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Should You Moderate Your Comments?
Blogging There are obviously benefits and drawbacks to having comments on your blog. Akismet takes care of most of the SPAM for WordPress users, but SPAM is not the only type of comment many bloggers do not want on their blogs. There are always dissatisfied visitors who feel they have the right to be abusive, call names and use offensive language which you may not want appearing on your blog. There are also users who tend to write highly off-topic and ...
Continue readingBBPress 1.0 Final Released
WordPress The final 1.0 release of bbPress, the popular forum script and kid brother of the world famous blogging solution, WordPress, is now available. bbPress 1.0 alpha started around August of last year, and after several release candidates they have finally released bbPress 1.0 Final. The latest release is now available for download on the bbPress site. The current version is geared towards WordPress users offering various usability improvements ...
Continue readingWibiya: Web-Based Toolbar for your Blog
Social Media Wibiya is a set of tools which allows you to connect your blog through Facebook, get more Twitter followers, RSS subscribers and post instant notifications to your on-site visitors through a tidy little javascript toolbar at the bottom of your web page. It also has a lot of handy gadgets that many people like to include on their blog like social bookmarking buttons, a translation widget and more. Wibiya helps your visitors to browse your site, ...
Continue readingSocialVibe: Earn Money for Charities from Your Blog
Social Media Getting behind a cause and supporting a charity that is relevant to your blog really helps to connect with and build relationships with the people who visit it. Many companies of all sizes associate themselves with charities because it is good PR and it is often newsworthy. People have always thrown benefit concerts and fundraisers and everyone who is involved helps out because they care, but also because they know that other people care. ...
Continue readingWhy bloggers with hosted WP blogs should sign up to WordPress.com
WordPress Many self-hosted WordPress users are under the impression that because they have their own installation of WordPress that allows them to use plugins, themes and edit their CSS and other files freely they do not need a WordPress.com account. The truth is, if you’re running a hosted WP.org blog on a public server there are plenty of reasons that you should have an account, if not a whole other blog on WP.com Akismet – Akismet is the ...
Continue readingBoost Your WordPress Security with a Yubikey
WordPress The Yubikey plugin for WordPress integrates with Yubikey password devices to give you provide you with a multifactor one-time password for your blog. A Yubikey is a small inexpensive, about $25 U.S. Dollars, USB password generator. These devices are used to make it considerably more difficult to gain access to a computer account by using a two-factor authentication process and one-time passwords. The plugin uses the Yubico Web service API to ...
Continue readingWPTouch: Make a mobile app from your blog
WordPress Part plugin, part theme, part iPhone application. WPTouch is a plugin from author that turns your blog template into an “iphone app” style theme optimized for smartphones. It allows you to offer a faster, more user-friendly version of your site to any iPhone or iPod Touch visitors without affecting your normal blog theme. Users also have the option to switch between the WPTouch version and normal version of your theme if they prefer ...
Continue readingGiving WordPress its’ own directory
WordPress A lot of WordPress users don’t realize they are able to put WordPress in any folder on their site and still have it use the root domain name for its’ location. This is a basic feature of WordPress that you are able to pull of from the start or after you’ve already installed it. There a few reasons why you might want to do this. It can make things more secure. Moving WP to a location other than your domain’s root is useful ...
Continue readingUsing the P2 Theme for group projects
WordPress Themes In early May, Matt Mullenwegg posted a video about the P2 theme on his blog. The video demonstrates how the P2 theme changed the way they worked and blogged internally at Automattic. Since they mostly work from home, and most of the staff are bloggers, it makes sense that the company behind WordPress would use blogs to communicate. The surprising part is that before the P2 theme, internal blogs at Automattic were very much stagnant. Matt even ...
Continue readingServing post ratings in your blog
WordPress Plugins Certain uses for WordPress, such as a showcase or gallery site might call for a user rating system. You may also want to implement one in your blog just to see how you improve over time and how it affects your user’s experience. A popular plugin for serving up star ratings to your visitors is WP-Post Ratings. Its easy to display the rating form with a function, and you can customize the rating images in a variety of colours and styles. ...
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