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Most of us have our own Blogs and almost everyone has a favorite blog or blogger beside youself. You know what topics they write on, you might even know their backgrounds, their work, their history.. but how much do you know about people like yourself with interests similar to you visiting your favorite blog? Well, you don’t know anything besides the off comment on a post here and there.

The Internet today is one big Global village with everything interconnected. MyBlogLog is the service which helps bridge this divide between you and other people on your favorite blog besides also helping you connect with the blogger of that particular site. You can connect with other readers, know more about them, read their blogs, the communities they are in, even check out their MySpace or Friendster profiles and also their Flickr photostreams. MyBlogLog also helps out the authors know more about their readers both individually and as a group… what their interests are, what they like or dislike, what else is going on in the blogosphere, what are they reading etc.

Install MyBlogLog Plugin for your WordPress Blog

Plugin Name: MyBlogLog

WordPress version supported: Version 2.0 and above

Download MyBlogLog WordPress Plugin:

http://www.mybloglog.com/zip/mybloglog_wp_2.zip 

Installation Instructions

Step # 1: Download and install the Sidebar Widgets plugin from Automattic. You can skip this step if you already have the sidebar Widgets plugin installed and running

Plugin Name: Sidebar Widgets plugin

Plugin Page: http://automattic.com/code/widgets

Download Sidebar Widgets plugin
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Everyone who owns a blog or publishes content to a blog or a website provide their users some kind of an RSS option. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication used to publish frequenty updated digital content such as blogs or news feeds.

Users of RSS content use software programs called “feed readers” or “feed aggregators”. The user subscribes to a feed by entering a link of the feed into the reader program. The reader can then check the user’s subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.

FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. If you long for creative ways to attract an audience, see where your content goes once you publish it and generally add a lot more value to your feed, then “feedburning” is for you.

Luckily for us, we have a Feedburner plugin to help us in our RSS feed aggregation.

Plugin Name: FeedBurner Plugin

Plugin Author: Steve Smith

Download the FeedBurner Plugin

http://www.feedburner.com/fb/products/feedburner_feedsmith_plugin_2.2.zip

Using some WordPress plugin magic, and user-agent detection, this plugin simply forwards all your feed traffic to FeedBurner. The plugin will detect all ways to access your feed (e.g. http://www.techcounter.com/feed/ or http://www.techcounter.com/comments/feed, etc.), and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. It will forward for your main posts feed, and optionally your main comments feed as well.

How to Install the WordPress FeedBurner Plugin

Step # 1:  Download the plugin from the link given above. Extract the zip file.
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Subscribe to Comments is a WordPress plugin that allows commenters on your blog to sign up to receive email notifications of any subsequent comments after their comment on a particular article.  This plugin is very popular because it helps you foster a community around a blog by encouraging people who comment on your posts to come back and stay engaged.

Also, this is very useful for the commenters themselves. Say a particular post is talking about moving from Blogger to Wordpress and he or she has a problem with the migration. When they leave a comment on that post and elect to receive follow up comments, these follow up comments might contain a solution to their problem where it could be the author himself responding back or a fellow commentor posting a solution or a suggestion.

The plugin also includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address!

Name of the Plugin: Subscribe to Comments

Author: Mark Jaquith

Subscribe to Comments Plugin Home Page:

http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/

Download Subscribe to Comments Wordpress Plugin:

http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/subscribe-to-comments.zip

When you activate the plugin, you don’t need to make any further changes. When you go into any of your posts, visitors to your site will see something like this at the end of the comments section. When they check “Notify me of followup comments via email” they will then be subscibed.

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For a lot of blogs, as they age in time, some very good posts get pushed into the depths of your blog into your archives with the only visitors if any to that post come via organic or search engine traffic.

So, how do you do you bring your old posts to the front page and give them exposure. You can change the published date on that post and bring it to your front page. But that is not the best way to do it especially if you have lots of posts and it can get hard to sift through your articles. It is in such a situation where this handly WordPress plugin Archivist comes in.

Plugin Name: Archivist

Plugin Author: Malyfred

Archivist Plugin URL:

http://fredfred.net/skriker/index.php/archivist/

Download Archivist Plugin:

http://fredfred.net/logger/dlcount.php?id=skriker&url=http://fredfred.net/skriker/download/wordpress/archivist.zip

How to Install the Archivist Plugin for your WordPress Blog

Copy archivist.php file to your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it.

Changes to be made to the Archivist Plugin

Once you active the Archivist plugin, go to “Plugin Editor” and choose “Archivist.php” to edit

‘number_of_posts’ : Number of posts from the archive that should be shown on the front page. Keep this as the default 1.

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WordPress default Blogger Import does NOT work with New Blogger account.

Help: I want to move from my Blogger account to my own personal website hosted by WordPress. However, since I moved to the new blogger, I am unable to do so… please help?

This was one of the emails I received yesterday. Digging around, turns out that this is true. If you are using a @gmail.com to sign into your blogger account, it means that you are using the new Blogger.

It seems that for a lot of people, Google almost forced its blogger users to upgrade from the old blogger to the new blogger. So are you stuck with your blogger account? Actually no.

There is an excellent WordPress plugin called Romantika’s Blogger RSS Import.

Author: Ady Romantika

Plugin Name: Blogger RSS Import

Plugin Page:

http://www.romantika.name/v2/2007/01/31/import-new-blogger-to-wordpress/

Download Blogger RSS Import:

http://www.romantika.name/v2/scripts/blogger-rss-import-1.2.1.zip 

Installation:

Installation

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Spam blogs, sometimes referred to by the neologism splogs, are artificially created weblog sites which the author uses to promote affiliated websites or to increase the search engine rankings of associated sites. The purpose of a splog can be to increase the PageRank or backlink portfolio of affiliate websites, to artificially inflate paid ad impressions from visitors, and/or use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed. Spam blogs are usually a type of scraper site, where content is often either Inauthentic Text or merely stolen (see blog scraping) from other websites. These blogs usually contain an high number of links to sites associated with the splog creator which are often disreputable or otherwise useless websites.

Splogs sometimes choose a name similar to a popular blog in order to benefit from the occasional incoming link from careless bloggers, who think they are linking to the popular site.

AntiLeech Plugin to prevent content theft by Sploggers

Plugin Name: AntiLeech

AntiLeech Plugin URL:

http://redalt.com/Resources/Plugins/AntiLeech

Download Plugin:

http://redalt.com/Resources/Plugins/AntiLeech/download/antileech

Description:
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