Facebook, in a latest development to make websites more social, has deployed commenting system for blogs and websites. This commenting system will allow website owners to make it possible for their readers to comment on their websites using their Facebook or Yahoo IDs. Yes, Facebook comment system doesn’t allow comments with twitter, Google, name/website or anonymous IDs. All comments posted on websites will be relayed [...]

Note: This tutorial is aimed at bigger wordpress blogs and for those hosted on VPS or dedicated servers. This tutorial should not be tried if you are not familiar with basic Linux and MySQL commands on SSH. This tutorial is just about transferring WordPress files and Databases only. Please be informed that server configuration and other things are not discussed in it. There are various [...]

Lately, we have been receiving complaints regarding the comments that never get approved. As an example, I got following email from a ProPakistani Reader today: Hello, I have been following your Blog for quite sometime now. Just need to ask, a number of times I have observed that my comments aren’t published. I would be the last person to write anything offensive :-) I know [...]

Note: This article is written keeping power webmasters in mind, having more than 10,000 visitors to their websites a day. During past one week we, at ProPakistani, faced plenty of hosting issues. We had downtimes; and plenty of them actually, where I felt in middle of no-where to decide anything on hosting. All this happened even I had experience of managing servers for over two [...]

To remain in-tact with wordpress blogs, Nokia handset users were tired of trying out WordPress Applications for their Nokia smartphone. Today, Automattic (the company behind WordPress) has announced its official application for Nokia Devices and is available is now live on the Nokia’s Ovi Store for mobile apps. Currently supported phones include N97 Mini and X6. Application Supports WordPress 2.7 or higher (WordPress.com and self-hosted [...]

The blogging culture in Pakistan has come a long way. Beginning with less than a dozen blogs with very limited audience and influence, it has effectively exploded in the past two years, when people began to learn how to maintain blogs run them, and how to generate revenues out of them. Since then, things have picked up pace quite rapidly and credit for this goes [...]

This is a guest post by Imran Yousaf, who blogs at Blogging Junkie. This article is a cross post from Imran’s Blog. Imagine if you have good number of sponsors and high traffic for your blog, one day your loyal customers visit your website and find it inaccessible, what would they think of your site? You would lose huge traffic, business and Search Engine Ranking. [...]

Just seconds ago, Dr. Awab tweeted that he took backup of his blog, and downloaded almost 1 GB of files on local computer. Just that moment, a co-incidence maybe, I was reading this post by CyberDera about taking online backups of almost every online activity that we usually do – for FREE. Yes, this very amazing service Backupify, is offering backups for WordPress, Gmail, Hotmail, [...]

By: ZunNurain Khalid of UltraSpectra Last week I attended a blogger’s meet-up organized by Hewlett Packard. By the end of the day, what I was taking away from it was a nice T-Shirt with their insignia, their new product HP Mini Notebook review brochure, and many ideas for corporate blogging. Since then I was musing about it so I induced to give them a proper [...]

By Affan Haider – www.TotallyPR.com I have been following ProPakistani with great interest for a while and was particularly intrigued by the topic “Why Professionals Don’t Blog in Pakistan“. A reason I was so intrigued was that in my blog a while back, I discussed the importance of blogs for Pakistani companies in order to further their cause. To me this question needs to be [...]

Guest Post by ZunNurain Khalid of UltraSpectra I read ProPakistani daily, but it wasn’t until last week when I noticed a blog post on “Why Professionals Don’t Blog?” by Aamir Attaa that I decided it was time to submit a guest post. According to that post, Aamir asked to give out the opinion on a very important question that what makes the professional having the [...]

I am giving out a thought, that blogging community in this country is dominated by youngsters and college/university students. Be it be money earning blogs, or those filled with philosophies, reviews, news, information, documentaries on various topics ranging from politics to sports. Today, instead of writing something, I want you to share your thoughts, on “Why Youth Outnumber Pakistani Blogosphere?” and “Why professionals and Gurus [...]

I know there has been couple of plugins that send SMS alerts of all post updates to your readers, in rest of the world. Here is this service available now for your Pakistani readers too – a treat indeed for Pakistani bloggers. Brought by Chpaal.Pk, whenever you make a new post, they will get an SMS alert containing the title of the post and its [...]

Note: This Article is not aimed at Personal Blogging – rather it talks more on Professional Blogging or Blogging for Money If you are inspired by one of the recent success stories of the bloggers who are pampered by the reputation and are showcased everywhere? If yes, you must have been romantic with the idea of making extra income while having started a part time [...]