Tag Archives: WordPress

Protecting email addresses

When creating my new coach directory, CoachGuiden (in Swedish only), I wanted to protect the email addresses from those that harvest for spam purposes.
I found CryptX, author page at CryptX (in German), which works very well.
See more in my list of WordPress plugins.

WordPress and SEO

I came across a great article about WordPress and SEO, search engine optimization. The article is WordPress SEO – Definitive Guide To High Rankings For Your Blog and includes eight sections about different things to consider in order to make your WordPress site as visible as possible. Save a link to the article since it [...]

Zemanta – Blog me up!

I got WordPress Firefox Add-on: Zemanta from Hack WordPress in my mail today. Zemanta looks like a very interesting tool for bloggers. They currently support Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad.com, and self-hosted Wordpresses from version 2.0 onwards.
Have your browser understand what you are blogging about and suggest pictures, links, articles and tags to make your posts more [...]

Blogs about WordPress

I have found some useful blogs about WordPress that I have added to the feeds I subscribe to. In no special order they are WordPress Expert, All4wordpress, Hack WordPress and WordPress Max.

Put your best foot forward

I had a manually created list of My Favourite Posts in the right hand menu before. It worked but not as easy as I wanted it too. Today I came across the Best Foot Forward widget which allows you to select which tags that shall be listed. I created a new tag, MyFav, and just [...]

Link Medley blogging

Chris Garret writes about Get a Gravatar. Scott Sehlhorst goes into details, How To Create Your Gravatar.
DailyBlogTips posts about Take Screenshots with Firefox 2.0. That is how I found out about Screengrab!.
Put Things Off posts about The Creative Sweet: Creativity Should Be Free, listing lots of free software.
Brent Hodgson posts The Story of the Three [...]

WordPress and spam problems

One of my other blogs got targeted with spam comments, all aimed for one specific post. I did turn of comments for that post but that did not help, I have gotten 5,200 spams in a short period of time. Akismet properly catches the spam comments but I wanted to stop spam from getting into [...]

How to handle links in a smarter way

Over at Hack WordPress is a post titled How To: Hiding Your Affiliate Links using WordPress. A simple one line PHP-page is created for each link and placed on your own site. You then link to this PHP-page instead of linking directly to the external page. The good thing is that you have the external [...]

Upgrade to WordPress 2.5

This blog has been upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and all seems to work well. I hope it continues that way. No difference on the front but the admin section has a new and better layout.

More WordPress Plugins

I found 50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging and went looking for plugins that would enhance my blog without cluttering it.
The TrackBack Validator plugin works behind the scene, it performs a test on all TrackBacks in order to stop spam.
Peter’s Random Anti-Spam Image for WordPress creates an image with text that has to be [...]