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An album is  a collection of images just like the Gallery. What makes it different from a gallery is that, an album can contain galleries and even albums inside it. Confused? Don’t worry…just go through the post, you will get the idea. An album is  shown below: In the above picture, both ‘Images’ and ‘My  [ Read More ]

A gallery is a collection of images. After reading this post, you will learn to display images as shown below. Gallery can be easily implemented in WordPress with the help of  “NextGen Gallery”  Plugin. I have explained in detail about its installation, uploading images, displaying gallery etc in this post. Lets start with installing the  [ Read More ]

Widgets are the wonderful componets of a wordpress blog. See some  widgets below: All the components that appear in the right most side of the above picture are widgets. i.e Sponsors, Counter, SMS Alerts, Facebook likebox, Photos in 3D etc. Lets look how these widgets are added. Take your Dashboard. Goto Appearance-> Widgets In the  [ Read More ]

You can use forms in wordpress by installing the Contact Form 7 Plugin. Have a look at one form which i have created: For installing Contact form plugin, goto Plugins-> Add new and search for contact form in the Search Plugins box as shown below: The result is as shown below, choose the second option  [ Read More ]

Before preparing this post, i searched the word definition of Plugin in Wikipedia. Listen to the definition of Plugin, “ In computing, a plug-in is a set of software components that adds specific capabilities to a larger software application. If supported, plug-ins enable customizing the functionality of an application. For example, plug-ins are commonly used  [ Read More ]

Theme is one of the important essence of a wordpress blog. It gives look and feel to your blog, and sometimes theme gives special identity to blogs. Variety of wordpress themes are available all over the internet. Just do a google search on WordPress themes and see the result. There are lots and lots of  [ Read More ]

This is my first post of the wordpress for beginner’s tutorial series. Let us start with wordpress. WordPress is an online tool that helps to build blogs and websites easily. Just with few steps you can setup a great looking blog or website. To get started, you need a wordpress installed Blog, login information like  [ Read More ]

Windows Live writer is a software which simplifies blogging. It helps to write posts offline and publish it when you are online. Download Windows Live Writer( Just search in google if this link doesn’t work). Read about installation, settings and manuls by clicking here.

Sometimes it is necessary to write posts in malayalam. There are a number of methods available. Two methods are listed below: Method 1: Go to http://www.google.com/transliterate/malayalam Just type in english, it gets translated to malayalam ( as you type malayalam in orkut scraps)… Click here to Read more… Method 2: Using Epic browser. Click here  [ Read More ]