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There has been a spike in spam attacks on Wordpress blogs this week. No one seems to know why but the attacks come through the more vulnerable Comment section of blog postings. Many spam messages are evading Akismet, the built-in and normally effective Wordpress spam filter.
As a supplement to Akismet, consider installing Bad Behavior by [...]
It was an interesting but not unusual challenge – to move a popular blog from one hosting platform to another, without interruption. Like so many bloggers, my friend Steve Kayser started his popular blog – Riffs, Tiffs and What Ifs – on Blogspot a couple of years ago and came to realize Blogspot’s limitations and [...]
Atlanta-based Jamie Turner, editor of the 60 Second Marketer, has conducted a survey of today’s 13 best social media tools, tips and techniques, and has posted a must-read evaluation on his blog. Here’s an excerpt:
There are hundreds of different Social Media tools available, so it’s easy to get confused by all of them. One of [...]
Plugins bring an incredible array of added features to help customize any Wordpress self-hosted blog. I have written about some outstanding and highly useful plugins here before. Â Let me now highlight the valuable plugins created by Lester Chan. I am test driving his WP-Polls plugin for the online poll that you see in the center [...]
One of the most useful features of blogging on the Wordpress self-hosted platform is the ability to write a post, and schedule it to appear in the future, precisely on a date and time of your choosing. I frequently use this feature to schedule advance posts on two blogs I manage – BoomerCafe.com and BahaiWords.com. [...]
I am amazed by the number of blogs with incorrect permalink configuration, which will ultimately impede their ability to achieve accurate audience rankings.
Think of permalinks as the distinctive way to organize and identify each posting on a Wordpress blog, and the way to alert search engines, Technorati, Feedburner, and visitors about new blog posts. It’s [...]
The next major Wordpress software update, version 2.7, is expected about November 10.Â
Lots of advance news updates and discussion are already online as the Wordpress community worldwide vets builds of the software.
Sadish Bala has been around quite a while as a designer of themes for Wordpress, and I highly respect his work. I also use his themes.
Sadish’s themes, many of which are free or available for a nominal donation, are clean and contemporary in appearance. And, they are safe to use. Unfortunately, in a blog world [...]
Wordpress has issued a software update for its Wordpress blog software – version 2.6.3 – to fix bugs. It is free, and can be downloaded at Wordpress.org.
I consider this to be an optional update, and will not affect a blog’s database or performance. To update, merely FTP into a blog folder that contains Wordpress.
Wordpress is the world’s most popular and reliable software platform for self-hosted blogs.*
Think of Wordpress as the behind-the-scenes engine that makes it all possible to use a seemingly infinite choice of themes for sites and useful interactive tools, such as the ability to easily post new and timely information from any computer that’s online … [...]
Hi there. I'm Michael Pollock, and I train coaches, consultants and other solo-professionals on how to use the web to impact more people, earn more money and live a bigger life ... continued.
