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Commentag is a WordPress plugin which allows blog commenters to tag their own comments. It doesn’t replace existing comment structures, but rather enhances them by giving users an easy way to search for and filter comments. Tags are stored on Commentag’s servers—comments remain on your own database. Commentag forms a tag cloud in your comments section so that you and your readers can get a quick glance of main topics of discussion. Whenever a user tags a comment, the following commenter is presented with a suggestionbox of tags, making it easier for both commenter and reader to organ...  read more
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Commenters today can carry as much clout as do bloggers. In fact, commenters usually have interesting counterpoints to a blogger’s argument, and they do indeed enrich a blog in their interactions. They also probably could make good buddies, at least of the internet sort, the kind you’d Facebook or Myspace. MeetYourCommenters actually helps you to do that. The Wordpress plugin shows the profiles and webpages of commenters in your WordPress dashboard, allowing you to add them as friends on your network of choice. It does so by utilizing the Google Social Graph API which verifies users a... read more
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If you’re a blogger, then you know that losing your posts is almost tragic--all that work and effort, gone to waste. Thus we have BlogBackUpr. BlogBackUpr backs up your blog of course. Any blog with an RSS feed can be used with the service. WordPress users will have everything including comments, categories and posts saved. Coverage for other blogging engines differs. Automatic restore is supported for Wordpress.org and WordPress.com, as well as Blogger.com. More platforms will be supported in the future. At the moment BlogBackUpr does not support back up of templates and images, ho... read more
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WordPress aims to post blogs from users from all around the globe. At the site you can choose to make your blog private to your own community or publishing it at the web for everyone to see. WordPress.com, contains a special page which notifies you of any followups to your comment so you can easily follow your conversations no matter what blog they're on. The site offers free access and paid upgrades as well. Among the offered features you may personalize your blog by adding exiting themes, categorize and tag your posts, use spell-check, previews, autosave, Words, Photos, and videos tools, use... read more
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PhotoDropper is a simple tool which allows bloggers to drop Creative Commons licensed photos into their Wordpress blog. Normally, bloggers tend to do a quick Google Images search however, there they may unintentionally lift a photo that hasn’t been licensed for the taking. Using Flickr it’s easier to avoid copyrighted pictures as you can search specifically by license. This still takes some time and patience. PhotoDropper, however automates the process, making it incredibly easy. Once you’ve uploaded the plugin you won’t have to leave Wordpress to add photos. Whenever you want to... read more
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Informe.com is a forum hosting platform, which puts together some of the most popular open source resources to allow users to create forums and online communities that look at work nicely. For instance, Informe uses Wordpress for blogging, MediaWiki for wikis, Gallery 2 for image support, phpBB for general forum support, and Pligg to manage content in a no-hassle-at-all way. Once you create your forum, it gets a subdomain URL, like someforum.informe.com. The site is big about tags, and its tag cloud seems to be quite useful to understand what this community of forums is going on about. If you ... read more
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Premium News is a website which showcases and makes available a WordPress theme, specifically for highly motivated bloggers who wish to have an extremely visible and regularly updated blog. Upon arriving at the site, you will be presented with an interface and layout that correspond to what your WordPress blog will look like when and if you choose to purchase and download the Premium News theme. Not surprisingly, Premium News offers up a theme which resembles the front page of a newspaper complete with highlights, images, and featured articles. The layout of your content can be easily modified... read more
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Comment spam is a problem, and will continue to be so. They created Defensio to make spam management much easier for bloggers and application developers alike. At launch they have plug-ins available for WordPress and PixelPost (with more platforms to come online soon) as well as developer plug-ins for Rails and .NET that can send screenshots and more info on request. As you post articles to your blog and your readers' comments flow in, Defensio adapts to your content and habits in a personalized way. This means that no two bloggers will see Defensio react in precisely the same way, even for si... read more
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Want to get rid of annoying spam? I don't know anyone who doesn't. Akismet.com is a site that is dedicated to helping bloggers have a spam free experience. To begin you must download the Akismet API. When a new comment or pingback comes to your blog Akismet it is submitted to Akismet. Akismet is constantly protecting your blog so don't worry about upgrading. Akismet API can be used on other applications besides WordPress, such as forums and wikis. Akismet.com also has plans for commercial bloggers, in fact there is a pro blogger API Key; an enterprise API Key, an Access API Key, and plans for ... read more
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If you're looking to create the ultimate WordPress blog that will propel you to the heights of Perez Hilton's fame, you need to have a sweet theme. You can get one at JungleTANGO, a new theme buying-and-selling website that you can use to find or distribute your blog themes for WordPress. If you're a vendor, you can sell your theme in one of two ways; commercial or unique. A commercial theme is a theme which supports unlimited downloads by multiple bloggers, whereas a unique theme can only be downloaded by one person and then subsequently is pulled from the JungleTANGO site. Accordingly, uniqu... read more
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Commentt is a simple interactive multimedia widget that lets your site visitors leave audio or video messages on your website without leaving the page. Commentt's idea is that, in lieu of the standard text messages normally sent between users via MySpace, Wordpress, Facebook, etc, we can now use multimedia messaging. There isn't a lot of information on the Commentt site regarding the widget's interface or customization options (none of the demos worked at the time of this review). It seems that you install the widget differently depending on what type of site you use; Facebook users can instal... read more
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This site is aimed at posting blogs from users from all around the globe. You can choose to make it private to your own community or publishing it a t the web. When you're signed in and leave a comment on WordPress.com, there is a special page which notifies you of any followups to your comment so you can easily follow your conversations no matter what blog they're on.Free access is available and paid upgrades as well. Among the offered features you may personalize your blog by adding exiting themes, categorize and tag your posts, use spell-check, previews, autosave, Words, Photos, and videos... read more
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