I would like to thank Keith for this awesome opportunity to meet some new folks and engage in a conversation at one of my favorite blogs! I write about Technology & cool finds in the Internet at ShanKri-la. I just recently helped a friend move from WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted blog. As I was [...]

First of all wanted to say that I have been sick most of last week and haven’t been able to put in much effort into the blog, but as I am getting better now I will be posting regularly. RSS Feeds are one of the best innovations where people can read content at their own [...]

WordPress 2.3.1 has been released today and Techie Buzz has been updated using the handy plugin WordPress Automatic Upgrade. There were some bugs I found while updating from WordPress 2.3 to 2.3.1 due to database table name changes which has been fixed. I have released a new version 0.8 which should fix this error. WPAU [...]

I get quite a few questions that are asked by readers to me with regards to WordPress and I try and help most of them all the time. It feels good to know and share so here is one question from one of my plugin users which I would like to share with all of [...]

I recently implemented a Google Custom search on this blog by following some good advice from Maki on how to set up Google custom search. The steps included creating a new page and adding the Google Custom search code to it, all went fine with the setup, but I came across a problem where I [...]

Today is a great day for blogger’s who have been using the WordPress platform, WordPress 2.3 has finally shown its face to the world and with that lots of exciting new features including tagging, automatic notifications for plugins and much more. Matt has proudly announce the release today so head there and check out the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I have not posting for the last two days. The reason is because I was making Techie Buzz go green. I am proud to release my first Wordpress theme for my site. This theme is currently not available for public downloads but I will make it available very shortly, there is still some work to be done before I can release the theme publicly.

Do let me know your thoughts about the new theme. Also let me know if you are seeing any problems in different browsers. I have tested it with Firefox2, Flock, IE6 and IE7 on Windows XP. Opera users please let me know if there are any problems with the theme.

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.

Wordpress development team has today announced the release of the latest version Wordpress 2.2.