Recent Posts Tagged With 'blogging'

• A List of Awesome WordPress Blogs to Follow

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 07:36 in blogging, wordpress, resources, themes, plugins

  Whether you’re a WordPress expert, beginner or simply a blogger running WordPress, WordPress MU, BuddyPress or any others, here’s a little list of WordPress blogs that you should definitely follow (not mentioning the WordPress Development...

• While Everyone’s Been Waiting for WordPress 2.9

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 01:30 in blogging, wordpress, themes, plugins

  I’ve been using it! Okay, so I’m not going to talk about all the great stuff coming up in 2.9, all the bugs they’ve fixed, all the features they’ve added, no. I’d just like to tell you about my experience running a step ...

• Multiblog WordPress: Eeek! No Database Connection

  Posted on Wednesday August 5th, 2009 at 03:41 in tips, hacks, blogging, tricks, wordpress

  I tried browsing to www.kovshenin.com this morning and was pretty sure I’ll get the usual redirect, but no. I got an “Error establishing a database connection”. Right, it seems that www.kovshenin.com is not defined in the wp-config....

• Multiple Sites Driven by One WordPress Installation

  Posted on Friday July 31st, 2009 at 07:53 in Personal, blogging, wordpress, themes, plugins, performance, System tools

  This is early experimental. And, I’ve also marked this post into the “personal” category, because you wouldn’t want your clients to have too much access, especially if they share a single WordPress installation. Now I know the...

• Interview: The Woo is a Mix of w00t & WordPress

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 05:05 in blogging, wordpress, interview, themes, twitter, thesis, squarespace, theme design, woothemes, diythemes

  I’ve managed to chat with one of the three founders of WooThemes lately – Adii Pienaar. Adii was very busy during the last couple of weeks with the Woo2 Release, but he was still so kind to answer some questions I had, so here we go: @k...

• SquareSpace, Thesis and Back to WordPress

  Posted on Thursday June 18th, 2009 at 04:49 in blogging, wordpress, themes, social media, twitter, thesis, squarespace, theme design, diythemes

  Yup, that’s the way it generally goes. I finally got myself an account at SquareSpace to play around with, and I poked the Thesis Framework a couple of months ago, so I now got to a conclusion – I’m not satisfied with any of those. ...

• Give WordPress the iPhone Look: wpTouch Plugin

  Posted on Wednesday March 11th, 2009 at 05:53 in Mobile, blogging, wordpress, iphone, plugins, handheld, cache, wptouch

  I don’t want to talk much about the wpTouch plugin, cause it’s all well documented over here. I’m writing this post for those of you who are afraid to make the first step to the terrific handheld view. Yeah, iPhone has got the Safar...

• WordPress Junkies: Blogging via iPhone

  Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 08:34 in rss, apple, Mobile, links, blogging, friends, wordpress, iphone, itunes, 3g, plugins, social media

  I wrote about offline blogging with Windows Live Writer some time ago, and now I realized that it’s not that fun! Alright, I have two good news. The first one’s that I received approval for my second wordpress plugin (Related External Lin...

• WordPress: Theme design tips & tricks

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 03:57 in web design, design, blogging, wordpress, themes

  Greets. If you never did a WordPress theme before, then this post is for you. As you may already know, I released my very first wordpress theme a couple of weeks ago and it’s the one you’re looking at right now (unless you’re readin...

• Threaded comments in WordPress 2.7

  Posted on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 03:58 in css, blogging, comments, wordpress, tutorials, coltrane

  This was pretty quick and easy, really, you don’t even have to do much code, it’s more about styling the nested comments. First of all you have to switch them on in Settings - Discussion, then some slight theme modifications in header.php...

• Blog redesigned: Hi, this is the new me!

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 06:47 in web design, Personal, design, blogging, wordpress, Flickr, themes, plugins, twitter

  Done! Wohooo! That seemed to take forever but my brand new WordPress theme is now complete and polished. Apperantly this is my first ever WordPress theme done from scratch. I started sketching like a week ago in Corel PaintShop Pro X2 (btw I don̵...

• Running Coltrane

  Posted on Monday December 29th, 2008 at 06:30 in blogging, wordpress, coltrane

  The upgrade went great, spent about 10 minutes on everything. Here’s my version of a quick guide, assuming you have SSH access. Start off by disabling all your plugins through the wordpress administration panel and doing a complete backup (incl...

• WordPress 2.7

  Posted on Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 at 01:12 in Software, blogging, wordpress, typepad

  There’s been a lot of noise after the 2.7 beta release and I really liked the First Look at WordPress 2.7 article by Weblog Tools Collection. So I’m really looking forward to upgrade. I’m currently running 2.6.3 and my WordPress kee...

• Windows Live Writer

  Posted on Friday November 28th, 2008 at 12:06 in blog, live, blogging, Microsoft, wordpress, xml-rpc

  The Pro Web 2.0 Mashups book I wrote about earlier is going great and I finally got to the blogging chapters. Standalone blogging, yeah that was a news for me. I mean it is obvious that offline/standalone blogging is applicable to WordPress and other...

• Removing comments author links

  Posted on Friday November 21st, 2008 at 02:27 in links, blogging, comments, wordpress, spam, askimet

  Askimet (the anti-spam plugin for wordpress) is great, but when it comes to readers commenting posts and leaving backlinks to their sites, Askimet doesn’t count that as spam unless the message doesn’t look like one. Yeah, wordpress marks ...

• I got my Flickr account!

  Posted on Wednesday November 19th, 2008 at 11:52 in blogging, social networking, Flickr

  Yeah, I finally got my Flickr account and would like to share my photostream with everyone, so if you’re interested feel free to add me to your contact list: flickr.com/people/kovshenin. By the way, I haven’t got a camera - I use my cellp...