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Compose WordPress Posts in Hindi and other Indian languages in WordPress Panel: Indic IME

Madhav Tripathi — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:52:04 +0000

WordPress is available in Hindi and in other Indian languages here, but if you want just type in Hindi using Unicode characters in WordPress post composing panel. You can install Indic IME. After installing this plugin you can write in WordPress in your own Indian language as Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam etc.

This Plugin is developed by Vishalon.

This plugin is as easy to use as Google_transliteration.

After installing this plugin it will add in WordPress editing toolbar where you can select your language from drop down menu.

To work this plugin for you it requires a function in footer to call this plugin is wp_footer().

There are chances after typing your word you will questions marks instead word your typed this is because your installation of repress does not have Unicode (UTF-8) support.

Using IndicIME plugin, you can very easily write in 9 Indian scripts: Bengali(Assamese, Bengali, Manipuri), Devanagari(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit), Gujarati, Gurmukhi(Punjabi), Kannada, Malaylam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu. It does not require any software download for writing in Indian script. Using this plugin, visitor can directly type in Indic script in search box or comment. Blog owner now can directly type title, tag, excerpts (in short everywhere) in his/her langauge of choice. If you need help in typing, a quick reference image is shown when clicked question mark icon.

Typing is extremely easy. Typing follows “The way you speak, the way you type” rule. It is called transliteration. For example, choose “Devanagari” from the script list and try to if you type “bhaarat”. You will see that depending on the key you pressed, it will automatically be converted into devanagari script. Half letters and special letters are also very easy to write. Try to type “prashna”, “karma” or “padma” and you will see how easy it is to type in your favourite language. For reference of English and Indian script character mapping, please refer to the help by clicking on help (/question mark) icon.

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Do you know Self hosted WordPress is available in Hindi and other India languages

Madhav Tripathi — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:25:33 +0000

We know wordpress.com is available in many languages including many of languages of India. But I was really unaware of wordpress.org that is self hosted. It is also available in some of the Indian languages.

If you want to get self hosted WordPress in your language it is possible it may be already ready for you to download and get started. You also can help WordPress to make available WordPress in your language or you can improve the translation here is information.

You can download and install self hosted WordPress is Hindi, Bengali, Tamil. however I could not find the link for Hindi, I am sure it is available somewhere on the web.

You can get WordPress in Tamil here. You also can get WordPress in Bengali here.

Update:

In Hindi it is on http://www.wordpressindia.com/

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WordPress 3.3 (Sonny) is the best WordPress Version Ever

Madhav Tripathi — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:47:19 +0000

The new and latest WordPress version 3.3 codenamed “sonny” is available to download and update. And it is the best WordPress version ever as they say it latest and greatest.

Experienced users will appreciate the new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, the new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and the new Tumblr importer. We’ve also been thinking a ton about what the WordPress experience is like for people completely new to the software. Version 3.3 has significant improvements there with pointer tips for new features included in each update, a friendly welcome message for first-time users, and revamped help tabs throughout the user interface. Finally we’ve improved the dashboard experience on the iPad and other tablets with better touch support.

Now WP supports drag and drop media files. So you can directly drag and drop your picture in your posts in WP editor. Now you do need to choose different button to upload picture, video or audio. There is one single button that you need to upload any media file. After uploading your file you will see appropriate settings for your media. Now it supports .RAR and 7Zip file extensions so you can directly upload archive files.

Fly out menus makes your whole experience completely difference. SO just hover your mouse over a menu and you will see links in popup menu. Now you do not need to collapse or expand menus to work for you.

So now you get more space, more peace, better work.

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How to Learn WordPress.com

Madhav Tripathi — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:34:13 +0000

WordPress is a stat of art CMS. There are two type of WordPress one is wordpress.org that provides self hosted WordPress solution and the other is wordpress.com where you can start blogging without self hosting or buying and web hosting.

If you are not looking for professional blogging options you should go with wordpress.com.

