WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

I was pinged a few days ago by my friend Thaya Kareeson about a plugin he has released a while back and he was wondering if I would be interested to check it out. And I did - quite impressive as it allows you to increase The Social Impact of your blog. See below

It allows you to Greet Visitors to Your Blog based on what url they come from. I do have a small issue with the plugin but you’ll just have to read the post to learn about it…

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WordPress 2.6.3 upgrade was made available by development team a few hours ago and while it is rated as low risk, I wanted to be sure that you - my reader and my customer have the option to do it in the simplest possible way.

This upgrade is really simple and involves changes to just one file - class-snoopy.php and update to version.php file to reflect the upgrade. In this article I will show couple ways you can use to simplify the process and ensure secure blog.

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You can easily make a community site with WordPress if you have a specific need or to be more precise - you can create a social network platform. There are a few things you need to be aware off if evaluating this option. And not only administrative hurdles associated with maintaining a Community Site but rather technical aspects!

In this post I want to share couple tips that can help you evaluate your options and decide if you still want to build your social network (community site) or not…

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Fighting Comment Spam on a WordPress blog is a never ending battle. Since I provide DoFollow options and use 2 plugins that reward commenters even more: CommentLuv and KeywrodLuv - I get a LOT of comment spam. Ever since I have switched from Spam Karma 2 to Akismet I’ve been testing multiple plugins that will assist me with this work and minimize the load.

Well, looks like I have just found a wining combination!

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Acquisition of Intense Debate start-up by Automattic has ended the argument of comment management for WordPress, at least in my mind.  While I have to admit - Intense Debate wouldn’t have been my own personal choice as I prefer to keep all comments local, choice by Automattic ends the arguments…

And allow me explain why, with examples….

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This post is written to address multiple questions I have received from my existing customers and readers of my blog - how to build WordPress blog with minimal number of plugins for speed and still profit from it. While the choices will greatly depend on what niche you are addressing and your goals, I’ll provide some of my personal choices that I think should be part of ANY WordPress blog, no matter how minimalistic it is.

But first, lets define minimalist:

min·i·mal·ist (mn-m-lst) n.

1. One who advocates a moderate or conservative approach, action, or policy, as in a political or governmental organization.
2. A practitioner of minimalism.

And now lets discuss how we can make our WordPress blog to follow the standart above…

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WordPress 2.6.2 is made available couple hours and you need to decide if upgrade is right for you or even needed. I do have to mention that it contains not only bug fixes but also addresses a security issue that is common to many PHP applications.

Reading through the issues addressed as described on developers blog - I’m safe to wait with upgrade until I have a bit more time as I don’t allow open registration and my PHP is compiled with latest Suhosin. If you are not sure about yours - perhaps you should upgrade.