Are spammers targeting your WordPress blog and filling your comments with spam? Do you spend too much time weeding out the bad comments? There are several things you can do help control WordPress comment spam: Akismet Plugin Akismet filters out your comment and track-back spam for you. It will automatically filter your comments. This is… [Read More]
Site Stats for Your WordPress Blog
Wouldn’t it be nice to log into your WordPress blog and see how many visitors you have had, instantly know the most popular posts, pages and even find out how visitors arrived at your site? The Site Stats from the WordPress JetPack plugin do just that. The Jetpack plugin gives users of the stand-alone version… [Read More]
Is your WordPress Website Up To Date?
WordPress regularly issues updates to the WordPress architecture. Sometimes there are critical updates to address security issues and other times the updates are to introduce new functionality or fix some bug issues. Regardless of the reason for the update it is essential that you keep your WordPress Installation up to date. It is also important… [Read More]
Back-Up! Back-Up! Back-Up!
I can’t say it enough – Make sure your WordPress database is being backed-up regularly. Hopefully you never need to use it, but if you do you will be grateful you made the effort now. I like to use WP-DB-BackUp as it lets you schedule back-ups and have them emailed to you. Depending on the… [Read More]
