Nicholas M Ong

Seriously, I'm sitting here and I'm begin to enter the mood of 'buzzing'. Not a good thing. After a field day at work that has almost ended, I reckon I need to take my mind off work for a bit and do something else. Posting here came naturally though I have to admit, it wasn't without some hesitation... Anyway, like I mentioned in my last couple of ...

Have you ever wondered who was registering at your blog? With user names like 'jdutefnkeleys17' and similar email addresses like 'jdutefnkeleys17@gmail.com', it makes me wonder if it a SPAM bot or a real human. In most cases, it's a bot. WordPress has many anti-SPAM built in features on it's own. Aksimet for one is a great plugin with regular updates to combat the evolving SPAM bots. This ...

What is SezWho? SezWho is a distributed context, rating and reputation system for social media sites like blogs, forums, wikis, video/picture sharing sites, discussion boards and anywhere else where people collaborate on the web. SezWho is focused on delivering benefits to all stakeholders in social media interactions: Readers can easily separate quality content from uninteresting content. Contributors get recognized and rewarded for their efforts by building portable credibility. Site-Owners benefit by ...

Have you ever had that feeling when you found something that everyone else missed out on and you tell yourself "they are going to love me for this..." Now of course, if you are the creator/designer/inventor of whatever you found, you can brag all about it. Unfortunately, I'm not the creator here but I can bet you some luvin' that good old Simon didn't get to this ...

I was over at Simon's and reading his post on 'How to speedup your WordPress blog loading time' and it reminded me of something. I had to turn on caching on my own blog. WordPress caching is useful for dramatically reducing load times of your WordPress blogs. What caching really does is that it creates and stores a 'ghost' image of your blog on your visitors' browsers. ...

I'm sure many of you like myself love WordPress for a thousand and one reason. For me, the ability to customize how my blog looks easily through the different themes available is a critical criteria. Most importantly, the availability of various plugins to help me tweak my blog with minimal coding is a sure winner. I thought it would be pretty cool to speak on plugins available today and ...