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• WP Review Site Theme/Plugin Set

  • Friday, 26 Dec 2008, 08:15 PST (26 Dec 2008)
  • By: Ade Magnaye, BloggingPro » WordPress Themes
  

  WP Review Site turns WordPress into a powerful review site engine. It allows you to easily create niche review sites about anything and everything you want, be it products, computers, gadgets, music, movies, services, websites, restaurants, hotels, credit cards or even beer.
  WP Review Site combines has these features:
  Add a star rating system to your comment forms – This enables visitors to your WP blog do more than just leave comments: they can write a review and rate it via mousing over star icons. You define the categories, and your visitors can rate between 1 to 5 stars. And WP Review Site is completely customizable to fit your blog’s design; you can display rankings as you see fit, whether you use tables or CSS.
  And WP Review Site lets you sort reviews by weighted average rating: you can set it to display reviews by the highest/lowest-rated, and not in…

• WordPress Plugin: WP-Tuner

  • Saturday, 22 Nov 2008, 03:35 PST (22 Nov 2008)
  • By: Ade Magnaye, BloggingPro » WordPress Tips

  We all love WordPress, but sometimes it can get just really, really slow. And no matter how we look for the cause, sometimes there’s just no way to figure out what’s been giving your WordPress installation the hiccups. Thank goodness somebody came up with WP-Tuner.
  WP-Tuner for WordPress is a powerful and easy way to answer hard questions about why your blog is slow or cranky. What’s causing the slowdown? Is it a plugin? Is it your host? This plugin will help you find out. One problem, though, with this particular plugin is that it’s not for the novice. Advanced WP users will be able to understand what the plugin tells them, but it may not be that obvious for everyone.
  WP-Tuner is recommended to be used by:

  WordPress site administrators
  WordPress plugin and theme designers
  WordPress developers

  WP-Tuner can also be used with a number of advanced ways, like…

• Are You Getting Spammed Too?

  • Saturday, 15 Nov 2008, 07:39 PST (15 Nov 2008)
  • By: Ade Magnaye, BloggingPro » WordPress Tips
  

  The other day I opened up my blogs and I saw that they had this huge influx of comments. As this was rather unusual, I checked the moderation queue and to my surprise, I found a huge number of comment spam. Weirdly though, the spam contained none of the usual links, and instead found a random string of letters and numbers, like “j2miob2e5gylwz9w”.

  As if that wasn’t weird enough, it seems that the spam got through Akismet multiple times. The spam messages came from these IP addresses:

  94.102.60.150
  94.102.60.151
  94.102.60.152
  94.102.60.153

  Searching Google with the IP addresses brings up a lot of discussion about the spamming incident. Apparently, this has happened to a lot of blogs over a short period of time, and most, if not all, of the affected blogs were on WordPress.
  So, what on earth was that about? It seems like somebody’s testing a brand-new spam tool…