NSpeaks | Blogging and Wordpress

Twitter now allows you to get DMs from your followers without following back

Navjot Singh October 5, 2013

Spotted this a few minutes back. This is a good move from Twitter. You don’t need to follow back anyone to receive DMs. This takes out the mandatory followback requirement […]

I stopped using tags on this blog for the reason they were too much and not really relevant or helpful. Am giving them a try again and see if I can manage them better now. They might remain or might go depending on how well I can work with them. Wish me luck.

Need an alternative to Akismet?

Navjot Singh September 27, 2013

Need an alternative to Akismet plugin for your WordPress blog?

WordPress 3.6 has been released. Also WordPress 3.7 and 3.8 will be released in the coming year itself with 3.8 sporting a new default theme – Twenty Fourteen which will be based on Further Theme. You can check its demo to see how it will look like when it comes eventually in December, 2013. ∞

WordPress.com has made a big change in how they make their free themes available to the self hosted blogs. Earlier some of the themes were made available on the WordPress.org theme directory or via the author’s sites. But now WP.com is hosting all the free themes at their own site. Not only this, the themes you will download from WordPress.com can be updated via dashboard. So head now to their free themes library to download and use any of those themes on your self hosted blogs. ∞

How to reference files properly in parent/child themes?

Navjot Singh June 13, 2013

Child theme is arguably the best thing that happened to WordPress themes. But still I see many people who create a child theme incorrectly use wordpress functions to refer to […]