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.

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;

broken link checker plug-in

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has found, you can see the following display, which is fantastically easy to edit, remove link or edit URLs that were no longer valid.

broken link list

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?

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.

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?

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

Okay, this is what many of the bloggers have been looking for. WordPress 2.7 is finally available to download. I think it is fantastic for my fans and I am very psyched to get ready for the new update. I will have to update to 2.7 as well.so, all wordpress lovers, it’s time to download and upgrade here.

Don’t forget to view installation guides or upgrading guides on wordpress.com if required. Because they always come in handy for me whenever I have some issues with installation. But normally, I just use my webhosting auto update function and all I have to do is just disable all my plugins and do the auto upgrade.

Thanks for reading.

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Well, wordpress 2.6.5 is available to download now. I have just updated to 2.6.5 today as well.
so, all wordpress lovers, it’s time to download and upgrade here.

Don’t forget to view installation guides or upgrading guides on wordpress.com if required.. 

Thanks for reading.

Lately, I have seen many people are using wordpress as their mainstream media to connect to their visitors and readers because wordpress is actually very good tool in blogging. Perhaps, the best, to be biased.

As blogging is very popular past a couple of years, people have been using wordpress and blogger as their main platforms. Now, people are more experienced and trying to get good web hosting, sometimes, many of them ended up getting a bad web hosting and wanted to change for new one. I have recently posted how to solve web hosting dilemma and you can read it here. 

Then again, wordpress blog owners have to worry how to migrate successfully from old host to a new web host. Lela Iskandar Suhaimi wrote an e-book about “how to migrate your wordpress to another web hosting“ is pretty simple and useful to all the wordpress blog owners all over the world. So, here, I am sharing this fabulous e-book for FREE. 

It’s basically photo-based e-book, so it’s absolutely easy to read and follow up, you can either print out or refer the book while you are migrating your entire wordpress. I will be happy if this helps you and all the credit goes to the original author.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome. Thanks for reading.

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I would like to introduce an awesome little plugin for your wordpress. In default setting, wordpress does not have archival function, and I sincerely think it is very important that you have archive function on your site, not only it will help you index your posts faster, but also your readers can see the chronological order of your post entries and complete list of your creation. 

There are about 3-4 plugins for wordpress archive process, but I picked this one because It is very easy to install and absolutely effective to view. Thanks for the author viper007Bond for this fabulous script. You can download the plug-in here. According to viper007Bond,

Clean Archives Reloaded generates a list of all of your posts, sorted by month. It’s enhanced with Javascript to allow collapsing and expanding of months.

It’s highly efficient and won’t kill your server with tons of MySQL queries.

I’ll quote directly from the installation page, so that you will have no error to intall this fantastic plugin.

Installing The Plugin

Extract all files from the ZIP file, making sure to keep the file structure intact, and then upload it to /wp-content/plugins/.

This should result in the following file structure:

- wp-content
    - plugins
        - clean-archives-reloaded
            | readme.txt
            | clean-archives-reloaded.php

Then just visit your admin area and activate the plugin.

See Also: “Installing Plugins” article on the WP Codex

plug in install

Here is my example screenshot from my blog. Enjoy your plugin.

InfoMM Archive

Thanks for reading.

Today, I decided to install threaded comments plugin for my blog. It is actually very good plug-in and I definitely need to use it because my visitor rate has been increasing week by week, so is the comments on my blogs. 

The reason I choose this plug in is simple. It works like a magic, it helps to everyone who comments on the blog to have clearer message and which comment is intended to a particular person. This actually facilitates not only the communications between you and your visitors, but also all your visitors themselves as well.

You can download the plug-in here. The  installation part is pretty straight forward.

• download the zip file.  Unzip the plugin package. 
• rename the file name if you think it’s too long, like ”wordpress-thread-comment” folder to “wp-thread-comment”
• As usual, just upload it to WordPress Plugin folder, ‘*/wp-content/plugins/’
• Activate the plugin from wp admin page
• Check if you see the word “reply” on your comments, if so, then you are done.
• More options can be set in settings just like any other plug-ins. 

 

Well, wordpress 2.6.3 is available now. I will be soon updating to 2.6.3 in a couple of days as well.
so, it’s time to download and upgrade here.

Don’t forget to check out installation guides or upgrading guides on wordpress.com.

Have a great weekend.

If you are SEO (Search Engines Optimization) oriented person, you may already know the essence of Tell-A-Friend script. Many tell a friend scripts are available, but for wordpress users, this is the most comprehensive and fantastic one available, I have been using this and so should you. 

Tell-A-Friend script is very effective way of gettings more readers, I am always happy to have many readers on my blog because it will make me energy to write and share with you all more. It is a great feeling as well. I also subscribe to real great material websites as well. As long as you are getting some knowledge instead of emails that are trying to sell products or services. Tell a friend script will help you gain even higher readers for your blog, or visitors for your website. 

I would like to introduce you with Tell A Friend plug-in from wordpress. It is so powerful, you can use many well-known email providers, and it is not spamming because you just don’t suggest to random address, rather, you would email to the persons you know. Moreover, this one has optional social bookmarking sites that will also allow visitors to have complete freedom of what they want to do. Better yet, you can also use at “add to favorites” function. 

Thanks to the author and you can download Tell A Friend script here.

Here are the installation steps (Reference to wordpress extend page).

1. Upload the folder /tell-a-friend/ to your WP plugin folder /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. The path must look like this: /wp-content/plugins/tell-a-friend/
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress admin
4. You are ready, check the ‘share this post’ button after your posts. If you see this icon photo below, it means you have successfully installed the Tell-A-Friend plugin . That’s all and your plug-in is up and running.

It is very easy to install and highly effective to generate traffic to your site/blog. Hope this is useful to you. Any comments and suggestions, please feel free to leave comments, Thanks for reading