February 27th in Anti-Spam, Hack Prevention by .

Plenty of web publishers spend the majority of their time creating killer content for their websites. There is nothing wrong with that approach. Content is king after all. But as a webmaster, you should also pay attention to exploits and malware affecting WordPress sites and take measures to prevent your site from getting compromised. Adding a security firewall to your WordPress install may stop many hack attacks. But it won’t stop everything. These 5 anti-malware tools help you keep your website clean and secure:

Sucuri: an affordable web integrity monitor for your website. It detects unauthorized changes to your website and helps you remove malware from it. [click to continue…]

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February 26th in Wordpress Plugins by .

I don’t know about you but I am addicted to Instapaper. It is an amazing service for readers among us who do not have time throughout their days to catch up with articles that interest them. Instapaper lets those folks save interesting articles to their reading queue and review them at a later time. You may never know which of your visitors are addicted to Instapaper. But adding “Read Later” links to your posts would make life easier for your readers. That’s what Instapaper Read Later Links does.

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February 22nd in Social Media, Wordpress Plugins by .

In the past couple of months, we have been covering Pinterest a lot on this site. It is all for a good reason. Pinterest is rising and can be a huge traffic driver for bloggers (especially those who share images, videos, and other types of captivating content on their sites). In order to have success with Pinterest, you should not only contribute to the community all the time, you should also take time to promote your Pinterest profile on your website. These 3 Pinterest widget plugins let you do that:

Pinterest RSS Widget: uses your profile’s RSS feeds to grab your latest activity on Pinterest. The widget lets you change its title, thumbnail dimensions, and other options.

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February 19th in Wordpress Plugins by .

Those of you who host your website on WordPress.com have seen how the “Follow” button works. It sits at the bottom corner of your website and lets you visitors sign up for your latest updates by e-mail. Just because you have your site hosted on your own server does not mean you can’t have a follow button on it. Follow for WordPress is the plugin you need to implement this feature on your self-hosted WordPress site.

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February 18th in Wordpress Plugins by .

If you have not been paying attention to microformats already, you are missing the boat. The introduction of features such as Google Recipe View shows why microformats are going to play a big role in the world of search in the upcoming years. Google’s Recipe View is especially important as it lets searchers narrow their results to show only recipes based on factors important to them. It is based on data from rich snippets markup. Adding the appropriate markup to your pages does not have to be a hassle. These 3 Recipe View plugins for WordPress make formatting your recipe content for Google easier:

RecipeSEO: a simple plugin that formats your recipes using the appropriate microformats so they are more likely to appear in Google’s Recipe View. [click to continue…]

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February 15th in Wordpress Plugins by .

In the past few months, we have covered many plugins WordPress webmasters would need to enhance the functionality of their websites. As a webmaster, you need to make sure your site is fast, SEO & social media friendly, and compatible with smartphone and tablet devices. You should also harden your website and backup your files and databases. Spending some time to make your website more engaging is not a bad idea either. Here are lists of 400+ plugins you can use to get those tasks done:

SEO Plugins for WordPress

Most web publishers rely on search engines to get new visitors. You may have the best content in your niche market. But if your work is not being found on Google and other search engines, you are going to get left behind. The below plugins let you optimize your titles, URLs, keywords, and everything in between to increase your site’s chances of getting ranked higher in the SERPs:

  • SEO-Toolbox: covers 80 of the best WordPress plugins that come handy for search engine optimization campaigns.
  • Broken Link tools: these plugins let you find and handle broken links in WordPress. They save you time fixing these issues quickly.
  • Content theft plugins: content theft is still a big issue for publishers in this day and age. You can’t stop every thief but these plugins give you a better chance to take a stand against content thieves. [click to continue…]

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February 14th in Wordpress Plugins by .

Launching a new website is a very interesting and exciting experience, especially if it is your first time. The more websites your launch, the more you learn, and the better you get at it. In order to launch your site properly, you need to have a launch plan. Some folks prefer getting their new site online and go at it from the first day. Others prefer to hype up their upcoming site and set up a pre-launch page for it. Ultimate Coming Soon Page Plugin can help you in that situation. It creates a teaser page for your website and gives your visitors the chance to subscribe to your updates by e-mail.

Ultimate Coming Soon Page Plugin saves you from the trouble of having to deal with “coming soon” themes. You can just install and enable it when you need it. Changing your headline, logo, and RSS URL can be done on the settings page. Those of you who know your CSS can always change the look and feel of your website quickly. But a lot of these changes can get done from this plugin’s backend.  [click to continue…]

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