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Broken Links Remover – A must Wordpress Plugin

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Today, I will show you a very useful wordpress plugin that i discovered recently.

The name of this Wordpress plugin is Broken links Remover. Rajesh from TechBlissOnline has developed this great plugin. If you like this plugin you can vote for the plugin in the wordpress 2008 competition here

Broken Links Remover checks your posts for broken links. If it finds one then it will make that link as normal text so that your readers will not see any dead links.

This plugin will help keep your site clean by hiding all bad/broken links. As soon as it finds a bad or broken link, it will notify the link with appropriate post under Manage -> Bad Links Wordpress admin page. You can check below the snapshot of my blog, there are 5 pages of bad links. I have to go through all and correct it :(

Broken links Management page

Broken links Management page

Broken links are bad for your readers – Why?

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18.09.2008 Wordpress 19 Comments

5 Security Tips to Protect Wordpress Blog

Friday, July 25th, 2008
Protect your wordpress blog

Protect your wordpress blog

This website is running on Wordpress Platform from December 2007. But, i never thought of protecting my website. Luckily it was never hacked by anyone till date. Today, i came across a post mentioning Security tips to protect wordpress blog.

I followed some of the security tips.

5 Security Tips to protect Wordpress Blog

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  • Remove WordPress Version tag:
    By default lot of wordpress themes will have a Meta tag as below in Header.php:

    <meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" />

    The attacker can clearly find out what version of wordpress you are using. To avoid exposing of wordpress version, it is good to remove the above tag. You just open header.php file and look for the above code, delete the line and save it.

  • Hide plugin directory:
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25.07.2008 Security, TipsNTricks, Wordpress 15 Comments

Increase comments on your blog using SezWho

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Entrecard + SezWho=Increase readers and comments

Entrecard + SezWho = Increase readers and comments

I joined Entrecard community one month back. I can tell you one thing that more number of readers have engaged with my blog and are regularly commenting.

Yesterday, i found out that Entrecard has joined their hands with SezWho. Immediately i jumped to sezwho website to find about it.

Well its an another great service that you can add in your blog by installing their plug-in.

SezWho – Empower your community and drive traffic with Comments, Blog rating

After going through their website, i decided to install the SezWho plug-in on this wordpress blog.
With this plug-in, the commentators will be rewarded for their comments on this blog and becomes an incentive to comment more on my blog.

Benefits on commenting on my blog:
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18.07.2008 Blogging, Entrecard, Wordpress 23 Comments

Wordpress 2.6 Final Version is out! Grab it

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Wordpress 2.6 is out

Wordpress 2.6 is out !!

Wordpress 2.6 Final is released!

This release has fixed lot of bugs and has come up with a lot of new and good features. If you are using Wordpress, i advice you to upgrade it to Wordpress 2.6 now.

Here are the few features that i immediately noticed after i upgraded wordpress to 2.6 version:

  • Theme preview — Theme preview functionality would allow you to see what a new theme would look like on your blog before you activate it.
  • WordPress Auto-Upgrade — There’s been some early progress on incorporating auto-upgrade for WordPress itself into version 2.6.
  • Google Gears support — Now integrated into the WordPress, this feature will allow Google Gears users to experience a faster admin interface, and possibly manage their WordPress blogs while offline (how cool would that be).
  • Plug-in page — You can see a bubble on the top of Plug-ins link. It lets you know the number of plug-in updates available without actually going to the page.
    Bubbles on top of Plug-ins

    Bubbles on top of Plug-ins

  • Identicons — In WordPress 2.6 you’ll have the ability to select a default Gravatar for those who don’t have one.
  • Post Revisions — Wiki-style revisions management for blog posts: a cool new power-feature, just announced on the WordPress Development Updates blog.
  • Image Captioning — As pointed out by Michael, The WordPress image on the top left of this post has an image caption, a built-in feature from the going-to-be-final-WordPress 2.6!

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16.07.2008 Blogging, Wordpress 8 Comments

Easy File Uploading in Wordpress – WP Easy Uploader Plugin

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Chris Jean has come up with a wonderful plugin WP Easy Uploader. It is a very useful wordpress plugin which can upload plugins, themes and any other files quickly and easily from Wordpress admin panel. You no longer have to upload the files using web File manager or from an FTP client.

I discovered this plugin from this Real Themes Blog.

Plugin features – I liked :

  • You can install any theme or plugin directly from a URL and you don’t need to download it before uploading to your server
  • Easily upload plugins directly to the plugins directory and theme files directly to the themes directory.
  • Select to have archives automatically extracted to their destination. This means that plugins and themes will be taken care of for you, but it also means that you can zip up a large set of files and upload them quickly into a folder on your site. Currently zip, tar, gz, tar.gz, tgz, and tar.bz2 archives are supported.

I think this is one of the Must Have Wordpress Plugins. Let me know what do you think of this plugin??

Below are my other posts related to Wordpress plugins:

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04.07.2008 Blogging, Wordpress 7 Comments

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