I have been blogging in multiple languages for couple of years: in my mother tongue german and - because of international visitors - also in english. In the beginning I decided to go for the qTranslate plugin. Unfortunately, development stalled at some time and I had to find an alternative. Luckily there were some …

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Wordpress updates, themes and plugins can be installed very comfortable in the backend - unfortunately it is still required to specify FTP or FTPS connection information. Depending on your personal preferences or security policy FTP is often not an option - e.g. when you're maintaining a central directory for SSH users …

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Doing a recent Wordpress theme installation I stumbled upon a problem which could have taken much time to fix it. The theme I installed offers multiple sidebar configurations (left, right, none). There is no default settings which means that it is necessary to set the sidebar configuration for every particular blog …

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Recently I was confused when I spotted several spam comments on my blog. After logging into the Wordpress administration page I saw the reason for this issue: 1Akismet has detected a problem. A server or network problem is preventing Akismet from working correctly. Oops - where did that come from? It seems like my …

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If you're creating your own Wordpress theme and want to pimp photo galleries you will probably use a Lightbox plugin like Simple Lightbox, wp-jquery-lightbox or WP Lightbox 2. If you're not very familiar in creating Wordpress themes in addition (like me) you might forget the following lines and wonder why linked photos …

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