Quite some time ago I wrote a visitor counter, and discussed it here. It’s been tweaked many, many times, but the latest version is a widget suitable for WordPress themes. If that interests you, you can read more the visitor counter widget for WordPress here.
Updated for 2010/2011, “Top 10 Tricks to Conquer Your Niche With WordPress” is now available online for purchase.
The book explains how to use the popular blogging tool WordPress for business: making it work as a regular website instead of a blog, how to optimize the text and site itself to maximize search engine impact and gain visitors, and everything that needs to be done to make an easy to maintain website.
Revised continuously since 2005, the latest edition is almost fours times the size of the previous volume, with new content on the latest WordPress 3, as well as beginner sections on topics such as domain name selection and what to look for when choosing web hosting.
You can visit Amazon to purchase the fifth edition of “Top 10 Tricks to Conquer Your Niche With WordPress”.
It’s time to get the comments…
If you use a WordPress blog, then you know that checking the comments is a huge deal – and needs to be done far too often for what is mostly spam.
What to do?
Awhile back for ActiveBlogging members, I wrote a plugin to kill comments dead – Dave’s Comment Killer for WordPress – but it’s not your typical comment plugin.
Why?
Because it lets you dump ALL comments!
WordPress has a real problem with comments. Even if you refuse to accept any via the WP settings, spammers can still blast them – and you still have to clean them out. For non-blog blogs it’s a pain.
My plugin lets you automatically dump ALL comments – silently – perfect for regular sites where commenting isn’t used (or needed).
And for sites like this one? I have a setting to detect links – more than ‘X’ links in a comment (which I can adjust in the plugin) and the comment disappears automatically.
Think about it – most spammers want something for their time, and that ‘something’ is a link (or two, or fifty). With this plugin, comments with huge numbers of links are deleted automatically.
And as a final option, I can get an email every time a real comment makes it past the filter – allowing me to approve good ones ASAP.
Take a peek at Dave’s Comment Killer for WordPress – if you need a new way to kill comment spam on WordPress for ‘non-blog’ blogs, this will do a treat for you.
I recently created a plugin for the WordPress Visitor Counter I’ve had here for several years – check out my other site for the much easier to use WordPress Visitor Counter PLUGIN.
No, it’s not porn – it’s a guide where I excerpt some of the last 18 month’s worth of articles from ‘The ActiveBlogging Report‘.
Think of it as a taste, offered at a low price so you can see if you like the site.
I also throw in my bonus beginner’s guide, ‘The ActiveBlogging Solution‘, and a very simple rotator script plugin – ideal for rotating ads in WordPress.
You can get this WordPress Report very cheap (around $8.00 currently), and considering the content/bonus products, it’s a bargain.
An the articles aren’t fluff – here’s a list.:
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So like they say get yours today.
