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13Jan/100

Blog/Comment Spamming – Our Own Fault?

Spam and unwanted advertising is an issue we all have to deal with. But perhaps the amount of spam that is sent out, is a result of our internet usage habits?

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1Aug/090

CognitiveCombine now mobile friendly!

Just a quick heads up, CognitiveCombine is now mobile friendly and should display quite nicely when viewed from a smartphone or any other mobile device

If you are using WordPress, making your blog mobile-device-friendly is very easy. All you have to do is install a plugin called MobilePress. This will generate a slim version of your blog optimised for smartphones and mobile devices. You can also create your own themes if you wish to. Check it out.

[ MobilePress via MakeTechEasier ]

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22Feb/090

CognitiveCombine Theme Update

The theme update that you may have noticed is not quite finished. In fact the design still has some layout issues, such as the sidebar jumping below the main entry, when you view a single blog post.

In the coming days I will clean up the code and fix errors.

I would however be interested in what others think of the layout changes. So here is a poll.

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p.s. these sidebar updates are not what I meant when I said several weeks ago that I was working on a major new theme for CognitiveCombine, that is still in the works

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19Feb/090

WordPress Tips and Tricks

Make Tech Easier has a nice piece on several tips and tricks for speeding up a WordPress blog and streamlining it.

Being a database-driven software, the performance of your WordPress blog is closely related to how efficient your database is. The bigger and messier your database is, the slower is the performance of your blog.

If you have not been doing regular housekeeping and database maintenance, either because you don’t know how to do or you are just plain lazy, here are 8 useful tricks that you can use to clean up your WordPress database easily and quickly.

Some of the tips are especially useful if you have few contributers, while other really only matter if your blog is massive.

Overall however there is some sound advice there.

Check it out.