Tag Archives: WordPress Hacks

How to use WordPress to Create a User Generated Content Site

By Arun Basil Lal | Published: February 23, 2010
WordPress is undoubtedly one of the best platforms for blogging. However it can be easily used to create a user generated content site as well. To get an idea about what I am talking about, you may check the website second hand bikes. The method that I used can be easily used to create product review sites, digg like social news site and many more using the familiar wordpress platform and basic PHP and mysql knowledge.
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Fantastico Installer and WordPress Privacy. Watch it

By Arun Basil Lal | Published: February 20, 2010
It has come to my notice that, some people including but not limited to Todd, forgets to change their privacy setting and hence, their blog seldom gets indexed, no matter how they try.
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How to Identify the Theme on any WordPress Blog

By Arun Basil Lal | Published: February 15, 2010
Often we come across blogs with cool themes and wish we had that theme, don't we?. If its a custom made theme, there is no way out, but if its a Standard theme, here are two ways to get it.
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Why You Ought To Use the Read More Tag In WordPress and How To Configure It Properly

By Arun Basil Lal | Published: September 18, 2009
The read more tag can dramatically increase the amount of pageviews on your site/blog. I would have gone further to explain this but Alex of Blogussion has already done an excellent job explaining this with his post; Double Your Pageviews – Pros & Cons of Displaying Partial Posts.
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How to display images properly on Feed Readers

By Arun Basil Lal | Published: July 11, 2009
If your images looks like figure 1 online and like figure 2 in your RSS reader or inbox, then you got to follow some simple steps to make them look good. There are two was to do this...
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