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    Self-hosted Blog Options takes a look at the pros and cons of WordPress, Movable Type, ExpressionEngine Core, Habari and Chyrp. (0)

I wish I could say I was in this state right now, considering the lack of updates out here. But, the reason is that I am busy with MBA.
Anyone like to write for me?

Posted by Ajay under Blogging, Fun
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I’m a big fan of Mark Jaquith. He has several useful and easy to use WordPress plugins to his credit.
One such plugin is Clutter Free. It lets you hide portions of the WordPress posting interface that you rarely (or never) use. Instead of being minimized (and still taking up room), they’ll be completely invisible.
How does [...]

Posted by Ajay under Blogging, Techtites Daily, Tips and Tutorials, Wednesday, WordPress, WordPress Plugins
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As of today, three major blog hosting services are Blogger, WordPress.com and Typepad. The former two are free while the latter is paid.
Every once in a while a new startup emerges which attempts to enter this market. Some succeed, while others fail.

Two days back one such startup launched. However, as it’s tagline suggests, Terapad offers [...]

Posted by Ajay under Blogging, Hosting, Saturday, Services, Techtites Daily
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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/software/Code_Keyword_Targetting_For_Chitika_Using_UTW_Wordpress_Plugin’;
I wrote about Chitika being an additional revenue stream. By default Chitika is non-contextual. And if you are running Adsense, then you have to run Chitika in this mode.

Running the ads should not be too much of a problem because the code is easily embedded in any page you wish.
However, what you will [...]

Posted by Ajay under Ads Affiliate Programs, Blogging, Techtites Daily, Wednesday
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Text Link Ads (aff.) publishing program now is compatible with Blogger. However, you need to be using the latest version of Blogger for this to work.
I don’t intend to give this a test on my blogger blogs, because both are dead!
But, are you a using Blogger? I would like feedback of the same, including ease [...]

Posted by Ajay under Ads Affiliate Programs, Blogger, Blogging, Tech News
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There are two things that every site would love, viz. visitors and return visitors, the latter preferably and participaters.
While the commenting system within WordPress allows participation to some extent, it does lack a lot of features, one particularly being the ability for visitors to receive updates on their comments.
You can use external tools like coComment [...]

Posted by Ajay under Blogging, Techtites Daily, Wednesday, WordPress, WordPress Plugins
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Am not going to write anything special about working with WordPress this week, as I’m really tied down by things right now.
However, let me take this opportunity to point you to an article I wrote a while back on my personal blog, on a topic that frustrates a lot of us, viz. SPAM!
Titled A Comprehensive [...]

Posted by Ajay under Articles, Blogging, Techtites Daily, Wednesday, WordPress
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Today a post on BloggingPro brings to focus an extremely interesting point in WordPress.com’s TOS.
the Content is not spam, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or [...]

Posted by Ajay under Blogging, WordPress
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