Wordpress is a plugin-based blogging software and there are thousands of plugins available for it. But not all are really useful, so i will recommend you the ones i’m using and i really need.
1. Akismet is a preinstalled plugin and it protects you against spam. It is not 100% perfect, but almost. It sometimes tags […]

I will try to write a few lessons or tips on how to be a successful webmaster or blogger, that will be composed of: choosing a hosting company and plan, a domain name, building your website or blog, choosing a good theme/template or getting a custom one, optimizing your website for good results in search […]

Wordpress has released a new version, the 2.2, that has a few improvements and more features:

WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by default in the core code, significantly cleaned up, and […]

For everyone who uses Wordpress 2.1.1, it seems the code has been modified by some hackers and it is critical to update to version 2.1.2 for your blogs sake.
Check the entry on the Wordpress blog, about this issue.

Wordpress has released a new security update for it’s users and it’s recommended to upgrade for your blog’s safety. You can read more about it here.

Related to Kineda, it seems i’m a C-List blogger. I’m not quite sure if that’s good or bad, but at least i’m on the list
The tool ranks blogger basing on the links you have in technorati in the last 6 months. 3-9 links mean D-List Blogger, 10-99 links mean C-List Blogger ( me ), […]

The future of weblogs seem to be the moblogs, blogs uploaded directly from the mobile phone.
There are already a few companies who think or already started to implement this into their websites, like Veeker and Youtube.
Veeker launched Radar,  a service that lets users to post photos from their mobile phone directly on its website, while […]

Text Link Ads has recently launched a new blog comparison tool, that tells you how much ‘juice’ your blog has. You can also compare your blog with others from it’s niche.
The ‘juice’ is counted using the following stats: Bloglines (40%), Alexa (15%), Technorati (30%), Links (15%).

Another proof that Google loves blogs is that it made a search engine especially for them: Google Blog Search
If you are using WordPress, automatically ping it by adding http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 in your WordPress Options. Or you can manually ping it here.
Thanks to Problogger

Since i have no spam on my blog, i think the Nofollow attribute was useless and my readers should earn their fair deserved links.
So i used a plug-in made by Cristian Mezei to remove the nofollow from all the comments on my blog. Thanks Cristian for the idea and the plug-in. I think every blogger […]