Tagged: WordPress

May 25, 2012

A week doesn’t make any difference with web traffic

I didn’t post for a week and it didn’t make any difference in the web traffic I received. In fact, on Monday my views were higher than last week. So clearly posting is less important than the stuff I have already posted. Interesting.

I like surfing and trying out new WordPress plugins. I tried one that said it would increase SEO by suggesting terms and analyzing your writing, but I wasn’t impressed. My goal isn’t really to get views, it is to share things that I think will help the average person. If someone wants to see something added, I am open to suggestions.

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

New policy for subscribers

Hello everyone! I have instituted a new policy for subscribers to this website. I have been overrun by spammers who would register an account, and then do nothing with it. They wouldn’t post a comment, do a track-back, or do anything to show they were interested in interacting with the site. I then started to get posts with spam content from those registered accounts, which I manually deleted at first.

However times have changed. I am tired of deleting junk, so now if someone doesn’t comment on a post, do a track-back or any activity to interact with the site your account will be deleted after 7 days. Comment spam is a growing problem for blogs, and since I don’t have advertising this is costing me time/money that I won’t waste on garbage. I am using a great plugin called “User spam remover” which is working great. It automates deleting dead accounts.

Why have subscribers at all when people can subscribe to the RSS feed? Not everyone likes RSS and for some people its easier to get email notifications. Also by having subscribers I can reduce the amount of comment spam that I have to filter. Blogs take effort to maintain.

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.