Depending on the type of community you run online, you may not want your members to post profanity or abusive comments to your site. You can always watch out for those types of comments manually. Here are 3 profanity filter plugins that make the job much easier.

WP Content Filter: filters out profanity, abusive material, and other keywords of your choosing on your website. You can choose which parts of your website you want to filter and how the plugin should go about doing it.

WebPurify Profanity Filter: a profanity filter web service that makes sure the wrong type of content don’t show up on your site. It also lets you add your own words.

Defensio Anti-Spam: we have covered plenty of anti-spam plugins that could help you get a handle on rogue users and visitors on your website. This plugin is one of many you can use to filter spam and junk content. It offers malicious content detection, profanity filtering, URL categorization, script detection, and many more features.

There are plenty of other plugins you can use to filter profanity on your website. The above plugins do the job well though.

In the past few years, we have covered plenty of colorful themes for WordPress. Premium WordPress designs are great for folks who do not want to mess with a whole lot of coding. But if you know your way around CSS and PHP, there is no reason you should not use clean/blank theme frameworks to come up with a design unique to your site. Interested? These 8 clean theme frameworks are must-see:

Headway: one of my favorite theme frameworks around. It has a powerful set of tools that make designing a site from scratch a piece of cake.

Thesis: we have used Thesis for many projects in the past. It is SEO friendly and highly customizable. It has a dedicated team behind it that keep bringing new features to it.

Genesis: the Genesis Framework for WordPress has its benefits. The folks at StudioPress do have plenty of child themes available for it to get you started with this faster.

Pagelines: a drag and drop design platform for WordPress. You can use this to build good looking, responsive themes in no time. It has a pretty decent (growing) store too.

Backbone: an ultra clean and simple theme for WordPress. Two child themes are included with it for free. This does have a responsive design too.

Canvas theme: a highly customizable theme for WordPress. Canvas has a powerful options panel that gives you control over almost any element in it. It works well for business sites and magazines.

Thematic: an open source, search engine optimized framework for WordPress. It has free and commercial child themes. 13 widget ready areas are included.

Affiliate theme: designed for affiliate marketers. Lets you create landing pages and websites optimized for affiliate marketing.

If you are looking for a theme or framework to develop and customize your website with, the above solutions are worth checking out. They are developer friendly and put you in the driver’s seat.

The Thesis theme for WordPress does not need any introduction. It is one of our favorite frameworks around and is being used by some of the most famous bloggers and web publishers on the internet. The Thesis Theme framework makes putting together sophisticated WordPress sites easier. You can always come up with a unique design for it from scratch. These 10 beautiful Thesis skins save you some time getting your site online:

Clip Cart: a stylish e-commerce child theme for Thesis or Genesis. It provides support for Cart66 WordPress plugin.

Easy Thesis: this offers 8 color schemes and 3 widget areas. It is social media friendly and has additional sets of options for you to play around with.

Avenger: a pretty decent option for web publishers. It is opt-in forms ready and can handle multi-author websites.

Line It Up: a Thesis skin for corporations and small businesses. It is useful for those who want to promote their products online using this framework.

Foxy News: transforms your Thesis-based website into a news portal in no time. It has 9 custom widgets too.

Marketers Delight: designed for marketers, this package lets you create landing and squeeze pages using Thesis.

Feedpop: a powerful theme for personal blogs. It is social media friendly and has a clean look.

ThesisFolio: a versatile theme you can use for portfolio and business sites. It has 12 color schemes and is easily customizable.

Nexis: a pretty decent Thesis skin for blogs. It is SEO friendly and easy on the eyes.

Rough Print: this is a tumblog-style skin for Thesis sites. It has custom styles for different post formats.

Thesis continues to remain one of the most popular WordPress frameworks. The above themes help you get started with it faster.

Have you ever been in a situation where you have needed to change a certain word across your whole website? Those of you who have a well established website with hundreds or thousands of pages are going to find that difficult to do manually. Thanks to Word Replacer, you can change words on your website quickly. All you have to do is provide it with a list of words you want to replace and leave the rest to this plugin.

You can enter as many words as you want to replace on your website. While you may not want to make a habit of using this plugin to change words on your site, it is nice to have the option. You can change words in your posts, pages, and comments. What’s nice about this is that you can actually inject ads or change the style of your website by using replacement rules.

As you can see in the above screenshot, you can add regular expressions and Javascript ads to your website with Word Replacer. It is a fairly fast plugin and saves you time changing things around across your website.

Social sites such as Facebook and Twitter have millions of members. Many of these folks visit your website too. Letting your visitors log on to your website using their social IDs is a smart idea. For starters, it makes the process more convenient for them. It also help your community gain more registered members. Social Login is a WordPress plugin that adds this functionality to your website.

Social Login is developed to increase the level of engagement on your website. It is compatible with some of the most popular social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and LinkedIn. You are going to need a OneAll account to get started. The plugin adds the social connect feature to your login forms, comments, and even your sidebar. Manual insertion is supported through this call:

(do_action('oa_social_login'))

Social Login is highly customizable. You can define where you want your visitors to go when they are logged in. The plugin can search for existing accounts in your database to match them up with social network ID used by your visitors.

Adding plugins such as Social Login may increase the number of registered members in your community. Besides, it makes commenting on your stories easier for your visitors. It is well worth testing.

Facebook is one of many social networks you can’t afford to ignore if you want to keep strengthening your community and driving more traffic to it. In the past few years, we have covered plenty of ways you can go about integrating Facebook into WordPress. If you are serious about getting the most out of your efforts on Facebook, you need to track your statistics. We mainly rely on Google Analytics for this. But these 5 Facebook statistics plugins can provide you with useful information as well:

Facebook Share Statistics: shows information about your posts that have been shared on Facebook. It shows likes, clicks, comments, and other useful information.

