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14 Useful Articles for Bloggers, WordPress Users, and Social Media Users
Jun 7th
This week’s weekly round up is list of articles covering some of the best articles written over the last couple of weeks. The resources covered in this week is for bloggers looking for way to write more high quality articles, different ways to modify WordPress, and tips to be more successful at using social media.
BloggingAre You Networking? – Keith over at Hot Blog Tips wrote and did a great video about networking.
Writing a Business Blog: Five Things You Need to Know – A guest post on Web Tech Wise about writing content on your blog. By having good content you can More >
WPtouch iPhone Styled Theme
Apr 15th
Image via CrunchBase
Today after reading a blog entry by Nicholas Cardot called The 15 Best WordPress Plugins to Use in 2010, he mentioned a pluging called WPtouch iPhone Theme that helps mobile phone internet users to your site easier and faster than the normal theme that is designed for a regular sized theme. Nicholas says this is a must have plugin for 2010 and I have to agree. Everyday more and more mobile phone users upgrade to internet ready smartphones and actually use their phones to surf the net.
The installation and configuration was easy. Just go to your admin screen and select install new More >
Final Thoughts on WP-Spam Free
Apr 1st
Earlier today I made the decision to turn off the plugin WP-SpamFree. WP-SpamFree is a powerful anti-spam plugin for WordPress that stops comment spam and trackback spam. This plugin stops the spam before it gets to the database, so there is no cluttering up of the database. The plugin also comes with a SpamFee Contact Form.
I recently I reviewed WP-SpamFree and wanted to test it for a month and see how will this plugin works. After a month of use I had 876 spam comments blocked. This plugin worked so well that it only a small number of spam got through. Not only did More >
Daily Delicious Links March 5th
Mar 5th
Today I came across some more resources for designers. One of resources that I came across today is a special character shortcut keys cheat sheet. There are times in design a designer may need to use a special character. If its a character that the designer may not know. If that happens the designer will have to valuable time looking for the keyboard command to make this work. One of the links I found today has a large cheat sheet that has every special character that a designer may need.
I also found some more articles on CSS, photoshop tutorials, photo More >
Daily Delicious Links March 4th
Mar 4th
Today’s delicious posts is all about design. If you looking for tips and tutorials in CSS, then check out the CSS links I found. There is a lot of good information about CSS design and coding. I also found a set of 150 free paper textures for you to use in your designs. If you are looking for design tools, check the link I found about the 10 most popular Firefox plugins for designers.
- 4 Ways to Get Rounded Corners Using CSS – Pxleyes.com Blog “Rounded corners are a common CSS effect these days. There are several ways to accomplish this effect, and More >
Digg Digg a SocialMedia Book marking and voting plugin for WordPress.
Feb 27th
Over the last few months I have been in search of a way to add voting tools to the blog post automatically and still look good. As most know if you want to add a Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Blog Engage and many other buttons there is a plugin for it. The issues I came across is, they were all different sizes and generally hurt the flow of the text or images. As a designer, I see this as a design flaw. So I tried to manually inserting the code in myself or not adding all of the voting tools. As More >
Weekly Link Love
Feb 7th
Here is a list of my favorite blog articles that I read last week. If you haven’t read them yet, take a look at them over the next week. The links are to blogging resources, SEO information, how to lower your bounce rate, hootsuite, and WordPress Plugins.
- Blogging & SEO: An Old Dog’s Guide – Extraordinary Thoughts
- Are Your Blog Readers Your Customers? – Not A Pro Blog
- 1 Reason to Choose Your WordPress Plugins Wisely – Extreme John
- Hoot Suite the Perfect Twitter Client for Business – Extreme John
- 67 Ways to Get Your Content Into the Cloud – Not A Pro Blog
- Are Your Blog Readers Your Customers? – More >
25 Recommend WordPress Plugins
Feb 5th
As every WordPresss administrator knows, the basic features of WordPress are a bit limited to what you can do with the program. But, WordPress has a fix for this. There are aftermarket addons know has plugins that can be installed to help you with administering your WordPress site and make your life easier. WordPress plugins can do almost anything the programmers can imagine. You can install, add and remove plugins through the administrator panel under the plugin tab.
Below is a list of plugins that I use, or have used in the past. Just remember, the more plugins you have the More >
Just Installed Cute Profiles
Jan 4th
When I visit a website I tend to get turned off by “cluttered” websites. As do most readers do. When designing a blog or website and I need to add icons or buttons for social networking sites, the side bars, post and any header gets to cluttered if you add more than a couple. While searching the internet for a better option, I started paying attention to the “floating” navigation buttons pushed up against the left or right side of a webpage. I noticed over the last couple of months that I started seeing more and more sites starting to More >
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I Have Had It With Comment Spam!
Feb 19th
Posted by James in wordpress
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Today I made some changes to Evolutionary Designs comment system. After receiving large numbers of spam by trackbacks or by comment bots, I decided I would make it a little harder for the spammers to waste my time. As of early this afternoon I added a new plugin called WP-SpamFree WordPress Spam Plugin
What Makes This Plugin Different From All the Others?WP-SpamFree is a powerful anti-spam plugin for WordPress that destroys comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. The difference between WP-SpamFree and other anti-spam plugins? WP-SpamFree runs background without CAPCHA’s like verifications. This plugin also has a spam-free contact form More >