Perennial Weblog Tools Collection community favorite Who Sees Ads can be used to show ads only to certain visitors – such as people who have arrived on your site from a search engine. It’s a useful way to improve your click-through-ratio, and please your regular readers by hiding ads from them. This is a quick introduction to using the plugin. Showing ads only to search engine visitors is extremely simple – Who Sees Ads can do much, much more. Check out the links at the end of this article for more information. NOTE: Although the plugin says it’s for WordPress 2.5, it works fine with WordPress 2.92. I haven’t been able to test it with 3.0 yet because I don’t have any 3.0 test sites indexed in any search engines yet. Anyone else know if it works with 3.0? If you don’t want to do this with a plugin, you […]
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The three components of information security are: Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA). If you’ve followed the steps my previous tutorial, you’ll have come a long way towards ensuring all three. But you’ll always need to keep an eye on things – remember, no site is hack proof. Here are some tools to verify the integrity of your data. These plugins will not protect your site from attacks, they will only help you monitor your site and diagnose problems. I have not tested any of these with the latest WordPress 3.0 beta. Monitoring In my first article on WordPress security I mentioned Open Source Tripwire as an option for monitoring your WordPress install for unexpected changes. A reader pointed out that it wasn’t the best solution since it’s no longer maintained and suggested a couple other alternatives. Since then, I’ve discovered a much easier way of monitoring your WP install: WordPress […]
[Continue Reading...]I’ve seen a lot of “Best WordPress Plugins” lists, and there’s usually a lot of overlap on them. You don’t need me to tell you about Platinum SEO Pack, Simple Tags, and WP Super Cache. Here are a few plugins that I think deserve more attention. These will probably be more useful to power-users who really want to tweak their WordPress site, but I encourage everyone to get their hands dirty every once and a while and get creative with their installs. Unless otherwise noted, these should work with with both WordPress 2.92 and WordPress 3.0. Widget Logic This gives every widget an extra field in which you can specify WP’s conditional tags. What this means is that you can have certain widgets appear on certain pages but not others. For example, I have my blogroll set to only appear on my front page. SEO Friendly Images This plugin can […]
[Continue Reading...]I wrote previously on securing a fresh WordPress install. Today, I’ll cover several WordPress plugins that can be used with fresh or existing WordPress installations to enhance security. I’m not going to cover recovering a hacked site, or exploit scanning tools like Exploit Scanner or WordPress Antivirus in this tutorial.
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins Incomment Referrer This plugin quite simply lets you know where the users entered your site when they leave a comment. A lot of people who joined the do-follow movement are listed on sites which are a target for comment spammers. To those who suffer comment spam can now find out the page they come from, and block accordingly. WP Hide Pages This plugin hides selected pages from menus which created with wp_list_pages function. Essentially it adds exclude parameter to wp_list_pages function but it’s so easy now. Pages to Page Create the contents of Recent Comments, Pages, Categories, Archives, Recent Posts and Calendar which are usually shown in the sidebar and insert them onto a post or page. eletro widgets It allows yout to use WordPress widgets to set up your home page (or any page) in your blog. You can configure and drag & drop widgets around right […]
[Continue Reading...]I emphasized the importance of backing up in my basic security tutorial, but I discovered all of the backup tutorials I found were out of date. So here’s a tutorial on backing up your WordPress database with the terrific WP-DB-Backup plugin. The great thing about this plugin is that you can have it automatically send you backups by e-mail that you can save both to your local computer and optionally store in your Gmail or other web mail account and an additional off-site backup. This tutorial assumes you already know how to install plugins. This tutorial should be forward-compatible with WordPress 3.0
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins Hikari Hooks Troubleshooter Hikari Hooks Troubleshooter creates a draggable window with informations about all functions hooked to WordPress actions and filters, and lists all conditional tags. Hikari Unicornified Gravatars Hikari Unicornified Gravatars converts avatars from people that don’t have a Gravatar, into customized unicorns. Tal.ki Embeddable Forums Add a forum, message board, or discussion board to your blog. This plugin will add a Forums page to your blog and allow your members to start their own conversations and topics on your site. Eletro Widgets It allows yout to use WordPress widgets to set up your home page (or any page) in your blog. You can configure and drag & drop widgets around right in the front end. Please watch the video for further details HTML Emails Converts the default fugly, plain-text email notifications into fully customizable, sweet lookin’ HTML emails. ArcadePress Allows you to turn any WordPress site […]
[Continue Reading...]Within this review, I will provide an objective view on the video-hosting service called VideoPress (owned by Automattic). Now I will be one of the first to admit that I am somewhat of an Automattic fanboi. I love WordPress, and use several of Automattic’s other services. However, even I was skeptical of what I considered a too-good-to-be-true video-hosting service. A Little Background I have been hosting my videos on YouTube for quite a while now. I especially liked their new HD feature and the ability for my screencast software to export directly to the service. I didn’t (and still, really don’t) care that the YouTube player is branded and shows ads. It worked, and worked well, and that’s really all I cared about it. And best of all, it was free. However, I ran into a roadblock with some of my videos. The ten-minute time-limit was really started to kill […]
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins WP Comsoon WP Comsoon (from “Coming Soon”) creates a little widget for the sidebar to display the titles of the next scheduled posts of the blog. Rico Bookmark Tree This plugin can create a simple bookmark list with a tree structure on a post using Rico Ajax Simple Author Box Adds a simple author box with Gravatar image below the articles on single page. You can add Twitter and Facebook profiles. WP Footer HTML This plugin allows you to insert HTML in the footer of your blog and you can set it to add the data just to the homepage. Updated Plugins SEO Ultimate This all-in-one SEO plugin can handle titles, meta, noindex, canonical tags, 404 monitoring, robots.txt, auto-linking, and more. Version 1.9 adds title tag editing for category archives. Embed Article Embed Article WordPress Plugin prevents copyright theft by offering an alternative solution to your readers who […]
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