WordPress is without a doubt the best blogging platform ever built however, there is one section of the internet which is one of the oldest way of building the community and that is forums. Forums are amazingly good when it comes to user generated content and the sense of community flows around them much more than the blogs.
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If you are a theme designer, plugin developer for WordPress CMS or a blogger who want to test new themes, plugin before pushing them in the production blog then the best bet is to install WordPress locally on your computer. That will ensure that you’ll be working much faster and will be able to test things quickly.
Blogging is all about being social and in order to achieve a good brand for your blog, you have to be one of the social animals. Social bookmarking is amazingly helpful in being social and there are various ways it can help you and we’ll discuss that how exactly you can gain advantage from it for your blog.
When you start building a blog, the next thing which hits your mind is that how are you going to track that how many visitors are coming to your website. There are quite a few services through which you can find the details about the visitors, although, I prefer to use Google Analytics (it’s part of my daily work schedule to check it) and there are reasons as to…
Why I prefer Google Analytics for checking the traffic stats for my blogs-
Couple of days back, Atul (one of my dear blogging friend) suggested that anyone can be a pro-blogger by simply spending $ 20 on a piece of software which can re-write the articles and those articles easily pass CopyScape’s algorithm and that suggests that it will act as unique content.
WordPress is without a doubt the best blogging software ever built, however I still don’t prefer to make my blog posts from the integrated editor and there quite a few reasons for that (go through the post and you’ll know why). I prefer to blog from desktop blogging clients like Windows Live Writer (while using Windows) or Ecto (while using OS X) and I suggest every blogger to use either of the software while making the posts and here are the reasons :
How to fight against comment spam in your WordPress Blog!
Spam is the word which is a big pain in the you know where. However, we just can’t run away from it as it’s present everywhere, be it e-mail, blog comments, forum or anything which is online and accepts input from the users. The good thing is that there are good guys who put their time and energy to develop tools to fight against this freaky word.
There are many plug-ins for WordPress which can help you stay away from the comment spam and lets find out that which one can help you stay away from the spam and which will be the right solution for your blog.
Tools To help you fight comment spam in WordPress :
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