10 Useful WordPress Comment Plugins

Comments add valuable discussion and are an important part of every blog. Here are 10 useful comment oriented WordPress plugins to help you fight spam, improve appearance and add functionality to your blog.

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WordPress 2.3 May Cause Plugin Compatibility Issues

The release of WordPress 2.3 is just around the corner and will include database schema changes that my cause some plugin compatibility issues. The plugins most likely to have issues are those that deal with categories.

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What Is Your Level Of Comment Moderation?

Recently, I’ve seen quite a few bloggers write about how they are now using comment moderation on their blogs as a method to deter spam. Personally, I’ve always used some level of comment moderation, along with other tools, to prevent comment spam on this blog. My thought is that as long as I keep spam and irrelevant comments out of the blog, my readers will be willing to put up with a bit of moderation lag time.

However, after reading some of these bloggers make a big deal out it, and seemingly inconvenience their readers, I thought it might be a good idea to discuss some of the comment moderation options available, my comment moderation policy, and get some feedback from you.

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Radomize Banners With Got Banners

The Got Banners Wordpress Plugin is a randomizing banner plugin that was developed by Shrihari Sankaran of Got Chance. The great thing about this plugin is that it displays all banners simultaneously and in a random order every time the page is reloaded. By doing this, it ensures that all spots are equal and that all advertisers get even exposure.

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Tools and Plugins to Secure Your WordPress Blog

If you have a blog or website, one of your top concerns should be security. In the past many sites, even some of the top ones, have been hacked and it’s something you should take measures to prevent. After all, if some gains access to your site, they can not only damage your site but even your brand or reputation. Here is a list of some tools and plugins that can help you secure your WordPress Blog.

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WordPress 2.2.3 Released

Wordpress has released version 2.2.3, a security and bug-fix release for the 2.2 series. Since this is a security update, it’s recommended that you upgrade immediately. This update only replaces existing files and does not touch the database.
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A Guide on Moving Your WordPress Blog to a New Host

Over the last few weeks I’ve had several people ask for advice and help in moving a WordPress blog from one host to another. Rather than give specific how-to’s for each of the scenarios (ie. how to move from their specific host to Dreamhost), I thought it might be more beneficial, for all of my readers, if I took a step back and wrote a more general guide on how to move a WordPress blog to a new host. Here are the steps I have used previously to migrate a WordPress blog to a new host.

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Are You Losing Readers From Your 404 Page?

No need to worry though, by creating a custom, more helpful, 404 Error Page you can encourage readers to look further than the standard error page. And in the process you may be able to convert them into a loyal reader. Here is a quick guide on how to edit or create your own custom 404 Error Page in WordPress.

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Customize Your “Read More” Tag

By default the tag will insert the very bland “Read more…” (or similar, depending upon who coded your theme) text wherever used. This may be functional and get the basic job done, but it does little to encourage readers to actually click to continue reading. So how can we change this to something more personal and pleasing?

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Make Your Full Text Feeds Actually Full Text

Using the “more” tag is a great way to avoid cluttering your home page, increase page views and avoid duplicate content problems with search engines. However, even if you offer full text feeds your posts will still be truncated anywhere a tag was used, instead of abiding by the option set in the feed preferences.

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