My Favorite WordPress Tips

 If you own a blog, odds are you are using WordPress to publish it. There’s a good reason for that: WordPress offers the best combination of versatility and ease of use for the widest group of people. But if you haven’t taken some time to customize your blog, this also means that you don’t stand out from the pack, and your blog may be easily forgettable.

 Adding some additional functions can also help increase your shareability and improve the user experience. Since a memorable, shareable, enjoyable site is what it’s all about, it would be wise to adopt some of these tools right away.

 Install Random Redirect

How to Transfer Feedburner account

While migrating or transferring a website to your ownership to another owner, an important task would be handing over accounts like Feedburner, Facebook fan page, Subscribers list etc.

Follow the steps to transfer a feed between one FeedBurner account to another:

1. Sign in to your account.
2. Click the title of the feed you want to send to someone else in the My Feeds list, and then click “Transfer Feed…” You will then be prompted to enter the email address of the publisher to whom you wish to transfer this feed.
3. Enter this email address and submit the form.

How to add HTML tables in a WordPress Blog post

Often to add more data sets or organized data within your blog posts, you might have to add good looking and well designed tables. If it was a normal HTML web page you can easily add tables with the help of basic HTML tags or CSS but when it comes to adding the same in a WordPress blog post it becomes a tedious task to do it repeatedly.

There are few awesome plugins that can help you add tables within the blog posts effortlessly and today I will share few of the best plugins that you shall use to equip your posting window to add tables. Below are the list of plugins available for free download:

List of the Best Captcha Plugins for WordPress 2012

WordPress is undoubtedly the best blogging platform and for that one reason its one of the most targeted framework by Spammers and spam bots. Its a default that you should be using the official spam assassin plugin called AKISMET and in addition to that using a Captcha plugin ensures you are least hit by these spam bots.

Below are the list of the best Captcha plugins that you can use on WordPress

Export – Import settings for MYSQL Databases

If you are looking forward to Migrating your Blog or website from one host to another or some other web based application from one location to another, you will encounter a situation where you need to select the right settings for exporting and importing a MYSQL database. Below are some settings that will help you identify the right settings for Exporting and Importing your databases.

Below screenshots shows the appropriate settings that works fine with me and make sure you have your database backup before deleting it to make sure you have the complete DB migrated as it should be.

WordPress Comment Spamming at all time High!

Its alarming and frustrating when you see the number of spam comments you receive on your blog every day and the remember that the count is going to spike up the closer your blog gets to being popular.  If you see the screenshot on this page, it shows the Spam messages / comments blocked by Akismet in this month alone (20 days) and the count is as high as 20,000! If you too have a WordPress blog I am sure that you will be also facing the same issues with arresting spam.

The best practices I would recommend for any blogger to use to keep the BAD spammers out of our way are: