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Adding clean archives to your WordPress blog
Clean, manageable archives on a blog act much like a sitemap for users. Such archives enable browsers to see the entire content of a blog at a glance.
In the past, I used Justin Blanton’s Smart Archives plugin, but this seems to have been superseded by Scribu’s Smart Archives Reloaded. The latter seems easier [...]
Auto tagging plugins
I have been testing two auto tagging plugins recently.
The first if the WP-Auto-Tagger. This plugin uses the Yahoo! API to query content for common tags. It has a manual suggest button and an auto-tag feature that will automatically tag posts when they are published.
The second is the Calais Auto Tagger. Again this uses an API [...]
Embedding adsense in blog posts
Once you have decided your blog has reached the stage where you would like to add some paid advertising to it, then Google AdSense is one of your many choices.
Frequently, bloggers who use AdSense wish vary their ad positioning and make their ad blocks prominent in certain kinds of posts. These are good ideas. But [...]
Twitter on your blog
Recently, I decided to hook up my Twitter account to another blog I write to see whether it would bring in any additional readership or traffic.
There are several WordPress to Twitter plugins, but I narrowed my choice down to two: Twitter Tools (by Alex King)and WP to Twitter (by Joseph Dolson).
Twitter tools is a more comprehensive [...]
CommentLuv Plugin for WordPress
One of the age old questions that faces any beginner blogger is this: Once I get people to my blog, how do I get them to comment? I think it goes without saying that the singlemost important factor in encouraging people to comment on your blog is to provide well-written, engaging and informational content. However, [...]
Spam fighting with the Hashcash plugin
By Bloggington on February 3, 2009
Recently, I started using the WP-Hashcash plugin on several blogs and have been pleasantly surprised with the results.
Although I am happy with Akismet, it does occasionally allow automated spam through so Hashcash provides a welcome extra layer between the comment submission form and the Akismet queue.
Essentially, WP-Hashcash uses javascript to check on the client side [...]
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