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Remove WordPress Generator Meta Tag

Ashish Jha — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:12:42 +0000

Generally every wordpress blog adds a line in the head section of the Html source code which states that the page has been generated by wordpress x.x.x. The information about wordpress and its current version number is very easily visible in the head section of any wordpress blog. This does not cause any harm however, it provides some useful information for the nasty people. I personally feel that the information should bot be visible in the head section.

The information in head section looks something like this

Removing that line from the head part of blog is quite easy. simply add

remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);

into your themes function.php file and it will be gone forever. If the generator line is still there, you can also check head section present in header.php file for the generator meta tage and remove it from there. Save the file and referesh you blog and hurrray its gone for ever.

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Best wordpress plugins to get you started

Ashish Jha — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:05:56 +0000

This is the first post of a 3 series post i promised you. This post will help you to get started with publishing your own blog within few seconds. So, it looks that you are interested in setting up your blog. This post is the written description of the steps which i followed while setting up my blog here at theashish.com. We will not talk here about the domain and the hosting etc in this post. So, here we go. This post will help you find the best wordpress plugins for your blogs which are very important. Without these plugins your blogs is certainly missing something.

Once you have installed the blog and selected the best theme for your blog, its time to improve the functionality of the blog by adding plugins to it. I list here some very important plugins which are highly recommended for the blog.

Akismet: Akismet is a plugin which checks your comments for spam and thus helps you reduce spam to your blog.It is higly recommended plugin.This plugin comes default with wordpress.

Search everything : This plugin enhances default searching capability of wordpress blog. With the help of this plugin your users can search Pages, Comments and more.

Popularity Contest : Popularity Contest is a nice plugin that keeps track of activity on your blog and calculates a popularity percentage for each post and page. It is beneficial if you want to show most popular posts to your visitors.

Related Posts : This is the best plugin to use. It increases readership of your blog by returning a list of the related entries based on active or passive keyword matches. This makes sure that visitors spend much more time on your website.

Show Top Commentators : This plugin is a good deal if you are looking to increase comments to your blog. Show Top Commentators encourages comments to posts by rewarding readers for making a comment. Well,what’s the reward? The top commentators are displayed in the sidebar with a link back to their website.

Subscribe to Comments : This plugin is higly recommended. This is a nice plugin that helps grow your blog community by letting your readers stay up to date in the post that they already are interested in. This plugin notifies user about the followup comments.

Sociable : This is a nice plugin for wordpress. With this pluhgin your visitors can save the posts to social bookmarking sites thus attracting nice traffic from them.

All in One SEO Pack : This is the best plugin i have seen for SEO of wordpress Blog. If you want to optimize your blog for search engines this is a must have plugin for your blog.

Google Analyticator : This plugins helps you add google analytics feature to your blog. You just have to enter analytics UID and this plugin does the rest.

Google Sitemap for wordpress : Everbody is crazy about xml sitemaps. But creating xml sitemaps manually is a time consuming and boring task.So,why worry about creating it manually just install this excellent plugin and generate sitemaps for your wordpress blog instantly. It also automatically pings the search engine about the new pages or posts on your site.

This plugins are the must have’s plugin for your blog. Install it and enjoy the journey of blogging.

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Tell me the best plugins for my wordpress blog

Ashish Jha — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:04:27 +0000

I updated my blog to latest wordpress version. After updating, when i checked my site i discovered that few plugins are not working the way it should . Since i had only few posts in my blog previously, So i decided to install the latest wordpress from scratch. I deleted the old installation and installed the blog again again from scratch. Now again i faced with the problem of choosing the right plugins for my blog. There are literally thousands of plugins but it is always tough to choose the best plugins for our blog. We can not use all the plugins out there because every plugin you install reduces the loading time of your blog. So this time i decided to research. Research but what ?? Ofcourse the best plugins for wordpress blog. No need to say, for me, research means google. I googled “top wordpress plugins” because i needed nothing but the very best wordpress plugins for my blog.

To my surprise i found out that many blogs have made a post about best wordpress plugins or top wordpress plugins. But none of them focus on the best wordpress plugins that is required to get you started. So I decided to make a post right now. This post will be in three parts.

The first part which will deal about the best wordpress plugins needed to get you started.
Second post will deal about the SEO required in wordpress to attract search engines attention, and
final post will deal with how to monetise your blog with adsense.