Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

I have made some minor hacks to the Gila theme. I think now the site looks much better than it was previously. I am on the way of installing some essential plugins as well.


You can now subscribe to comments via e-mail. This is also an essential plugin for Wordpress. Wordpress people should consider to take up this plugin officially. Thanks to Scriptygoddess for this real useful plugin.


I have installed and configured threaded (nested) comments. I think this is one of the most essential feature. I would like this feature to be officially supported by Wordpress. Thanks Brain for you wonderful plugin.


I have set up the JVisitors plugin sucessfuly in the journal. It is working fine.


This blog is discontinued. I don't post here anymore. The new blog is hosted on my site. It is at http://praveen.kumar.in


By default, Wordpress doesn't support threaded (nested) comments. I have looked out for this option and found a plugin here. I have just installed and configured it. I am gonna try out its operation in this post.


I have installed and configured Spam Karma and Referrer Karma to this blog. Earlier in my test implementation of Wordpress, I was receiving spam comments at an approximate rate of 5 - 10 every day. These two tools seems to control the spam actively. I have found Blogginpro using these two ...


After a hell of searches, I have come across the right theme, Gila. It perfectly matches what I wanted, three column design that uses 100% of the page width. Gila is really too cool. The only problem that I heard about it is that the pages that contain small post ...


I have just set up this blog. Thanks to Wordpress for providing a simple and powerful solution for blogging.


I am planning to drop my blogger account soon. I would use Wordpress. I am looking out for a good host. I am also planning to use Gallery 2 on the new site. For both of these, I will be needing MySQL support. I have decided about gallery. But regarding ...