WordPress 3.0 blog upgrade error solution (DB Cache Reloaded plugin)

Have you recently upgraded your blog to WordPress 3.0 and got an error and did not find solution. Most of this errors are caused by DB Cache Reloaded plugin if you have installed it.

The error will be something like this -

[03-Jun-2010 12:46:19] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method wpdb::get_blog_prefix() in /home/www/XXX/domain.com/webroot/wp-admin/includes/user.php on line 260

[03-Jun-2010 12:46:19] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method wpdb::get_blog_prefix() in /home/www/XXX/domain.com/webroot/wp-admin/includes/user.php on line 445

If you are using DB Cache Reloaded plugin and is in active mode then it will be using a custom WPDB file which will replace the original one. So deactivate the DB Cache Reloaded plugin and your problems will be solved. An updated version of DB Cache Reloaded plugin is awaited from the author so that this bug is solved.

Methods to Protect (Secure) WordPress Blog From Hackers

Methods to Protect (Secure) WordPress Blog From Hackers. There are many ways and methods which will help to protect and secure your wordpress blogs from the hackers, make sure you use all these methods to save your blog.

Here are some of the ways and methods to keep hackers away from your wordpress blog -
Always upgrade your WordPress blog up to date. But the versions of wordpress will come in no time, upgrading from time to time is not possible for all bloggers, but atleast upgrade your blog once in 6 months.
Make use of LockDown wordpress plugin, which will lock out users if they enter password wrong, the number of times you have set in plugin settings (most of them will set as 3)
Changed your blog passwords frequently and don’t set common passwords, make use of numbers, special characters, upper and lower case combination.
Always remove or delete unused themes and plugins as they will make your number of files more.
Always Back up the blog and database, so that if your blog has been hacked you may ask help from your web hosting company. They will remove the hacker and you can restore your blog.
Hide your blog’s wordpress version number. To do this just remove the following line from your theme’s header.php – php bloginfo('version'); ?>" />
Before installing new plugins check if the plugins are good and working properly, because weak plugins may have unwanted codes which may damage your site or its page ranking.
By default username will be ‘admin’ during wordpress installation, change your username.
Always login to your blog via SSL if your host has an SSL certificate.
These are some of the simple methods and ways to protect and secure your wordpress blog from hackers and others. If you have more tips please share with us via
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How to Limit Login Attempts to Your WordPress Blog

How to Limit Login Attempts to Your WordPress Blog. Many wordpress blogs are been hacked every day, so protect your blog with Limit Login Attempts wordpress plugin.

Limit Login Attempts plugin will protect your blog from hackers when they attempt to login with a guessed username and password. WordPress by default allows unlimited number of times to login, if you enter wrong username or password, so this might not secure your blog as anyone can try unlimited times to login into your blog. So download Limit Login Attempts plugin and activate it. You can also set your own number of times to limit your blog login attempts, ideal will be 3. So once anyone tries to login and fails 3 times his IP address will be blocked for number of days or hours you specify and a message will be emailed to you.

Which is Best Blogging platform for SEO – WordPress or Blogger?

Which is Best Blogging platform for SEO – WordPress or Blogger? Many people want to know which will provide good SEO for blogging, Blogspot (blogger) or wordpress.

WordPress in the best blogging platform for starters in terms of SEO, because:
Wordpres has many SEO option settings like you can set your own Permalink format for posts, metadata, post previews, categories and more.
WordPress has many SEO plugins like All in one SEO, Platinum SEO, SEO Ultimate, etc.. by which you can set your own title, description and add keywords for better rankings.
In wordpress trackbacks and pingbacks can be set easily, which will help to increase PageRank.
Blogger has limit for Permalink length (mostly 38 letters), but WordPress uses the whole post title for Permalink, no matter how long it is.
WordPress has two options to make group for posts – Categories and Tags, which makes navigation easier and search engines like structured navigation. But Blogger makes use of only one group for posts – Labels.

Advantages of WordPress over other CMS (Paid and Free)

Advantages of WordPress over other CMS (Paid and Free). WordPress is the most widely used CMS platform for blogging and now after release of WordPress 3.0, you can also get a fully functional website. Before WordPress 3.0 it was unfit for making websites.

