the address bar of their browser! So, how to tell these people that we use Feedburner?

How Are You Going to Stop Spam on Your WordPress Blog?

Posted by Pubudu Kodikara on Jan 14, 2010 in Goodies, Wordpress Plugins | 33 comments

Spam comments had become a  great headache for us bloggers! Earlier I used to face tons of spam comments every day ruining my blog. So , do you know the cure for this headache? Is your cure strong enough to stop all the comments? Or are you still getting some spam?  If so, lets see how to get a complete cure for this problem!

How To Set Up WordPress in Your Home PC

Posted by Pubudu Kodikara on Dec 17, 2009 in Tips and Tricks (Hacks), Web | 25 comments

For most of us, if we want to change something in our blog, we straightaway implement it on our blog without even testing! Is it right? Actually this is a big risk because if something goes wrong and crashes our web site….. we are doomed! So its better to test before you implement it. But, how are we going to test it? By buying more hosting space? Nope… theres an easy way in which you can test it on your own home PC!

WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release : For People Who Have Untrusted Authors

Posted by Pubudu Kodikara on Nov 13, 2009 in News, Web | 2 comments

Recently (November 12) WordPress have released another update 2.8.6! This is a security update which fixes several security issues detected while testing the system. Actually its very important for us to put these security updates….. as I think, if you have a website, the first thing you must ensure is the security, because the net is a very un-secure place! Before updating, lets see what have they fixed!