It’s only 18 days before Christmas. Are you in the Christmas mood already? The streets is full of Christmas decoration. You can also setup the Christmas atmosphere in your blog!
This is a very simple plugin for all WordPress blogs! Unlike the traditional Javascript snowflake , all you need to do is:
- Download the Let It Snow plugin.
- Upload the let-it-snow folder and its contents to your blog’s plugin folder (wp-content/plugins).
- Activate this plugin and you’re done!
If you encounter any problems, click here for support.
If you are using Blogger (blogspot) classic template, perhaps you would like to read this for adding Javascript snowflake to your blog.
Let your blog snows, spread the Christmas feel and have a great holiday season. ^^
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Wordpress
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]
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I’ve been using Firefox for years and I’m still loving it, even though there are other free browsers like Opera, Flock, etc..I still prefer using Firefox (sorry, not IE). Other than it’s browsing speed, a very good reason to use Firefox is because of the add-ons. As a blogger, I depend a lot on Firefox add-ons during my blogging process.
There are many Firefox add-ons to enhance your browsing as well as blogging experience. Here is a list of 8 useful Firefox add-ons which I think every blogger should have them installed in their Firefox browser.
One of the important elements in the blogging world is social bookmarks. You can promote your blog posts through social networking sites, share your interest, as well as getting information from others (blog authors), and also it’s one of the source for you to get blogging inspiration. Among all those many social bookmarking sites, I would love to introduce StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us.
So, you must not miss out these social bookmarking Firefox extensions.
[1] StumbleUpon
This is not a stranger in the Web 2.0 world. Sign up a StumbleUpon account and start stumble good blog posts that you think worth sharing or bookmarking. Registration is FREE. It’s a great site for you to wider your blog network, make new friends, stumble similar interest articles. If your article is being stumbled by someone, it means higher chance for you to gain more blog traffic. Isn’t it just nice? [...more]
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plugins
Be friend and get close to your readers. Let them be able to contact you easily. Your readers want your feedback, so do follow the comments left by your readers. If your readers are asking question, make sure you get back to them (replying their comments). People need information and that is why they go to your blog to search for answers. Be honest with your readers, try to offer help when applicable.
Posting up your email for readers to contact you is the most basic way of letting your readers contact you besides leaving comments/feedback in your blog (comment section or chatbox widget). However, it will be much more easier if you can provide a “contact form” feature in your blog.
This will facilitates your readers to contact you just by filling the contact form.
Why Contact Form?
[1] Readers can contact you easily.
[2] Ensure the message is successfully delivered to you.
[3] Having a more professional feel (impression wise).
Adding a contact form nowadays is not difficult at all. You don’t need to have HTML knowledge to have this done. There are free services or plugins available to help you add a contact form to your blog. [...more]
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plugins,
Wordpress
When you think of starting a blog, you might think of starting it out from Blogger or the free Wordpress.com just before you go further on buying a domain and host your own blog with your favorite CMS (Content Management System) / blog software.
Although there are several popular CMS other than WordPress, such as Joomla, Drupal, Movable Type, etc.. WordPress seems to be the most widely used platform in the blogosphere.
That derives a new problem. People tend to get jeolous or start to cultivate mischievious ideas when you are getting popular. Wordpress, naturally became the target for hackers. It doesn’t mean that other blogging platforms is far from hackers. WordPress, in this case, has a higher percentage of being targetted by hackers.
Now, a question for you as the title suggested:
How secure in your WordPress blog? (if you are running your blog under Wordrpess)
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security
