Although I knew about the Thesis theme for WordPress for a while, I never really got down to the bottom of it. I was working on Go! Zines yesterday and Thesis wordpress theme was employed, as I felt it is the best fit under the circumstances. I trialled a few article directory websites but none satiated me (nothing can satisfy me easily!).

Instead of getting frustrated and all worked up, I decided to employ my favorite engine and push it to its limits. I shortlisted on a few themes and picked Thesis and the best-fit.

Yes, I ran into some problems early on, finding it difficult to place ads where I wanted to. After some arduous research followed by my brain usage, I figured it out and was inspired to share it with others. The output is a little article bragging about my achievement tutoring how to add a header ad in a Thesis theme. Here the article : How To Add a Header Ad in Thesis Theme. I managed to do away with the footer as well, I will share that as another post when I find time. For now, adios!

For starters, we have over a million blogs and users find a new blog for the unique information they may need. So, the question of loyalty withers, and so does the connection between the blogger and the reader. Even some of the top blogs, including social engines such as Digg is losing commentators fairly regularly. I am an avid reader of Digg and there used to be a time, say 4 years back when comments used to run into several hundreds, and today, the case has completely turned around.

Secondly, spamming has taken the sheen out of blog commenting. A lot of spammers, in order to get backlinks back to their site, comment on blog posts, placing links of their staked websites. This spam has brought in control measures, which avoids spammers, and at the same time some of genuine bloggers, who would like to share their websites through your website.

Google and other search engines recognize the tag no-follow, which basically tells the search engine spiders that these links need not be followed. Wordpress, the world’s most popular blogging engine has enabled no-follow tags for all its comments. So, for spammers, blogs that run on Wordpress don’t benefit much. And, as I said earlier, some genuine commentators who would like to have a reciprocate with a comment to a link onto their website are turned away as well.

To encourage blogging, if you are using Wordpress especially, download the do follow plugin and set it up on your installation. At the very least, we can show a candy to those who comment on blogs for their own gain, but, in return, we can get something meaningful out of it. What say?

A portion of this article was originally published on Tech Pedia on the 18th of December.

I used my new found link to come up with a simplified solution rather than the lengthy ones that I encountered. It worked with similar results.

I am excited to be honest. I am no programmer and definitely not a hacker.

Read the simple procedure required to fix WP upgrade issues on Tech Pedia.

I entered MySQL backend and changed the password using MD5 hash string. This inspired me to write a small post on retrieving passwords on Wordpress through MySQL. Let me know if you have similar situations. I can help you and at the same time, you can inspire me to write more Howto posts.