Install these three simple plugins to WordPress to minimize the risk of hacking and intrusion. It's never fun for someone to get access to your WordPress blog, but unfortunately it happens every day. Every day websites are deleted, defaced or simply taken over and you can avoid that by installing the login lockdown plugin, the HTTPS for WordPress plugin and the WP-Security plugin.

First of all, a very simple plugin called login lockdown simply blocks access to your blog if someone...

I know that I heard about backups and backup plugins for many years before actually using them and I regretted waiting as long as I did, because in the meantime I lost websites and I lost files. If I had simply run a backup every week I would not have had to worry about lost information. I wouldn't have to worry about getting hacked, clicking a button, deleting files, deleting websites, deleting content. It all would have been safely stored in a backup somewhere.

If you are hesitating...

I was recently helping a WF member via skype when the discussion touched on Wordpress.

And I remembered what happened to *me* when my Wordpress install....died the agonizing death of a thousand shattered coffee cups!

It's a great lesson - I think you'll enjoy it.

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Grow strong,

Barbara Ling

All major sites like wikipedia, twitter, delicious, stumbleupon adds no follow attributes to external links. Adding no follow attribute to a link in your blog signlas google and other search engines to consider the site but not pass any PR to that. Another way to make best use of nofollow tags is adding nofollow to internal pages that do not have useful content in them to the visitos but still they are needed. Pages like "about us" "privacy policy" "contact us" are...

One nifty way to email your wordpress blog registered users is using a newsletter email plugin. Below is one great wordpress plugin which can be used to email all your registered users (in your wordpress blog). You can send both text and html based emails (typically broadcasts)

Features:

Email newsletter wordpress plugin have option to send HTML Mails/Newsletters to registered user, we can send mail to comment posted user, and we can set the separate email subscriber...