WordPress released a new version 2.2.3 with security fixes and has advised that you should upgrade immediately. I did it in under a minute with one of my own creation WordPress Automatic Upgrade. It’s cool earlier I use to take more than 25 minutes to do the same thing, have fun and upgrade immediately. Technorati [...]

After lots of work in fact more than 3500 lines of code later I am finally glad to announce the beta release of Manage Multiple Blogs. This plugin allows you to manage your external blogs from a single central blog. Yes now you don’t need to logon to multiple blogs if you want to write [...]

I have recently received a few complaints about users receiving fatal errors while activating plugins. Though this can basically be caused by two things one of them being a faulty plugin itself in which case you will get some error description along with line number etc in the plugin file. The other reason could be [...]

Today was bug fixing day and along with fixing the latest bugs for WordPress Automatic Upgrade, I also thought that I should fix the bugs that were pending for Better Comments Manager. The fixes include Edit URL not working when there was some html tags within the comments and the plugin was not working in [...]

I am releasing a new version of WordPress Automatic Upgrade version 0.6 which has security fixes that have been added to the plugin. In addition to those have added more security features that will make the automatic upgrade more safer to use. Anyone who is the plugin is strongly advised to upgrade the plugin to [...]

It is my pleasure to bring to you the news that WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin won the third prize at the weblog tools collection plugin competition. It not only makes me proud but also more determined to create useful plugins for the community. The plugin competition was a 2 month long affair which saw a [...]

Ok so after some more WordPress hard work I am finally announcing a private beta of my latest WordPress plugin called Manage Multiple Blogs. Manage Multiple Blogs is just what is says it allows you to manage multiple blogs from within the admin panel. So If you are a blogger who has more than one [...]

Phew couple of more major bugs and other minor bugs have been fixed for the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin and this release version 0.5 is pretty much stable and should work on 95% of the blogs.Previously it wasn’t working for 30% of users due to a server issue. Thanks to Robert Morse for first of [...]

I have been dabbling more into WordPress code than ever before and am trying to create plugins that are helpful to the community. Lest Ideas behold from coming to me on what more functionality needs to be added to WordPress. I am working on a couple of new Plugins that I will release in coming days, [...]

Lots and lots of bugs and sleepless nights and no paid work later. Here is the next version of WPAU. I have fixed almost all of the bugs you have reported which I heartily thank each and every one of you for. Here is the NextG version of the plugin which works on most of [...]

I finally managed to put aside some time and give a much needed update to Better Comments Manager. I am releasing the version 1.3 of Better Comments Manager today.

It feels great to know that the plugin has been downloaded times in over a month. I am also happy to announce that this plugin is now official a part of the wordpress extend where you can download all the plugins recommended by Wordpress.

Top Commentators plugin highlights the commentators who comment frequently on your blog. It has been a great plugin to reward regular commentators since wordpress started adding nofollow to commentators website url in regular comments to thwart spammers. Adding nofollow to links tells search engines that they should not be follow it as a part of a link from the current site. Techie Buzz does follow all your comments with a DoFollow plugin.

Coming back even though top commentators plugin allows you to reward regular commentators there are many a sites that I have come across that have the owner of the site featuring in the top commentators section.

I am a command line junkie as it helps me stay productive and move around faster than using a mouse. I try and use the keyboard quite often and familiarize myself with shortcuts that help me save time doing things. Since I began using Linux around 6 years ago I have always tried and made use of its rich set up commands.

This post is about how you can use Linux commands to easily install and update plugins without making use of a visual uploading software like Filezilla or WinSCP.

Weblog Tools Collection is conducting its second plugin contest for wordpress plugins. I have created a plugin earlier called Better Comments Manager which allows you to reply to comments without having to visit the post and also allows you to sort all comments by post.

Many of you may already know by now that Wordpress 2.2 codename “Getz” has been released and many of you may also have upgraded already. Wordpress 2.2 adds a new feature called Wordpress Widgets that allows you to add widgets to your sidebar.

Gary King has written a great article at Blog Herald to enable sidebar widgets for your theme. So if you have still not widgetized your theme, I recommend you read the post.