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Figthing SPAM with Akismet for FREE

October 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Akismet or Automattic Kismet is a spam filtering service. It attempts to filter spam from blog comments and spam TrackBack pings. The filter works by combining information about spam captured on all participating blogs, and then using those spam rules to block future spam. It is an Incredible tool to use if you have a WordPress Blog or Site. I receive about 10 to 15 spam comments daily, if those add up at the end of the month I will end up with 450 or so spam comments, Akismet will  handle this for you in a very efficient way. But there has been some controversy on how AKISMET started charging for its service, when they use to be free. Most people will go and try to create an account, but will get the surprise of a paid service. Well let me show you how you can get it for free. First you need to create an account at http://akismet.com/ Then you need to select a package, which now is a little confusing since every package has a paid amount, but don’t you worry , you … [Read more...]

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Removing unnecessary code for Performance and Security

October 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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A few lines of extra code in your header probably won’t slow your site down or risk performance, but you would like to keep things as clean and efficient as possible, since it only takes one line at the time to end up with a load of unnecessary code piled up on your wordpress blog, and that will surely slow it down from time to time. This tip will not only help add up to your Blogs Security but will help with performance by removing unnecessary code from your Blog. Since Wordpress uses the function wp_head() to add a bunch of code to the header of each page. Some of it is absolutely unnecessary. By default, many WordPress themes include the version information in the document this information proves very useful for the hackers as they can easily target blogs that are using the older version of wordpress software. Here is what many themes use to display this info: <meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> To prevent this … [Read more...]

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How2 Exclude Pages From Navigation

March 18, 2010 By 1 Comment
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There are times when you need to create a page, but you don't need it to show up on you Wordpress Based Site, maybe because you want it to show up after a transaction is made or for special signed up users. In this cases, we use a nice plugin that help us doing that. It's called “Exclude Pages” (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/) and the installation is as simple as with any other plugin: just download, unzip it inside your wp-content folder and activate it on your admin panel. This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, which is checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages (which includes, and is usually limited to, your page navigation menus). EXCLUDED INCLUDED Pages which are children of excluded pages also do not show up in menu listings. (An alert in the editing screen, underneath the "include" checkbox allows you to track down which ancestor page is affecting child pages in this … [Read more...]

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Automated Backup Software for WordPress

March 5, 2010 By 5 Comments
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Top 3  Offsite Backup Plugins for Word Press Integrated Backup system in Wordpress is quite good, but not customizable. If you are looking for risk free solutions for off site backups, read this out! Backup Plugins take backups automatically at specified intervals & prevent potential data loss due to Hackers, Phishers, Spammers & Server Failures. Plenty of backup Plugins are available for WordPress however the following are the Top 3 in the list. 1. WP-DB Backup WP-DB Backup is  easy to use and standalone solution. It allows you to automatically create backups of the core database. Automates backups on your server on time intervals previously set on the admin interface, and sends a copy through the specified email. Well this plugin not only backups but you can optimize, repair and drop ( In case you delete a plugin but the databases it created are still sitting in your server wasting space, resources,etc. )  your databases, we being using this plugin … [Read more...]

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How2 Bulk Install Plugins in WordPress

October 18, 2009 By 2 Comments
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A blog without plugins is like a joke without laughs, you have to dress it up, publicize and monetize it. For that you spend hours behind the screen looking for the perfect plugin to fill your exact needs, after a while you look back and see the masterpiece you just create.. After a while You have a beautiful successful site with new users falling in love with it and coming back every day. So you see this blogging business is great, you are working while having fun, sharing and helping others, The perfect relationship, So you began to think you should do another blog for a different niche , but you have so much in your head you want to talk about, you want to build two blogs instead of one, so work is pilling up and you need to find ways of building your future sites faster. Ill be showing some tips on speeding up this process. How2 bulk install your plugins in Wordpress So the first thing you should do is locate the folder in which you plugins are installed, they should be at … [Read more...]

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The 10 WordPress Plugins you must install

October 13, 2009 By 2 Comments
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WordPress plugins add a lot of functionality to your blog and this is a list of The 10 Wordpress Plugins you must install in order to run a safe environment, to have statistics from the beginning, to show a professional look and a way your users can easily register and interact with you, to keep away spam, to maintain healthy databases and to Optimize your Blog for Search Engine Presence. You just need this to succeed!! After installing them you can dress up your blog with photo and video plugins , but please First things First.. [ad#GAtext] · Akismet A collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging. · Feedburner Feedsmith This plugin will detect all ways to access your feed and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber · Sitemap Generator This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. Setup to work in conjunction with the Google sitemap generator · … [Read more...]

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