The control of spammy comments has gotten tedious in recent times with Akismet lacking enough power to deal with the variation of spam comments that crop up each and every blessed day of the year.

Bloggers have seen a gradual rise in human spam comments as bot spam comments are getting too predictable and easily detectable by most anti-spam plug-in.

Not long ago, I made the decision to add another wordpress anti-spam plug-in to ginger up Akismet’s performance and I’m quite happy my choice was Wp-Spam Free.

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As the month of January comes to an end, I've taken another step towards making StrictlyOnlineBiz more accessible thus I've made it mobile using the Wordpress Mobile Pack plug-in.

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Yesterday evening while moderating comments on this blog, I decided to try out Wp-SuperCache to see if it could give my blog a boost in speed as I wasn’t quite loving my current cache plug-in.

After installation, I contacted Hostgator to make sure their shared servers support Wp-SuperCache and the guy who handled my ticket confirmed that the plug-in works well with Hostgator blogs.

He was even kind enough (AS USUAL) to configure it for me and so guys if you’re interested in using Wp-SuperCache on your blog, below is a capture of the settings that will ensure your blog runs smoothly on Hostgator shared servers

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Securing your wordpress blog is a must if you don’t want months of hard labour flushed down the drain by hackers. Using a few plug-ins, you could to an extent frustrate any hack attempt on your wordpress blog.

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Two days ago, using Windows Live Writer 2009, I uploaded/scheduled all my posts for the next two months and towards the end with one of the posts, I kept getting this error message: “Invalid Server Response: The response to the metaWeblog.newMediaObject method received from the blog server was invalid: Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server.”

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The Tweetmeme Plug-in is one of the many wordpress/blogger plug-ins out there that is known to help generate traffic via the now larger than life, Twitter.

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As some of you already know, I post to my blog using Windows Live Writer 2009 and Windows Live Writer Portable Version 3.

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There’s nothing like having amazing plug-ins that help make blogging an exhilarating experience for bloggers.

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I hated logging into my blog’s admin area to see that I have like 15 comments awaiting moderation but of that 15, 10 are spam messages.

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In my last post, I blogged about creating comments and backlinks friendly blogs. Well I forgot to add this amazing plug-in to that list.

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