WordPress Passion

On the WordPress website the list of requirements to host WordPress are reduced to two technical requirements, they are: -

1 - PHP version 4.3 or greater
2 - MySQL version 4.0 or greater

Believe me, for a fully functioning script like WordPress that is very light and easy to meet, most hosts these days will meet the technical requirements of WordPress. You should also be looking for a host that that has servers with a high uptime and perform well. From a none technical viewpoint you should be looking for a host that offers excellent customer service and technical support. Over the years I have used many hosts but the one that I host with now and will do for many years ahead I’m sure is HostGator. I have hosted with HostGator for over a year now and I have never once notice that my site is unavailable, they quote a 99.9% uptime guarantee, 24/7 support and also a 45-day money back guarantee, beat that!!!

Hostgator have also ‘gone green’ and all HostGator shared and reseller servers are now 130% wind powered. HostGator are not just neutralizing their environmental impact they are reversing it.

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.

Want to show off how much spam Akismet has caught for you? Just put in your template.

See also: WP Stats plugin.

You can download the Akismet plugin here - Download WordPress Plugins - Akismet (492)

PS: You’ll need a WordPress.com API key to use it.

The All In One WordPress SEO Pack that was created by Semperfi Web Design and the plugin optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines. Search Engine Optimization is critical to getting your blog noticed on the internet. You can download it here Download WordPress Plugins - All in One SEO Pack (550).

The main features of the SEO pack are as follows: -

Some features:

- Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
- Generates META tags automatically
- Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs
- For Wordpress 2.3 you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
- You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
- You can fine-tune everything
- Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.

The WordPress SEO pack is very easy to install the instructions are below: -

1 - Unzip into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. If you’re uploading it make sure to upload the top-level folder. Don’t just upload all the php files and put them in /wp-content/plugins/.
2 - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3 - Visit your SEO options (Options - All in One SEO) for Wordpress 2.3.x, (Settings - All in One SEO) for Wordpress 2.5.x
4 - That’s it!

For upgrading please use the built-in one-click updater (Options - All in One SEO). If you have to upgrade manually simply repeat the installation steps.

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