1. There is nothing happened in my life to blog about..( which is impossible.)
2. There happened lots of things and got busy with the things that came up.
3. No internet connection.
4. good bye to blog

For me, Its the second reason that make this blog silent over the last month. Not only that there is slight touch of third reason i.e.I had limited access to internet.

It is good in one way, as always quality work is associated with the efficient usage of limited internet rather than slogging all time in internet.

Over the last month, though I have been to Chennai and Bangalore over the last two week, I could not meet lots of my friends. As I used to say, In Life, “It happens”.

And also, There were lots of events, trips and learnings i have come across that definitely needs blogging. Hope I would blog something better in the next blog other than mere update. Let’s see…

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In this release, WordPress has included Tags Support. i.e, Now the user can add tags to the blogs.

For me, Categories and tags for a blog more or less the same. The difference is that tag cloud(look at the first box in right most column). The characters in the Tag cloud appears bigger as per the no. of posts have that tag. while, categories (look at the one below tag cloud), its just a list.

When I was browsing, I find tag cloud was not much helpful. May be in future, I might be able to appreciate its purpose.

As days goes by, wordpress comes up with more and more functionality and now with a threat to privacy. Slashdot has reported that wordpress spying on users. So , there is not much difference between blogger & wordpress but still, in wordpress, the owner can remove the unwanted code.

After the immediate opposition from the users, WordPress has released a plugin that disables the functionality,

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-wordpress-core-update/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-wordpress-plugin-updates/

/* From.. http://groups.google.com/group/wp-hackers */

But I find the best way, is to remove the code than installing another plugin.
Following are the lines that needs to be removed from the code for this fix.

in wp-includes/update.php , remove line 52..

add_action( ‘init’, ‘wp_version_check’ );

in wp-admin/include/update.php , remove line 106..

add_action( ‘load-plugins.php’, ‘wp_update_plugins’ );

The another common issue is that every time, an admin user log into wordpress. The package was designed to make a call to WordPress development blog and Planet News feeds. To remove this annoying blog feeds,

In wp-admin folder, open index.php..
Remove the following lines
In line 3 to 15

function index_js() {

?>

<script type=”text/javascript”>

jQuery(function() {

jQuery(‘#incominglinks’).load(‘index-extra.php?jax=incominglinks’);

jQuery(‘#devnews’).load(‘index-extra.php?jax=devnews’);

jQuery(‘#planetnews’).load(‘index-extra.php?jax=planetnews’);

});

</script>

<?php

}

add_action( ‘admin_head’, ‘index_js’ );

Line 133 to 137

<div id=”devnews”></div>

<div id=”planetnews”></div>

That’s it with WordPress 2.3..

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