Blogging Tips

Protect Your WordPress Blog From Password Hackers With Login Lockdown

Bad Neighbourhood released a nice little WordPress plugin today called Login Lockdown

The plugin was designed to stop hackers from gaining access to your blog via trial and error, something which is quite common with WordPress blogs since most people use the default username login ‘admin’. The plugin lets you set a number of retries to login into your blog. If the user doesn’t enter the correct details they are locked …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 19th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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WordPress Plugin Business Model

WordPress is without doubt the best blogging platform in my opinion. There are 3 good reasons for this : Frequent updates and developments from the creators Automattic, a large theme repository and a large plugin repository.

Documentation aside, WordPress doesn’t really give support to users, which you can’t really complain about since it is a free product. Though their forum is full of bloggers helping each other, whether it is with regards …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 16th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Serving post ratings in your blog

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 …

Written by Ryan Edmunds from Needless Productions
Posted on May 27th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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What makes a WordPress Plugin Great

One of the core philosophies of WordPress is to keep the code as light and fast as possible but to provide a rich framework for developers to add to the product. This concept is a key reason for the huge and constantly growing universe of WordPress plugins. In talking to WordPress users I’ve discovered that almost universally folks are pleased with the plugins they use. However, there are plugins that work and …

Written by David Silversmith from InfoMusing
Posted on May 12th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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7 Twitter plugins for Wordpress

Every blogger and their mother has a Twitter profile these days. Twitter has almost gotten bigger than The Beatles. Twitter is one of the only social networking sites that has broken major news stories, and this has caused even the mainstream media to pay attention. There is no better time to latch on and take advantage of all that Twitter has to offer your blog.

The Wordpress development community has clearly caught on …

Written by Ryan Edmunds from Needless Productions
Posted on April 29th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Selling Products on your Blog

If you want to sell digital products such as eBooks, templates, plugins etc. on your site then the WP e-Commerce plugin will do the job for you.

On adding the plugin you get a new admin menu called Products. Under this you first need to set up your settings. The free version of the plugin will allow you to take payments by PayPal, Google Checkout or Chronopay.

To get started with this plugin, …

Written by Sarah from Stuff By Sarah
Posted on April 19th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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SimplePress & BBpress : Integrating forums with Wordpress

There was not always a lot of options for any bloggers wanting to integrate a forum with Wordpress. When Wordpress was in its’ infancy there were a scattered set of forum plugins and bridges to other open source forums like phpBB or even paid scripts like invision board. Now there are solutions that Wordpress users can be more comfortable with. In the search for the perfect forum solution for Wordpress I have …

Written by Ryan Edmunds from Needless Productions
Posted on April 15th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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