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More Than 30 Useful WordPress Tricks & Hacks

August 19th, 2009

As an experienced WordPress user, we keep ourselves updated with the development of the core, plugin releases and useful WordPress tips and tricks shared by developers and enthusiasts. In today’s post, we’d like to share with you updated WordPress tips and tricks and plugins that are interesting and useful. Without further ado, here’s another 30+ More Useful WordPress Tricks & Hacks.

Antivirus for WordPress
AntiVirus for WordPress monitors malicious injections and warns you of any possible attacks.

Digg/bury blog comments like Digg.com
This plugin will allow users to digg / bury every thread of your comments, thus find out the most valuable comments as well as the human-spammers.

Spell, Style and Grammar check with After the Deadline
Smart plugin that uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find your writing errors and offer smart suggestions.

Detect Adblocker and display alternative
Anti-AdBlock WordPress Plugin detects if a regular visitor to your blog (10 visits by default) has AdBlock software enabled. If so, it will display a floating notification message on the 11th visit to your visitor.

Insert anything into WordPress Blog Post – WP-Insert
An allrounder wordpress plugin which takes care of it all be it your ads, your feeds, your tracking codes even the way you edit your posts!

Improved web typography in WordPress – WP-typography
A one stop shop for improved web typography in WordPress. Ability includes:
HyphenationSpacing control, including: gluing values to units, widow protection, and forced internal wrapping of long URLs & email addresses.Intelligent character replacement, including smart handling of: quote marks ( “foo” ), dashes ( foo?-?bar ), ellipses ( … ), trademarks ( ? ), math symbols ( 1024×768 ), fractions ( 12/23 ), and ordinal suffixes ( 3rd )CSS hooks for styling: ampersands (class “amp”), acronyms (class “caps”), numbers (class “numbers”), initial single quotes (class “quo”), and initial double quotes & guillemets (class “dquo”).

Improve page load time – WP Minify
Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.

Disable Comments in Old Posts via PHP
Simply set the desired number of days by changing the number “30” to whatever you would like. As is, this script will close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on all articles posted more than 30 days ago.
Custom ‘Read More’ and Thumbnailed Recent Posts
Display a customized Read More message and display related post in Thumbnails by manipulating WordPress custom fields.

Add shadows to a range of objects
Wordpress Shadows plugin is a plugin to add shadows to a range of objects. Currently supported are images, divs and blockquotes.

Implement E-Commerce Shopping Cart – WP e-Commerce
State-of-the-art e-Commerce platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. Similar plugin: MiniCart

Alternative way to display dates – WP-RelativeDate
Change date displays to ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘2 Days Ago‘, ‘2 Weeks Ago‘, ‘2 ‘Seconds Ago‘, ‘2 Minutes Ago‘, ‘2 Hours Ago‘.

Vote Post Up/Down
This plugin adds voting functionality for posts. This function is similar to Reddit or Digg, in that visitors can vote for and against.

WordPress Thread Comment
An enhancement for WordPress’s comment function. It enables users to reply on a exist comment, and the discussion will be displayed threaded or nested.

Add private notes to WordPress blog post
How to leave admin-visible notes on a public visible blog posts.
Customized Greeting Messages – WP Greet Box
This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Similar plugin: Referrer Detector

Allow users to upload and share photos at ease – PhotoSmash Galleries
PhotoSmash Galleries makes it easy to create photo galleries in posts or pages that your users can upload images to. Click here for a demo.

Thank your commentators with Thank Me Later
Automatically sends out thank you emails to readers after they post a comment. By default, it will send emails out after 1 day to remind readers of their comments and to get them engaged with future discussion and your blog. Comment Relish is another similar plugin worth a mention.

Paginated Comments
Plugin that gives you the ability to break your comments into a number of search engine optimized pages. Particulary useful if you have a lot of comments on blog posts.

Check for Broken Links
This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. It also works for images.

Manage who sees the ads
Advanced ad management plugin that lets you decide who will see your ads, depending on user defined conditions. Click here to see a demo.

WordPress Download Counter
Shows the current download count and even refreshes the count every 15 seconds automatically.

Add Post Thumbnails with ease – Simple Post Thumbnails
With the Simple Post Thumbnails plugin, adding thumbnail images to your posts is as easy as uploading any image (no editing required) and clicking the “Update Post” button. Upon upload, the plugin will re-size and crop the selected image according to whatever parameters you specify within the plugin configuration.

Display Thumbnails for Related Post
How to increase pageviews by adding thumbnails to related posts using the popular YARPP plugin and WordPress custom fields.

Link Codes to 33 Social Bookmarking Sites
If you prefer to manage and control your own blog posts’ permalinks to their respective social bookmarking sites instead of using plugins, these WordPress link codes will come in handy.

