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Lately i found a real problem on one of my blogs, i’ve noticed that Google Analytics shows traffic to this website (not the one you are in) after visitors searched for adult content. done a little research and found at the bottom of the footer some links to spam content and some hidden spam links in the theme.
What To Search?
so how can you find out if your blog has some hidden spam links or even not hidden. first, scan your blog for some links that was planted in the theme originally and that you didn’t remove them by yourself. if you find such links just remove them with your favorite theme editor. (or ask for help here, we would love to help you).
after scanning “manually” right click somewhere on the blog and view the source of the page, now look for style="display: none;", or something similar. move all the unwanted hidden links inside your source.
What Else To do?
after removing yourself all the hidden spam in your theme try installing this plugin also:
WordPress Exploit Scanner – This plugin searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.
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Every blogger and developers should know that immediately after installing wordpress activating some SEO plugins is necessary.
WordPress by itself already doing 50% of the SEO work a website should have or do, most of the themes are very well coded, the system is very popular for its tags and categories and google tend to really like it. the rest is on you. Here’s a list of the top SEO plugins for WordPress:
The SEO Slugs WordPress plugin removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.
For example, when you publish a post with a title like this:
“What You Can Do Immediately For Higher Rankings”,
WordPress automatically assigns a long filename to your post, called a post slug:
/what-you-can-do-immediately-for-higher-rankings
SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.
SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.
SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.
This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel.
This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
And of course:
The most popular plugin every blog should have. Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines
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Display status in your blog became very useful when you write often and want to update your readers what you do and where you are.
here are some great Status Bar plugins to add to your blog:
This one is the easiest one to use, simply lets you add a status, divided to two parts, title (bold) and a text. great!!!
This plugin allows you to create a number of fields specifying your current status and easily insert them into your templates.
The advantage of this plugin is that it lets you keep history of your updates.
tWPtter allows you to publish short posts (known as twps), text snippets, facts and blurts on a widget or page within your blog.
From the developer who brought us the best e-commerce wordpress plugin – WP e-Commerce,
sorry! but this one didn’t work well for me. the idea is great but just not working yet.
TRY IT YOURSELF and update me with any change.
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Now it’s offiicial WordPress 2.8 – baker is released with a whole new exciting features.
Major improvements are:
- WordPress 2.8 is much faster
- Themes directory with new options like browse, install and preview.
- Redesign of the widgets area. all widgets on the same page.
- new Screen Options on every page.
Some more links are here:
2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets – From the official WordPress.org blog
WordPress 2.8 Tips and Tricks Collection From our favorite weblogtoolscollection.com
And we also talked about it a few weeks ago – Exciting New Features In WordPress 2.8 and also here.
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From time to time you need to change some things from the WordPress default. One of the easiest hacks to do is creating double posts columns.
all you need is a bit PHP and some Css tweaking, here is the example:
CSS
.row {clear:both;}
.col1 {width:300px;float:left;padding:10px;}
.col2 {width:300px;float:right;padding:10px;}
* change the width of the columns according to what you need.
in your index.php (in the theme folder) look for the posts loop and before that paste this:
<?php $col = 1; ?>
after the loop begins add this:
<?php if ($col == 1) echo “<div class=\”row\”>”; ?>
now inside the loop, replace the loop main DIV with this code:
<div class=”post col<?php echo $col;?>” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>
and just before the end replace ENDWHILE with this:
<?php if ($col == 1) echo “</div>”; (($col==1) ? $col=2 : $col=1); endwhile; ?>
THAT’S IT.
here are the sources for this post:
http://netcovered.com/wordpress-posts-in-different-columns/
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