It’s no secret that ROCKFUSE is a dofollow blog. Thought I don’t use the traditional dofollow badges used by all the other blogs that have taken the time to remove the ‘nofollow’ tag, I’ve created my own and I think it’s pretty visible in the sidebar.

Now, why did I exactly made this blog dofollow? Or in that case, why does any blogger make his/her blog dofollow? The obvious reason to do this is to influence comments. If you are in need of developing backlinks to your blog, you’d find that blog commenting is one of the easiest methods to do this - and dofollow blogs stand a higher chance of getting quality comments because of this.

But, there’s a claim that when you remove the nofollow tags, it will lure a lot of spam comments.

The last time I got so excited about a Wordpress release is when Wordpress 2.5 was released and it was worth it. Although Wordpress 2.6 was not supposed to come out for like another month, do not underestimate it’s potential. As always, the new version of Wordpress has some minor bug fixes but nevertheless, a lot of killer new features.

Here’s a recap of the coolest features I’m digging right now.

Multiple Post Revisions

If you’re blogging online through the Wordpress editorial interface, good news to you! Remember that time you though that., the article you’ve been writing actually looked better 5 minutes ago before you going ahead and making those revisions?

Do you use dofollow plugins in your Wordpress blog to remove the nofollow attribute in your comments? Well, if you do, maybe you might not know that, those plugins can actually add a heavy load to your server, while processing pages with a higher number of comments, when experiencing a high traffic scenario.

Simply, this is what happens. When you install a dofollow plugin, when a page loads, the plugin will hunt down the nofollow tags and remove them from appearing in the page output to the browser. This is not the most effective method since what it does is using the system resources of your server to cure something that could have been simply prevented at the first place.

You know what they say right?

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Do you know that senseless pinging practices of WordPress could have banned you already from Social Media web sites? An that it can very well happen with the default settings of your WordPress blog? It might be a bit overwhelming with all the nasty questions. To ease the pressure a bit, let’s start with a simple question.

So, what do you know about pinging?

In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated.

This is a follow-up to my post - “OneClick - Who needs FTP?“.

If you’re a wordpress user, OneClick basically is a plugin that you can use to eliminate the use of user-handled File Transfers to upload new plugins and themes. In other words, if you’re the kind of blogger that tests a dozen of plugins daily, OneClick will let you do that without even using the server File-Manager.

So after using OneClick for months, I thought of doing a followup to the already published article. Mainly because, one - I don’t see many bloggers using it, and two - it had been a lifesaver for me!

Simple configuration

Unlike other plugins of it’s kind, OneClick configuration is super easy.

What if I said there’s a powerful Wordpress plugin you can use to, Optimize, Repair and Backup your Wordpress database, right within the comfort of your Wordpress dashboard? Well, that’s exactly what I’m telling you now!

The WP-DB Manager, helps you to:

• Optimize: Remove the unwanted clutter in your wordpress tables for them to perform faster.
• Repair: Repair the SQL database, in case data inconsistencies occur, in one click.
• Backup: Backup all your Wordpress data, so easily and even automate the process for it to be done in a regular interval.
• View Stats: Have a bird’s eye view of the database stats.
• Run SQL Queries!

All without even opening the cPanel. Basically, you can control your whole fleet of SQL tables within the Wordpress dashboard.