So wordpress.com is easy to go but if you want to learn it by other’s experience here is a good guide for you.

learn.wordpress.com is a good place where you can learn all the basics of wordpress.com, it is an online book divided in 11 different chapters.

Using this guide you can learn wordpress.com from scratch. Here is the index of all the chapters of learn wordpress.com book with direct link.

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Sticky Posts in WordPress Can create problem sometimes

Madhav Tripathi — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:45:32 +0000

I wrote a post about IlistIndia and make it sticky post. The decision was good but that same I noticed another problem on my blog’s homepage, I was unaware why the problem happened. I have set 10 posts on homepage of techshali but it was showing 11 posts, one extra post was at bottom looking like a patch. I was thinking to ask about it in Thesis forums or search on Google about the problem. After one week today I made that ilistindia post no sticky and the problem was solved then I knew what was casing for 11th post on homepage.

Problem with ICICI Bank or Something Else?

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Tip: How to Get Better Preview in Windows Live Writer

Madhav Tripathi — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:07:16 +0000

Windows_Live_Writer is my favorite blog editor and I compose my all the posts using Windows Live Writer. If you also use WLW for blog posting and if you like Theme interface (Why WLW?) you may want to see post preview. Post preview is same as it can be in a live site f you have updated blog theme in WLW. But sometimes results can not be fine.

Suppose you want to show 10 posts on WordPress hosted blog’s home page with excerpt. It is very good decision but it may not be good in WLW if you preview the post. But here is a fix. Any setting you have made on your WP blog that is but to get exact preview of your post in WLW you can sue following steps.

In WordPress control panel in settings section click on Reading set 1 for Blog Pages show at most and save the option. Now go to WLW blog account section on top navi there click on update Theme, it will ask to download theme and generate a temporary post, allow it. When your theme is updated in WLW you will see same interface of your live blog in preview section.

If you are using These theme this problem can be for sure, for this you have to go to Design option of Thesis section ion control panel. In design options look for display options expand that and click display full excerpt, and navigate to home page display option click on Features & teasers select 1 and save. And go to update theme in WLW. Before taking this option you have to follow above paragraph.

When theme is updated you can get back to your previous setting making changing them again.

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WordPress 3.1 Has Built-in Picture Gallery

Madhav Tripathi — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:10:56 +0000

If you have noticed WordPress 3.1 has built-in gallery that you can insert in posts or pages. It is not an option for Nextgen gallery but if you are looking for some simple gallery solution you can use this. As it is built-in so it will not take extra space.

When you insert an image using post editing panel you can select multiple images to upload. We normally use windows live writer to compose blog posts so this feature goes unnoticed.

When picture uploading is complete, do not forget to click on “save all changes’ in bottom side. After clicking on save all changes you will see gallery settings and a link for insert gallery.

You can make some settings as insert full image files or just picture thumbnails and gallery columns. I have created a picture gallery using inbuilt features of WordPress in this post.

The beautiful actress you see in this gallery is Asin Thottumkal. She is a south beauty. She is well-known for her role in Ghajini with Amir Khan.

The gallery has only 17 pictures but two more pictures you see in this gallery are weakness of this feature.

Disclaimer: These pictures are taken from internet on various sources, I have no copyrights.

WordPress 3.1 Has Built-in Picture Gallery Originally posted on : TechShali

Akismet Alternative Anti Spam WordPress Plugins

Madhav Tripathi — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:45:04 +0000

Akismet is most popular anti spam plugin, it works in comment section. It has a unique formula to detect spam comments. But if you have the problem with Akismet you can look for other options as well. They may not be full alternative but they work fine. To use Akismet was easy just install it and get an API from WP.com. There was website also for Akismet but most if users getting API for this plugin from wp.com. But now wp.com has removed this option so you have to go to Akismet.com to get this plugin. So now it is professional not free. It is free for personal blog or site, but if you want you can pay for personal site, actually they ask how much it worth for you.

