How do you prevent spam comments in your blog? In Blogspot.com, it seems like you have to moderate all comments manually. But in WordPress, the Akismet plugin is used to catch spams. If you are hosting your own WordPress blog, Akismet is also one essential plugin to be installed.
Although I have Akismet installed, I still can get a lot of spam comments which will be filed under “Akismet Spam” for further manual moderation. Although you can mark the comment as spam to let Akismet learns to identify more spams, it is still quite tiring if you have to moderate all spam comments that looks like this: [...more]
Most hosting plans include a bundle of pre-install scripts in your control panel (eg. CPanel, DirectAdmin). There are several script library like Fantastico, Installatron, etc. (depends on your host provider). To make life easier, you can always install your WordPress blog via the script installer. Learn how to install WordPress using Fantastico. It’s more or less the same for other script installer.
Now you have WordPress installed, and you probably don’t want to stick to the default K2 theme, which looks so plain and not attractive. Although content is the king, first impression is also very important. What to do next? Search for your desire WordPress theme! There are plenty of free themes available. But please beware of free themes provided by less trustful source. (hacker can encrypt codes in the theme and easily access your blog.) [...more]
After 3 months plus of the release of WordPress 2.5, today WordPress 2.6 is made available! There are several new features being introduced in this new version and it is recommended for this upgrade because it fixes approximately 194 bugs.
Check out the following short clip for a preview of WordPress 2.6.
Are you a WordPress user? Will you update to WordPress 2.6? Find out more about WordPress 2.6 here.
Previously, I have listed 10 Nature WordPress themes for you to download. Now, I want to list another set of really wonderful WordPress theme which is almost related to nature, it’s the wood theme. Recently, there are plenty of sites using wood theme as well. I have to say that those wood themes are really impressive. You can turn your own WordPress blog impressive as well by using the following wood themes.
Please take note that I did not create any of these themes. Credits to all their original authors. All themes are widget-ready.
Books And Imagination
This is a nice theme for those who are into literature or writing.
With the green awareness round, there are lots of ways which we can echo the green environmental issue. Literally, we can also make our blog a “green blog” by using nature theme. I found the nature theme soothing for the eye.
Below is a collection of nature theme for WordPress platform. Downloads are available.
You feel like getting your own domain, and you 
Most hosting plans include a bundle of pre-install scripts in your control panel (eg. CPanel, DirectAdmin). There are several script library like Fantastico, Installatron, etc. (depends on your host provider). To make life easier, you can always install your WordPress blog via the script installer. Learn 
After 3 months plus of the release of WordPress 2.5, today WordPress 2.6 is made available! There are several new features being introduced in this new version and it is recommended for this upgrade because it fixes approximately 194 bugs.
