Contests of any kind are a great way to get your readers engaged and involved in your site. Recently, a client introduced me to a plugin aptly named Photo Contest that will do just what it says: Allow you to hold and manage a photo contest at your site…easily, no less! What happens if your site is not a photography site, or an art site,
Hackers are out there, that’s for sure. It’s a threat we all live with as website owners. We can take protective measures, and we should, but nothing’s foolproof. If a hacker makes it through, I want to know sooner rather than later, so I use the WordPress File Monitor plugin to monitor changes to the files on my server. WordPress File Monitor monitors your WordPress
For those of you interested in keeping your WordPress site as secure as possible, BlogSecurity has written a WordPress security checking tool called WP Scanner to check your blog for common security weaknesses. The tool is actually a web-based program that runs at their site, but you need the WP-Scanner Activator plugin to verify that you are the owner of the blog you’re scanning. This
WordPress automatically sets up two feeds for you: your posts feed and your comments feed. You have a choice on the posts feed to publish the full text of your post, or a summary. Which do you choose? Some of your readers may prefer full text feeds, while others prefer a summary. So which group do you defer to? Publishing a summary feed forces people
You work hard on your content, and it’s really disheartening to see that someone else has stolen it and published it on their site. But, what can you do about it? These lazy bloggers who steal content from other sites are called scrapers, and they most commonly get your content through your RSS feed and put it on SPAM blogs (called ‘splogs’), usually in the
We’ve talked about why it’s important to degrag your hard drive regularly. The same is true for your WordPress database. MySQL is the type of database WordPress uses, and while it’s a great database, sometimes it doesn’t clean up after itself too well, and left unaddressed, you could end up with the same sort of problems as you have if you don’t defrag your hard
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