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Medical blogs that changed plans for my blog

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Yeah you read it right. After my last post, I searched the net about blogs by doctors. I came up many blogs. This is just a list.

When I went to these blogs the first thing I did was to subscribe their feeds. Many blogs are on blogger. The thing that was very common among them is their medical or dental related topics. Now this was what I was thinking to do to my blog. Then I tried to find about their number of subscribers.  They were getting visitors in hundreds. But I was in for a surprise when I found out this site of Kevin Pho.

KevinMD.com is the site that I am so excited about. It asks to subscribe via aweber. Now aweber costs money to maintain. The blog is wordpress. The theme is Thesis a premier one. And he has tens of thousands subscribers via feedburner. I wonder what his total number of visitors.

Now my friends I am reading this site as fast I am trying. I really hope that I will make my blog popular like KevinMd.com someday. Btw his blog has been nominated the best med blog of 2008.

So hopefully I am going to stick with this idea I am signing out. And yes another thing I am changing the sites looks just to have the right combination. So please bear with me.

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I just activated akismet

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

I am done with all this spam stuff. Every now and then I will find spams in the order of some 553 or 324 like say every day. And guess what most of them are just simply automated comment spams.So now I have activated Akismet. Akismet is the plugin that comes preloaded with every vanilla installation of a wordpress.org blog.

For it I just went to Wordpress.com , there I joined for an account. Then I found my API Key in My Profile section in the wordpress.com Dashboard.

I keyed in the API Key after activating  Akismet in my Dr Bikash.com dashboard.

20 hours after now when I am checking out my stats wow I got akismet proudly telling me that it has done away with 44 spams. That is cool, indeed.

But the sad part is I could not know if actually all the comments were spam or some of them were hams. I think I will take some time to get used to it. Till then I am happy.

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How to change the default admin username in word press blog

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Whenever we custom install the word press blog software by downloading it from wordpress.org, then the username by default is admin. From the dashboard we cannot change it. So what happens is many blogs have the blog’s author as admin. This is quite a problem. It can be changed by going to the phpMyAdmin interface.

But there is very simple and unique way to change it from the dashboard itself. There is a plug-in. The plug-in needs to be uploaded just like any other plug-in to the plug-in folder in the blog. After activating the plug-in there is a separate option to change the username in the user dashboard. So first you have to upload the plug-in, then activate it, then go to the user option on the top right corner of the dashboard . Then the user option click the username change option. There you can change your username. Then update changes. In the author name box there is a drop-down menu. Click it. You can now change your author name from admin to the new username.

Now you can visit your site and see for yourself that the user names and the author names have changed to your new username. You can now deactivate the plug-in. You can also delete the plug-in from the plug-in folder.

The plug-in changes entries in the database for you without you going into the database itself. So I think it is a very good addition to your list of important plug-ins.

Download the plug-in

Click here to download directly from the maker’s site.

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