Author: Soumen Halder

If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog which is quite popular, the most annoying thing is fighting WordPress comment spam on a regular basis. Every time you login to WordPress dashboard, you see a whole lot of spam comments waiting to be deleted. Either you have to delete them manually or let them die in the spam queue.

The latter option is not recommended as it will increase database size and the resource loading time. Hence, you have to find and fight your way to prevent spam comments in WordPress. This article describes some of the proven techniques which can be used to reduce WordPress comment spam.

Before we go any further, let’s understand what exactly is a spam comment.

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12 WP Plugins to Display and Highlight Code within your Blog

If you have ever tried to display code within a post you will know all about the problems this can cause. That is why there are some amazing developers who create plugins to make that solve this niggly issue.
Which is the best? I have been using Code Markup, it is simple to use and displays the code just the way I wanted it. To be honest, they are all good, it just depends on your needs.

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Looking for Facebook WordPress Plugins? Facebook is one the biggest social networking sites and most of the users update their account regularly and it is a good medium to share stuff with friends. So installing a Facebook plug-in to your WordPress blog enables your users to easily share the posts. Herein are 6 cool WordPress plugins for Facebook.

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Create daily backups of your WordPress blog MySQL database as it is the single most important data resource that is required to restore your blog should you need to urgently migrate to another host or restore your database from a crashed server.

WordPress codex suggests some excellent ways to back up database using phpMyAdmin, MySQL commands, and MySQL administrator. But are you willing to backup your site daily using phpMyAdmin? We are all lazy to do that everyday over the year. You need a database backup tool which will automatically back up your MySQL database for you and send it across to a safe storage space such that the latest backup is there whenever you need it, wherever you need to restore database from across the world.

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WordPress has become the most popular blogging platform for a while now, and you’re probably using it if you write on a self-hosted blog. One of the key reasons of WordPress success is its templating system. In fact, thousands of free WordPress themes are available on the Internet. However, if you want a truly unique theme, you’ll need to create your own. This article will give you a basic understanding of a WordPress theme’s structure.

The basics

WordPress themes are the standard layout system that define your blog’s appearance. It consists of template files, functions, template tags and images. To install a WordPress theme, you just need to upload it and activate it in your WordPress admin.

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iNove is a free WordPress theme designed by mg12. It is very stylish, widget supported and doesn’t require any plugin. This theme is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 (details), which means you are free to use this theme in your project for any purpose, except for commercial projects.

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