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:

Life Saving SQL Queries for a WordPress Blogger

Often its very tedious and time wasting job to clean up the mess on your blog! I find it very irritating at times when several unwanted work eat up my precious time as a webmaster that I could have otherwise used for creating meaningful content to share on my blog. Various tasks that could consume your valuable time as  a blogger are:

• Cleaning up Spam / pending comments
• Removing unwanted post revisions
• Deleting pending posts created by Spam bots
• Clearing web server cache etc.
• The list simply goes on.

What is Facebook Timeline Feature all about?

Facebook officially launched the latest Facebook Timeline feature on 15th December and it seems to be a huge change to the face of the Social networking giant and the way it is going to be used. On 15th they rolled out the Timeline to all its users and it was declared released! Now on your profile is going to look more life like and it is going to be open to the entire world to see what all is changing in your life!

Once you have activated your Facebook Timeline, you will have exactly7 days to tweak the look and privacy to your taste until it goes live to the entire world to see. Its critical to note that once you have activated the Facebook Timeline  feature, there is no way to revert it back to the old look, hence be sure what you really want before you make the choice.

Here is the Official update page from Facebook team on the Facebook Blog where loads of people have started requesting a roll back, but we personally feel that its  a great change. it again depends on ones personal choice and Facebook should have a roll back option active to cater users who really aren’t impressed!

Optimizing Your Website with Multivariate Testing

Today’s window to grab visitor attention is shorter than ever. Your goal is to make the mission of the site abundantly clear from the start so the user sticks around. If not, you risk losing the audience to another site that catches their attention in a much shorter time frame.

How can you be certain your achieving optimum results from your website?  A tool called multivariate testing will show you how visitors are responding the design and tone of your website.

With simple multivariate testing, a website can attain a high conversion rate for: newsletter signups, sales, feed subscriptions, downloads, and many other things. More importantly, it helps keep visitors engaged on a site, enhancing their experience, lowering bounce rate, and helping with website stats and analytics.

Newsletter Signups

Fatal Error on WordPress Version 3.3: Call to undefined function is_rtl()

Soon after the roll out of the latest WordPress 3.3 version upgrade, many webmasters have been reporting a failure on the blog and the following error occurring on their WordPress Admin dashboard page: “Call to undefined function is_rtl()“

Complete Error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_rtl() in /public_html/wp-includes/general-template.php on line 2102

WordPress 3.3 Version update is Launched today

Today the WordPress team has launched its latest version update 3.3 and this time its really quite a visual update with several changes to the interface. There are several key changes like an improved dashboard with dynamic update messages, Flyout menu options, more filetypes and automatic file detection with drag and drop file uploads.

Below are the list of features added / improved in the latest version of WordPress framework: