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How to make sure that br tag is not ignored by wordpress?

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:55:36 +0000

You are here because the br tag is not working in your wordpress blog.
tag is used to put a line break in HTML. There is an issue with wordpress, many times the br tag is ignored and when you click on saved draft or publish the line break vanishes just like that. WordPress also ignores the

tag for paragraph. But, that’s okay it does not create any problems. But if br tag is ignored it surely does create problems. To overcome this you need a plugin Tiny MCE advanced. It provides various options for your text editor but the most important is the ability to retain the p and br tags. Download, install, activate the plugin as usual and check the box “Stop removing the

and
tags when saving and show them in the HTML editor.” Then, click on “Save”. That’s it, now the br tags will not be ignored by your wordpress blog.

Speed up your wordpress blog with W3 total cache

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:54:11 +0000

I have been using W3 total cache on few of my sites which were running out of RAM (in a VPS) and the results are satisfactory. The best part is that you can cache everything of your blog with the help of this plugin. These are the following caches which operate under W3 total cache:

Page Caching: Enable page caching to decrease the response time of your blog.
Minify: Reduce load time by decreasing the size and number of CSS and JS files. Automatically remove unnecessary data from CSS, JS, feed, page and post HTML.
Database Caching: Enable database caching to reduce post, page and feed creation time.
Content Delivery Network: Host static files with your CDN provider to reduce load time.

Pros of W3 total cache:

Improves the performance of the blog to about ten times.
Browser caching takes place after first page view.
Page load time is greatly reduced.
Good for sites which are receiving high traffic.
Saves bandwidth usage.

WordPress 3.0: WordPress merges with MU

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:42:08 +0000

WordPress has release a new version 3.0 which is very easy and unfriendly to use. After the up-gradation I found that that the dashboard and other admin pages are loading swiftly. The new version comes with the power of APIs which lets the theme developers to manage custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, and menu in a go. This new version also declares the merging of wordpress with MU which gives you an option to create multiple blogs in single installation. Here is a demo of the new worpress:

Serendipity- Yet another blogging platform

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:19:21 +0000

Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. While the default package is designed for the casual blogger, Serendipity offers a flexible, expandable and easy-to-use framework with the power for professional applications. The features are:

WYSIWYG and HTML editing
Built-in, powerful media database
Multiple authors, configurable permission/usergroup system
Threaded comments, nested categories, post to multiple categories
Multiple languages (internationalization)
Online plugin and template repository for easy plug-and-play installation
Cool plugins: category-based sub-blogs, podcasting, RSS planet/aggregator, static pages
Robust spam blocking
One-click upgrading from any version
Can be embedded into your existing web pages
Standards-compliant templating through Smarty, remote blogging via XML-RPC
BSD-style licensing
Multiple Database support (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MySQLi)
Shared installations can power multiple blogs from just one codebase
Native import from earlier blog applications (WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, etc.)