WordPress plugins are in many regards just like Firefox add-ons. You got a few popular ones that most webmasters have installed and then a lot of differences when it comes to the rest. If you have ever looked at one of those “top x” posts about WordPress plugins chance is that you already know the [...]

Categories: ghacks, The Web

A few years ago when the name WordPress was mentioned, most people would not know what it was. But thanks to the popularity of blogging and “the new media” WordPress has become a well known name in the internet community. Other then the small blogs which use it, WordPress is also used on major sites [...]

Categories: The Web

Up until recently we have been using the WordPress plugin Akismet for anti spam protection. Akismet is supplied with every WordPress installation and needs to be enabled with an api key that is freely available after registering an account at the WordPress website. There have been a few problems with Akismet’s anti-spam scanner in recent [...]

Categories: Web Development

Everton said that I should post a list of plugins that I would use at Ghacks from time to time and this is what I decided to do right now. He actually told me so in an email asking what comment plugin I was using that allowed users to edit their comments for 15 minutes after making the comment.

Categories: The Web

I was getting some emails lately asking about the plugins that I have installed here at ghacks. I know that many webmasters read my blog and I thought it would be nice to write about the plugins. I also thought to write a little series of articles about setting up a blog with your own domain, please let me know if that sounds interesting enough. I have been using Wordpress since the beginning and find it really easy to administrate.

Categories: ghacks, Knowledge