Display Random Posts from Category
List random posts from a chosen category. You can choose how many posts to display, and whether to show the excerpt or the full content in addition to the post title.

Mass manage WordPress custom fields
Useful plugin to help people who use WordPress to manage their post’s custom fields with ease.

Create beautiful blogroll down-drop (without Javascripts)
Title says it all. Click here for a demo.

Automatically insert content after each post
If you have something you’d like to insert in every blog post, this trick will save you from manually inserting them to each post one by one.
Better commenting functions and management with Intense Debate
A great commenting module that makes the default WordPress module looks really dumb. Read more about what Intense Debate can do.

Better WordPress Search Page
By using a template file you can completely control the look and feel of the search results page.

Filter content by country
This plugins allows you to control the visibility of WordPress elements depending on the users country of origin. You can hide or show certain elements of a page or some sections of a post from users browsing from a particular country.
Create your own private Twitter site using WordPress
Turn your WordPress blog into Twitter alike site.

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Challenges to Simple Website Security

August 11th, 2009

Reading a very good artice on Articlecity.info today gives me an idea to write this simple and well known for most of webmasters all over the planet. Articlecity was talking about How to increase your websites security, and as an extend to it I want to add some clues of how the website security is a thing that need extra time.

Security of a website is one of the main priority for a webmaster. But most of the webmaster only the design and what topics should be provided to attract visitors as much as possible.

In fact, if a webmaster ignoring a security website, the webmaster who is injured themselves because a hacker can take important data on a website and also can even make a random view website (deface) .

Here are some common methods that are often used for hackers to attack a website:

1. Remote File Inclusion (RFI)
Methods that exploit weaknesses include PHP script (), include_once (), require (), require_once () the variable is not declared with perfect. With RFI an attacker can include a file that is outside of the server.

2. Local File Inclusion (LFI)
Methods that exploit weaknesses include PHP script (), include_once (), require (), require_once () the variable is not declared with perfect. With LFI an attacker can include a file that is outside of the server.

3. SQL injection
SQL injection is a technique that utilizes an error writing SQL queries on a website so that a hacker can insert some SQL statement to ‘query’ in a way to manipulate input data to the application.

4. Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
XSS also known with CSS stands for Cross Site Scripting.XSS is a method or enter a code into the HTML script that you run a website through a browser on the client.

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10 International Class Twitter Users

June 26th, 2009

SAN FRANSISCO – Twitter is not only used by the people of the United States but also by all people arround the world. Ashton Kutcher is able to attract millions of users Twitter. As well as nine other people who come from different countries.

Next is alist of 10 Twitter users that able to attract people in their countries for using Twitter. 10 people is also becoming evident that Twitter really has the world.

  1. Ashton Kutcher (USA)
  2. Stephen Fry (England)
  3. Salam Pax (Iraq)
  4. Queen Rania al Abdullah (Jordan)
  5. Shahid Kapoor (India)
  6. Monsieur Dream (France)
  7. Mano Menezes (Brazil)
  8. Pepper (Spain)
  9. Problogger (Australia)
  10. TheREALBoyzone (Ireland)

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Make Money With Twitter

June 26th, 2009

Heard the twitter lately? yes, most of internet users are using the tiny little bird for making their self proclaiming activitues. No? you must be someone who just arrived from outer space.

Since then, alot of people talking of Make Money Twitter. And how will I help you Make Money With Twitter, since the simple page of twitter doesn’t attract that much? Here are some of great inspirations:

  1. Paid Reviews
    It is agreat  idea for direct advertising. But never (it’s never) suggest a product directly. What you can do is some paid reviews, like this article.
  2. Make Twitter application and Sell It
    There are numbers of professional applications for Twitter on web. Sell anything from Twitter analytics to Twitter Content Management Systems such as the HootSuite (erstwhile Brightkit). The would positively pay for it.
  3. Advertising in the blank space
    At the end of its 140-character messages, you can put an advertising like Buy Mazda.
  4. Affiliate Marketing
    This strategy is already used by a lot of affiliate marketing people. Send the links of websites in your tweets.  Those subscribed to your tweets would be able to click on the links and be redirected to the web page.
  5. Promote Music or Artists
    There are great ideas for selling music online. Why not look for the Tra.kz. It offers an combination of a short URL service with a market place as well as a music community.
  6. Micro Fundraising
    Combine your microblogging with microfunding to make money.  Look for the Twestival for that.
  7. Twitter Consulting Service
    There’s a lot to know in twitter. This becomes easy only if someone tells you what you can do best in Twitter. If you are acquainted with the nitty-gritty of Twitter. Why not act as a consultant to companies who are looking for someone to acquaint them with twitter.

You may find these handy, especially when you love the sound of that little bird. Tweet!
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