In WordPress backend, go to

Settings > Reading

Look for For each article in a feed, show = Select Summary and click Save Changes and then it will only show a partial of the article being pulled and the user on the aggregator site will need to click your title to read the rest of the article. This forces the user to visit your site directly as they should if they wish to read the full article.

Installing this WordPress.com Stats plugin after that need is to put in API Key and the rest is automatic. Once it’s running it’ll begin collecting information about page views, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. It’ll also add a link to your dashboard which allows you to see all stats on a single page.

Finally, because all of the processing and collection runs on their servers and not yours, WordPress.com Stats plugin doesn’t cause any additional load on your hosting account. In fact, it’s one of the fastest stats systems, hosted or not hosted, that you can use.

Error loading stylesheet: An XSLT stylesheet does not have an XML mimetype:

http://mydomain.com/sitemap.xsl

I got the answer from there. It works but output is quite ugly. I had to modify the document by adding xslt to the text/xsl/xslt.

<?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl/xslt” href=”http:// mydomain.com /blog/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.xsl”?>

Then open your .htaccess file in an editor and insert this:

AddType application/xml .xsl

That solved the problem for me.

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

Download Here

Having your page information appear before your blog name in the title is advantageous because it provides more meaningful search engine results and browser bookmark names. The text that appears between your <title></title> tags is used to generate both of these things, and will often be truncated when viewed. Because of this, it is more effective to have words directly relating to the content of your page appears before common markers. Not only will the titles be more meaningful, but they will also be more scan able when being viewed in a list. For more information see the plugin’s homepage.

What options can be passed to optimal_title()?

Optimal Title functions in the exact same way as wp_title(), and thus you may specify the following options:

<?php optimal_title('separator', display); ?>

• separator – (string) Text to display between portions of the title (i.e. the separator), such as the archive elements of year and month.

• display – (boolean) Display the page title (TRUE), or return it for use in PHP (FALSE).

What specifically needs to be changed in the header.php file?

The simplest answer is to remove everything between the HTML <title></title> tags and then put the following code in its place:

<?php optimal_title(); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>

If you want a slightly safer version that won’t break if you do not have the plugin activated or installed, then try something like this in between the HTML <title></title> tags:

<?php
if ( function_exists('optimal_title') )
{
optimal_title(); bloginfo('name');
}
else
{
bloginfo('name'); wp_title();
}
?>
<?php if ( is_home() ) { ?> | <?php bloginfo('description'); } ?>

Google Analyticator is brought to you for free by Spiral Web Consulting. Spiral Web Consulting is a small web development firm specializing in PHP development. Visit our website to learn more, and don’t hesitate to ask us to develop your next big WordPress plug in idea.

Features

Google Analyticator Has the Following Features:

• Standard Google Analytics tracking support.
• External link tracking of all links on the page, including links not managed by WordPress.
• Download link tracking.
• Support for hiding Administrator visits without effecting Google Analytics’ site overlay feature.
• Support for any advanced tracking code Google provides.
• Easily installable only requiring the user knows their UID.
• Allows code to be placed in the footer to ensure faster load times.
• Complete control over options; disable any feature if needed.

Click here for download Google Analyticator. For more information, visit the Google Analyticator plugin page.

I am using Akismet v 2.2.3. You must read my previous post. I solved little bug with modified code line 843 and line 905.

Line 843 in the recent version should read:

<div id="akismetwrap"><div id="akismetstats"><a id="aka" href="http://akismet.com" title=""><?php printf( __( '%1$s %2$sspam comments%3$s %4$sblocked by%5$s%6$sAkismet%7$s' ), '<span id="akismet1"><span id="akismetcount">' . $count . '</span>', '<span id="akismetsc">', '</span></span>', '<span id="akismet2"><span id="akismetbb">', '</span>', '<span id="akismeta">', '</span></span>' ); ?></a></div></div>

And line 905 in the recent version should read:

<div id="akismetwrap"><div id="akismetstats"><a id="aka" href="http://akismet.com" title=""><span id="akismet1"><span id="akismetcount"><?php echo $count; ?></span> <span id="akismetsc"><?php _e('spam comments') ?></span></span> <span id="akismet2"><span id="akismetbb"><?php _e('blocked by') ?></span><span id="akismeta">Akismet</span></span></a></div></div>

Now Akismet is VALID.

Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

You don’t have to do anything to configure Akismet besides entering your API key, just activate and relax. However you do need at least WordPress version 2.0 or above for everything to work. The latest version of the plugin is 2.0.

Want to show off how much spam Akismet has caught for you? Just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template.

More about Akismet Here

It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. Clicking the tags can be a little hard (depending on your speed setting) but does take you to the appropriate page.

More about WP-Cumulus HERE

This plugin only show visitor IP Address, every visitor will have his/her unique IP Address showed, it’s linked to http://whois.domaintools.com to check from where that IP Address come from and what ISP has them.

The install is pretty simple, just download the recent version from wordpress.org, unzip the content and place them inside your wp-content/plugins directory. Then activated from WordPress Plugin Admin area. It will work out of the box.

You can also use Settings tab to configure this plugins using “Show Visitor IP Address” Sub-Options tab. If another explanation is needed, please read readme.txt file.

If you want to see a working demo of this plugin, scroll to the bottom of this article, you will see your IP Address and its link.

Lastly, if you like this plugin, feel free to link back and let me know if anything come up error.