Recently, I worked on a content-heavy site built on WordPress where it was decided to change the URL structure. It is obvious that once you change the URL structure in WordPress, old URLs will throw 404 error and eventually the site will lose traffic. URL structure in WordPress can be changed through the option “Permalinks”… Read More: WordPress Old Permalinks 301 Redirect »
I host over 25 websites that are built on WordPress. Few of them are mine and few are customers’. They are spread over few hosting accounts. With the frequent updates to WordPress core, plugins, and themes, I spend few hours every week to log into all these sites and update them manually. It was a… Read More: Manage Multiple WordPress Sites from One Place »
This is an update to my old post written in 2009 with latest additions and deletions. Following are the best sites to find royalty-free, public domain, and creative commons licensed images, videos, music to use on your blog / business site or in your YouTube shorts or Insta reels. 1. Pixabay: From being third in… Read More: Free high-quality stock photos / images for your website or… »
I use few popular cloud storage services like Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Amazon S3, etc. for storing files and important data. I store frequently accessed files on Google Drive and highly important and archived data on Amazon S3. I also use Dropbox to serve static files of my websites. I replicate Dropbox files to Box… Read More: Transfer files between Cloud Storage Services easily and freely »
This is a follow-up post to my previous Part-I post where I told about the theme I am using for this blog. This post describes various plugins I use to give additional features to the core WordPress script. 1. Akismet: This spam-prevention plugin comes default with every WordPress installation. Comment spam is a huge problem… Read More: WordPress Theme and Plugins that power My Blog – Part… »
“What plugins and theme you use?” is the frequent question I get from the visitors and fellow bloggers, so here is a detailed post about all things that power my blog. Theme: My blog was started in 2007 and since then I used a free WordPress theme called “iTheme” from N.Design Studio, which is a… Read More: WordPress theme and plugins that power my blog – Part… »
I have installed Ubuntu on Windows XP just to see how the new version is looking and try some features. At the end of the day, I have uninstalled it, but struck with the problem of bootloader. After installing Ubuntu, it has made changes to Windows bootloader so that while booting we can select Windows… Read More: How to restore the Windows XP bootloader – After uninstalling… »
This week I have worked on a project, which required me to categorize few websites and show screenshots of those websites arranged neatly. Special requirement was dynamic creation of website screenshots because if the administrator wants, he will just add the URL and the screenshot need to be generated automatically. I have searched for few… Read More: Creating Dynamic Website Screenshots for Your Website »