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PhpBB is a great forum software and it’s free. Due to that extremely many people uses it as their forum software. And because of that spam bots loves phpBB forums. And that is one of the biggest downside with phpBB. But here is two solutions that will fix this problem and completely get rid of those annoying spam bots. I have tested them myself for a few weeks and they are bullet-proof when it comes to stopping spam bots.

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If you use Wordpress as your blogging platform you might want to read this ten point tutorial on how to optimize your Wordpress blog. Here is tip number five:

5. Related Posts
When a person visits your blog you want then to stay for as long as you can. One of the best ways to keep visitors interested is to show them other content on your blog that may be related to the post they are currently reading. The easiest way to do this is with the ‘Related Posts‘ plugin. Upload using your FTP client into the wp-content > plugins folder, then login to your Wordpress admin panel and activate the plugin from the ‘Plugins’ page.

To read all the other nine ways you can optimize Wordpress just go to boydcreative.net.

I am now using another social bookmark plugin for WordPress called “Share This”. This new plugin works almost the same as the previous did, except that instead of small icons under every post it will only use a small icon and the text “share this” under all the blog posts. When you click on that link you will be taken to a page where you can add the post to all kinds of different social bookmarking sites. A new nice feature is that you can also email the post your friends. The plugin is made by Alex King.

You can download the plugin from alexking.org/projects/wordpress

Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Thanks to Thomas McMahon for footwork on the URLs.

With this WordPress Plugin you can “automatically post to your Wordpress blog from an RSS, ATOM, or other XML feed”.

This plugin is potentially dangerous: it converts xml into Wordpress posts. It could be used to run an aggregator site, or it might be used by spammers to push high-profit keywords into their blogs. I’m not sure if writing a Wordpress plugin to automatically post from RSS will enable spammers a “5-minute” spam blog installation or not. However, I think that it’s useful in its own right, and helped me learn a little more about RSS.

I am currently testing the plugin out over at Green Blog. You can download the plugin and read more about it over at elliottback.com.

Recent Comments Plugin will add a list of the most recent comments posted to your blog. They are gathered in descending order (newest at the top), but then grouped together by post title, so that comments from the same post are listed together. The list items will be links to the comments, and will contain the name of the commenter. You can see a live example of this plugin to the right.

A great way to get more visitors and feed readers to your blog is to let your visitors and readers bookmark your posts to one or several bookmarking sites. With this WordPress plugin you can let your readers do this. It adds 24 small icons at the bottom of every post that let’s your visitors bookmark your post. Some of the bookmarking sites are Del.icio.us, digg, Reddit, FURL, Newsvine, Technorati, Spurl and several others.

Version 3 introduces an Options page in the WordPress admin section. You can select which sites you display, whether the links will open in a new window or in the current page. Also, you can change the heading that appears above thelinks. If you have pages in your site then you can select a sub-set of them (or even all of them) where the links won’t appear. You can also specify to display the links in one or two lines. The plugin is using a stylesheet (social_bookmarks.css) which you can modify to integrate it further with your theme. Finally, a PNG template file is included that can be used to generate additional icons.

You can see an live example of this plugin right under this post. This is an easy way to gain more visitors to your blog so don’t hesitate for one moment. Go and download the plugin.

dountsis.com/articles/wordpress/social-bookmarks-bar-plugin-for-wordpress.php

Here is a neat little plugin for bloggers that are using WordPress. It’s a simple sharing system for AdSense. This is a great tool if your blog has several authors besides you and/or you want to pay your co-authors for the traffic and money they generates.

http://adsense.ayanev.com

Here comes some interesting links for this weekend. Enjoy!

- How to correctly insert a flash into XHTML.
- Advanced Accessibility Techniques.
- The Ultimate SEO Checklist?
- And finally, 10 ways to ruin visitor experience on your website!
- A search plugin for WordPress, Search Meter!
- Dalarnas is a two column crisp theme for Wordpress that reminds me of the original Digg site. Lots of white space.

This seems to be a week of posts and articles about the new and popular publisher program Chitika. This post is no exception.

Several Chitika users have developed tools that might be useful for chitika publishers. I haven’t tested these tools but I’ll show them for you anyways because you might find one or several of these tools useful. The tools are:

Chitika eMiniMalls on Movable Type
MT plugins that can help MT users.

WordPress Plugin
This plug in allows you to add eMiniMalls to your posts in WordPress.

WordPress Plugin
This is like the first one but by another developer.

WordPress Plugin
This plug in uses the custom fields features of WP to insert eMiniMalls.