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PhotoDropper Not Working? Try Free Stock Photos Foter

By Shivam Vaid On October 24, 2011 3 Comments 59 views

I had recently migrated to wordpress 3.1.2. Ever since this upgrade, the photo dropper plugin refused to work. I googled a bit for solutions but of no avail. Disabling other plugins, reinstalling photo dropper plugin etc did not help. The problem was that whenever I used to enter a keyword and click on search, nothing would happen and result area would remain as a blank page. This problem prevented me from using external photos on my blog for a while. Thankfully, I have found an excellent alternative which works the….. Read More

How To Customize Genesis WordPress Theme – Part I

By Shivam Vaid On May 23, 2011 3 Comments 535 views

This is the first post in a series on how to customize the Genesis premium theme. I recently installed the Genesis premium theme from Studiopress and have been experimenting with customizing it. I would be sharing on what all was tried and what results did it yield. One basic tip to remember is to always use the Genesis Child theme instead of making changes directly in the Genesis framework Customizing the Sidebar The default sidebar that comes with Genesis is empty. You just have a primary widget space and it….. Read More

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity – WordPress 3.1.2

By Shivam Vaid On May 17, 2011 Leave a Comment 197 views

After my upgrade to WordPress 3.1.2, I wrote a couple of new posts. However, I discovered that none of those posts got automatically tweeted. The tweeting of my posts happens through feed burner socialize. I was wondering what could be the issue. Then it stuck me whether the feed of the blog was getting generated correctly at all. To my horror, I discovered that the feed was throwing up an error because of which neither was the feed getting generated nor the tweet for the new post happening correctly. The….. Read More

Genesis WordPress Theme Preview Shows A Blank Page

By Shivam Vaid On May 10, 2011 Leave a Comment 238 views

I mentioned in one of my previous posts that I am contemplating migrating Inficone to the Genesis theme. A couple of days back, I finally purchased the Genesis Theme ( version 1.6.1 ) and uploaded it to the wp-content of my WordPress installation. It is recommended that the Genesis Child Theme is used with the Genesis framework. Once the child theme was in place, I decided to checkout the look and feel of the site in Genesis by doing a theme preview from the WordPress dashboard. To my surprise I….. Read More

Get Free Creative Commons Images For WordPress Blog

By Shivam Vaid On March 31, 2011 Leave a Comment 149 views

Images are an integral part of any content that you produce on your blog. The downside is that it is hard to find contextual images that would do justice to the associated content. Even if you find an image, there is always a question of whether that very image can be used on your blog without any license/copyright constraints. Finding royalty free photographs for your blog posting is a challenge that every modern blogger faces. If you have your blog hosted on wordpress, than one plugin which is invaluable for….. Read More

Customize Plugin Order Below WordPress Posts Using Add_Filter

By Shivam Vaid On August 30, 2010 2 Comments 801 views

There are a number of wordpress plugins available today that would display some particular content at the bottom of your wordpress posts. These plugins could be anything ranging from subscription options for your blog, sharing links for the post OR a plugin to display related posts to the existing post. Once you enable the requisite plugins, you would see the various outputs appearing at the bottom of every post. As an example, for the post on call to action button, the following snapshot show the information displayed by the plugins….. Read More

Disqus Comments WordPress Plugin: Problem In RSS Feed

By Shivam Vaid On August 18, 2010 1 Comment 269 views

Disqus is a comment management system that can be used for your wordpress blog. It aims to help you manage any comments based discussions on your blog and enable a seamless integration with social media. To further elaborate, a typical wordpress comments section would ask for a user name user email user website url and comment text that the user wants to make Entering all this information might feel tedious and cumbersome. Lets assume that majority of the website visitors would be active users on twitter and facebook. Disqus enables….. Read More

Outbrain For WordPress : Poor Related Posts Identification

By Shivam Vaid On July 30, 2010 3 Comments 279 views

Outbrain is a widget that enables you to show related posts links on your blog using their thumbnail images. The USP of the service is it’s visual appeal as opposed to plain vanilla display of the related posts. I have been using Outbrain for a while now on Inficone. While I see decent hits from the listings that it offers, I am not entirely happy with the algorithm that it uses to find the related content. In majority of my posts, I find the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin doing….. Read More

How to Identify Font Used In Text Of A Website

By Shivam Vaid On July 21, 2010 Leave a Comment 2,933 views

As a blogger, you would like to use the best of available fonts on your website which enhance visitor readership experience. Many a times, you might visit a website and like the font of the text on the web pages. You might like to experiment with the same font on your own web pages and start using it going forward if you like the same. One of the tools that is extremely handy to identify font from text of a web page is the firefox extension called font finder. It….. Read More

Website Traffic Recovering After The Drop In June

By Shivam Vaid On July 17, 2010 Leave a Comment 45 views

I mentioned in my previous post as to how Google traffic dropped to Inficone in late June. This was very surprising and disappointing as I get majority of my traffic from search engines. I remained patient since I was not able to co-relate this drop with the May update by Google since the drop happened only in late June. I was hoping that this is indeed a temporary drop and the traffic would recover back. Holidays in some part of the world OR temporary glitch in search results were my….. Read More