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By: Lucas McDonnell

Lucas McDonnell — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:37:23 +0000

In reply to infmom’s comment way up above (comment #2) — you have be interested in a plugin called Permalink Redirect, which I used a long time to redirect my old URLs (those darn numbered URLs) to my fancier new title-based URLs. You can find the plugin at http://fucoder.com/code/permalink-redirect/ (note that I’m in no way affiliated with this plugin — it just worked for me so I thought I’d share it).

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By: Otto

Otto — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:11:25 +0000

Tadd: You’re definitely thinking something else, Akismet allows you to use one key on any number of sites. They only expect you to pay for commercial sites (which they define as making more than $500 per month).

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By: Trisha

Trisha — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:02:57 +0000

@Jeffro2pt0, I am using all three of the stats tools you mention (and loving Mint - wow!) but is there any downside to using so many at once? I plan to look at the ones mentioned by Jason and Ronny above, because I’m a total stats junkie, but don’t want to do anything that will slow down site performance…..what is your opinion on using multiple stats packages?

By: Tadd

Tadd — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:56:54 +0000

Just installed WordPress for a future project site I’m working on and the first plugs I install (RIGHT away) are:
Google Sitemap Generator
Magic Keywords
SpamKarma2
TabStat
WordPress Automatic Upgrade
Tiger Admin Style
Auto Tagger
StatPress
FeedBurner FeedSmith

I get rid of ‘Hello Dolly’ and ‘Akismet’. I like Akismet, don’t get me wrong, I just don’t want to sign up a new account for every WP installation I have and if I follow correctly, that’s against the terms and conditions .. right? One license per user otherwise pay for a key? Maybe I’m thinking something else …

I also like the plug called ‘Maintenance Mode’ for sites that are live domains but I want to edit WP first.

I literally have a folder with my ‘tried and true’ plugs I just drag/drop into the plugins folder on a new install.

By: Carabus

Carabus — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:09:34 +0000

Akismet really have saved me alot of time…

By: Nexeus Fatale

Nexeus Fatale — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:30:52 +0000

It’s weird, because I’ve made changes like this at least three times to my self hosted wordpress blog. First I moved it from a directory to another, then I changed it from the default permalink to a more directory based perma link system (which worked really well!) The only thing I would do over again, if I had to, would be to use Wordpress MU with a proper host, so that I’m not always installing and not mapping properly websites.

As for stats, I’m using both the wp-stats and Google analytic. I figured that the hit wouldn’t be too great as they are offloaded elsewhere; but it gives me a fall back if one were to fail.

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By: Kevin Paquet

Kevin Paquet — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:18:24 +0000

Well, I do always head over to set up akismet first before anything else, I really cannot stand spam.

By: infmom

infmom — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:35:26 +0000

A lot of good information here. I use Spam Karma 2, AntiLeech and Trackback Validator to deal with spam comments–the three of them together do a very good job. I also use (free) StatCounter, and the SlimStats plugin.

Thanks for the suggestion on changing the permalinks. I’ll do that.

By: Mosey

Mosey — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:56:27 +0000

I’m using Wordpress.com stats and Slimstat myself.

By: John A

John A — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:40:08 +0000

I’ve installed two different stats packages on Climate Audit (http://www.climateaudit.org bit after a couple of months, the database got to humungous size and had to be radically edited because of the stats database. It just slowed everything down to a crawl as the DB got to be too much for the memory on the server.

Never again. Unless its just your mom reading it, self-hosted stats packages are not worth it for the hassle they cause.

Better use Google Analytics and/or Akismet.

By: Ronny

Ronny — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:03:54 +0000

Since you people here are not really starters anymore, you might also like to do it this way: take phpmyvisits, get the plugin wp-phpmyvisits. Inside phpmyvisits they have a new plugin, it is called clickheats, that one you activate, and… tweak the wp-phpmyvisits plugin to add also the clickheat code. It is easy to figure out. You now have your stats in a very nice visual way. It is more functional than the visual view you get in google analytics. And everything is on your own server. And since none of the plugs i have used up to now in WorldPress give spider stats, i look in my log for that

By: Viper007Bond

Viper007Bond — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:24:35 +0000

infmom: change them. WordPress will redirect index.php?p=5 to the pretty permalink which means you won’t have any duplicated content. I also believe WordPress sends the right HTTP header code so that you won’t lose your page ranks.

In the long run, it’s worth it as Google dislikes any URLs with question marks in them.

By: shadaik

shadaik — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:50:50 +0000

I’d opt for a counter that doesnot rely on external services. chCounter would be an option. You may still back it up by a web-based counter, however, I just don’t want to be so dependant on Google or any other web service. That includes components of Wordpress that ask other servers, thus I never activated akismet. Most spam messages are filtered into “Please moderate” anyways, even without a spam plugin.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:53:59 +0000

Thanks! I just got to know that I need to update my ping services

By: Jason Hansen

Jason Hansen — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:16:15 +0000

WassUp is another nice stats plugin that I use myself. http://www.wpwp.org/

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:43:21 +0000

I agree with 4/5 (I subscribe to Blogging Tips, but thanks for pointing me to it again). Ping-o-Matic gets the job done pretty well, and I don’t think the ping settings are something you need to change immediately. The other points, though, I strongly agree with (especially the theme and permalink structure).

On the subject of Permalink structure, I wrote a nice introduction to the topic. http://www.webmaster-source.co.....imization/

By: Frederick

Frederick — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:35:34 +0000

I’d have changed how my files like pictures are uploaded under “Miscellaneous Options” to “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders.”