This post is an update to my previous post on “My Favourite WordPress Plugins for 2008“. I actively use these plugins on my WordPress sites. If you know of better alternative plugins, please leave a comment and let me know about it. I am researching Twitter WordPress plugins … Read more…

I came out with this idea of combining Comment Relish with Lucia’s Linky Love plugins to generate more repeat comments on any WordPress site.

Comment Relish sends an email to a first-time comment poster of your blog while Lucia’s Linky Love enables the “follow” links of repeat comment posters. I … Read more…

This post is quite similar to my previous post on how to add MooTabs to WordPress. I recently tested Tabber on my internet marketing blog and I find that it is better than MooTabs because it is compact in file size, easier to install and customize.

The default Tabber … Read more…

I just borrowed ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income from the Singapore National Library, which is one of the few things that I proudly say my government did right. I only paid SGD $1.55 to reserve a copy of this book for collection at the library … Read more…

Yahoo Buzz is a new player in the social news industry but I believe it will become a huge force to be reckoned with just because it is a Yahoo web site.

On Yahoo Buzz’s buttons page, it has 5 tips to get more votes:… Read more…

Put Yahoo! Buzz buttons on

DZone is a great site for developers to share the latest news on programming and web development. If your site has anything to do with these topics, be sure to submit to DZone as often as you can.

On DZone’s Tools, Buttons and Widgets page, there are 2 types … Read more…

Last October, I wrote a post at my internet marketing blog about the importance of meta descriptions.

My previous post was inspired by Google webmaster blog’s post on meta descriptions. Today, I no longer use the Another WordPress Meta plugin because the All in One SEO Pack plugin… Read more…

I personally use Service Uptime to keep track of my web sites’ availability. There are lots of web site services you can keep track of but there are the 5 that I consider the most important:… Read more…

http – Status of Apache web server
mysql – Status of MySQL database (You

I have recently turned off all the statistic programs on my web server because I no longer need them any more. I added Google Analytics to my web sites to replace AWStats because the tracking by Google is just so much better. Furthermore, I don’t need to waste my valuable … Read more…

PNG logos are great for backgrounds with more than 1 colour or if your logo is displayed on different backgrounds. They blend in perfectly no matter what you put it over. Here’s an example of transparent PNG logos in action on my web site Oasis Fanatic.

Notice how my … Read more…

I had to hack the Top Commenters Widget plugin because it was displaying pingbacks and trackbacks in my top commenters list.

The hack is very easy. Simply edit line 147 to be like my code above.… Read more…

I hacked the Most Commented plugin to make it display only posts with 1 or more comments. I did this because I thought display posts with zero comments in a “most comments” post list was not very smart.

It is really simple. Simply add ” AND comment_count = 1″ on … Read more…

It seems like adding tabs to display a variety of WordPress lists in the sidebar is getting very popular. It saves space and allows us to display a lot of content, not to mention, it looks kind of neat too.

Installing MooTabs is the easiest part. Styling it is the … Read more…

I have read numerous tutorials online about displaying WordPress comments and trackbacks separately. Most of the tutorials seem to be carbon copies of each other and it probably looks something like this…

There are 2 flaws with the code above.… Read more…

It does not display the number of trackbacks in the

I wanted to recreate the SmoothGallery effect for my own blog designs without installing the popular Options WordPress Theme. I did some research and found this WordPress SmoothGallery plugin that I found very hard to set up. Then I read a tutorial on how to integrate a slideshow in … Read more…