WordPress Plugins

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In this installment of WordPress Wendesdays I want to talk about a plugin I have used with great success. As the post states, about 84% of all comments are spam according to Akismet.com. I was shocked when I read that number. In order to deal with the growing onslaught of ...

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What’s A Widget Anyway? Last week we discussed WordPress sidebars and include files. This week we’ll explore how we can prepare our sidebars (or any other area of our theme) to accept widgets. In case you haven’t done your homework, the WordPress Codex defines a widget as being: …like a ...

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I’m not usually one to repost content that I’ve seen on other blogs but I’m making an exception in this case. Graywolf of wolf-howl.com published a post yesterday about a new plugin and after checking it out, I knew I’d have to share it with my readers. It immediately jumped ...

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One of the most frequent suggestions I’ve received for this site is to have a contact page to make it easier for people to contact me. To be honest, I’m not quite sure how I had missed such a basic element of a website but for whatever reason, I had ...

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While I was upgrading Blogging Experiment to the latest version of WordPress, I decided to go ahead and take care of some of the plugins I’ve been meaning to install but just hadn’t gotten around to. I’ll be covering these over the next week and first up on the list ...

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Last week when I mentioned that I’d be using a plugin to rotate the 125×125 ad blocks that you see on the right of the page, I hoped it would generate some interest. It certainly did that, however, it did not interest the people I was targeting. I received several ...

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Usually for Monday’s Reader Question Sessions I pick and choose which question to answer. However, today there was an overwhelming number of questions in the comments and my inbox, all about the same thing. And, since I’m a big proponent of the “give the people what they want” school of ...

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I’ve noted a couple of times how many people of the same name comment on this site. We’ve got a few Tim’s and more Steve’s than I know what to do with. However, until today I didn’t realize can actually cause a problem with the Top Commentator list I display ...

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If you’re anything like me, every once in a while you find a task that just drives you nuts. It doesn’t even have to something difficult or time consuming, it’s just something you would love to never have to do again. For me, underlining text in WordPress was one of ...