Blogging Tips, PC & Software Tips and Wordpress Tips

Data backup solutions is definitely something you must have looked into the past, if you’re one of the unlucky ones, who lost all their valuable data to a massive virus attack, fire or even theft. Data backups have really helped me countless number of times when I totally lost it with the my laptop either cos it was being excruciatingly slow or some programs refused to work as they should etc.

I’m so much in love with the blog WP Recipes as they are so innovative with their wordpress hacks. Here are 5 of their hacks that I find so uber uber hot

Installing Google Analytics in Blogger blogs is quite simple and shouldn’t take you more than a minute. You don’t even require a plug-in/widget to achieve this.

If you own a blogger blog, you will definitely have noticed that unlike self hosted wordpress, you don’t have the special option of alerting certain blog directories and search engines of new content on your blog.

According to Wikipedia, .htaccess (Hypertext Access) is the default name of Apache’s directory-level configuration file. It provides the ability to customize configuration directives defined in the main configuration file. This tutorial looks at securing wordpress installations via the htaccess file.

Some time ago I blogged about using section targeting to increase the relevancy of the ads that appear on our blogs but this is a lot more tricky for Blogger blogs

When this blog was launched on the blogger platform, I set out to accomplish SEO Optimization and better indexing of my posts.

For a minute I thought to myself, if blogger blogs are owned by Google, they’d automatically be exempted from Google’s Duplicate Content Policy. Well I was living in denial.

A search for this problem on Google, saw me reading up to 3 posts which all came to the same conclusion.

“Bloggers Blogs Aren’t Exempted From Google’s Duplicate Content Policy”

Below is the method I used to help me keep in line with Google’s policy.

Google Chrome is the latest addition to the web browser software category. Amongst it’s many features is the use of extensions which expands it’s functionality.

I’m just going to talk about automatically checking the page rank of any site you visit using Google Chrome.

My last tutorial showed you how to get self hosted wordpress installations to send emails on a server with PHP mail() function disabled. This tutorial will help you get Contact form 7 to send your messages successfully and stop showing the “Failed to send your message” error

This tutorial assumes that you’re currently running a self-hosted wordpress installation on a server running CPanel 11 with the PHP mail() function disabled. Some web hosting companies do this to impede email spammers but it tends to also affect legitimate users. Without this function, plug-ins such as Subscribe To Comments and Contact Form 7 will not work BUT there’s a quick fix to this.