Good morning everyone. Hope you all had a great weekend. Fortunately for me it is a long weekend here and I sure can use the extra day off. Here are the latest plugins fresh from the oven. New Plugins Work-from-home Projects Once activated, this plugin will create a widget displaying various work from home opportunities. From the options page you can type in your own keywords to select which opportunities to display or go with the default. The appearance of the widget is also customizable. Export OPML This plugin will export the visible items in your blogroll to a OPML file in your blog root. Then you need only create a link to it somewhere. Handy if you have a large list of links and don’t want to clutter your blog. Mouse Eye Tracking Service The plugin will tap in to PicNet’s Mouse Eye Tracking Service, a web analytics service […]
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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 […]
[Continue Reading...]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 A reader pointed out that it wasn’t the best solution since it’s no longer maintained and suggested a couple other alternatives.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...]WordPress developers take security very seriously, and many security experts evaluate WordPress’s code for flaws. Security updates are made frequently to keep users safe. However, there are some extra steps you can take to make a fresh installation of WordPress more secure and protect against future attacks. Remember, no system can ever be completely secure, but taking preventative measures can be helpful. Much of this guide is based on the advice from the WordPress Codex article on hardening WordPress, but it is aimed at the WordPress beginner. In future articles, I’ll cover advanced security measures, hardening existing WordPress installs, and recovering hacked WordPress sites. This guide should be relevant for both WordPress 2.92 (the most recent stable release as of this writing) as well as WordPress 3.0. Overview: -Preliminary steps for securing your WordPress install -Changing defaults in WordPress to implement “security by obscurity” -Choosing strong passwords -Installing and configuring […]
[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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- Len Kutchma
Len has been blogging for over 10 years and is a rabid WordPress fan. In addition to toiling away here at Weblog Tools Collection you can find him at his own blog WPCanada.ca. When time allows he also likes to lend a hand at the official WordPress support forum.
Web: http://wpcanada.ca
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