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Top WordPress Plugins for RSS Management

Posted on August 23, 2010 by admin

Below are the WordPress Plugins for Real Simple Syndication. These WordPress Plugin for RSS Management are very useful for managing your blogs RSS feed, track subscribers.

Align RSS Images – When WordPress removed the “align” tag to be more compliant with Web standards, they ended up breaking the layout of images in your RSS feeds.  While there is a way to correct this manually, this plugin will do it for you automatically so you don’t have to do it manually for every image.
Extra Feed Links – Extra Feed Links allows you to create feeds for category pages, tag pages, search pages, author pages, and comment feeds for single articles and pages.
Feed Comments Number – Feed Comments Number will add an image to your posts in the feed that displays the number of comments the post has.  The reason an image is preferable is that it will be updated dynamically in the feed faster than if it is text.  If no comments have been left yet, it will display “Add a comment.”
MediaRSS – With MediaRSS you can easily increase the types of media that you can embed in your posts for RSS consumption, such as videos.
RSS Atom Avatar – RSS standards allow you to add your site’s favicon and an avatar to your feed, but it isn’t always easy to figure out how to do this.  RSS Atom Avatar will take care of this for you.
RSS Footer – RSS Footer gives you the ability to add text to posts in your feed that will not appear in your standard blog posts.  This is an easy way to add a footer to your feeds to show your copyright or just add some extra content as a reward to your subscribers.
RSSupplement – RSSupplement lets you add more WordPress information to your feed such as Sociable buttons, post author credit, copyright notices and a few other little extras.
Special Feed Items – Have you ever wanted to draw special attention to a certain post in your feed?  This plugin will allow you to insert a unicode heart before the title of that post so people will be more likely to notice it.  It does not change anything on your actual site.
Disable RSS – If you’re using WordPress as a CMS, Disable RSS can be helpful to you in killing off all of your feeds as you won’t be needing them.
Old Post Promoter – Old Post Promoter will choose posts at random from your published collection and change their publication dates so that they will appear on your front page and in your RSS feed.  Note that this does not work if your permalink structure includes dates.
RSS Footer – This plugin enables you to add text or link at the beginning or end of every article in your RSS feeds. It can be used to show your copyright or simply to add a link back to your blog.
Ozh’ Better Feed – This plugin allows you to add a custom footer to your RSS items like a Read More link, a copyright notice, list of related entries, Share on Twitter link or even custom PHP codes that are compatible with FeedBurner or similar services. This plugin is similar to RSS Footer but it provides you with some extra features and also gives you more flexibility and control over your feeds.
Simple Feed Copyright – This plugin enables you to add a copyright notice at the bottom of every post in your RSS feed. It also gives a link back to your blog. This plugin adds only a copyright notice to your RSS feed posts, compared to Ozh’ Better Feed and RSS Footer which provides you with a host of other features like adding custom PHP codes, link to share the post, etc.
RSSupplement – This plugin adds information like categories, post author, comment link, copyright information and more to your RSS feeds post. It also supports Socialable plugin.
KB Advanced RSS widget – This plugin can be used as a replacement for the default RSS widget that comes with WordPress. Compared to the default RSS widget, this plugin gives you an additional option of formatting the RSS feeds. But it requires you to have a basic knowledge of HTML.
FeedStats – This plugin gives you statistics about the readers that have come from your RSS feeds. It provides you information about the number of readers that have come through RSS, their time on site, etc. The statistics appear right in your WordPress dashboard. You also have the option of excluding certain IP’s, setting the number of days to track information and more. RSS Link Tagger for Google Analytics – This plugin adds tags to your RSS feed links that can be used by Google Analytics to keep track of the number of users that came from your RSS feeds.

CommentLuv : Reader comments can be the lifeblood of some blogs, and in many cases they foster an ecosystem of links that can generate a mini social network around a particular topic or community. With the CommentLuv plugin, you can encourage more comments on your posts by giving a bit of link power back to your readers. The plugin will pull in a link to the latest post from the commenter’s own blog, based on the URL he or she submitted when commenting. It’s a simple and clutter-free way for comment traffic to flow, and provides dynamic, up-to-date links that your readers can automatically share with the rest of your audience.

WP Wall : The WP Wall plugin harkens back to the days of ye olde guestbook, where visitors could leave public messages on a site or blog that didn’t pertain to specific posts. In the age of the Facebook wall, this widget adds a fun way for readers to leave general feedback and shout outs for all to see in the sidebar.

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Best Seo Plugins For wordpress sites

Posted on August 6, 2010 by admin

Here is the list of top rated SEO wordpress plugin. which will help to boost your search engine ranking within very short time.

All in One SEO Pack – One of the most popular plugins of all time for WordPress, this plugin SEO swiss army knife from helping choose the best post title and keywords, to helping you avoid duplicate content and more. If your running Thesis this may be a little redundant as it handles alot of the same features. (This WILL conflict with Meta Robots and Headspace.)
Redirection – For any number of reasons you sometimes need to move a page from one spot on your blog to another, but if not done correctly you risk losing that pages status in search results.  The Redirection plugin saves you time and headaches with 301 redirects, it captures a log of 404 errors so you can work on correcting them, and sets up an RSS feed for errors.

