Database Backup
After installing WordPress, the first thing I was looking for was improving my personal WordPress experience with plugins – for extended functionality, usability, and pleasure of use .Here I will...
View ArticleWordPress Related Entries
This is the plugin you may find useful if you want to keep visitors to your blog for more than just one-post-reading-time. This plugin will provide to the user entries, which have some common/similar...
View ArticleContact me page using WP-ContactForm plugin
Citing RyanConnect: “WP-ContactForm is a simple drop in way for users to get in touch with you. Its easy for any WordPress user to add this functionality to their site. Just upload two files and change...
View ArticleGoogle sitemap generator plugin
This plugin is expected to increase the coverage of your blog by Google. You will have to register for the google sitemaps tool (which is free), that will be easy if you gmail account. In short,...
View ArticleMust-have WordPress plugin: Sidebar Widgets
Probably you already know and use it – but I started using it just today. As expected, this plugin is amazing!It’s main concept is to allow WordPress administrator to use GUI in the admin panel to...
View ArticleAdRotator WordPress widget
I stumbled upon a good tiny widget which allows to “rotate” chunks of HTML code in your sidebar (using wordpress widgets plugin). You may set up a couple of this rotators for different content types...
View ArticleOptimal Title WordPress plugin
This might be the simplest thing to do in your blog – put the post title in front of the blog name. And the plugin to do so is simple – but still appreciated for the effort. Get it and enjoy.P.S. If...
View ArticleSearch Hilite (highlight) WordPress plugin
When you search something on the Internet, it is always convenient to have your search terms highlighted in every page you find. Often you need to use “Cached page” to see your terms – which is not...
View ArticleSPA (Snap Preview Anywhere) WordPress Plugin
More and more often I came across “snap previews” appearing on the links in other blogs. So I decided to try it on my blog as well…The Snap Preview Anywhere is a WordPress Plugin to display those...
View ArticleWordPress [Anti-]Spam plugins
You may discover, that as your blog gets more visitors and pageviews, your are getting more spam in comments to your posts. They originate as actually comments, pings, and trackbacks. Fighting spam...
View ArticleUpdating everything
Today I moved my blog and gallery into MySQL5 databases from an elderly MySQL4. Also, both WP and gallery are now updated to the latest versions. Soon I’ll change the WP and G2 themes – for the...
View ArticleComment referrers WordPress plugin
Get it here.It adds Referrer of the person who’s leaving comment on your WP blog. May help to take the right action for seemingly legit, but really spam comments (e.g. if someone was just searching for...
View ArticleSpam Karma 2 (SK2) is a life saver plugin
As an update to WordPress anti-spam plugins, I highly recommend Spam Karma 2. For a time, it seems to be the ultimate protection. I turned off all the other anti-spam plugins (including Aksimet), and...
View ArticleBlog accessibility from handheld and mobile devices
I’ve seen someone reading my blog from a 320×240 handheld device, and realized that it must be pretty inconvenient. Testing my blog with the help of ready.mobi confirmed my worst expectations with a...
View Articlefail2ban and Google translate: how to easily cut your WP blog traffic
fail2ban has a php-url-fopen rule.WordPress has a Global Translator plugin, which – among others – uses Google Translate service.If someone uses Google Translate (e.g. using Global Translate’s...
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