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How to support custom user domains (like WordPress) in IIS/ASP.NET

I would like to know if it is possible using IIS and ASP.NET (and ideally something that might be employed on a shared hosting account, but this isn't required) to mimic WordPress.com's ability to allow end users to use their own domain names. WordPress has users who own their own domains change the domain's DNS settings to point to Wor...

Does Wordpress.com use ONE set of tables for ALL users?

Does wp.com create a new set of tables for each new blog, or are all blog data stored in one set of tables (with a layout like: http://codex.wordpress.org/Database%5FDescription)? Would it ever be a good idea to create a set of tables for each blog in MySQL, or will MySQL be able to handle large numbers of blogs each with their comments...

Wordpress Plugin without any Host

I have a blog hosted in wordpress. I bought a domain from GoDaddy and forwared it to my wordpress blog. Now, if I want to install any plugin to my site, I always get instructions like - download this and place it to that directory. How do I find that directory when I am using Wordpress's free bloggin service. ...

How do I change syntax highlighting CSS to a blog hosted on WordPress.com?

I've a blog hosted on WordPress.com, and i purchased the "Custom CSS" update to modify CSS. Now I want to change some CSS options of Syntax Highlighting provided by Wordpress.com. For example, i want that [code lang="C"] int main() { } [/code] will be displayed with a black background instead of standard white one. I've added in ...

How do I take an RSS feed from wordpress.com and add the newest post of the feed to another website?

I am building a static site using php files. On the index.php file, I need to dynamically pull the RSS feed of a certain wordpress.com blog. The only information I need to pull is the excerpt content of the newest post (1 post total). When the wordpress.com blog is updated, the content on the index.php file should update to an excerpt of...

Remove content from a wordpress.com feed using yahoo pipes

Hello, I am using yahoo pipes to get content matching a certian category from my WordPress.com Blog. Everything is working fine but WordPress adds "share" links to the bottom of the feed that I would like to remove. Here is what's being added: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/bandonran...