Automatic SEO Links – Ever looked up from Wikipedia and realize you’ve been reading for like an hour that is because of their thorough interlinking between articles. Interlinking has two benefits it will spread link juice deeper into your site, and also it will make your site more sticky as users more easily can find key content. Automatic SEO Links allows you to choose a word or phrase for automatic linking, both internal and external, set anchor text, and choose if it should be “nofollow” or not.  One of the best features of this plugin is that it will only do this for the first occurrence of a word in a post so you don’t look like your just spamming.

SEO Smart Links – This SEO-friendly plugin can automatically link keywords and phrases to related comments, posts, pages, and categories within your site. This makes less prominent pages or older content more relevant and crawl-able for search engines, and keeps site visitors engaged. It also lets you set “nofollow” tags on URL’s and create custom keyword lists with automated URL hyperlinks for individual terms.
I Love Social Bookmarking –  I.L.S.B. is a great way to encourage blog readers to rank your post on popular social media sites.  In the past year, sites like Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, and Sphinn have become major resources for driving relevant traffic to quality site content.  This plug in inserts an attractive drop-down menu next to your blog posts that allows readers to submit or rank your site content on a number of popular social media sites, without leaving your blog.
WP to Twitter —Twitter is an ideal space for (viral) content sharing since users are constantly engaged in niche conversations.  Now that Google’s Social Search indexes tweets at the top of SERP’; more tweets/retweets = more indexing power.  WP to Twitter is a plugin that automatically tweets a tiny URL link to new blog posts or blog edits on your site.   Without any additional effort, your content is distributed to a relevant, willing audience; this can drive relevant traffic and increase your presence in social search results.
WP-Super-Cache —This plug in contributes to your site speed and it helps your blog load faster.  The number of pages on your blog that a search engine will index on a daily basis increases with speed.  If indexing each page is a quicker endeavor, more pages will be indexed.  WP-Super-Cache creates static html pages from your WordPress blog so your server will present this file instead of the much denser PHP script.  This will also help fortify your server when it is receiving a high amount of traffic, which can result from all your other great SEO strategies!  This is because this plug in serves a static html page to 99% of your site visitors.
Robots Meta — Robots Meta automatically inserts “nofollow” tags on internal site links that are irrelevant to search crawlers; this keeps search engines from wasting time indexing unimportant pages like results, login, and admin pages, instead directing crawlers to index primary site content.
SEO Slug — Blog post titles typically get an h1-h3 heading, which makes them very important in terms of keyword optimization.  SEOSlug optimizes blog post titles to improve search engine visibility by editing keyword strings. It removes conjunctions from titles, (words like “as” and “if”) to allow crawlers to more readily crawl main content keywords as a fluid string.
Social Traffic Monitor:Social Traffic Monitor is a plugin for WordPress blogs that monitors your blog traffic for activity coming from social news or bookmarking sites.
Facebook Social Widgets:Fully customizable widgets ( not just iframe includes ). Social plugins enable you to provide engaging social experiences to your users with the flexibility of widgets.
SocialGrid:It is a simple widget that makes it easy to add and organize links to your various profiles on the internet.
Social Media Page – Rather than just including all your social media links in the sidebar by default, the Social Media Page plugin, which supports approximately 140 social networks, allows you to include your social profiles on any page or post with a simple line of code. This is ideal if you want to link out to your profiles, without cluttering up your sidebar with lots of icons.
Social Profilr – With only 14 social networks to choose from, the Social Profilr plugin is far from all inclusive, however it has a nice twist. Most of these plugins only allow for the actual profile links. Social Profilr steps it up a notch by also letting you include a line of text (with or without HTML) as a brief introduction. In essence, you can turn this into a brief “About Me” or “About the Blog (” blurb with a link to your full WordPress “About” page. This appears above your social profile icons, which can be displayed in either vertical, horizontal or dropdown fomat.
Lifestream – More independent than the other options listed here, the Lifestream plugin doesn’t require a third party account in order to stream your social activity. Although out of the box, this plugin doesn’t have the best design (it’s more cluttered than the other two), its biggest benefit is that it gives you the option of being utilized as either a sidebar widget, or on a separate page/post of its own. Like the FriendFeed widget, it gives you the option of hiding Twitter @replies from your stream, too.
Retaggr – With more than 180 social networks to choose from, Retaggr is another great option for promoting your social profiles. This particular plugin is somewhat limiting, in that commenters need to have a Retaggr account in order for them to receive the extra link love from your site. But if they do, the plugin places a tiny icon next to their comment. Rolling your mouse over the icon pops up their profile information including their name and social media links.

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WordPress files and database backup – Best plugins

Posted on August 6, 2010 by admin

Do you backup your worpdress blogs? If not, you should! All the efforts you put into writing, advertising, marketing and administrating your blog can go to waste if appropriate reservation measures are not taken in time. Even though many hosting companies make backups of your account, it is still a must to have your own ones.

