Blogging from my phone

It has been a long time that I write in this blog. Part of the reason is that I was quite lazy. Another reason is I rarely opened my computer at home to write something. I was using my phone to assess the internet most of the time at home. And you know about mobile…

New: Comment authors have their own page on Bamarlay

I have just added a new plugin by Vladimir, a long time wordpress vateren and plug in developer, the SEO Super Comment. From now on, the comment authors will have their own page on Bamarlay's Diary. If you click the name of the comment's author, you will be directed to that author's comments page. Here…

WordPress plugins I use – 1

While Blogger is for beginners, WordPress is for advanced bloggers. Most people started blogging at Blogger, and later when they host their own blog, most of them use wordpress installed on their host. One of the reasons for using wordpress is, there is a large collection of free and easy to use plugins to extend…

WP-Ban WordPress Plugin Problem

I have already written about recieving more than a hundred spams a day from two ip addresses in recent days. Most of my spams came from only these two ip addresses, and as I was really annoyed, I decided to ban these two ip addresses. I looked for a way to ban these ip addresses,…

SPAM! SPAM! SPAM!

Since I moved to wordpress on my own domain, I started getting spam comments. At first, it was just one or two a day. After a few days, I decided it is time I should started fighting those spam comments. So I installed anti spam measures from wordpress plugins. First, I set up Akismet anti…

Problems with WordPress Link Directory

I installed the WordPress Link Directory a few days ago. There are some bugs with this wordpress plugin to display link directory. The capcha is not working, displaying error messages all the time. So I disabled the capcha, which makes my directory vulnerable to spam attacks. After that comes the error when I approve the…

New link directory testing

I am now testing a new link directory to use with my other blog Today in Myanmar. The WordPress link directory I am testing now is working fine when I set it up although it has some bugs that I had to adjust so that the directory is working. You can now add your website…

Problems with WordPress 2.7

I recently upgraded to wordpress 2.7 a few days ago. Everything went fine and all the plug ins are working fine. However, I found a problem yesterday, which at first seemed quite a big one. When I tried to log on to wordpress, it says my wordpress database needs to be upgraded. There is not…

Upgrade to WordPress 2.7

Yesterday, I upgraded to wordpress 2.7. Visitors would not notice a thing but it really is cool for the admin. The new wordpress has a more user friendly layout, althoug a bit confusing at first. It is easier to publish a new post now, and the new collapsable menues are very convenient and more user…