Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

One of the handy features in the latest Wordpress is the support to upgrade plugins in one click through the Wordpress administration interface. It needs FTP or FTPS access to the server where you have hosted your Wordpress installation. But turning on FTP for users (non-anonymous) is a bad idea ...


I have been a highly inactive blogger these days. It doesn't mean that I have too many things to take care of. For some reason, I felt that I lost interest in blogging for some time now. Every week I would have found at least a couple things to ...


I have setup a FeedBurner account today. My feeds are now available through FeedBurner. The old feeds are still available. I am planning to remove them after a month. Please start using the new feed now.


For some reason, after upgrading to Wordpress 2 I face some problems with the comments count. Googling showed that there was some problem with the SpamKarma plugin. But I don't have SpamKarma installed. My comment count won't decrement if I delete some spam trackbacks through the admin interface ...


Finally I have moved out of my old host canaca.com beacuse of all the difficulties I was facing with them. Even the IP address of my hosting server was blacklisted and they were not ready to do anything about it. I got pissed off with thier service and finally ...


Finally, the long time pending task of getting a more visually pleasing theme for the journal is over. I have taken up one of an existing Wordpress theme and modified it to suit my needs. This theme looks neat for me in my Mozilla Firefox 1.5 on Linux. I ...


Ever since my update of Wordpress to 2.0 from 1.5, I was facing more annonyance than any help from the new so called, "Visual rich editor". I think that it is the same case with most of the Wordpress users. In the view of helping novice Wordpress users ...


The complete migration of the site to a new host is over. Here are the new changes that are done to the site.

Journal: The URI of the journal is changed. http://journal.praveen.ws is the new URI for the journal. The old URI may still take you here ...


The updated version of IP to Country database's MySQL dump, which is used for the IP2Country plugin is now available.


Atlast, I have successfully moved my Wordpress setup to a new server without facing much problems. My previous host dicontinued more sooner than expected and things are not yet settled with my new host. I have been assigned disk space and MySQL database which helped me in finalizing the migration ...