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[WordPress News] WordPress 3.0.3 Released With Security Update

If you are a WordPress user, then it’s time to update your WordPress blog as WordPress 3.0.3 arrived and available for all users. According to WordPress team, it is a security update for all earlier versions of WordPress.

According to official release.

“This release fixes the issues in the remote publishing interface, which under circumstances allowed Author – and contributor – level users to improperly edit, publish, or delete posts. These issues only affect sites that have remote publishing enabled”.

Now its time to update WordPress blog and if you don’t want to update your blog, then make sure you disable the remote publishing feature.

For your information only, the issues fixed are:

wp-includes/version.php
xmlrpc.php
readme.html
wp-admin/includes/update-core.php

Do let us know in the comments section about this minor update. Do you use remote login feature to publish post??

[Tiny Tip] Useful Time Saving WordPress Keyboard Shortcut

Already I’ve offered you a how-to guide on enabling keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation. Now in this post I’ll share some useful time-saving WordPress shortcuts.

These shortcuts will be a time saver for you while writing any post.

WordPress Keyboard Shortcut

01) Link: Alt+Shift+a

02) Blockquote: Alt+Shift+q

03) Read More: Alt+Shift+t

04) Unordered List (ul): Alt+Shift+u

05) Ordered List (ol): Alt+Shift+o

06) Publish the post: Alt+Shift+p

07) Strike Through Text: Alt+Shift+d

08) Undo: Alt+Shift+u

09) Redo: Alt+Shift+y

10) Edit HTML: Alt+Shift+e

11) Align Left: Alt+Shift+f

12) Align Center: Alt+Shift+c

13) Align Right: Alt+Shift+r

14) Ctrl+[number] to get various header sizes for the highlighted text.

15) Bold: Alt+Shift+b

16) Italics: Alt+Shift+I

Finally, if I’ve missed out any useful keyboard shortcut do share with us in comment section below and if you find this article useful, do not forget to share it on social sites and with your blogger friends.

[How-To Guide] Enable Keyboard Shortcuts For Comment Moderation In WordPress

I’ve already offered you various how-to guides to get started with WordPress. If you’ve missed any of them, then check out the quick round-up of those posts:

How-To Guide on Installing WordPress on Hostgator

How-To Guide on Installing WordPress Theme

How-To Guide on Installing Plugin in WordPress

How-To Guide on Scheduling Post in WordPress

How-To Guide on Renaming Uncategorized Category in WordPress

How-To Guide on Adding Multiple Blogs

How-To Guide on Enabling WordPress MU in WordPress Blog

How-To Guide on Enabling Multi-Site Option in WordPress

Continuing in the same series of posts, in this post I’ll guide on enabling keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation in WordPress.

Step-By-Step Guide On Enabling Keyboard Shortcuts For Comment Moderation In WordPress

Step1: Log-in into your WordPress admin panel

Step2: Now go to Users (as shown below) and click on “Your Profile” option, this will open a new page (move to step3)

Step3: Now enable “keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation” and hit “update button” to enable these shortcuts.

Do let us know your thoughts about enabling shortcuts for comment moderation is good or not?

[How-To Guide] Schedule Post In WordPress 3.0.2

WordPress offer lot of feature and some feature help you to increase productivity and allow you to do other work.

Let say, for example: you go out on a vacation and do not want to leave your readers with same old article till you come back. So in that case what you’ll do? The answer to this problem is to use scheduling post feature of WordPress.

Scheduling post feature of WordPress allow you to update your blog on regular basis and help you to keep up good reputation among readers and offer them to come to your blog on regular basis.

Before offering you step-by-step guide I assume that you’ve already written a post.

Step-by-Step Guide To Schedule Post For Future Use

Step1: Log-in your wp-admin panel.

Step2: Go-to Posts and post you want to Schedule.

Step3: After selecting post, on right-hand side (as shown below). Click on Edit Button.

Step4: Now “set date and time” when you want to publish the post and click on “ok” button.

Step5: After clicking on “ok” button you’ll see “schedule button”. Hit schedule button to schedule the required post.

Now you can do whatever you like as you’ve scheduled the post. Meanwhile do let us know that it is good or bad to use schedule post feature in WordPress??

Stop Pinging Your Own Blog Post By Using No Self Ping WordPress Plugin

Many times you interlinks your posts to distribute link juice internally to your website. By default, WordPress sends a ping back and a link shown in comments field as shown below:

Many of them like this feature that WordPress sends a ping back to your own site. But after sometime it becomes a big issue when you get lots of self pings on your major and important pages like About me, Free WordPress Installation Service, Best WordPress Webhosting.

Want to turn off pinging back to your own posts, then you really need this plugin.

No self ping is a WordPress plugin which let you to stop pinging your own blog posts and stops showing trackback from your blog. All you need is to upload the plugin in your plugins folder, activate it and your problem solved.

This plugin will make your blog posts look more clean and only useful trackbacks from other blogs shown.

Download Link

Do share your views about pinging your own posts in the comments section. Do you really need this feature??

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