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 Remove iFrame Virus from Website

You might be reading this as your website or blog was identified to contain a virus or a malicious script that has been caught by any Antivirus software capable of scanning web pages and web based scripts. Antivirus software like ESET, Avast etc. have excellent web page scanning system and it can easily alert your users that the site contains malicious content and needs to be avoided.

These virus could have got into your website as a result of hacking or uploading content from an unprotected PC. The basic steps to remove or identify threats on your web hosting and website are:

• Scan the website online from VirusTotal.com
• if the results are clean then the website should not have any infections.

What is SOPA? Why Everyone hates it? 

SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act also known as H.R 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the US House of Representatives on 26^th October 2011 by Lamar Smith. This bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online piracy, content theft, and duplication of copyrighted intellectual property.

The bill was not very much welcomed around the world considering the after effect that it would have on the way Internet. Many major internet giants like Mozilla, Facebook, Google, Twitter and LinkedIn has opposed the SOPA rigidly.

To give a clearer picture of the issue, an organization backed by Mozilla, Creative Commons and Wikimedia has created this infographic below that shows the effect the bill could have on internet companies.

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

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: