November 24, 2008
If you are running a WordPress vodcast site, or you frequently post video content on your blog, wouldn’t it be great if you can upload, import, edit and create mash up of video/audio/photos right within your WordPress admin area? Kaltura is the first open source video platform for online video management, creation, interaction and collaboration. [...]
November 21, 2008
Automattic, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform, currently hosts over 4.5 million blogs. According to their download counter, they have served just over 3.1 million downloads of their self-hosted blogging software. With nearly 8 million blogs in the wild, it’s easy to see that many content publishers have embraced the platform’s ease of use [...]
August 1, 2008
Call me the upgrade freak as I always have to have the latest versions of everything. But there was one exception: the WordPress installation on my blogs. The reason was that upgrading WordPress was not a walk in the park. If it’s just about downloading the latest version, then there wouldn’t be any problem. Unfortunately, [...]
June 12, 2008
In my last article, I talked about how you can use NicEdit to add RichText WYSIWYG functionality to your blog comments. Well today I want to talk about a WordPress plugin that I found which adds a bit of extra personalization when someone leaves a comment on one of your posts. It is called MyAvatars. [...]
May 6, 2008
So, you have finished building your first WordPress blog. Then what? Besides posting, you’ll want to expand the capabilities of the blog by installing some plugins. Then comes the second question; which plugins exactly? There are literally thousands of WordPress plugins available out there. Too many options. Everybody has different preferences, different needs. Not to [...]
October 25, 2007
WordPress Plugins: Part Two The past day or two has been a real eye-opener for me as I realised for the first time the full breadth and scope of the features available for WordPress. Here was me thinking that Blogger was not that bad but now I am starting to realise what I’ve been missing [...]
October 24, 2007
WordPress Pluggins: Part One Last year it sounded all so easy and routine when I said to myself “let’s move my blog from Blogger to WordPress. Should be a piece of cake”. Famous last words. One year on and three attempts later, my blog is now finally on the WordPress platform. I now feel like [...]
October 8, 2007
Keeping an up-to-date blog backup copy, is one of those things that every one would like to do but are either too lazy to actually do it or have no clear idea of how it can be done. I have read at least a dozen of articles about it, but have never really found anything [...]
August 14, 2007
Hello everybody! I would love to thank MakeUseOf for allowing me to be a guest writer. My goal is to start simple and work my way up from the Web 1.0 to the Web 2.0 world with my posts. Thus, here is my first “I Make Use Of” post. Enjoy… Webmaster Tools: As a Webmaster, [...]
