Category: Social Media

May 25, 2012

Broken Links WordPress plugin not working?

I really like the Broken Links WordPress plugin. It scans all the web links on my website, and tests them to make sure they work. If they don’t work, it gives me a list and then I can try them to double-check they don’t work.

However about 6 months ago it stopped working. It might have been because I added new plugins in that time. Anyway, I deleted it and reinstalled and now it is working great. This is just to share that reinstalling plugins sometimes makes them work again. Most of the time plugins just work, and they continue to work through WordPress upgrades.

May 4, 2012

Blaskan 2.4 and tags don’t work for me

Hello,

If you are regular reader you might notice that the theme is different today. The reason for this has to do with an update to Blaskan to 2.4. After applying the update, the tags feature doesn’t seem to work. I am temporarily using a theme called Thematic to allow me to post until this is fixed.

Blaskan is a great theme, and this is the first real problem that I have had with it. I even disabled Zemanta in case that was the issue. It was not. So a different theme allows me to use the tags feature normally. This is crucial for cross indexing information and kind of fun to surf in its own right.

May 2, 2012

Want to publish your blog to a book for free?

Hyperink Launches Blog to Book: Your Blog Published in a Month – Forbes – StumbleUpon. Not only that, but you get paid half of the revenues. This seems like a great way to monetize the effort that someone puts into a blog. I signed up for it. I do have some popular pages, and I’m thinking that Stories from my past series might be worth reading in a book form.

April 29, 2012

Blekko spam free search engine

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Today I saw my first search request from a site called Blekko. I have never used it before, but one of my top articles showed up on the front page for it. It is interesting that it says it is spam free. I wonder how it accomplishes that? Interesting that I wasn’t the first listed, but the person still choose me. I wonder why?

April 29, 2012

WordPress › Bad Behavior « WordPress Plugins

Excuses for Bad Behavior (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

WordPress › Bad Behavior « WordPress Plugins. I was looking for options to reduce spam from subscribers. I am continuing to search to reduce spammers who try to create accounts to launch spam from. This is another great tool to keep a quality blog.

Ok forget this plugin. I just uninstalled it. Apparently it also blocks helpful bots like MSN/Google so your site won’t be indexed and search traffic will decrease. How disappointing. Instead use Wordfence. It has some great features and even a paid version.