WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

Growing your blog beyond publishing can be done quite easily by using WordPress Forums Plugins. Community growth greatly depends on ongoing communication and forums integrated into your WordPress blog through plugin or as an add on should be an option to consider.

Good news is - you have several choices, as with anything related to WordPress plugins but you have to make evaluation and decide which forum model fits better for you. And  I simply want to assist you in this post to make that decision or at least explain your options..

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KeywordLuv is very useful plugin for your WordPress blog and for the longest time I have been using it to share link love to the commenters on my blog. I appreciate each and every one who took advantage of the feature and contributed to the content on my blog!

And yes, valid comments I consider a valuable content and love rewarding people for it! Link love is one of the easiest ways to reward.

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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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I love how WordPress can be changed or modified by simply adding a small piece of code… but if you have been reading my blog for a while, it’s not a news to you . WordPress plugins are what make it possible and as long as author willing to support those plugins and continue to develop them as the core evolves - they can greatly enhance your blog functionality.

And in this post I want to talk about 3 plugins I have run into recently that will make your job as blogger a lot simpler and in some cases - MORE PROFITABLE! So dig in and grab the goodies!

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Well, not really , but it made a great headline, don’t you think?! But don’t be disappointed as in this post I want to share yet another great option for speeding up your blog - PHP Speedy for WordPress. After all - faster your blog loads, less chances that visitor leaves.

Let’s Turn WordPress Into Speed Demon using PHP Speedy plugin!

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Modular design of the WordPress blog platform architecture was perhaps one of the best decisions by its author Matt M. Now anyone with knowledge can create WordPress Plugins that not only augment some functionality of the blog but also completely redefine it or allow us to use the platform in a ways original design never intended.

Extensibility of WordPress through plugins is what allows us to present our own uniqueness on the web while still using very same core and add functionality most desired by our readers. In this article I want to talk about 4 WordPress plugins I have found while browsing the web that provide some great addition to Niche blogs.

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Since I have made a small contribution to Brians Threaded Comments (v. 1.5.18) plugin, mainly in a form of suggestion I feel responcible for sharing how to Force Brians Threaded Comments work nicely with WordPress 2.5 plus and SezWho 2.1 plugin.

I know it might seem like a lot of acronyms but they will all make sense once I have describe the problem and then will provide a simple solution…

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