I’m not sure if you’ve heard it yet, but Google is now allowing the search results of your AdSense search boxes to open in a page on your own blog. But even after following the official instructions in the AdSense Help Center, I can’t get it to work on this blog. I’m getting a blank […]

Here’s the second installment of the WordPress (WP) Plugins Feature series - exactly 30 days after the first one (which got attention from some pretty cool places BTW).
For those of you who are new to this series, each monthly installment features WP plugins released that month which to quote myself, “…provide enough new functionality to […]

If you followed the previous entry in the Using WordPress (WP) as a CMS series, you would already be able to get this sort of sexy permalink structure:

Custom Front Page at: http://yoursite.com/
Normal Blog Index at: http://yoursite.com/blog/
Blog Entries at: http://yoursite.com/blog/post-title/
Blog Categories at: http://yoursite.com/blog/category/category-title/
Blog Monthly Archives: http://yoursite.com/blog/2006/08/

But this isn’t complete. Let’s now branch into the permalink structure of WP’s […]

Before we start on the meat of the Using WordPress (WP) as a CMS series, there’s some fundamental technical stuff we have to get out of the way first. First on the list is: Custom front/main/index pages.
What For?
By default, WordPress’ front page displays a reverse chronological list of your posts - with whatever extras you […]

By virtue of the fact that WordPress (WP) makes it easy for us to write, publish, edit and organise our blogs, it’s already a content management system (CMS). So, what in the world does “Use WP as a CMS” mean when we already are?
Generally, it means to use WordPress as a more conventional CMS, for […]

WordPress (WP) has always been a highly versatile blogging platform, even way back in v1.2. So versatile that many have attempted to push it to the next level, and use it as a more conventional content management system (CMS) - not unlike Drupal, XOOPS, Joomla, and gang.
And if the coverage a recent post on using […]

It isn’t anything spectacular or revolutionary, but it might come in useful when using WordPress as a more conventional content management system (CMS) - as I had to do recently. What it does is to list the recent child pages (also known as subpages) of a particular parent page or the one the template tag […]

I’m sure some of you have noticed that there has been an interesting blog domain name change in the past week or so. Yes, it was Dell’s decision to change its corporate blog’s name from one2one to Direct2Dell - with a corresponding shift in domain name.
Oh, The Pain!
WTF? Any individual blogger would have thought twice […]