Take That Spammers!!
Check me out: I must be getting popular! I logged into Wordpress and saw this, there were 185 spammy comments today alone! I usually get one or two a day and sometimes it was as much as ten, but this...
View ArticleFirefox 2’s Spell Check Working In Wordpress 2.1.2!
I just read on John Chow’s post of a security fix for Wordpress, that there is an upgrade for Wordpress 2.1 so I immediately upgraded all of my installs to v2.1.2. Then I noticed something great:...
View ArticleGot My Spotplex Code!
I first heard of Spotplex when I read John Chow’s article Happenings Around The Net, and thought I needed to get in on it right away! What is Spotplex? From their site: Spotplex provides internet users...
View ArticleDo You Think I’m Using To Many Wordpress Plugins?
While on Stephen’s Upgrade Immediately to Wordpress 2.1.2! article, I made a comment about how easy Wordpress is to upgrade, but the most time consuming part of it is deactivating/reactivating all of...
View ArticleWordPress Plugin: Display Your Technorati Rank With PHP 4
Doug Karr has written a plugin that can display your Technorati rank on your site, it’s a awesome idea – the problem for me was that my host runs PHP4 and Doug’s plugin needs PHP5 to run! My good...
View Article4 Essential WordPress Plugins That Encourage Commenting
I love reading comments on my blog and the community that is building here! My site is still pretty new, but I wanted to share a few of my 41 plugins that I have found encourage commenting. I highly...
View ArticleEssential WordPress Plugins To Help SEO Your Blog
A just got done reading a great article on Ms. Danielle’s site called Essential Plugins to Help SEO Your Blog – I learned the answer to something that I have been searching for – I have been looking...
View ArticleBackup Your WordPress Database NOW!
When was the last time you backup your WordPress database!? I bet it was a while ago – keep your blog safe and do it now! It’s easy: Log into your Dashboard Click Manage then Backup If any of your...
View ArticleBackup Your WordPress Database NOW! – Part 2
Yesterday, I published an article titled Backup Your WordPress Database NOW!, but I was using version 1.6 of the WP Backup plugin. Derek of Derek Semmler.com, mentioned that his version of the backup...
View ArticleWordPress Plugin: Tab Order Fix For Brian’s Threaded Comments
My good friend Bobs has written a fix for the Brian’s Threaded Comments plugin! As of now, when you’re entering a comment on a site running the plugin, you can tab from the Name, Email, URL and Comment...
View ArticleSay Goodbye To The NOFOLLOW Tag At Samanathon.com!
I have written many times that I love the growing community here at Samanathon.com – without my loyal readers, I would be here talking to myself! Seriously, it’s because of you all that my little hobby...
View ArticleWordPress Trick: Prevent Google’s AdSense Robots From Indexing Your Comments
Depending on the amount of comments your WordPress blog gets, you might want to think about Selection Targeting: The AdSense Googlebot will index everything on your site and tailor ads that it thinks...
View ArticleWordPress Theme Generator
There have been a few of you who have mentioned that you don’t like your current WordPress themes, I found this resource and though I should share it with you all! It’s an online WordPress Theme...
View ArticleView Samanathon.com From A Command Line Interface
I have installed a pretty geeky theme that lets you view and navigate this site as a Command Line Interface (CLI) – I haven’t activated it because I know it will scare a lot of people away, but you can...
View ArticleOut With PHPBB And In with WordPress’ bbPress
I am so tired of moderating my forums – PHPBB is just way too prone to spambots – and the help system sucks!! I couldn’t find any of the answers that I had. Plus, everyone uses them and I want...
View ArticlePublish To WordPress From Microsoft Word 2007
I must say that I absolutely love the entire Office 2007 suite!! Office 2003 was a good product, everything worked as you would expect (except for Outlook which a bloated piece of crap) – but...
View ArticleWould You Install A iPhone Plugin For Your Blog?
I just StumbledUpon an interesting WordPress plugin: iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme. This plugin will automatically detect the Apple iPhone User Agent reformats your blog’s content for optimized...
View ArticleWordPress Plugin: 404 Notifier
Here is a great example of why you really need to install this plugin: Within an hour of installing this plugin, I received 83 notices of 404 errors – that’s 83 missed opportunities to reach...
View ArticleUpdates Your RSS Feed Address For Samanathon.com & New Link Love For...
I was on Stephen Fung’s site recently and noticed that he’s running the Commentluv plugin. I though this plugin was a great idea and it would be the perfect addition to the Do Follow movement, so I’ve...
View ArticleHow to Create an .htaccess file to Prevent Hotlinking
Recently, I was checking out my traffic logs and I noticed that there was another site that was hotlinking some of my images (actually, this blogger had copy/pasted the entire content of my posts) and,...
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