WP-DB-Backup

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database. Click here for more info

eFiles Backup

Creates on demand backups of Uploads, Themes, Plugins and the wp-content directory. Probably only suitable for smaller sites. Click here for more info

DBC Backup

DBC Backup, is a simple way to schedule daily database backups using the wp cron system. You can select when and where your backup will be generated. If your server has support you can select between three different compression formats: none, Gzip and Bzip2. The plugin will try to auto create the export directory, the .htaccess and an empty index.html file to protect your backups. Click here for more info

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WordPress Security Tips

Posted on August 6, 2010 by admin

RESTRICT ACCESS TO WP-ADMIN BY IP
Something I’ve recently started doing is only my IP can access wp-admin directory. This stops someone to hack the site by brute force And make sure that I can manage the site easily. Of course, the database is still relatively fragile, but it is a very good way to counter attacks at the front door

Order deny,allow
Deny from All
Allow from 123.456.789.0

USE VERY STRONG DATABASE PASSWORD
Using the cPanel password generator, I can create a fairly secure database password, something vitally important. If I hacker had access to the database, they can do anything. Quite literally. A second step I take is to always rename the database from the Fantastico generated name as Fantastico always generates a wp_ style name, making the site easily identifiable as running WP. Doing so is fairly easy manually although this is one of the few times I’d recommend a plugin; the security scan plugin can rename your database in a single click.

By using the password generator in cPanel, my database password is secure enough, something vital. If hacker had access to the database, they can do nothing. Literally. A second step I always take the name of the database generated name Fantastico Fantastico as always generates a style name wp_, making the site easy to recognize that the site is powered by wordpress.

Stay up to date
It is important that your themes, plugins, and WordPress installation are up to date. If you use WordPress 2.6 or higher, update your plugins is easy. For your theme make sure you subscribe to the site of the theme developer – they must announce the updates that affect security.

Use Secret Keys
Probably this is the most followed security tip, but still many people don’t do this. A secret key is a hashing salt that is used against your password to make it even stronger. Secret keys are set in your wp-config.php file. Simply visit https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1 to have a set of randomly generated secret keys created for you. Copy the 4 secret keys to your wp-config.php file and save. You can add/change these keys at any time, the only thing that will happen is all current WordPress cookies will be invalidated and your users will have to log in again.

Block WP- folders from the Search Engines
There is no need to have all of your filesWordPress files indexed by Google, so it’s best to block them in your robots.txt file. Add the following line to your list

Disallow: /wp-*

Backup Backup Backup
Always take regular backups of your file directories as well as the database. WordPress Database Backup plugin creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database.

Nobody should be allowed to search your entire server
If you allow then the hacker will find the way to hack easily.My Tips; Do not use the following search code in the search.php in your theme folder:

<?php echo $_SERVER [‘PHP_SELF’}; ?>

Use the following instead:

<?php bloginfo (‘home’); ?>

Also block WP-folder from being indexed by search engines, the best way to block them is in your robots.txt file. Add the following line to your list:

Disallow: /wp-*
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10 Useful Code Snippets for WordPress 3.0

Posted on August 5, 2010 by admin

LIST PAGES AND CATEGORIES IN A DROP DOWN MENU, EXCLUDING CERTAIN CATEGORIES AND LIMIT THE NUMBER OF SUB CATEGORIES

<ul> <?php wp_list_categories('orderby=ID&order=ASC&depth=3&title_li=&exclude='); ?> </ul>

Display a tag cloud

Add a cloud of tags used in your blog entries, with words sized based on their frequency. If you tag your entries around a particular area of interest (e.g. web design), this will put some good keywords on your page for search engines as well as making it easy for visitors to locate posts on a specific topic.
Simply add this code to your sidebar (or footer, if you prefer):

<?php wp_tag_cloud('number=15, smallest=6&largest=16&'); ?>

Display archives in a drop down list

If your blog’s been going for a while you’ll want to free up some sidebar space by converting your archive list into a drop down menu. Even if you’ve only had a blog for a few months, putting your archive links in a drop down stops your visitors being drawn away from the rest of your sidebar content.
Just paste this code into your sidebar:

<select name="archive-dropdown" onChange='document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;'>
<option value=""><?php echo attribute_escape(__('Select Month')); ?></option>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=option&show_post_count=1'); ?>
</select>

Display Top Comments

<?php $result = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 10");
foreach ($result as $topten) {
$postid = $topten->ID;
$title = $topten->post_title;
$commentcount = $topten->comment_count;
if ($commentcount != 0) { ?>
<li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($postid); ?>" title="<?php echo $title ?>"><?php echo $title ?></a></li>
<?php } } ?>

Display a Pages Menu in your Sidebar

<h2>Pages</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
</ul>
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WordPress Release 3.0.1

Posted on August 5, 2010 by admin

WordPress blog 3.0.1 is released, that was quick! This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues and is the maintenance patch following the success of WordPress 3.0 – 11 million downloads in 42 days. Backup & then update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.

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