Whenever you make changes to your posts, messages (pings) are sent to any websites that are monitoring your site. If you ping these websites too often you can be labeled a spammer. To prevent that there is a class of plug-in called Ping Optimizers. The one I use is cbnet Ping Optimizer. The following excerpt [...]
You will put in a lot of effort in setting up and posting to your WordPress Blog. You want to make sure that a glitch in your hosting computer does not wipe that all away. For this reason you should be making periodic back-ups of your Blog. There are three ways to make a back-up [...]
If you have a WordPress based blog or web-site I’m sure you’ve seen that it comes with a plugin called Akismet. You might not know what it can do for you. This handy little plugin helps defend your website against spam comments. One of the factors in web-site rankings is links from other sites. Comment [...]
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Comment Rating Plug-in
This plug-in written by Bob King allows visitors to your site to rate the comments to your posts. They can give each post either a thumbs up or a thumbs down and the cumulative rating for each post is displayed. Here is a list of the features: Now there’s a companion plugin which display comments [...]