Advertising Plugins

It’s time to monetize your efforts! These plugins help you run advertising from Google adsense, Amazon, Clickbank, Cafepress, etc, and mange advertisements on your blogs easily. Read more

October 2, 2007 · Filed under WordPress Marketing, WordPress Plugins

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SEO Plugins

This collection of plugins will certainly help your WordPress sites gain significant advantages in search engine optimization (SEO). Using these plugins you are able to enhance the web pages’ meta data, improve tag functions, and add new features that search engines love to see. Read more

October 2, 2007 · Filed under WordPress Plugins, WordPress SEO

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Benefits of a Wordpress Blog

Concentrating on the benefits of a Wordpress blog can provide you with some great optimism for the future. The reason Wordpress is such powerful software is the combination of value, quality, and ease of use that is unparallel in the blog software world. While some people prefer to use more basic blog software, they too can truly benefit from the power of Wordpress, and once they read about all the perks they too will be downloading the software for profit as well.

What might be the most notable benefit of Wordpress is the ability to work on a post offline, in a standalone interface. Most blog software applications require one to be logged onto the internet, and geared up ready to go to post to the blog, whereas Wordpress allows you to edit, build, and post a blog at anytime, without being connected to the internet.

Another benefit of Wordpress is the ease of use, and advanced functionality of the software compared to some blog software applications. Wordpress functions code free if one needs to post in such a fashion with easy to use icons similar to what one would see in a word processing program. Having the ability to utilize a program like this allows people to create blogs that are as high tech, and complete as full blown websites.

Yet another benefit of Wordpress is its remarkable plugin library that allows for users to instantly add features, and functions to Wordpresses already impressive abilities. The plugin library for Wordpress is robust because of the popularity of the software, many programmers and designers have created plugins based on their particular needs.

When you add up all these elements you end up with a program that is fully capable of creating highly attractive blogs that encourage people to visit the sight and stay to read whatever is posted on it. If you ever wanted powerful blog software that was less template and more unique Wordpress is it.

September 28, 2007 · Filed under WordPress Review

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How To Stop Automatic Trackback Spam

Many WP themes show trackback URL by default via code like:
<?php trackback_url(display); ?>
If you don’t want to get trackback, just remove this piece of code from the theme. However, automatic trackback spams run their scripts to get to WP directly. While deleting or hiding wp-trackback.php could solve this problem, a simple and easy way is to implement a couple of powerful plugins. Akismet, Spam Karma or Bad Behavior will do the job.

Akismet comes with WP installation, To activate Akismet, you will need to sign up for an account on Wordpress.com to get the API key that it wants you to use. You don’t have to use the wordpress.com blog, just need to sign up there to get a key.

Another plugin, Bad Behavior, is good at preventing trackback spams from ever hitting the site. Bad Behavior is able to detect and block something like 90% of spam bots. This prevents spam from ever hitting your site at all.

For what got missed by Bad Behavior, Akismet then catches the spam that does make it through. The combination of these 2 plugins work like magic. That’s all you need for stopping automatic trackback spams.

September 24, 2007 · Filed under WordPress Plugins, WordPress Spam

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How To Hide Trackback

In my previous post “How to Turn Off Trackback“I mentioned that a simple way to stop automatic trackback spam is to remove wp-trackback.php from WP installation’s root directory.

Automatic trackback spam bots make all efforts on wp-trackback.php file. The bots know the file name and know where to find it. So why not hide trackback? If you rename this file, the trackback spam bots will no long find it, and therefore lose all the power.

Because you still want the trackback/pingback functionality in your site, you need to keep the renamed file work with other WP files. Wherever this file is referred, you also need to change the file name so that the link is not broken. Luckily there are only 2 files referring wp-trackback.php, both are both in the wp-includes directory:

comment-template.php (2 instances)
template-loader.php (3 instances)

If you edit these two files to match the new name, you keep trackback/pingback working, but all trackback spams are gone.

September 23, 2007 · Filed under WordPress Customization, WordPress Spam

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Anti-spam Plugins

When blog spam becomes ever bigger issue, you need the right weapon to fight back. In Wordpress, many plugins have emerged to address the problem of comment spam. We’ve tested the following anti-spam plugins that help keep unwanted bots and comments out of the gate. Read more

September 22, 2007 · Filed under WordPress Plugins, WordPress Spam

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How to Turn Off Trackback

First, why you turn off trackback and when do you need to do it? Many WP bloggers turn off tackback to stop comment spam. In general, there are 2 ways for spam bots to get into your blog, one is from submitting comments in the post page, the other is through trackback. Read more

September 22, 2007 · Filed under WordPress Configuration, WordPress Spam

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WordPress 2.1 Upgrade Made Easy

The greatness of WordPress is that there are many talented programmers to keep this blogware updated to implement new technologies and extend new features. To take advantage of this, keep your WordPress up-to-date too. We just upgraded 2 of our Wordpress websites (www.ITCareerSuccess.com and www.IT-Job-Interview.com) to 2.1.2. It’s a really easy process. Here’s what we did: Read more

September 21, 2007 · Filed under WordPress Admin

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Make the Post Title Appealing

No mater what you offer, an appealing title attracts visitors, draw traffic, and generate sales. Once you put your post into those social network sites such as del.icio.us, diggs or some blog index/aggregators, the title will be the key to attract clicks. Thus you should make it a big deal to craft the title of each post carefully. Read more

September 20, 2007 · Filed under WordPress Blogging, WordPress Marketing

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Bulk Bookmarking with OnlyWire

Social bookmarking is the way to promote your blog. You provide convenient button for visitors to bookmark your blog posts, and you do this same thing for your posts too. A handy tool called “OnlyWire” can help you bulk bookmark your blog at 15 social bookmarking site all together. Read more

September 20, 2007 · Filed under WordPress Social, WordPress Tools

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