All Entries Tagged With: "Wordpress"

Migrated To New Server Over The Weekend

I’ve had to move servers again and the migration was completed over the weekend.  I’d like to thank my new hosts WiredTree for a very professional move, which had no major hiccups.  Already users should see major speed improvements on the site, which will increase over the coming weeks as we tweak the server.
I decided [...]

AntiVirus And AntiSpamBee Plugins For WordPress

Last week my server was attacked by a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack for about 5 days, which took my sites down for about 4 hours.  My host liquidweb responded brilliantly and although they couldn’t stop the attack, they tweaked my server so that it could handle excess load from the attack.
The incident made [...]

Turned CommentLuv Plugin Back On

I’ve managed to get the CommentLuv Plugin, which is a great way of encouraging readers to leave comments, working again on this site. CommentLuv adds a link to the last post from the comment owner’s site automatically, which can help readers get valuable backlinks as well as traffic from other curious readers.
This is a [...]

Tweetable Twitter Plugin For Wordpress – Excellent!

I’ve just added a new plugin to the WordPress Plugins I use on this site.   Previously I used the Twitter Tools plugin to create new tweets whenever I created a new post.  However, I hated the way it added ‘New blog post’ to the start of all my tweets as I think this put people [...]

May 2009: Plugins Used On This Site

Every now and then when requested I do a post listing all the plugins that I use on this site.  The most recent request has come from Philip Churchill who runs the fantastic MS Windows Home Server site.
Here are the 35 plugins in use on this site.  If you have any suggestions for new plugins [...]

Great Plugin To Increase Comments: BackType Connect

I’ve just added a new Wordpress plugin to my sites that I think will help drive more comments on the site, and also give me more visibility of what readers are saying about my posts on other sites.
The BackType Connect plugin adds comments made on other blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg and Reddit to your site [...]

3 More Plugins To Speedup WordPress

Because of the expected growth of my new site Windows 7 News, which is already running at over 1m page views a month and the new OS is still only in testing, I’ve been working this week on optimising my WordPress sites to try and make them faster and to reduce the strain on my [...]

Speedup WordPress With PHP Speedy Plugin

My other site Windows 7 News is getting even more traffic than usual thanks to a couple of links from a big Asian site, so I’ve been looking for ways to speedup my WordPress pages. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working through a few WordPress optimisation posts like this one, looking for [...]

Clean Notifications Plugin

It’s been a long time since I added a new plugin to the site. I try to avoid adding the latest shiny plugins so that my server isn’t put under any undue strain. I’ve made an exception for two new plugins.
The first one is Clean Notifications Plugin which I discovered via One Tip A Day. [...]

Help: Looking For A Better Image Gallery Plugin

I’m looking for an image gallery plugin that will display images in a similar way to engadget, which the image carousel is part of the page and not contained within a lightbox popup.:

I also like the way that engadget has a page that shows all available galleries:

Any ideas how I can do this?  Thanks in [...]

Webmastery 101: How To Cut Fat And Build Muscle

You’ve taken great care to present your website to the internet. You tweaked and fine tuned until you were satisfied that your design and layout showcased your content in the best possible way. Are you done? Do you just sit back now, churn out content and watch the traffic grow? In a word, no.

WooThemes 4 for 1 Christmas Special

The theme I’m currently using on The Beta News is from WooThemes it’s called Fresh News. It’s probably the best theme I’ve ever owned and tried.
The support is great, it’s easy to set-up and customise and according to experts (Thank you Dan) it’s validated and everything is peachy.
This Halloween they had a sale, buy 1 [...]

5 Must Have iPhone Apps for Bloggers

Within the past couple of weeks, I finally sold out and purchased my first product from Apple. And why would I go with anything else besides the iPhone. The previous month or so I was doing research on MP3 players that all had these features, but they were all on separate devices. [...]

Why A Faster Server Could Pay For Itself

I completed the migration to a new Liquid Web new server yesterday, and so far I’m very happy with the support Liquid Web provide and the speed of the new server.  Despite, getting a sweet deal previously from PowerVPS, I decided to move on Thursday after attending a workshop at Google’s UK offices on Thursday.  [...]

What’s coming with Wordpress 2.7?

After my long hiatus from blogging, one of the most exciting items I was looking forward to seeing was the upgrade of Wordpress from the lower versions of 2.0, up to the substantially different 2.6.2. Competely revamped interface, tag additions, theme preview, plug-in upgrades, on and on. They really have come a long [...]

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin Nows Adds Related Posts To Feeds

One of my favourite WordPress plugins, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) just got even better.  Now not only does YARPP provide the ultimate control within WordPress posts of related posts, but it now adds related posts to RSS feeds. I’m amazed that the YARPP plugin author has launched the plugin so quickly as it [...]

Hacked Again – DDOS Attack

After getting hacked last month, my site was hacked again last week.  This time I was subjected to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
I first noticed that something was wrong when my pages were loading very slowly, so I contacted my host PowerVPS.  I was stunned when they told me that my second site, [...]

Another Day And Another WordPress Release, 2.6

I made my blogging comeback today after a month or so off to deal with various things including a house move.  It felt a bit weird reading feeds after such a long break and i was a bit rusty around the WordPress dashboard, but discovering that there was yet another new WordPresss release made me [...]

Which Related Post Plugin Is Best?

One of the best ways you can increase the number of pages viewed per user on your blog is to add a Related Posts plugin.  The logic behind adding a Related Post plugin, is that if a reader makes it all the way to the end of a particular post, then it’s likely that they [...]

Add A WYSIWYG Comment Editor To WordPress With MCEComments

Leaving comments on WordPress out of the box isn’t very user friendly, and although it can be made easier with use of editing and quicktag plugins, what  WordPress really needs is a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) comment editor.
I’ve just installed a WordPress WYSIWYG comment editor called MCEComments and I think it [...]