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[Video] WordPress Essential Series – Post and Pages

February 11, 2010
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Video Guides & Tutorials

Continuing with the Video Tutorials on WordPress Essential Series , we’ll now discuss how to add Posts as well as Pages to WordPress. Posts and pages make the building blocks of any Blog or Content Management System (CMS). If you are looking at creating a Blog then Posts would be something that would be of [...]

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[Video] WordPress Essentials Series – Intro and Dashboard

February 7, 2010
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Video Guides & Tutorials

WordPress has gained immense popularity in the recent years not only as a popular blogging platform but also as a Content Management System (CMS). In this Video Tutorial, we will introduce you to the WordPress Dashboard and its Administrative interface to get going.

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[Video] Installing WordPress using Fantastico

February 7, 2010
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Video Guides & Tutorials

Step by Step guide on How to install WordPress on your Web Host example – HostGator, BlueHost, HostMonster etc using Fantastico.
WordPress can be installed in 2 ways : -

Manual Method
Automatic Method

Manual Method
It involves quite a lot of steps and it time consuming, knowledge of Databases, FTP and cPanel are required. One needs to be familiar [...]

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Video Tutorials and Guides by ProgrammingKid

February 7, 2010
Simply Something Sophisicated - a Wordpress poster
This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Video Guides & Tutorials

Hello World!
I have been away from my blog for quite some time now. The reason being, I have started recording my own video tutorials on what I do best – WordPress. It took me some time to figure out how to get started using a Screencast application, editing and making sure the narration was useful.

I [...]

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Decrease Page Load times of WordPress Blog using Google Page Speed

December 24, 2009

Google recently released an addon called Google Page Speed for firefox users which allows you to measure page load times and gives detailed report of various areas in your blog which can be optimized.
How much decrease is possible?

As evident from the above graph for Programming Kid, my page load times were on the rise and [...]

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What to do when your blog gets injected with a malicious script, worm and infects WordPress

December 21, 2009

How I compromized my Blog’s security (running on WP 2.9)
Last night, while surfing the web I came across a blog which showed me a blank screen. I tried a few links from the cached copy of the blog but it returned a PHP syntax error. The blog was known to me and I thought the [...]

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Get ready for WordPress 2.9

December 17, 2009
Wordpress

Update : WordPress 2.9 has been launched!
Codex has launched WordPress 2.9 Release Candidate 1 and are inviting testers and users to test the much awaited WordPress version. If all goes well, it should be available within the end of this week itself.
Whats Happening?
WordPress 2.9 is supposed to have a lot of new features and [...]

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Christmas Bonanza – [WIN] Wordpress Blog SetUp + Theme Customization + SEO Worth $350

December 9, 2009

Keeping up with the festive season and in tune with the Christmas Celebrations, I would be giving a few readers of ProgrammingKid WordPress Services worth $350! Yes, that’s right. It would include the following :

WordPress Blog SetUp
Wordpress Premium Theme + Customization
Wordpress SEO

All these services absolutely FREE!
To make it more exciting, there would NOT be ONE [...]

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Wordpress on Mobile – iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian, Android

December 5, 2009

Although writing posts from mobile device sounds cool its not very practical. The other day I was searching for an easier way to approve comments from my Blackberry & I found this cool application from Wordpress itself. Works great! So, I compiled a list of applications for different mobile platforms for readers of programmingkid.
iPhone & [...]

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5 Awesome Wordpress Plugins You Need to Install Now

December 1, 2009
Wordpress

WordPress Plugins are great tools. Without the plugins boosting the performance of your blog, it will be very difficult to generate traffic on the web. WordPress Plugins help enhance your blogging experience as well. Everyone knows about the All in One SEO plugin and WordPress SiteMap plugin. The list below is more fresh. Here are [...]

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Solving Wordpress Internal Server Error – 500

November 30, 2009
Internal Server Error - 500

Internal Server Error – 500

An Internal Server Error – 500 is the most common error code you will encounter after 404 errors. While a 404 Error means “Page Not Found” and is much simple to rectify, the 500 error conveys a rather sarcastic message ” Internal Server Error”. It’s like as if you can not [...]

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Is your Blog ready to take on huge traffic spikes ? [Guide]

November 13, 2009
Traffic

After suffering for two months at the hands of two different Web Hosting providers I finally settled with HostGator, everything seemed great until the Internal Server Error – 500 problem surfaced again.
I promptly contacted HostGator 24X7 Live Chat Support and explained my problem, after an hour or so. I was finally able to resolve my [...]

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