There was a time when you had to pay only $5 for Akismet API key if you earn more than $500 from your blog. But now if you get more than 25K page views month you will counted as an enterprise blogger. It will cost you $50 month for 5 sites.

So if you do not have this plugin yet, you will not get it for free any more if you are willing to make money with your blog.

Or if you do not have Akismet and want to get rid of spam you can use some of these plugins.

(1) Facebook comment for wordpress
This plugin will kill spam because there is no way to leave comment anonymously or by spam bots. To leave a comment one has to use his Facebook profile id. So only human will be able to leave comments and you can blacklist any user.

Another plugin for FB Comments.

Get this plugin system on Facebook here.

(2) Defensio Anti Spam
This is also not free but personal edition is enough for bloggers like you and me. It is free if you have maximum 5 employees and you post up 25,000 posts per month. It is a basic anti spam plugin, it also can detect malicious content.

(3) Block Top Spammers
It is a complementary plugin for Akismet or defensio plugins. It is unable to detect spam but it can block IP address. It needs a plugin to detect spam comments. Once you are sure about spamming IP address you can block that IP.

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Instant Backup Plugin for WordPress

Madhav Tripathi — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:39:36 +0000

WordPress backup is a hassle full work, it is easy too but if you are lazy it is not easy. I use WP-DB Manager plugin for backup and use FTP for files backup. I keep a backup of plugins, themes, .htaccess and config.php and picture folders.

WP-InstantBackup is a new plugin but it looks promising because of its killer features and easy to use options. It is available to download on wordpress.org.

You can use FTP backup or email or both.
You can backup database or file system backup or full back backup.
It also has a backup selection list so you can specify which files and folders to backup.
You also can take a backup of Admin interface.
You can perform backup by visiting a public URL using a hash key.
You can create password protected zip files, so if ever it will lost you would lost your data.
You can give custom names to backup files.

How to take backup?
After installing and activation you will see links or buttons on top right corner of admin panel. Frist link is DB means database backup, second link is FS means file system backup and third link id Full means full backup.
Which backup you need just click on that button it will ask you ok or cancel. Once you have selected yes it will start taking backup.

To perform any backup you must need to setup this plugin means you have enable email backup of FTP backup first. If you use FTP backup method you need to give host, username and password that you provide to login to FTP.

If you select email backup you need to provide email address of your hosting account in from field and you can use any email address (preferable) in to field.

WP-InstantBackup is a good plugin but it does not have a schedule backup feature.

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The Most Valued WordPress Tips

Madhav Tripathi — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:36:25 +0000

What could be the most valued tip for a WordPress user? For me or in my opinion blog security is the most valued tip ever. Any blog can be hacked any time. No matter how high security one has. But if you are well prepared you can deal with this.

From long time I had only one tension it was security of my blog. It is not about hacking because security is not only against hackers. If you remember TechCrunch was hacked and BoingBoing was also hacked. So what they do not have security?

If your server got crashed you will lost your blog without being hacked. The web hosting provider never gives you surety of site backup. They always recommend you to have your own backup.

But most of the bloggers do not have sufficient knowledge of backup. But it is easy you need to have some basic knowledge.

As a WordPress user you can lose your WordPress files or databases in three situations:

(1) Editing database files but does not have any backup
(2) Your server crashed and webhsot does not has a backup
(3) Your site got hacked and data has been deleted and you do not have a backup

So database back is most important for any WordPress user. You may take a daily database backup. You can use a plugin for it. I am using DB-Backup, it is great plugin but it for advance users so be careful while using this plugin. You can schedule daily back and you can download your backup for daily email. So your DB backup will be emailed to your preferred email address on daily basis.

Your database contains your all the posts, all the comments and all the connections between images, comments, posts tags and categories. It also includes the entire configuration.

After database there some other important files a folder that are image folder, config.php and .htaccess file. I use FileZilla to download and backup these files.

If you have any confusion in your mind or have any question you can always contact me.

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