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WordPress Top Plugins

You're reading from   WordPress Top Plugins Find and install the best plugins for generating and sharing content, building communities and generating revenue

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849511407
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

WordPress Top Plugins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. Plugin Basics 2. Generating Content FREE CHAPTER 3. Sharing Content 4. Style and Function 5. Building a Community with BuddyPress 6. Generating Revenue 7. Working with Multiple Authors 8. Security and Maintenance 9. Power Admin 10. Time for Action

Akismet


By Automattic (http://automattic.com/)

  • Why it's awesome: Virtually eliminates spam on blog comments

  • Why it was picked: Popularity and accuracy

With WordPress, there is one thing you can always guarantee—lots of fake comments submitted by bots. Spam bots are nasty little programs that scour the web hunting for WordPress blogs to automatically submit comments to. Why do they do this? Because spamming comments is a really easy way to spread a website's URL to other websites.

Akismet, pronounced Ah-kiz-met, is a service provided by the original team who created WordPress-Automattic. This service scans each comment against a growing database of known spammers as well as evaluates the content of the comment for patterns that resemble spam.

In order to leverage this awesome plugin, you will need...

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