If there is anything you want to be proud of when building your own website, it should be having readers to drop in and say ‘hello’, interact with you through the comment boxes. How else would you have known that what you have written are being read?
Whilst it is good to receive regular comments, it is even better if the readers come forward to show themselves using real names and engaging comments. Yet, ‘legitimate comments’ can be stuffed with keywords in the Name column for their website (some smart SEO guru told them that’s how it’s done). Others may drop their signature link (s) in the comment itself. This makes it difficult for you to moderate, and previously you just had to live with it.
So Gobala Krishnan has come up with a neat wordpress plugin that allows you to display your comment policy that helps your readers self-moderate their own comments.
This is a great tool. And if you have a wordpress blog, you would know that AKISMET just will not work anymore in terms of capturing SPAM messages. There are people out there who have learned the trick of the “backlink” trade. Nowadays, the disguise is so cleverly written, you don’t even think you need to delete that comment until you discover the names are different, the emails stay the same but the url has not changed.
Recently, I sent an email to a reader whose comment I have approved. It was a ‘gmail’ account; google sent back a message saying suspended. Whoa!
You can read about how to activate and set the comment policy plugin or download at wordpress.og.
This is quite an unbelievable plug and play wordpress plugin for sites that are monetized with google adsense. It is the most clever plugin I download in heartbeat. Before I posted this, I had a quick look at my admin panel on how to go about playing with the settings. It is unreal and definitely worth checking out. Here’s a screenshot in my admin panel.
As you can see, it provides options for you to choose which pages should include these adsense ads. No more running back and forth from your glossary of adsense codes to your sites to get these ads up. Go to developers of this plugin, thaludasina to download now. The best thing is, it is all free.
Tags: adsense, Blogging, domain, google, wordpress plugins
I pointed out on on 4th Aug 2009 that Wordpress 2.8.3 is available. Barely a few days later, my dashboard in my wordpress admin says “WordPress 2.8.4 is available! Please update now.”. Can you really keep up with the changes in technology? Too many chefs can spoil the soup, they say. I hope with all the hundreds of themes and plugins being contributed to give wordpress users a great blogging experience, they do not take away the joy of building websites.
This feature is available only to wordpress users who have their own domain name (self-hosted wordpress users) at wordpress.org. Wordpress.com, however, is a free hosting platform. You need not have to concern yourself with the changes. For new bloggers, who intend to use wordpress as the site building platform, it may be a better idea to create a psuedo blog on wordpress.com because two things:
1. Community support:
instantly you have a group of people your can invite to view your posts without going out to promote at other social sites.
2. Server support: not worrying about breakdowns, bad service from domain providers etc. I have been there. My main site had crashed twice and I had lost all my data once. Had to pick myself all over again. So lesson is, unless you are ready to take a fall, try out the blogging platform available.
If you run your own website, you are practically working on it alone. lf there’s a bug or you installed a plugin that ends up spoiling your dashboard, you have to seek help at the wordpress forum and sometimes, you won’t even know how to begin describing what the problem is! There is a lot of jargons you have to learn. Wordpress.com provides exactly the same dashboard or admin features as those on self-hosted wordpress sites. You may wish to migrate to write on a self-hosted platform in future.
Tags: Blogging, Social, wordpress
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