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Prevent Spam by Blocking IP Addresses

Bariski — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:11:30 +0000

Sometimes there comes a person or bot which constantly spams your blog. To block that person or that bot you can use following hack. You can simply block his IP and he will be never able to visit your site again.

Display the Total Number of Comments on Your WordPress Blog

Bariski — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:54:51 +0000

Ever wondered on how to show total number of comments posted on your blog without manually updating the count. This simple hack will help you display total number of comments on your WordPress blog. Hope you find it useful.

How to Hide Advertisements for Single Posts

Bariski — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:48:16 +0000

As in our previous tutorial, I showed you how to show your adsense to only Google visitors. In this tutorial you will learn how to hide advertisement for any particular post. This technique comes in handy if you publish many posts a day and want your regular readers not to get distracted by your ads, you can always show them up after a day is over or after a certain period of time.

How to Add a Facebook Share link to your WordPress blog

Bariski — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:00:36 +0000

Facebook being 2nd top most visited site after Google, can bring some massive traffic to your blog/site if used correctly. You should always try and engage users to share your article on their favorite sites as much as possible, like Twitter, Facebook, etc. This simple tutorial will help you add a Facebook Simple Share link to your WordPress blog, which not only loads fast but also let your users share your articles easily on their profiles.

How To Find Post IDs in WordPress

Bariski — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:02:37 +0000

At times we need to know the post ID to change add some functionality to a theme where it is needed. Post IDs are numeric like 1, 2, 20 etc. For finding them you don’t need to be a hard core programmer or use any other plugin, just this simple tutorial.

Increasing Import File Limit In WordPress

Bariski — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:22:24 +0000

“The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.” This errors occurs if the file you importing is larger than default size i.e. 2MB, and generally the file size is always larger. To increase the default import file size limit, you can follow this quick tutorial.

Redirect WordPress RSS Feeds to Feedburner To Increase RSS Readers

Bariski — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:18:10 +0000

This hack will help you redirect all your RSS subscribers to your Feedburner feeds, which will help you increase your rss subscribers by a noticeable amount. Also you don’t have to manually edit your theme, everytime you change it or use a optimized one.

Disable Post Revisions to Make Database Smaller

Bariski — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:13:08 +0000

WordPress post Revisions is a is a great feature for those working with multi-editors (authors) and is a way of tracking changes. But for those (like me) who blog alone, it is an unnecessary feature which adds a lot of additional data that will really increase the size of the WordPress database and thus slow the loading time of your site. Here we will show you how to Disable Post Revisions to Make Database Smaller which will make your Database size smaller and will help you load your site faster.

Post Treatment – Show Related Posts Without a Plugin

Bariski — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:28:20 +0000

Using too many plugins on a WordPress installation usually slower the loading time of the site, especially when same can be achieved using a simple piece of code. Though its not always wise to use codes in your wordpress themes, especially if you are not familiar with them. Here we will show you how to Show Related Posts Without Plugin which will be based on the tags you will use in your posts. Hope this helps some.

Force Caching With .htaccess Method To Increase Loading Speed Of Your Site

Bariski — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:45:13 +0000

This hack will not increase the loading speed of your website directly. But instead, this will load the content of your site much faster when same user (returning visitor) visits your site again by sending 304 status for the components which have not been modified. Currently the cache expiry is set to one day, but you can change it accordingly by modifying the number of seconds, i.e. 86400 in our case.