Author Spotlight is a new Wordpress widget recently created by me and added to the Wordpress plugin repository. The Widget displays the profile of the author width the author website link and author profile photo on the Post (Single) page. It automatically detects the current author of the displayed Post, just drag and drop the widget on your Single page sidebar and you are done.

The 2008 edition of Indibloggies, the Indian Weblog Awards, has been started with the nomination phase. Sadly, the Indibloggies 2007 edition was skipped last year due to some failed happenings and pressures at work. This year Indibloggies again has good support from the Sponsors with Hachette India and WordPress pitching in. A big thanks to [...]

There is lot of buzz around WordPress 2.5 and apparently Six Apart is worried, having  tread the “open source” path last December only, even encouraging people to upgrade to Movable Type instead. Here is a little tussle Anil and Matt had on Twitter today

I was bit late to realize this, but after the recent WP upgrade to 2.1 there has been few hiccups with the UTW plugin (specifically release 3.141592 , that I use). The UTW tags would just vanish whenever a new comment was being posted or when you try to edit the post. Fortunately, there is [...]

Every product has a life cycle. When WordPress gained popularity it looked as if Blogger.com would be confined to history. Many who were stuck with Blogger solely because they weren’t interesting spending bucks on maintaining an online identity, with the hosted solution WordPress snatched a major share of users from Blogger.com’s pie. But to the [...]

Feedburner is splendid, despite the intermittent session timeouts on its website. Yet I was bit apprehensive about it, the fear of handing over “the control” to them. However, after moving this blog from JRoller to my own hosting I regretted this hesitation. This change shouldn’t have made any difference to this blog’s feed subscribers. When [...]

WordPress Sidebar Widgets have been the latest buzz in the blogdom. Indeed these Widgets elevate WordPress’ standing among the blogwares and encourage community to contribute to the project. With Sidebar widgets, things have become as easy as drag and drop, though you would need “widget compliant” themes. I still wish WordPress had done something with [...]

Ok I admit that I never made a formal announcement about it, but this blog has now moved to its new home at http://nullpointer.debashish.com. If you are reading this, you are at the right URL. This blog used to be happily hosted at the excellent free service provided by the JRoller people. Roller is one [...]