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Nov 03
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10 WordPress Plugins Every Photographer Should Be Using

Posted by | Photography, Wordpress | One Comment

WordPress the most popular open source CMS in the market. In fact, it’s so popular that 22% of all the websites in the world are built using it. Part of its attraction is the massive developer community supporting it. Developers create plugins, and plugins extend WordPress, letting you take it in whatever direction suits your needs.

There are some plugins that turbo-charge any WordPress installation, taking it from blogging platform to powerful CMS. They enhance WordPress, making it faster and more powerful. Chances are that your competitors are using these plugins so maybe its time that you thought about using them too. Read More

Feb 15
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I dofollow, conditionally

Posted by | Wordpress | 2 Comments

Last July I added the dofollow to my blog (or more correctly removed the nofollow tag) but soon found people abusing it and I quickly turned nofollow back on.

Joining the “dofollow” movement for awhile I did certainly see an increase in comments but didn’t want to put up with moderating every comment because that’s a waste of time. Some people left great comments, others just a few words to get a link back. So instead of giving credit to useful commentators I punished everyone.

Now there is an answer to this dillema created by Lucia over at bigbucksblogger.com. She’s created a plugin that will allow dofollow on comments but conditionally and I like that a whole lot better then punishing everyone. So I’m once again in the dofollow movement but only under certain conditions… and they are:

You must have commented atleast 10 times for any of your comments to have the nofollow tag removed. The name you use in the name field must be shorter then 15 characters (this cuts out people leaving comments with a bunch of keywords in them). Trackbacks are not followed at all unless they have commented the same as mentioned above (this cuts out the trackback spammers).

When you leave a comment it will show a number next to your name indicating how many times you’ve commented in all.

I hope this encourages more discussion now, although I still have a problem with posting regularly and in a way that invites comments. I’m working on it!

What do you think?

Jul 02
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Top Commentators WordPress Plugin

Posted by | Wordpress | 18 Comments

I’ve installed a plugin to display the top commentators on this blog. I thought the word for people making comments was commentors but that’s wrong. It’s commentators!

Anyway, Shoemoney started using this on his blog to encourage people to comment and I think it’s a good idea. Basically it gives the top commentators a static link back to their site for taking the time to comment. I think it might attract more spam type comments,, ya know the ones like,, “nice site, visit my porn site”. Those get deleted anyway but if you do want your link to show up on my sidebar please comment on my blog posts. Even if it’s that you disagree with me.

I found the plugin via another site that I can’t remember at the moment. The Top Commentator Plugin works with wordpress 2.x +.

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