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WP Plugin Review: Let It Snow

For this Christmas season aside from the falling snow, I’ve added some extra stuff and modified my blog header to add some Christmas graphics – Christmas tree, decor, gift and a snowman. Nevertheless, I have more people commenting and inquiring about the falling snow effect. In the past couple of years, I used a custom [...]

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WP Plugin Review: TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker)

A couple years back, there were two instances where I warned Joomla users and WordPress users about their theme sources or where they downloaded their themes from. This was because some sites who redistribute free WordPress themes are hijacking and repackaging these themes and inserting malicious codes into the functions.php or footer.php files. If undetected, [...]

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WP Plugin Review: Fluency Admin

Some of the most popular posts here on JaypeeOnline are the ones that were part of the Pimp My WP Dashboard series. I’m sure those of you who have been long time readers are familiar with these posts. In that series, I’ve featured and reviewed four different WordPress admin themes – WP Tiger Admin, Spot [...]

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WP Plugin Review: Cystats

Blog statistics provide blog owners a lot of information regarding the health and growth of their blog. Through statistics, the author can determine the number of visits/pageviews incurred daily, monthly or yearly, what pages were visited, who referred the visitor to the blog, what keywords were used that lead the visitor to the site. It [...]

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WP Plugin Review: Comment Info Detector

I’ve received some inquiries regarding the tiny icons (flag, web browser and OS) displayed beside the commentators name for each comment left here on JaypeeOnline. I promised that I’d blog about the plugin that I use for that so today I’m gonna share it with you guys. Previously, I used the Firestats plugin – a [...]

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WP Plugin Review: Google Syntax Highlighter

UPDATE: I’m no longer using this plugin, the Google Syntax Highlighter because as of this time it is not compatible with WordPress 2.8+. I’ll be posting about the new syntax highlighter WordPress plugin that I’m using so stay tuned for it. In my last blog update post, I listed the new WordPress plugins that I installed [...]

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WP Plugin Review: WP Greet Box

In my previous themes, I created a custom greet box for readers and visitors that invited/encouraged them to subscribe to my RSS feed. It was very effective (I think) but the thing about it is that when I changed themes, I had to do it all over again as the first one was designed to [...]

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WP Plugin Review: WP-Member

DISCLAIMER: The following is not a paid review and completely my own honest opinion regarding the product. Some of you might remember WP Member as one of the sponsors of my recent Christmas Giveaway and provided the licenses for the WP Member WordPress plugin as prizes. A couple months before the Christmas Giveaway, Dave of WP [...]

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Akismet 2.2.1 – Now With Stats

Spam comments graph Was checking my WordPress dashboard earlier today when I saw a notification for a plugin update. When I checked on the Plugins page, I saw that it was an update for a newer version of Akismet, version 2.2.1. I did the upgrade via the automatic (one-click) upgrade feature of WordPress. After the upgrade process [...]

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WP Plugin Review: WMD Editor

Was looking around the web the other day when I came across this cool WordPress plugin called the WMD Editor. The WMD Editor WordPress plugin by Chad Coleman is a ported version of the recently popular WMD Editor, a WYSIWYM Markdown Editor. What is WMD? WMD is a simple, lightweight HTML editor for blog comments, forum posts, and basic content management. You can add WMD to any textarea with one line of code. Add live preview with one line more. WMD works in nearly all modern browsers, and is now completely free to use. Screenshot: More details about the WMD Editor WordPress plugin after the jump.

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Update to Akismet 2.1.8

The first thing I did when I went back to blogging was to make sure my WordPress installation was up-to-date so I upgraded it to the latest version which was WordPress 2.6.1. I also updated all the plugins that I have via the Plugins section of the dashboard. One of the plugins I updated was Akismet and at that time, the version available was 2.1.7. All upgrades went smoothly and I was able to post my last entry, reply to some comments, check blog stats and other stuff. Because of the 3 month long hiatus, I wasn't able to do much with my blog except for approving comments. Spam comments have piled up and numbered at the thousands. No matter how much spam comments I have, I always make it a habit/practice to check the spam queue for valid comments. When I was done going through the list, I clicked on the Delete All button and waited for the spam comments to disappear. It was taking quite a while to finish and at first I thought it was taking long because of the large amount of spam comments I had but when I saw that the browser stopped loading and the spam comments were still there I knew something was wrong. Anyways, I tried doing it again and ended up repeating the process like three times to no avail.

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