Most Shared Posts: this cool plugin lets you track your top blog posts based on how well they have done in top social networking sites.

Social Crowd: a simple but sleek plugin that displays your general social stats to your visitors. It covers the number of your Facebook likes, YouTube subscribers, Twitter followers, and Google+ friends.

WP-Stats-Dashboard: this cool plugin tracks over 50 social metrics and helps you make better sense of your content’s performance in the world of social media. It is a great tool when it works.

Trackable Social Share Icons: adds social buttons to your blog posts. But more importantly, it works with Google Analytics to track your social stats correctly.

What’s your favorite Facebook statistics plugin for WordPress?

Nonprofit businesses and charities are quite familiar with the idea of accepting donations. There is nothing wrong with asking donations for a good cause. As long as you have a worthy cause and get the word out about it effectively, people will send you money to support your efforts. There are plenty of services that let you accept donations these days (PayPal being one of the best). You just have to integrate them into your website. Here are 15 plugins that come handy if you plan to accept donations on your site:

PayPal Donations: a simple plugin that lets you add a PayPal donation button to your site as a widget or with a shortcode.

Awesome Donation System: gives your visitors the incentive to donate to your site. Allows donors to leave their link too.

Paypal Target Meter: displays your monthly or yearly fundraising goals so your loyal readers know how much they need to help you to get over the finish line.

Donate Goal: lets you show your visitors how much progress you have been making with your fundraising efforts.

Donate Plus: another simple plugin you can use to start accepting donations on your WordPress site. You can give your donors recognition too.

Multi Currency PayPal Donations: you can use this to receive PayPal donations through WordPress in multiple currencies.

Olimometer: a fundraising thermometer with PayPal integration. Its height, currency, background color, and other settings are customizable.

WP Stripe: not only provides you with a payment form but also a recent donors widget. It handles payments using Stripe.com.

Tip Jar: this is useful if you want to encourage your visitors to help fund your community. You can use any PayPal button with this.

Donations Widget: this plugin allows you accept donations from your readers using AlertPay, Moneybookers, and PayPal.

Bitcoin Donations: don’t want to use PayPal to accept donations. This plugin handles Bitcoin donations.

2Checkout Donate: this tool lets you accept 2CheckOut donations in set or custom amounts.

WP-Webmoney: planning to accept donations by WebMoney? WP-Webmoney does the job.

Personal Fundraiser: gets your fans and visitors involved in your fundraising process. It has a ton of useful shortcodes.

Our Progress: a simple script that shows the progress you have been making with your fundraising efforts. It is pretty attractive too.

These plugins make accepting donations and raising funds for your favorite causes through your WordPress site easier. Which one do you like the most?

Every business owners needs to have a website to promote his/her venture with. Developing a business theme from scratch could cost you a ton of money. Tanjun for WordPress is an affordable theme that gives small business owners the chance to build a presence for their ventures online.

Tanjun for WordPress has a clean layout and is quite lightweight. It has a flexible slider that can handle your photos, videos, and articles. You get 15 color schemes in this theme. Need to include a sophisticated pricing table on your website? Tanjun has you covered. Tanjun has custom widgets and shortcodes that make building your website easier.

Tanjun can support a side blog. It has various post formats so you can differentiate various pages on your site. The theme is affordable and looks quite clean.

Moving from one host to another can be time consuming and challenging. Just getting your websites moved to a new host without any issues could take a lot of time and effort. The process does not always go as smoothly as you may want it to. I soon realize that after I moved a bunch of my websites from old host to VPS.net. Don’t get me wrong. VPS.net is a brilliant web host. But their environment was not playing nice with the automatic plugin update feature in WordPress. It took me a while to realize how to fix this.

After my move was done, updating my plugins became a lot of hassle. WordPress was always asking me to enter my host name, username, and other credentials to do each update. This is not too painful if you only have a couple of plugins installed. But having to do this for 20 plugins every single time is not convenient. I played with file/directory permissions and my server settings to try to fix this. As it turns out, there is an easy way to do this. Just change FS_METHOD to direct to get around this.

FS_METHOD forces the filesystem method. It can only be “direct”, “ssh2″, “ftpext”, or “ftpsockets.” As it turns out, the direct method enables plugin update for WordPress in most cases (forces use of Direct File I/O requests from within PHP). You do want to make sure you work with a reliable host before using this method. This is not always the safest way to do this.

Since adding this to my we-config file, I have had no issues updating my plugins with one click. I have tried this on multiple servers with no problems. Please do let me know if this does not work for you. Have you got a better solution to fix automatic plugin update issues in WordPress? Please share it below.

These days we hear a lot about sites such as Pinterest. But it is not the only game in town. BO.LT is another exciting social page sharing community that lets you find and share exciting pages with others. BO.LT may not get as much traffic as top social networking sites such as Facebook. But it could bring image-heavy sites more visitors. It does happen to have a share button you can add to your pages so people can share your content on BO.LT.

In order to add the BO.LT Share to your website, you need to add the above code to it. You can grab the appropriate code here. Just add the code to your template or sidebar to use it. The JavaScript code needs to be included once per page but the anchor can be included in multiple places.

You can play around with the anchor properties to customize your button’s behavior. Use data-url to override the default URL. The data-mode property lets you change your BO.LT button’s default behavior from share to grab, signup or login (leaving the default option on should work for most webmasters).

I still like Pinterest better than BO.LT. But if you are looking for another social page sharing community to target on your website, adding the BO.LT Share button to your site is not a bad idea.