The best thing about Wordpress is that it offers a huge list of extensible plugins for customization .

Now i have always found the Admin Interface of Wordpress to be quite dull and boring but there are lot of plugins available to fix that also . One plugin which i have started using is that WP Tiger Administration plugin from Steve Smith . Though there were a lot of issues in the older versions of the plugin but they are all fixed now in the new V3 .

Just check out these cool screenshots .

Compatibility

The plugin is compatible with Safari and Firefox and not with IE as it does not comply with CSS2 specification .

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The problem of Spam is nowdays almost faced by all the bloggers . Some receive around 1000 spam comments everyday . Luckily we have many ways to tackle the situation . Some may be user friendly or some may not . I have been using Akismet since i stated blogging and to be honest it is doing a good job for me . I receive around 30-50 spam comments daily and it manages to keep them out . But still , sometimes one or two spam makes there way in . That is mostly because of the way that spam is written . Honestly i have seen many changes in the spam style. Read the rest of this entry »

This is neat trick which i found recently in Wordpress. It is not a new one , many of you would probably be using it . It lets us set the date and time when we want to publish our post .

1) Type your post as usual

2) Before publishing the post , just set the date and time at which you want your post to be published and select POST TIMESTAMP from the sidebar .

3) Click on Publish

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For Indian bloggers , now you can can let the readers leave the comment in there own languages such as Hindi , Gujrati , bengali , Telgu , Tamil , Punjabi etc using a plugin from Monusoft . This plugin will convert the comment box in to sort of a magic box where the user can type directly in his favoured languages .

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