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Reduce Blog Comment Spam Using The Bad Behavior WordPress Plugin

Tweet I don’t normally make recommendations until I’ve used a product or service for a couple of weeks. I’m making an exception with Bad Behavior. The creators label it as a supplement to your existing comment spam protection, Akismet in our case, and claim that it helps stop spam from ever reaching the filters on […]

YARPP Is A Great WordPress Plugin For Showing Related Posts

Tweet Would you like something that automatically finds all of the related posts on your WordPress site and adds links to them in the relevant articles for you? How about if it added links to the related posts in your RSS feed too? Well, there’s a nice little WordPress plugin that does just that called […]

We Got A New Niche Website Out Of The Google Sandbox In A Week?

Tweet One of our newer websites got traffic from Google after only being online for about a week. This boggles my mind. That website has no links to it, doesn’t have much content, and doesn’t sit on an aged domain. I kind of expect things like this to happen occasionally with MSN (and possibly Yahoo) […]

ImageWell – A Great Image Editor For Mac OS X

Tweet I’ve done quite a lot of image manipulation in the last couple of months for one of our sites. Nothing fancy just a bit of cropping here, some resizing there, and changing the quality of gigantic pictures so it doesn’t take an hour to load the site. I found the perfect little program for […]

Using Preview To Modify WordPress Themes Without Breaking Live Sites

Tweet Did you know that WordPress lets you preview themes without switching to them? When you’re on the administration tab with your available themes, clicking on the big icons shows how your site would look using that theme. It’s probably in the documentation but I discovered it when I moved the mouse over an icon. […]