Brians Threaded Comments is perhaps one of the most popular plugins used by WordPress bloggers to enhance the commenting system. Problem is -it has quite a few bugs and poorly supported on its forums. I can understand and respect the fact that author is quite busy... but what are we to do in mean time?

I have spend quite a b

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Stephen Cronin of "More Than Scratch the Surface" released a WordPress plugin to help commenters build keyword-rich backlinks.

I wrote about it on my own blog, "Untwisted Vortex" here:

http://www.untwistedvortex.com/2008/04/04/wordpress-plugin-keywordluv/

And I'm already using it. Whether Google values the backli

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Did you know that the Top Commentator WordPress plugin could be gamed? That it could be hijacked by someone who wanted to insert a site-wide followed link to a 'bad neighborhood' into your Top Commentator list? Or that someone who wasn't the original commentator could insert their link into your Top Commentator list, even fr

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There are so many people wasting their time trying to build backlinks on DoFollow blogs, the wrong way, I felt compelled to write about it. Well, not really. A fellow blogger asked me to write about it, so I did.

He also asked me to give my thoughts about the CommentLuv WordPress Plugin, which I did. I neglected to mention

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Surprise. Your Wordpress Site Isn’t Search Engine Friendly
We have all seen the standard “Wordpress SEO” articles that discuss the obvious things that you can do to optimize your Wordpress blog. Most focus on optimizing titles, permalinks, meta keyword and description tags, and possibly adding a Google sitemap.

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This is the second in my WordPress series on creating a local mirror of your blog. This series is very hands-on practical stuff and is written for the total newbie, though geeks are also welcome ;)

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Please find highlights from this week's post:

- post in advance with WordPress, schedule your week
- use comment relish plugin to increase your RSS subscribers
- WordPress Web 2.0 Guide for WordPress users
- free report:How to Become a WordPress Expert Overnight

If you are willing to improve your WordPress skills, then enjoy my week

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A nice plugin for wordpress blogs, that displays Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports directly on Wordpress Admin area. It helps you to know how many people have visited your site, which pages they viewed, or where they came from. the good thing is that, you don't need to log in to Google Analytics or Feedburner to view the stats. Simply

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I've decided to say "Goodbye" to the 125x125 button ads I had in my sidebar and replace them with larger ads that are rotated into place on each page load by an Ad Rotator plugin. Should 125x125 pixel ads be considered 'old news' since everybody and their cousin have them on their blog these days? What do you think of rotating ads? Do y

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Do you love WordPress plugins? Now, take a preview of the top 10 favorite plugins, with screenshots of key features, by an experienced WordPress BlogMaster. Need SEO plugins? You'll find a couple of great ones. Master of plugins? Bet you'll find a couple here you haven't tried yet. This a great list with everything from time savers (

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Features include:

* A single widget contains the title, text before the custom field key, the custom field key, and text after the custom field key. The text before and after, if not left blank, will display on all pages and posts. If the custom field key matches a custom field key on any page or post, the custom field value will be ex

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I’m always looking for a deal online. Yesterday I had to renew a domain with Godaddy, the first thing I did was search for Godaddy coupon codes. Here are some great deals around the internet for your blogging needs.

These deals include savings for domains, hosting and plugins. We found a coupon code for $17 off the OIOPublis

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What do you get when you cross a Firefox extension with a WordPress plugin? Well... in this case, with the "Oneclick" WordPress plugin, you save a whole lot of time when you need to install themes and plugins. How much time? Well -- this plugin lives up to its name. Find a plugin you like and just make one click to install it. Same wit

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Get your free RSS reader ticker for firefox here. This is a great review of a plugin for firefox that will display your rss feed right in your browsers status bar. Great site for free tech support and a awesome repository for reviews and advice. Sto

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With abundant choice of freely available themes for WordPress every blogger gets tempted to test a new look every once in while. I know I get the urge often enough so I decided to discuss the subject of how you can safely test new look and see if the theme you liked will fit your blog vision.

Well, we are in luck!

Apparently this urge i

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Here’s a great way to add a shopping cart to your Wordpress blog so you can sell products directly from your site without the user having to go to an external site. If you offer products for sale on your blog, it’s much nicer for your customers to stay on the same site that they see the products on.

This plugin is simple and powerful, it u

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This module is heavily inspired by Ankesh Kothari's Buy Me a Beer Wordpress plugin, and since i was thinking of setting up one for my Etienne Teo Blog, i thought i might as well just look for one and add it as a widget on my blog, suprisingly no blogger or Blog hacker had setup a plugin for blogger.com users to input this beautiful "Buy me

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