Archive for October, 2008

Our Favorite Plugins: Akismet

Blogs and spam seem to best friends, but fortunately Akismet can help you dramatically squelch those awful comments from reaching your adoring audience.

Included in every release of WordPress (it’s an Automattic-authored plugin after all), The WeFixWP team has trapped millions and millions of spam comments for our clients - and our own blogs, too - by installing it.

Why do we like it so much?

Easy to implement and use Traps most spam in its tracks Continuous and collaborative “learning” of the plugin keeps false positives from slipping through

Fun fact: Matt Mullenweg revealed at WordCamp NY that he developed Akismet for…

Our Favorite Plugins: All in One SEO Pack

The All in One SEO Pack plugin is currently rated the second most popular plugin on WordPress.org, and it’s certainly not an accident. Since the WeFixWP team first stumbled upon it, we have recommended it all all our clients as a simple way to convince popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN to crawl your site.

Why do we like it so much:

This plugin is super-easy to install and configure It automatically optimizes your titles to display the blog’s title after the more important post/page title You can override any title with one of your own Automatically generate keywords…

Picking the right WordPress host

We often get asked to recommend a good reliable WordPress host or even troubleshoot a slow performing site/blog (which is many times due to a poor host). While everyone likes to pick the least expensive host they can, there are other factors that play into picking a good WordPress host, even some that most people don’t consider…

First, make sure they meet WordPress’ minimum hosting requirements. While almost all Linux based hosts do meet them, it can’t hurt to double check. Don’t host on a Windows server. While WordPress technically can run on Windows IIS, it’s a pain and prone to…