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Wordpress Comment Spam Plugin
Language wise, my personal blog is a little risque, actually, to be honest, its quite crude, so crude in fact that its kind of offensive, language wise that is, so that combined with the wide range of topics I constantly rant on about (it is a no themed personal blog after all) it attracts its [...]
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Sexy Bookmarks Plugin
There are plenty of social bookmarking plugins for Wordpress that all do a great job, but sometimes its a matter of finding the right one that visually fits the look of your website, and at the time of writing this post Sexy Bookmarks is my plugin of choice. Its simple, yet it gives me a [...]
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StatPress Reloaded
StatPress Reloaded displays real time statistics about your Wordpress blog, collecting information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, operating systems, browsers and more. You can see visitor actions while they’re browsing your site or check which are the preferred pages, posts and categories. Statistics can be viewed in detail or summarized, and you can also [...]
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Top 5 Blogging Platforms
Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. There was a clear winner in this poll who smashed everyone else: Wordpress. Both hosted and self-hosted, Mashable readers loved the WP platform about 7 times more than the number two [...]
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Wordpress Backup Plugins
Whether it be a problem with your web host or a screw up on your end, backing up your Wordpress site is extremely important … obviously. When it comes to backing up your blog or website, it is essential that the database, uploads, themes and plugins are backed up and ready for whatever disaster that [...]
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Move Wordpress To A New Host
In December I changed web hosts to Fatcow in order to take advantage of unlimited space and bandwidth, which also meant I had to move 3 websites that used Wordpress as its web/blog content management system (including the one you’re looking at right now). To make sure I didn’t make any giant mistakes, I did [...]
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WP Database Optimizer Tools
The WP Database Optimizer plugin from Moyo helps optimize Wordpress databases by cleaning tables, deleting revisions and data that can effect the performance of your Wordpress powered website. Plus, it can also perform manual database backups. One of the main reasons I use this tool is due to its “Delete Revisions” feature which is extremely [...]
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Backup Wordpress
This very easy to use Wordpress backup plugin requires no setup for simple installation, letting you back up your entire Wordpress powered site with just a single click of a button, or automatically on a daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis. BackUpWordPress uses zip and mysqldump for faster backups (if they are available), works in [...]
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Wordpress Bot Blocker
In my humble opinion web robots are either good or bad, there is no in-between. If a bot isn’t crawling your site for indexing in a search engine or directory (or anything similar in nature), then its either for spam or some other malicious purpose, but mostly spam. BotBlocker blocks comment spam bots while not [...]
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