09 Feb 11 Upgrade your wordpress 3.0.5

Hey all,

It is definitely the time to upgrade to wordpress 3.0.5 as I have updated with all success.

I have been using wordpress for more than 2 years and I think this update fixes a lot of issues. Also, you can actually download and test RC release for wordpress 3.1 as well. Download here.

Below is the information from wordpress.org for new security fixes.

Summary

• Fix XSS bug: Properly encode title used in Quick/Bulk Edit, and offer additional sanitization to various fields. Affects users of the Author or Contributor role. (r17397, r17406, r17412)
• Fix XSS bug: Preserve tag escaping in the tags meta box. Affects users of the Author or Contributor role. (r17401)
• Fix potential information disclosure of posts through the media uploader. Affects users of the Author role. (r17393)
• Enhancement: Force HTML filtering on comment text in the admin (r17400)
• Enhancement: Harden check_admin_referer() when called without arguments, which plugins should avoid. (r17387)
• Update the license to GPLv2 (or later) and update copyright information for the KSES library.

Tags: Upgrade your wordpress 3.0.5

05 May 10 Great plug-in: Broken Link Checker

Today, I decided to have my site be integrated with at least one plug-in because it has been a while I added some useful plugins. Needless to say, I haven’t seen much better plugins than I am currently using, so it’s been really a while.

It is pretty hard because most of the plug-ins do not really impress me, but this one has got something that I would say “WORTH IT”.

To install plug-ins in wordpress has never been easier and all you need is to enter the plugin name in the text field search box, so this one is called “Broken Link Checker“. As soon as you installed and activated this plug-in, you will be able to see on your Dashboard as follows;

Once you click what the plug-in has found, you can see the following display, which is fantastically easy to edit, remove link or edit URLs that were no longer valid.

For me, most of these are silly comments with their URLs, so it’s easy to take them out anyways. However, if you have several dead links, big search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN will discount your website credibility because you have been hosting too many broken links.

Besides, this plug in will help you with your SEO because limiting useless outgoing links are just wasted on your site. Since I am actually using do-follow methods on my site, I have to be more careful with links incoming and outgoing.

So, the bottom line is, I recommend this Plug-in and am happy to use it. Have you ever used this plug-in or do you think you will use it in the future? What do you think?

Tags: broken links, do-follow, SEO, url

05 Jan 10 Using killer plug-ins for wordpress

Generally, People tend to write about great articles and fantastic posts about how to get a traffic, SEO related topics, SEM marketing hits and social networking sources.

What I like about plug-ins for wordpress is somehow not new. But if we choose correctly, definitely It is useful for many bloggers. I am sometimes skeptical about some plug-ins but some plug-ins are definitely fantastic.

I would suggest some of the killer plug-ins are not only useful but also help bloggers to gain more traffic and facilities as well as flexibilities. Speaking of killer plug-ins, if you are usual blogger in all niches and sorts, below are the ones that should not be missed for plug-ins.

• All in one SEO pack – Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog
• CommentLuv – Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenter’s blog by parsing the feed at their given URL when they leave a comment. Rewards your readers and encourage more comments
• Contextual Related Post – Show user defined number of contextually related posts
• SABRE – Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine
• Sociable – Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites
• Subscribe to Comments – Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted

I would strongly recommend these plugins for starters, there are many useful plugins for specific niches, however, these six plugins along with Akismet are basically essential tools for wordpress fans. I happily use it for all my wordpress sites too.

So, if you haven’t tried all of the above plug-ins, now it’s time you get to use the opportunity because I will not write a single post that is not useful for my readers. Thanks for reading.

Tags: bot registration, commentluv, contextual, networking sources, plug in, plug-ins, post, sabre, SEM, SEO, sociable, social bookmarking sites, traffic

20 Nov 09 Spam and Stats of Akismet

99.259% accurate 5,621 spams caught, 455 legitimate comments, and an overall accuracy rate of 99.259%.

Yes, that’s my Akismet stats as of today after a little over a year of my blog. Normally, it makes me very happy that Akismet is pretty good software, I hardly missed legitimate comments and it’s pretty awesome. It is imperative that wordpress has built in for Akismet and I am really thankful for it.

How about your Akismet stats if you ever use wordpress?

Tags: accuracy, accuracy rate, akismet, blog, good software, legitimate comments, rate, software, spam, spams, stats, today, year

15 Dec 08 WordPress 2.7 new look and great features

I am so impressed with wordpress 2.7, because it changes a lot of things. The design is very nice and easy to browse.

You may be amazed to know that wordpress has changed interface and its functions. The best thing I like about is to be able to update everything easily and one click install for plug-ins. Isn’t that cool?

Now it will take less than 1 minute to install usual plugins that would take about 10 minutes and now no hurdles at all.

All the drop down menu on the right has given users to browse and make changes easier than ever.

This wordpress 2.7 will save you time and efforts to set up and upgrade in the future. That’s the best thing I like about. The version upgrade will be now like plugin upgrade and you do not have to worry about database backup and etc.

Another fantastic thing is Ajax interface for comment management that administrator can now easily manage the comments that are being waited for moderation.

Of course, it will not be enough if I don’t mention easy breezy Admin control panel’s new look that will give you maximum satisfaction of being a wordpress blogger.

So, don’t wait and upgrade your wordpress to 2.7. Thanks for reading

Tags: 2.7, best, functions, nanda linn aung, new version, plugins, SEO, wordpress