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Debashish Chakrabarty, a Software Consultant by profession and an Electrical Engineer by qualification, is based at Pune, India. He has been blogging in English as well as Hindi since 2002. He launched the first desi blog-awards called the Indibloggies (http://indibloggies.blogspot.com) and created the first ever Hindi blog aggregator Chittha Vishwa. He publishes a Hindi blogzine Nirantar (http://www.nirantar.org), maintains the Bangla and Hindi blog directories and occasionally dabbles in Hindi podcasting at Podbharati (http://www/podbharati.com). Debashish had also been a DMOZ editor and contributing towards localization of softwares such as WordPress, Gregarious, Pebble, IndicJoomla, IJoomla, Scuttle, Snap Shots, Blog Bar, among others. He has also been instrumental in beginning initiatives like [Buno Kahani] (http://bunokahani.blogspot.com), a group blog where various authors literally weave a story and Anugunj – a web event hosted in turn by Hindi bloggers – where various bloggers write on a given topic. He also regularly contributes to the Hindi Wikipedia and the Hindi Lingua project of Global Voices (https://hi.globalvoices.org/).

WordPress Origin Story

I started blogging in 2002 at rediffblogs, then to Jroller and moved to self-hosted WordPress way back in 2006 (also wrote a blog about it at http://nullpointer.debashish.com/migrating-a-roller-blog-to-wordpress). Since then never looked back (even though my site was hacked couple of times, of course WordPress security has improved manifold since then). I have about half a dozen WordPress sites working now. Also got attracted to WordPress plugin development and created some.

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June 2022
Jun 22 Wed · 06:15
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Posted a reply to [Seriously Simple Podcasting] /podcast or /series pages do not show archives, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Kelly, thanks for the reply. Funnily mysite.com/podcast seems to work now, but the mysite.com/series…
Jun 22 Wed · 06:15
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Created a topic, [Essential Content Types] Clash with custom post types, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I use the Essential Content Types plugin with the Seri…
Jun 07 Tue · 15:46
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Created a topic, /podcast or /series pages do not show archives, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am using your excellent plugin for multiple podcast …
July 2021
Jul 24 Sat · 16:29
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Posted a reply to HTML getting distorted, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Spot on. The "Lazy Loading" feature of Jetpack was the culprit, I must have enabled…
Jul 24 Sat · 11:04
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Created a topic, HTML getting distorted, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am using this excellent Podcast player plugin, I hav…
January 2021
Jan 25 Mon · 05:00
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Posted a reply to How to avoid thumbnail creation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Agree Harish. Sadly I do not fully understand Wordpress thumbnail creation & usage logic and…
Jan 23 Sat · 17:53
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Posted a reply to How to avoid thumbnail creation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please ignore. I was able to solve it by adding image width & height on…
Jan 23 Sat · 12:49
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Posted a reply to How to avoid thumbnail creation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks Harish, appreciate the prompt response. The Next and Previous link text now re-appeared, also…
Jan 23 Sat · 11:08
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Posted a reply to How to avoid thumbnail creation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok Harish, disabled all plugins. Just FYI I had the same set of plugins before…
Jan 23 Sat · 08:33
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Posted a reply to How to avoid thumbnail creation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am sorry to revive this thread again, but it seems the navigation for Previous…

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