Developers Blog

Just an update, I am delighted to report that Bloggers.pk has been chugging along peacefully for a good long time, since its inception back in 2006 it has served the Pakistani blogging community quite well. Our vision was to provide one central place for bloggers to check new blog posts and feed traffic to each [...]

In a flurry of activity at Bloggers.pk have also managed to squeeze out one more improvement which I feel will help quite a few people even beyond our world of Blogging. We have adapted Google Custom Search Engine to scan only the websites of all registered Pakistani Bloggers This tool can on occasions benefit people [...]

Finally after some serious hacking I was able to figure out a fix to fully implement the sharing of the Bloggers Pakistan OPML file. The link can be found on the side bar of the main Bloggers.pk page. What do you do with the OPML file: For those geeks around here, the OPML file can [...]

Bloggers Pakistan is definitely growing by leaps and bounds, over the past two years we have developed a steady following both on the website as well via our RSS Feed. New subscriptions are also growing on a daily basis and as expected it then becomes a tough job filtering through each of them regularly, I [...]

We at Bloggers Pakistan want to work hard to ensure that this blog aggregator continues to progress forward, some people may have noticed that in the recent few days a number of errors were creeping up on the site and the formatting was throwing everything into haywire. We took this opportunity to spend a little [...]

After many days of procrastination, I finally got down to doing a revamp of the blog aggregator that we run at bloggers.pk. Barely two months back in early December I quit on the ever faithful wordpress CMS system simply because it was not designed to be an efficient aggregator. I moved away from WordPress and [...]

After months of inherent problems with Bloggers.pk we would like to announce that we have successfully installed Venus a version of PlanetPlanet, an engine used to run hundreds of blog aggregators worldwide. WordPress, the CMS which we were using previously was technically not a dedicated aggregator and it was with the use of a plug-in [...]

Bloggers.Pakistan has been under some tremendous stress handling the Ghee-infested salan-slurping Pakistani Blogging scene and for a few days and quite a number of people have noticed that their blog posts are not appearing on the site, We have a Problem, Houston! All credit to an ever expanding network of Pakistani bloggers that we continue [...]

Friends and supporters of the Pakistani Blogosphere, its been a few months since we (Omer & myself [Awab]) have been working hard to maintain this site, keeping track of ongoing bugs and fixing day to day problems associated with so many different varieties of bloggers syndicating their posts. Its tough and requires at least one [...]

After some considerable discussion we have decided to remove all images embedded in the posts appearing on the Bloggers.Pakistan web page. This step has been taken primarily to improve our page load time as recently the entire page was taking a massive 1MB to download, with a number of our readers from Pakistan using dial-up’s [...]