There is a change in the functionality of how the gallery now behaves.

In the past there was a lightbox effect which will play as a slide show. This would be in a timed scenario where the images will play automatically. The user had no control to change the time duration for which an image is displayed.

Ex page: Hampi world heritage city

Now, each image has a dedicated page for itself. The images do not play automatically and you will need to click on the next and previous image manually.

Ex page:Hebbal Lake

Let me know your thought on which gallery suits your viewing style.

Get notified for 404 error requests on your blog from any user!

I recently modified the structure of my pretty links and now face the problem of loosing site visitors. I have added 301 redirects for the blog post permanent links. This may not be 100% possible sometimes and I am also one of them.

There is a wordpress plugin which when installed and activated will send you a mail with the resource url that returned 404 error on your wordpress blog.

The plugin can be downloaded from www.alexking.org/projects/wordpress and in the settings you can either subscribe to its rss feed or mention a mail address on which you intend to receive the 404 error url notifications.

A life saver plugin to prevent getting penalized by search engines and also ensuring that the readers land on the expected content.

A limitation of wordpress which cannot be solved by this plugin also is that this plugin will work only if the wordpress blog has pretty links configured. If the wordpress powered blog has ugly links, then this plugin will not work for you.