Here are 2 of my favourite wordpress plugins that really hate spammers:
1. Akismet
2. Wp-spamfree
Agreed: “An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin for WordPress that eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. It works invisibly without CAPTCHA’s, or other inconvenience to site visitors. The plugin includes spam-free contact form feature as well. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog!”
In particular, I give wp-spamfree the thumbs up because as soon as it is installed, I was botfree and spamfree. Go download them now.
It is one thing to have good traffic, it is quite another when these traffic are just bots or robots that seems to find their way into your comment posts and drop in links that are repetitive and annoyingly irrelevant. These spammers, as they are called, will take a lot of your time and energy off productive work online.
p.s. I did try using comment policy but it did not keep the bots or robots from creeping in on the comment posts. It turns out not effective in keeping those spammers at bay.
Tags: akismet, spammers, wordpress plugin, wp-spamfree
I think it has barely been one week or two weeks since I have upgraded to Wordpress 2.8.2. Now my dashboard is saying “WordPress 2.8.3 is available! Please update now”. What? How do you keep up with changes when you’ve hardly even understood what these changes are? How do plugin service providers or theme designers keep up with these changes?
If you have downloaded or used wordpress themes and plugins, you are aware that they do come free of charge and take no time to plug and play. Look here!
Looking for the awesome WordPress themes? Here’s the place to find them! Welcome to the Free WordPress Themes directory. 918 themes, 6,686,449 downloads, and counting
Over 6.5 million downloads and 918 themes, that is approximately 7,284 downloads per theme! It still doesn’t explain the frequency of downloads. Yet, I am not sure if wordpress is trying to keep up with the designers or the users.
Whatever the case maybe, I am not going to upgrade just yet as I am still cruising through the brand new suite of Wordpress 2.8.2. For others who are into keeping up with the newest and latest, WordPress 2.8.3 is available! Please update now. Well will you?
Tags: blogpost, wordpress, wordpress plugin
Having plugins in your blog is like setting up linking switches to the main electricity supply in your apartment. You can run wires around the house so that electricity can be supplied to different parts of the room, but you still need to connect a switch to turn it on and off. It is an indispensable electrical gadget.
Basically, when you set up a wordpress blog like this one, you have to include the necessary elements not only to help your readers to find ways around your website, you also need tools to help you manage your website better. We are reminded that the internet is a gigantic and enormous web, information arrives and gets send off in every way possible and it amazes us how a simple click of a button will result in exactly the kind of information we have been looking for. I shall explain about the wordpress plugins that I have used in a series of posts.
SOCIALABLE PLUGIN
If there is a purpose to life, it is definitely to meet and get to know what other people do around the world. How we do that sometimes require us to travel through time and places to meet these people. Yet there are so many social hangouts that it is impossible for us to be present in many places at any one time. So to spread the word of our message, we need to use social buttons. These allow readers to send your post to the social place of their choice. The one I am using for this blog gives me the option to choose where I want my posts to be if readers where to send them.
Sociable which you can choose to download for free at Yoast.com
If you browse to the end of this post, you will notice a number of coloured (faded) buttons. They will lead you to bookmark or send this post to readers related to the buttons you choose. So if you want to bookmark them in your google account, look for the google button and click on it. If you are interested to send it to twitter, you find the icon ‘t’, click on it and follow the instructions given. Easy and quick.
You do not need to have a website like this one to make a social bookmark. You do, however, need to have an account at the social site to which you want to send the social site.
Tags: gadget., wordpress, wordpress plugin
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