Blogs aka Weblogs

Kichus posts about Blogs, talking about the latest updates, tricks and tips about for Blog Publishers and more.

Bloggers Meet at Kerala, BlogCamp Kerala 2008

Blogs create communities. They are grown up from being personal notes to a strong open platform for collective thoughts, a communication channel, or a medium for collective expressions. None ask your ethnicity, color, not even your real name. You can communicate with hundred other bloggers online, just what you blog and how authentic you are [...]

Educate the Client Later, First Keep Yourself

Can you do SEO for just 5 pages of my website? This is one of those interesting query requests I get for proposals from clients. I really get mad explaining why I can’t do that, if you really looking for results. By doing SEO, most of them mean On-Page optimization [...]

Automattic Stats – The New Wordpress Official Stats Plugin

I am really happy to see this new official Wordpress stats plugin launched which was really missing in the Wordpress pack till now. The new one named as Automattic Stats can provide statistics about your Visitors, Feeds as well as new cool features like Blog Surfer, My Comments and Tag Surfer. You need Wordpress 2.1 [...]

Upgrading to Wordpress 2.1 and the Headspace2 plugin Hack

I was doing the upgrade to Wordpress 2.1 – the latest version get launched last week -for kichus.in. Since the upgrade has to be done on the Live Server, I had to be a little cautious about each of the steps. Hope you were remembering my post on “How to test Wordpress in your Local [...]

Some Thoughts on Yahoo!’s Acquisition of MyBlogLog

Some Thoughts on Yahoo!’s Acquisition of MyBlogLog

This week I was playing with MyBlogbLog – I’d signed up sometimes back but only caught my attention when I saw some visits from there. That made me digging more about that and found it cool, I mean way too cool. I heard some are worried about the non-secure feelings of [...]

FeedBurner Temporarily Stopped Counting from Rojo

FeedBurner Temporarily Stopped Counting from Rojo

Yesterday, I was wondering about what happened to my FeedBurner Reports. It was showing major up and down for some days on the Subscribers Report from last couple of weeks. I posted about this at my favorite SEO forum and as always, I got my Solution. Major thanks to Jake Parrillo from FeedBurner Publisher Services [...]

Sort Categories by Name or ID in Wordpress

When I started working with my Wordpress blog, I noticed that my Category listings on the sidebar show in a disordered way. I tried to dig more about this and there are loads of similar questions found in the Wordpress Support forums, but no clear answers were there. After checking loads of pages, I could [...]

How to Install & Test Wordpress Locally in Your PC?

When I started experimenting with Wordpress, this was there in my mind as a doubt. I found loads of queries regarding the same and there are less visibility to the solutions. So here I just thought of explaining How I managed to get the Wordpress Installed in my Local Machine and testing it as same [...]

How to Show Summary Instead of Full Article in WordPress

One of my friend posted a question about ‘How to show Summary/Excerpts instead of Full Articles in wordpress?’ Nowadays lots of webmasters started experimenting with wordpress templates, with a little knowledge of coding you are able to create cool custom templates. Here let us see how to work on the ‘Summary/Excerpts’ [...]

“No Adsense Ads”, says Wordpress Blog

Today i was just searching for something with adsense and my wordpress blog, I was shocked to know that the blogs at wordpress aren’t allowed to have Adsense inside. I should have checked that before itself, but I wasn’t expecting a ”No No” like this. Since Google Adsense has been approved, I think they are [...]