Ever since Google bought FeedBurner all their premium services have become free and I’ve started using their plugin. This plugin transfer control of your WordPress feeds to FeedBurner and you can manage your feed through the site.
The advantages of the plugin is that you can customize your feed completely using the tools on the FeedBurner site and display the number of subscribers reading your feed through small display images called chicklets. This plugin is for advanced users only so give it a miss unless you know what it does.
Akismet is considered one of the essential plugins. It comes with every WordPress installation so you only need to activate it. The complication here is that it requires the API key from WordPress.com to work so simply sign up there and get the key. When you give it the key the plugin will start working.
What Akismet does it catch spam comments and hold them in a separate queue. This makes the process of removing comment spam much simpler. If a comment someone avoids Akismet you can classify it as spam and Akismet will learn from this and not let it through the next time.
It’s completely worth the hassle of getting the API key. Install it immediately.
If you are wondering why there are no comments in your blog you probably have left comment moderation turned on all the comments are held in the Comments section waiting for your approval. Ananth didn’t know this and was wondering why he didn’t have a single comment on his blog.
Sometimes comments are held by Akismet even when you have turned off comment moderation and even when they are from real people if they seem suspicious. So you should regularly check the spam queue and moderate comments.
The first things you should do when you start out with a new WordPress blog are:
After you’ve done these things you are ready to start posting!
Don’t forget to delete the sample post that is created during installation.
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