Numaan's Diary » wordpress http://diary.sabza.org Stories, life, and other things Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:20:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 I am working in the night shift during… http://diary.sabza.org/2011/08/02/i-am-working-in-the-night-shift-during/ http://diary.sabza.org/2011/08/02/i-am-working-in-the-night-shift-during/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:08:35 +0000 Numaan http://diary.sabza.org/2011/08/02/i-am-working-in-the-night-shift-during/ Continue reading →]]> I am working in the night shift during Ramadan. Mostly, because I can’t get up early in the morning. Today is the first day and I am already bored. Since there are very few people around and less disturbance I performed all important tasks quickly. Now there are just a few tasks that I am delaying because if I did those too then I will have nothing left to do for tonight.

Another reason to choose the night shift is to save myself from the agony of load shedding. If I had opted for morning shift I’d have to spend four to six hours without power and then two hours for Seheri and Iftar. After that I would have no time left to do anything but sleep.

I am hoping to achieve a lot of things this Ramadan, not spiritual things, but materialistic things. I am hoping to fix a few things. On top of my list is fixing one of my websites that got terribly affected by Google’s Panda Update. Each day I work a little on that website when I get home.

I am improving that website’s theme by replacing the old one with Thematic which is a powerful theme framework. I am creating a child theme that will use Thematic core features with my own styles. While working on themes, I will also improve many other things on that old website. The focus is to make it look more visually pleasant, create a better user experience, and give website some authenticity.

Once I am done with the theme, applied it on the website and fixed all the bugs, the next step will be writing content for it on a regular basis. This next step will be very important as I am hoping not to repeat the mistakes I made last time. This time I will try to build a community around the website, a loyal readership that will help the website moving in the future. I will be also looking forward to find more ways to monetize the content.

]]> http://diary.sabza.org/2011/08/02/i-am-working-in-the-night-shift-during/feed/ 0 I am fixing a few of my blogs… http://diary.sabza.org/2011/04/11/i-am-fixing-a-few-of-my-blogs/ http://diary.sabza.org/2011/04/11/i-am-fixing-a-few-of-my-blogs/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:47:08 +0000 Numaan http://diary.sabza.org/2011/04/11/i-am-fixing-a-few-of-my-blogs/ Continue reading →]]> I am fixing a few of my blogs. I suspected that one of them might have some malicious code hidden somewhere affecting search rankings of my blog. This happens often if you are running a high traffic website. So you need to keep your web apps (wordpress and plugins) up to date. If you run a wordpress website then don’t forget to check out my blog post on how to secure your wordpress.

]]> http://diary.sabza.org/2011/04/11/i-am-fixing-a-few-of-my-blogs/feed/ 0 Installed WordPress http://diary.sabza.org/2008/09/29/installed-wordpress/ http://diary.sabza.org/2008/09/29/installed-wordpress/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:00:33 +0000 Numaan http://diary.sabza.org/?p=3 Continue reading →]]> My webhost provides an easy one-click way to install WordPress. I love installing new blogs, but I hate the upgrade notifications. I am using wordpress since last four or five years and recently I noticed that updates are becoming more frequent. But now that I am using my webhost’s one click installer, I can easily update this blog with just a click. 

So now that I have installed the software, set up a blog, what’s next? First of all I would like to change the theme of this website. This is going to be a very personal place so it needs a very personal theme, something that is unique to this site only.

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