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February 8, 2009

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WordPress Links week 6 – 2009

We are in week 6 of 2009, and here is this weeks links from the WordPress community and others about WordPress and webdevelopment. This post is updated every day.

February 8, 2009

General

Google’s now Evil? Is WordPress next?

Rolling Stones magazine has a great article this week on what appears to be a pretty crappy decision by Google to pull content down from Blogger web sites without warning the content owners.
- By Christopher Ross on This is my URL
Demise Of WordPress And Its Saving Grace

This post is part of an ongoing series called Ask Jeff. This is where I’ll take a question someone within the WPTavern or WordPress community gives me and provide my thoughts/answer to. This weeks question was submitted by community member andrew.
Which current WordPress feature do you think is most likely to be a contributing factor in the eventual demise of the platform, and which feature that has not yet arrived do you believe is most likely to be its saving grace?
- By Jeffro on WP Tavern

Tips/Tutorials/how to’s

Remove the WWW Prefix for all URLs via PHP

Canonical URLs are important for maintaining consistent linkage, reducing duplicate content issues, and increasing the overall integrity of your site. In addition to cleaning up trailing slashes and removing extraneous index.php and index.html strings, removing the www subdirectory prefix is an excellent way to shorten links and deliver consistent, canonical URLs.
- By Jeff Starr on Perishable Press
Add Comments To WordPress Pages

There are some WordPress themes that are coded not to show comments on pages but just individual posts. Its should be fairly easy to add comments to WordPress pages for your theme following this simple WordPress guide.
- By Jeff on WordPress Max
30 Most Wanted WordPress Comments Page Hacks

WordPress needs no introduction in designing field. It usually known as a synonym for blogging. When working on a WordPress blog, your posts often take the important place. However, the comments on the posts are often just as important as they create quality and valuable discussion. on the other hand if you have default WordPress comment box then there is no fun in commenting for readers as well as writers.
- By Daniel Adams on Instant Shift
Fix Feedburner Error 502/503 After Moving Feeds From Feedburner to Google

Feedburner.com one of most favored feed publishing webservice is on a verge of death, after Google has Acquired Feedburner.com there is hardy any improvement in service & features or customer support. Recently Google has started promoting feed migration from feedburner to Google.
- By Blogs DNA

Plugins

New WP Plugin: Absolute Privacy

For the past few weeks I’ve been working on a WordPress plugin that my wife requested. Today I’m happy to announce the release of my latest WordPress plugin called Absolute Privacy.
- By John Kolbert
Plugin Review: MailPress

While WordPress comes inbuilt with the power of RSS, which allows users to subscribe to new posts and view them in their feed readers. For those who prefer the traditional method of receiving updates via email, you have Feedburner or Feedblitz that enable you to do this.
- By Ajay on Weblog Tools Collection
Latest 10 WordPress Plugins on the Block

- By Jai on Blog Oh Blog

SEO

Sunday Morning SEO: Here are 2 Quick Ways to Find Great Keywords

Keyword research is one of the fundamental activities in SEO. Many bloggers consider this activity to be tedious, but here are two quick and easy ways to find traffic generating keywords for your posts.
- By Dee Barizo on The Blog Herald

Contests

ThemeSphere Giveaway Contest

Ok, It’s Again Freebies time!…. Over the last few days, our readers have complained that they missed our last few freebies giveaway posts. So we would like to make it clear that there is nothing to worry as we going to come up with some more chances to win exciting freebies. In this chain We and Theme Sphere came up with our latest giveaway contest. Here at instantShift we are giving out 3 copies of Theme Sphere’s first commercial wordpress theme Spotlight! to our readers.
- By Daniel Adams on Instant Shift

Making money

Six ways to experiment with AdSense and grow your earnings

Welcome to our first-ever guest blog post on Inside AdSense. We’re thrilled to have none other than Blogging Evangelist himself, Darren Rowse, to share his expert tips on AdSense optimisation.
- By Darren Rowse on Inside Adsense