A WordPress question and answer plugin or a WordPress Q&A theme can add another powerful dimension to your WP site. It’s a fantastic way to incorporate additional content to your website and build authority in the search engines. What’s more, the content is all generated for free by your users. User generated content is a driving force behind many large question and answer sites like Quora and Yahoo! Answers. These website tools can be used to gather feedback from your site’s visitors, permit users to vote on popular issues, build a community around a topic, and much more. Whether you’d like to merely add a question and answer plugin to your existing WP site or use a Q&A theme to build a standalone Quora-like site, there are several options available to you. In the review list below, we’ve identified some free and premium question and answer themes for you.
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Reduce Comment Spam On Your WordPress Blogs
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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