Manikandan

How to fix “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.”

Post last modified:January 18, 2011
Post category:Blogging Resources
Post author:Manikandan

The core automatic upgrade feature in worddpress was added with version 2.7. During the automatic upgrade WordPress places a file named .maintenance in the blog root folder. In that time the vistors will see the message Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute. If your automatic upgrade process failed and your site still shows the “vistors will see the message Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” message.just delete the .maintenance file.

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Mozilla Firefox 4 beta 9 released

Post last modified:January 15, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Firefox 4 Beta 9 is now available for download and testing. What’s new in firefox 4 beta 9?

Some new features are

1.Overhaul of the bookmarks and history code, enabling faster bookmarking and startup performance.

2.Per-compartment garbage collection is now enabled, reducing work done during complex animations
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Makar Sankranti Google Doodle

Post last modified:January 14, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Today google celebrates the Makar Sankranti and the new Google Doodle is showing 7 Kites with Google written on it. Makar Sankranti marks the transition of the Sun into Makara rashi (Capricorn) on its celestial path. Traditionally, this has been one of many harvest days in India. Sankranti is celebrated all over South Asia with some regional variations. It is known by different names and celebrated with different customs in different parts of the country.
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Joomla 1.6

Post last modified:January 13, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Joomla 1.6 is officially released and ready for download. Joomla is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. According to W3Techs, Joomla powers 2.6% of the web and holds 11% of the CMS market. Joomla 1.6 delivers new features to end-users and site administrators including:

Finer access controls

A user-defined category structure

Installation improvements a

Expanded language support

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How to Remove WordPress Dashboard Widgets (also from screen options)

Post last modified:January 12, 2011
Post category:Blogging Resources
Post author:Manikandan

If you login to your wordpress admin area ,you will see some useful (or maybe useless) dashboard widgets. It is a useful feature in single author blogs. By default,you can turn off any dashboard widget using the “Screen Options” tab at the right top of the admin area. In multi-author blogs it leak some important details to other users. Example:incoming links,recent coments, right now, recent drafts etc.

To completely remove wordpress dashboard widgets (Dashboard quickpress widget,incoming links widget,Recent comments widget,Right Now widget,Dashboard Plugins widget,Dashboard Recent Drafts widget,Dashboard primary widget,Dashboard secoundary widget)
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How to secure multi-author wordpress blog

Post last modified:January 11, 2011
Post category:Blogging Resources
Post author:Manikandan

Secure wordpress is a wordpress plugin, it increases the security of your multi-author wordpress blog.

Some of its feature are

Removes error messages on login-page.
Removes the wordpress version except in admin.
Removes wordpress version in admin area for non-admins
Adds index.php plugin-directory (virtual)
Removes Really Simple Discovery link in wp_head of the frontend.
Removes Windows Live Writer.
Removes core update for non-admins.
Removes plugin update for non-admins.
Removes theme update non-admins.
Removes version on urls from scripts and stylesheets onyl on frontend
Block bad queries
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How to customize login and registration page setting in wordpress – Theme My Login

Post last modified:January 10, 2011
Post category:Blogging Resources
Post author:Manikandan

If you want your wordpress login and registration pages according to your wordpress theme and also some customizable setting example:email,security , then Theme my login wordpress plugin is useful for you. It replaces the wp-login.php file by using a page template from your theme and also includes a widget for sidebar login.

To customize login and registration page in wordpress

1. Download Theme My Login wordpress Plugin from this link.

2. Unzip and upload it to your WordPress wp-content/plugins directory.
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WordPress.com Stats

Post last modified:January 8, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

According to wordpress there are over 32 million WordPress publishers as of December 2010 and 16 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com plus 16.7 million active installations of the WordPress.org software.numbers are for WordPress.com hosted blogs only.
According to Quantcast, over 260 million people worldwide visit one or more WordPress.com blogs every month, and they view over 2.3 billion pages on those blogs each month.
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Tagxedo – Create Tag Cloud with Styles

Post last modified:September 20, 2023
Post category:Useful Tips
Post author:Manikandan

Author’s Description: Tagxedo turns words,famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

How to create tag clouds

1.Go to tagxedo.com

2.Click the Start Now button.
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Drupal 7.0 is now available

Post last modified:October 1, 2019
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

After nearly three years of collaboration by nearly a thousand contributors, Drupal 7.0 is today officially released and ready for download. Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world. Approximately 1% of of the websites in world using drupal.

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