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Pipe Up: How to Get More Comments on Your WordPress Posts

Byte Technology

One of the hallmarks of the WordPress content management system is the ability to engage a user audience and create a back-and-forth conversation of sorts in the virtual world. You’ll still effectively block spam, and you’ll be brought into closer interaction with your users.

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The Fast Lane: More Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

Byte Technology

As wonderful as the WordPress content management system is, by its very nature—capable of supporting hundreds of different themes, thousands of plugins and so much more—it can be quite slow at times. dynamic street in modern city,dusk traffic in shanghai.

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Addressing Accessibility in Social Media

NTEN

Social features on your site—such as comments, discussion boards, user-submitted stories, ratings, and voting widgets—can help build engagement within your audience. If you have ever implemented a web submission form on your site, you quickly realized that without spam protection your environment was vulnerable to unwanted content.

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You're an Accidental Spammer: What Do You Do When You've Been Hacked? (Digital Dispatches from the desk of Gavin Clabaugh)

NTEN

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. Perhaps that innocuous "Share this Page" widget on your web site — through no fault of your own — has been turned to the dark side. Worse, there are a couple of thousand anti-spam-bots gunning for you now. Suddenly you're a spammer.

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Things We Like (January 2009)

NTEN

Tag Galaxy maps Flickr photos onto a virtual solar system. The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". And our new Sprout-built fundraising widget could help as many as 57 people attend the 2009 NTC. Not to worry: Natalie Portman's got you covered. That's gotta feel good.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Automated systems can aggregate content coming from particular blogs, people, companies, keywords, or some combination of these. But these systems require the reader to filter out fluff, dreck, and irrelevant content. A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets. rating items.

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Creepy or Community Building?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Deborah Finn has been playing with widgets and decided to install the MyBlogLog widget today. MyBlogLog is a social networking system for blog readers to connect and learn about each other around their favorite blogs - and for blog publishers to access detailed information about their readers. Click on any of our readers???