Frequently Asked Questions

The First few things that you should/could/would_be_nice_if_you_did on a wokaylah blog.

1. First things first. Change your login password from the Users/Profiles Page as explained in the earlier post.
2. Once you are at the dashboard Click on the Plugins page and activate the plugins “Spam Karma 2″, “Kill Preview”, “Sidebar Widgets” and the “Category Cloud”.
3. Goto the Presentation bar and chose a theme that best suites your taste and the look and feel of your blog. You have about 30+ themes to chose from.
4. Goto Sidebar Widgets sub tab under presentation and create your own Sidebar if you want to modify the default theme sidebar.
5. Add your own touch and flavour to your theme by editing the themes, if you want
6. Edit the first post and make your first wokaylah post
7. If you already have a blog elsewhere, then goto Manage tab and the Import subtab to see how to import your old blog posts onto this wokaylah blog. We currently support, about 9 different types of blog imports.

Refer to the Faq if u need anything else. Leave a question for us in the comments and we ll answer it asap.

To change your password, please click on the Login button on the right sidebar of your current blog page.

Once you click on Login, you will be taken to the login page as shown below. Use the login ‘admin’ and the passwd that was given to you at installation time. If you dont have it, check the mail id you had provided at the installation time and you should be able to find the password in there. Be careful with this passwd, since even the admins of the site wokaylah will not be able to retrieve or reset this passwd for you, since they do not have access to it.

Once you are logged in you will be taken to the ‘Dashboard page’. Now click on the link for “Users” just below the blog title on that page and then clicked on the “Your Profile” link marked under the tab for “Users” As shown in picture below.

Once you have clicked on the your profile link, It will show you a page where you can modify your name (from admin), give yourselves a handle, mention your contact information, etc.
Scroll down this page and you will see the password change boxes where you can enter your new passwd.

Comment Spamming is one of the major problem faced by all the blog owners. Spammers are not interested to redirect your traffic but are trying to increase their (or their client’s ) search engine ranking. By leaving comments on your site, the spammers’ sites can achieve a slightly higher search engine ranking.Spammers don’t want to degrade your site but they just want to get people to their sites and make a larger profit.

How to tackle this comment spamming ?

*) Don’t ban specific IP address :

Once you got the spammer’s IP address you would normally banned it, but it rarely helps you much as most comment-spammers make use of ‘open proxies ’ using which they have their spam comments, so you never be able to eradicate them from your site.

*) Don’t allow to insert HTML code.

Spammers generally attack your site if you provide them any source for getting into your site such as inserting some html code or anything like that.
If you feel the need to allow the user to include links, there are a number of ways by which you can provide them this functionality, without making your site vulnerable to attack. The most common method is to inform the user that all URLs will be converted to links automatically, then convert any content that starts with http:// to a link.

*) Use Non-Descriptive Form Names.

Good programming requires the use of descriptive names, but in avoiding comment spam, you should stay away from names that describe a form’s fields. Form element names like “Comment” make it too easy for spammers to access your comment system.

*) Use rel=”nofollow” for All Links.

For any reason, you want to allow your visitor to include links in their comments, then don’t forget to add rel=”nofollow” tag, doing so you informs search engines bots to ignore the link, so the spammer gains no benefit from adding links in their comments.