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Most bloggers who create and run their blogs on WordPress platform will agree that Spam consumes loads of precious time to clean it everyday. One part of the spam which usually bugs everyone is the trackback spam which gets generated whenever someone else links to your content or webpages. But most bloggers will agree with me that majority of the trackback, infact more than 90% trackback is basically spam and you need to delete them. The problem becomes worse as many anti spam filters including Akismet and Antispambee fail to detect or stop this spam.

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If you are a small blogger and can not afford to buy a Content Delivery Network CDN package for your blog, you need not worry. Using W3 total Cache plugin, you can use your server FTP as self hosted CDN for your WordPress blog without buying a CDN package from somewhere else. Obviously, this is not as effective as normal CDN (which serves your files worldwide using servers located near to the destination of the files being served.)

For using the self hosted CDN feature, you need to create a sub domain from your cpanel or any other control panel of your web hosting. Create images.yourdomain.com on your server (or any other name instead of images) . You need to update your DNS zone too.

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In our previous post, we talked about the requirements for upgrading to WordPress 3.2 and how to check if your blog is ready to be updated to WordPress 3.2 using a WordPress health plugin. Now its time to upgrade your blogs to WordPress 3.2 as the final version is released by Automattic.

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Make your WordPress blog ready for WordPress 3.2

by Avinash

Most of the WordPress blogs run on a shared hosting environemnt and a small percentage of blogs which are big run either on VPS or dedicated servers. Majority of the webmasters are not aware of what version of PHP or mysql their blog runs on their host. As wordpress 3.2 is nearing its release which [...]

How to tweet old random posts automaically

by Avinash

Most of the Bloggers know that Twitter can be a good source of generating traffic for your blog posts if it gets viral. Most of us connect our twitter accounts with our wordpress blogs to tweet automatically using services like twitterfeed, feedburner etc. whenever a new post is published. Sometime Bloggers even schedule tweets at [...]

Crop, resize, rotate and watermark wordpress images with Scissors plugin

by Avinash

Every blogger who uses WordPress as the main platform on which the blogs are powered on need to do a lot of image editing before they upload it to their blogs or insert into blog posts. Some of the minor things that need to be done with almost every image are cropping, resizing, rotating, and [...]

WordPress 3.2 beta 1 with New theme and Full Screen Editor Released

by Avinash

Looks like WordPress guys dont sleep. Just barely 3 months after the WordPress 3.1 release, another version of WordPress i.e 3.2 is about to be released shortly with a whole lot of bug fixes, performance improvements and new features. WordPress 3.2 beta is released today for testing and is available for download. The major addition [...]

Best plugins for related/Similar posts with thumbnails

by Avinash

How often you see Similar posts/ content along with thumbnail images on many blogs making it more attractive for the blog reader to click on it and hence higher page views,  increase in your traffic, lower bounce rate & overall revenue. Even though sometimes its difficult to set these similar posts with thumbnails, there are [...]

How to update blog feed (Feedburner) manually

by Avinash

How often you are faced with some issues of your blog feed not getting updated automatically due to some issues with some settings you messed with or due to a issue with your cache plugin like W3 total cache? Sometimes it becomes too difficult to find the real issue and still you need to update [...]

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