Akismet is a powerful plugin for detecting spams but sometimes it puts some good comments also in spam list. You can reduce this type of activity by making your WordPress site commenters to solve a simple CAPTCHA only if Akismet thinks that their comment is spam.
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How To Block Machine Generated Spams In WordPress Even Before They Get To Your Server ?
This is another powerful trick of stopping all machine generated spam comments much before they hit your web server. This can be dome by using a simple WordPress plugin called Cookies for Comments, the plugin sets a cookie on a random URL and that URL is checked everytime when a comment is posted on your website. In-case if the cookie is missing, it marks the comment as spam.
Defensio Anti-Spam For WordPress: An Alternative To Popular Akismet Plugin
All WordPress bloggers know about Akismet plugin that detects both manual and bot spammers posting comments on WordPress, also give you choice to set auto deletion of spam comments, there are its free feature; it also gives you some premium plans you can purchase from its site Akismet.Com. This article is about another plugin that also may become a good alternative of Akismet if you give it a try. We are discussing about Defensio Anti-Spam.
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How To Block Spams In WordPress By Challenging Only Bots Not Humans ?
Earlier we discussed about Keypic’s WordPress Plugin that allows you to block spam bots in most of the WordPress forms (without using captchas) like login, register, comment and even other custom forms and plugin like Contact Form 7. Now this article. Now this tutorial is about a plugin that lets you block spam bots from WordPress comments form without using any type of CAPTCHAS, math questions, passwords etc. It kills spam-bots and leaves humans standing. It does spam blocking that stops spam-bots dead in their tracks.
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Free Contact Form Plugins For Your WordPress Site
There are many free and premium contact form plugins available for WordPress sites. I have been looking for a light and simple contact form plugin for my site. I searched it and found many but most of the sites that provides list of contact plugins include both premium and free plugins, its fine but steps and time increases for the people looking for only free plugins because they have to visit plugin’s site and look is it free or not. Here the list I am posting contains only free WordPress contact form plugins. Check it out and use what works best for you.
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How Automattic Makes Money
WordPress is Free, Opensource and Priceless software from Automattic used for creating website, blog or something like that. You can download WordPress from www.wordpress.org for free.
But you know how Automattic makes money as it gives everything for free. No, it don’t give everything for free but yes most of its applications and the core software WordPress is absolute free for you.
Now lets see how WordPress makes money:-
VIP Hosting
WordPress provides VIP Hosting for major brands like Time Magazine, NewYork Times, CNN, Boing Boing and also TechCrunch etc. To know more brands hosted on WordPress VIP Hosting CLICK HERE
WordPress offers you two types of VIP hosting:-
- VIP SaaS Hosting: Starting at $3,750/month. And,
- VIP Self-Hosted: Starting at $15,000 per year.
Akismet Anti-Spam Technology
Akismet is an automated spam killer used by millions of blogs. Using this you don’t need to spend long time on deleting spam. WordPress makes money through Akismet as it offers different plans to bloggers for use Akismet.
For using Akismet you have to signup by choosing one of the following plans to get an API key:
- Enterprise: Costs $50/month. Here you get multiple site access. It is good for companies having low web traffic.
- Pro: Costs $5/month. It gives single site access. Good for small non-personal sites and blogs.
- Personal: Costs $0 to $120/year. Good for non-business personal blogs.
- High Volume: Companies with or over 100k calls per month pays per call. Costs $100/month minute.
Premium Features
These are the optional priced per year upgrades offered by WordPress:
- Be the master of your domain: Costs: $13.00 – $25.00/year. For controlling your online identity you may add your own domain name. Like www.example.com instead of www.example.wordpress.com This feature can be added to you existing WordPress blog.
- Extra Storage: Costs $20.00 – $290.00/year. This is used by the bloggers whose content is running out of space.
- Custom Design: Costs $30.00/year. Bloggers use this to customize blog’s fonts with a point-and-click interface. No coding required.
- VideoPress: Costs: $60.00/year. Uploads your videos, get them converted into different formats including HD etc. Including many more features.
- Go Ad-Free: Costs $30.00/year. Time to Time WordPress displays Ads on your blog for logged out users. You may turn off the Ads by using this feature.
- Guided Transfer: Costs $129.00 . This feature is used for transferring a WordPress site.
- Premium Themes: You may upgrade to premium WP Themes for adding more options to site customization. Pricing for each theme is displayed under the theme on your dashboard.
Google AdSense
This is what most of us use to make money online by putting Google Adsense on our web content. This is a free program by Google that empowers online publishers to earn revenue by displaying some Ads on their content. As I had already told you that time to time WordPress displays Ads on your blog for logged out users, this is what Google Adsense.
Support Networks
If support forums aren’t enough to solve your problem then you may switch to support networks.
VaultPress
This is WordPress’s security, backup and support. It backup you blog automatically without any security flaw.
Plans and Pricing follows:
- Basic: Costs $15/Month per site. Gives realtime backup and automatic restore during disaster.
- Premium: Costs $40/Month per site. Gives back-up restore and continuous security scan.
- Enterprise: Costs $350/Month per site. Gives solutions for large scale WordPress Installations.
Poll Daddy
This is Online Survey Software with both free and paid plans as follows:
- Free: This is absolute free for ever not a trial or something like that.
- Professional: Costs $200/Year.
- Corporate: Costs $899/Year