Secure Your WordPress Install with Secure WordPress Plugin

WordPress is a great platform to start your blog with and even manage a large portal. But it’s not perfect. There are many ways hackers can find ways to gain control of your WordPress blog. The last thing you want to have on your hands is a hacked WordPress blog. For instance, did you know that your WordPress blog can be exposed to hack attacks if you proudly display its version on your website? If you have registered users or multiple authors on your blog, there are going to be even more issues you will have to deal with. Secure WordPress Plugin is a free security add-on for WP that lets you address some of those small issues on your blog.

Secure WordPress Plugin enables you to reduce hack attacks on your blog by protecting your installation information and plugin lists. It automatically adds an index.php file to your directories to make sure hackers can’t gain access to your plugin list to use known security wholes in some of them. It also removes theme, plugin, and core update information from non-admins. It can even protect your blog against malicious URL requests.

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Improve Your Plugin Performance with Plugin Output Cache

A while ago, I wrote a post about plugins that you can use on your blog to promote all your posts more effectively. Plugins such as Similar Posts, Popular Posts, and other similar plugins allow you to promote your other posts to your readers and help them discover other top posts on your blog. But they can put load on your server if you have too many plugins on your blog or if your resources are limited. That’s where Plugin Output Cache comes in. It’s a cache plugin for your plugins that improves the performance of your website and speeds it up in the process.

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WP Plugins: WordPress Plugin Store

WordPress has a great community all around it. There are thousands of developers who write code for WordPress, and many of them share their plugins with the world for free. Of course, not everything can be free, and there is a place for premium plugins as well. You can always find cool plugins through Google search. That’s a good place to start, but you should not miss WP Plugins when you are searching for new plugins to install on your blog. WP Plugins is a WordPress app store that gives you access to small and not-so-small developers that specialize in developing premium plugins.

WP Plugins is a store that comes handy for both developers and publishers. Small developers can easily submit their plugins to the store and start accumulating cash from their work. As a developer, you will have work a bit to develop the perfect page for your plugin. You want to include screen-shots, add proper description, and promptly answer your prospects’ questions when they contact you. You don’t have to have the best plugin to start selling using this service. I have seen plugins being sold for as low as $3. But you do want to pay attention to your code and the quality of your work.

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Shorten Your WordPress URLs with URL Shortener

I don’t know about you but our URLs are often long and are not exactly designed to be shared on social media sites by themselves. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a service that we could all use to shorten our WordPress URLs on the go without having to do anything special. That’s exactly what you can do with URL Shortener. It’s a simple WordPress plugin that brings URL shortening services to your blog. And you won’t have to do too much to take advantage of it.

In order to take advantage of this plugin, all you have to do is enable it and choose the URL service that you want to use with your blog posts. The plugin essentially brings WP.me to your self-hosted WordPress blog. So why would you want to use such a plugin on your blog? It’s simple. People don’t trust obscure URL services these days. After all, how can you be sure that you are not clicking on a URL that is not going to install ad-ware or harmful files on your blog (some URL redirection services do). With URL Shortener, you won’t have to worry about that. (more…)

Add Social Media To Your Blog with BoostPost

Have you ever wanted to bring more traffic to your WordPress blog? There are plenty of ways to do that. You can advertise, write articles, and do all kinds of things to start bringing more traffic to your website. One of the best ways to drive traffic to your blog is adding the power of social media to your each and every post. Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and Digg are all capable of driving you thousands of visitors for free on a daily basis. It does come down to the quality of content, but if you don’t take advantage of your reader base, you are not helping your blog read its full potential.

Take a look at the above buttons. They are not only colorful enough but also dynamic. It doesn’t matter how your buttons look. In reality, you should look for buttons that give your users the call to action to spread your content online. You can always add the above buttons to your blog posts by downloading a plugin such as Digg Digg. But if you don’t want to do anything other than copy/paste, Boostpost comes in handy. It’s a cool service that lets you add the buttons you would like to see on your blog and add them to your posts fast (copy/past the code into your blog).

There are three ways that you can add social media buttons to your blog using Boostpost. The first way is to choose the services that you want to use on your blog, download the appropriate code, and paste it into your single.php file. That’s pretty straightforward and probably the best way to get maximum exposure for your blog posts.

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Recommend Additional Content On Your WordPress Blog

One of the best ways to get more out of your traffic is by promoting other contents that you have on your website. It’s easy to assume that people will find your content all by themselves. But in reality you should do your best to promote your top content to your visitors to help them better navigate through your website. If you have been using Amazon in the past, you have probably seen this concept in action. Every time you want to buy something on Amazon, you get a set of links that encourage you to visit other products that have been visited by customers just like you.

You can now implement the same concept on your WordPress blog with Where Did They Go From Here? plugin. This plugin is very easy to work with. All you have to do is install it on your blog, and it automatically tracks what pages have been visited by your audience and what the referring pages are. Those referring pages will then include links to pages that people have visited after visiting them (just like Amazon).

The first time you install this plugin, you will see nothing under your web pages. You will need to wait for your visitor to browse through your pages for the plugin to add referral links under your pages. Using this plugin in conjunction with a similar post plugin will help you promote your content more effectively. The more useful content you offer to your audience, the longer you retain it.

WP Review Site Plugin: Create Your Review Site Fast

If you have been online for a while, you probably know how popular review sites are. People are always shopping around and comparing things before they buy. That’s why they look for review sites to find out what other people are saying about the services that they are interested in. After all, it’s easier to trust someone who has tried a service before than listening what the service provider is trying to sell you with its sales pitch.

WordPress is a great platform for creating review sites on the fly. There are literally hundreds of ranking plug-ins and add-ons that you can use to create your review blog. WP Review Site is a cool premium plug-in that makes it very easy to create sophisticated review sites on the fly (see example below).

Here is what you get with WP Review Site:

• Enhanced Comments: with this plugin you can now add star ratings to your comments. That makes it perfect if you are selling products and want people to be able to rank your products. They can use the comment section to leave a more comprehensive review.
• Flexibility: WP Review Site’s display is completely customizable to fit your website’s design. Ratings can be displayed with table or list based markup which makes it easy to fit them into your blog.
• Sort Posts: you can now sort your posts based on the weighted average rating. That gives you the opportunity to show your highly rated products to your users first.
• Widget: WP Review site is a widgetified plugin that makes it easy to add your reviews to your sidebar.
• Convenience: you can add the ratings to any section of your site that prefer. If you don’t like to see the ratings on some categories, that is possible too.
• Integration: there is no code for you to deal with. The plugin integrates to your WP install, and you won’t have to touch the code.

WP Review Site makes creating review sites like a piece of cake. All you need is this plug-in and most of the work will be done for you. You will have to add content but the rating part is taken care of with this script. You get lifetime updates and an affiliate link management tool to help you create you own affiliate website fast. If you are looking to start your own review business and save time in the process, you should consider signing up for WP Review Site.