As of now, while reading this post, it’s obvious that you’ve decided to use WordPress CMS for your website because it’s open-source, free, customizable and have a great support. There are two time-saving and traffic boosting reasons to build your website with WordPress: WordPress is an open-source Content management system with tons of add-ons aka…
WordPress is my favorite platform for blogging as well spambots love to target WordPress’ comment script directly by using automatic commenting plugins. The best way to bounce them back or on another page, wherever you want to, is simply by editing your .htaccess file. Here is the script to add to your WordPress blogs (or…
BuddyPress is a collection of WordPress MU plugins designed for social networking, it helps to extended profiles, private messaging, friends lists, groups, a messaging system and an activity stream similar to the status update facilities on sites such as Twitter and Facebook. BuddyPress cannot be used in a single-server version of WordPress. Nowadays lots of developers experimenting…
Most of you that frequently updates your self-hosted WordPress site should be well aware of the new version, 2.8.5 now available. As with all incremental security releases, it is recommended that you upgrade as soon as possible. What I consider an incremental upgrade is when it goes something like from 2.8.4 to 2.8.5. This kind…
Using the correct discussion settings on your WordPress site can help you reduce spam. You can also keep inappropriate words or sites from appearing on your posts comments section. Comment spam can become a nuisance as your WordPress sites get more popular. If your WordPress sites are on a do follow list of blogs then…
Comment spam on a WordPress site is something I continue to struggle with. The more popular your WordPress site gets and the more posts you get with a high page rank, the more your WordPress site becomes a target for the spammers. How do you tell what is and isn’t a spam comment? Well, some…
