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Child Themes in Wordpress 2.7, and Copyblogger theme

If you are wondering why “wordpress 2.7″, yes, it’s time for another wordpress upgrade. Wordpress 2.7 is on its way with loads of features including automatic upgrade, sticky posts ( which wordpress.com users already have ) etc ….
With this update, wordpress will boost the use of “child themes” in wordpress design and development. With more power [...]

What theme are you ?

You guys know that I am crazy about blog design and themes etc, but I am not a designer.
I realize, that blog designing is not just about colors and header images but lot of other things, including information architecture and user experience.
I do follow a lot of blogs by wordpress designers. I enjoy reading about their [...]

Finding the Right Host for your Blog

So, setting up a self hosted wordpress blog is easy, but finding the right host isn’t. Its not because we do not have good webhosts around, with good blog hosting, but because we have too many of them. So, I am not suggesting you any hosting company as of now, but, I will give you [...]

Why I can not blog about my passion

I was reading an interesting post by Lorelle VanFossen on Blogherald. It’s about writing about finding your passion, the most interesting thing in your life/blog or, something that you always think about, talk about and have more to write about. 
You think about blogging on the subject constantly, at work, at play, in the night.
The subject is usually first [...]

About Blogherald.com’s New Design

“The Blog Herald” recently redesigned their blog. They made a really cute, and sweet theme . Till then, it was just another magazine styled blog. But now, it looks very unique, and easy to browse.
Now, this is what I call a perfect layout, for a wordpress theme. Everything is rightly placed. No distractions, even ads are [...]

Blog of Small Things

So, what happened to my reading habit ?
Bad news first : I am yet to finish the book ” God of Small Things”.Now the good news : I am still reading it, and I am reading few other books too.
Yes, I am still reading God of Small Things. I loved it, and was inspired enough to rename [...]

How to bring Google’s Transliteration to Wordpress.

So, do you blog in Indic Languages ? I do, at times. I was using Blogger.com for this, because, only blogger had the transliteration feature. Now, that we have this extremely useful plugin for wordpress, I can leave blogspot and come back to Wordpress.
What is Google’s Transliteration ?
Google Indic Transliteration offers an [...]

Backup Your Blogroll - It’s Easy !!

Thanks for your feedback on my previous post, about backing up your wordpress blog. Most of them, were extra tips. Here they are….
1 Niyaz “The problem is that we cannot backup other files like images using this method.”
2 xylene was trying to remember something… “there was some site which will convert our blog into pdf. Any idea [...]

Blogging in Schools ?

Do you remember this post ?. Yes, a few days ago, I was asking you guys about possibility of introducing blogging in schools. Now, go ahead and read this article. If you are too lazy to click on that link, well, read this …
If the recommendations made in the national policy on use of technology in [...]