Tag: wordpress
- Migrating Disqus comments into Wordpress (11 Mar 2020)
Further to my earlier blog post about How to Import Disqus comments into Wordpress, I’ve found that script solution to be a bit trickier for first time users who want to migrate disqus comments from their earlier blog to the new wordpress blog. The disqus_parse.php is exactly the same as...
- Wordpress to Pelican in 24 hours (21 May 2019)
Today, I finished migration of my blog from a self-hosted Wordpress site to a statically hosted Github Pages site. For the static site generator, instead of choosing Jekyll which is a hot favorite of rubyists, I went for Pelican instead as I figured my Python skills might be somewhat useful...
- WordPress DIY: Adding syntax highlighting to your WordPress blog without using an external plugin (10 Jul 2018)
Just as my other articles in WordPress DIY series, this one also focuses on doing everything yourself by writing the code rather than using any external dependencies. There are two popular open source implementations of Syntax Highlighting JavaScript libraries: Google’s Prettify and Alex Gorbatchev’s Syntax Highlighter, and in this article,...
- WordPress DIY: Adding twitter cards meta to your blog without using an external plugin (08 Jul 2018)
Just like my last article, we won’t be focusing on using a third party plugin, but write our own plugin. I’m a minimalist and don’t prefer to use layer-2 solutions for really trivial things that can easily be achieved by writing code. Now, though trivial to implement, the twitter cards...
- Wordpress DIY: Adding Google Analytics Script to your Blog Without using an External Plugin (07 Jul 2018)
Adding a custom script element to your Wordpress blog is really straightforward if you know what you are doing and there isn’t any need to install a third-party plugin for this. Now, for something like spam protection (Akismet) or adding contact forms (Contact Form Seven), its quite understandable, but if...
- How to import Disqus comments into Wordpress (07 Sep 2017)
Update Also check out this recent post which has further fixes and refactoring done to the console.php script Some time ago, I had switched from a self-hosted wordpress blog to a statically generated (Jekyll) blog hosted on Github Pages. For a commenting system, Disqus was quite an easy choice at that...
- How to know whether my blog post will attract traffic or not (10 Jun 2015)
One of the evergreen topics for discussions in the blogging world is SEO, and especially the various ways of attracting bless of the all-pervading search engines to one’s own site or blog. There are various ways to approach this problem, some of the popular ones are: Using meta tags like...
- Farewell Wordpress, Hello Jekyll! (04 Feb 2015)
Here I am, signing off from a self-hosted, over-bloated Wordpress site and finding a welcome change in Jekyll, a blog-aware static site generator. There is nothing new about this, several well-known bloggers have already migrated to Jekyll in the last few years including Rasmus Andersson, Nick Quaranto and Roger Chapman....
- The 7 "Bread and Butter" Plugins for your Wordpress blog (27 Nov 2013)
Based on my experiments while setting up this blog, below are the 7 “bread and butter” plugins for your wordpress blog. These plugins came very handy for me and allowed me to seamlessly integrate much needed functionality in my blog without writing a single line of php code. {.alignnone .wp-image-186...
- Some Wordpress tips and tricks (23 Nov 2013)
Wordpress is a universally recognized and robust blogging platform written in the PHP language. Below are a bunch of Wordpress tricks that I’ve learned during my deployments, and I’d like to share with you. 1. Change breadcrumbs to start from “Home” instead of Site-Title: When I set up this site,...
- Wordpress installation quick-start guide (17 Nov 2013)
Wordpress is a blogging platform that is very easy to use, but involves many configuration trivia which may become overwhelming, unless organized and documented somewhere. Based on my experience of setting up this website, here are the things that I had to keep in mind to get it up and...