Here are some of the Advantages of WordPress over other CMS:
WordPress is Free of Cost which is one of the reason to attract people want start new business with cost cutting strategies.
WordPress has got easy to use Interface where you do not require knowledge of HTML or any other kind of coding.
WordPress can be customized as you want it, because wordpress provides you a huge scope for customization. You can customize settings according to your business needs as following.
In WordPress your privacy Settings allows you to choose the extent to which you want to share information and your blog will be safe from hackers.
Adding Media to WordPress is as easy as 123, you can add media files like image, audio, video etc.. in our post very easily.
WordPress is a Search Engine Friendly CMS with its wide range of SEO tools such as Plugins, Customized Titles, Permalinks, Category and Tags handling and even more..
WordPress is more interactive and cool which has wide range of themes developed by many developers and visitors can easily involve in discussion with post comments, feedback, even they can be author if admin chooses so.

Good Update Services Ping Big (Huge) List for WordPress Blogs

Good Update Services Ping Big (Huge) List for WordPress Blogs. You might have noted Update Services column in wordpress writing setting, this column must be filled with all the URL’s which you want to ping to get fresh and more visitors to your blog.

Here is a list of ping services, copy all the BELOW URL’s and paste in Update Services column and save.

http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://www.a2b.cc

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://api.my.yahoo.com

http://api.my.yahoo.com/ping

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://bblog.comping.php

http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

http://blogbot.dk

http://blogdb.jp

http://www.blogdigger.com

http://blogmatcher.com

http://www.blogpeople.net

http://www.blogroots.com

http://www.blogshares.com

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com

http://blog.goo.ne.jp

http://bulkfeeds.net

http://coreblog.org/ping/

http://www.lasermemory.com

http://mod-pubsub.org

http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php

http://www.newsisfree.com

http://ping.blo.gs

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogs.se/

http://www.popdex.com

http://rcs.datashed.net

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://www.snipsnap.org

http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php

http://topicexchange.com

http://www.weblogues.com

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

http://xmlrpc.blogg.de

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://bitacoras.net/ping

http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php

http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1

http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt

http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php

http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2

http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/

http://1470.net/api/ping

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://www.blogoole.com/ping/

http://www.blogoon.net/ping/

http://ping.amagle.com/

http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/

http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc

http://ping.myblog.jp

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/

http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php

http://ping.blo.gs/

When ever you post in your blog, the above services are pinged and you might get more fresh visitors to your wordpress blog or WEBSITE

WordPress Stats Plugin Not Showing (Not Working) Stats in Dashboard

WordPress Stats Plugin Not Showing (Not Working) Stats in Dashboard. Have you installed WordPress.com Stats Plugin and have not seen a single visiton on the stats.

Many bloggers use WordPress Stats Plugin which is the easy method to track your blog. This plugin will show you daily stats with search engine key words, referring sites, popular posts, etc.. But some of the blogger who have installed this plugin don’t see any stats, here may be the reason and solution.

• Make sure this code is in your footer.php –
• If not then add that piece of code before in footer.php file

Some of the wordpress themes don’t have the above code, the theme developers may have forget to put this code in the footer. If the above code is missing then the stats will not be show. Add the above code to work the stats plugin properly.

How to Install WordPress (Fantastico) in iPage Hosting vDeck (not cPanel)

How to Install WordPress fantastico in iPage web hosting account panel. iPage hosting uses vDeck not cPanel, so there is different method and steps.

Steps to install WordPress on iPage:

Login to your iPage hosting account.
You will be logged to vDeck control panel of iPage.
Now go to Scripting and Add-Ons.
Under this heading click on InstallCentral.
There will be a welcome note, now go to Blogs >> WordPress >> Begin installation.
Now enter blog title, create admin username and password similar to installation in cPanel.
Then click install now, that’s all.

How to Rotate (Display) Multiple Ad Banners on a WordPress Blog

How to rotate or display multiple and random Ad banners on a WordPress blog. You can show different advertisement banner for every pageview or visitor.

You might have seen on many blogs, whenever you visit that blog and view multiple posts the ad banner beside header or on sidebar changes every time you view new page or post on that blog. Top Ad networks like Buysellads are also using this technique for bloggers who want to display 2 or more advertisers banner on same spots. For your wordpress blog, there is a plugin named Ad rotator which helps your blog to rotate the multiple ad banners randomly. Here are the steps to install it -

• Download Ad Rotator WP plugin.
• Upload and activate it to your blog.
• You can use this as a widget and add multiple ad codes to it.
• Separate each ad banner HTML code with , that’s all.