Use WordPress.com Blog as your Image Host

I recently got this idea and implemented it on this blog. I always run out of bandwidth if I use lot of pictures in my post. I like to add pictures in my post but as you might have noticed for the past few months I am not using much images while writing post. So I came up with a solution for  that. I had some blogs setup on WordPress and I was not using them very frequently. So I basically used the WordPress blog to host my images. Its very easy to start a blog of your own with having to have hosting or any technical knowledge.

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14 Must To Do after WordPress Installation

1. Change the Default Admin Username and Password (This is must do as soon as you login after installation)
2. Change Permalink as per your requirement. Mostly people use /%post name%/
3. Change the theme. if not millions then thousands of themes are available over the internet for free. Just do it man ! (more…)

Simplest way to Display Random Rotating Dynamic Posts in WordPress Widget and Sidebar

I have been trying to do if for a long time but could not find any plug-in to rotate posts in sidebar. Actually I wanted to display my featured posts in sidebar that too in random order and with some effects if possible.

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How to : Display Related Posts in Vigilance Theme WordPress

I have been fiddling around with the newly installed theme Vigilance. There is a cost involved to it if I wanna take some help from the Theme Author. But at this point in time I can not afford it. So I thought of doing it on my own. There are number of modifications done on this theme. I am not even able to remember it. I am just a part time coder so there is a very good chance that I might forget what I did to make that thing work.
I will soon publish the list of modifications done in Vigilance Theme. As of now I am posting how to display Related Posts on a page. You can laugh if I tell you the purpose of posting it here. I wanted to make sure that even if I forget what I did it stays here on my Blog and I can refer to that later on. And it might be help to others as well.

So here is what you need to do:

• Open single.php and find

< ?php comments_template(”, true); ?>

• Now paste the following code before the above code.
• Link to the code as it was creating some problem with the post.

Leave your comments if you like this trick.

Get A Perfect WordPress 404 Error Page

Alright, I am back with another another round of WordPress Tips and Tricks. This time around I will be telling you how to get a perfect Customized Search Engine Optimized WordPress Error 404 page. How many times it has happened with you that you had some posts done in your blog and due to some reasons you had to delete it or you messed up with the installation. And one fine day you looked at your Google Analytics and found out that google is still sending lot much traffic to your blog on some particular page(s). Now what to do ? This has actually happened to me. I had a very good up and running Blog and I messed up with my WordPress installation without taking the backup. Now I am getting some traffic from Google search and the Error 404 page which is the landing page for the people clicking my website’s link from Google search does not contain for what they actually clicked for. Now to deal with these kind of situations you have to have a very good Error 404 Page which shows they way out to the lost visitor on your Blog.

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