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FeedBurner is now offering its PRO services for free to everyone. This includes its Statistics Package TotalStats and MyBrand which lets you brand your Feeds. This comes after its recent acquisition by Google. They haven’t opened up its Ads network to everyone yet though.

 
Source: Mashable

I had blogged before about a excellent Wordpress Plugin with which you can control the behaviour of how and to whom the ads are being show. This Plugin has been released as part of the Wordpress Plugin competition. I will most probably ditch my Google Adsense Deluxe Plugin in favour of this Plugin soon, the […]

I came across a few more great looking Wordpress themes. This time the focus is on themes that provide the best customizable options in the Presentation area of WordPress theme without the need to edit the theme PHP template files. These Wordpress themes also provide multiple styles and variations of the theme colors and styling, […]

Wordpress 2.2.1 Release Candidate is currently available for download. Wordpress 2.2 has a few bugs and security issues. Give 2.2.1 Release Candidate a test drive and help the WordPress developers release a more stable WordPress.
There is a new feature in WordPress 2.3 Called Pending Review. This feature adds a “Submit for Review” Button for […]

One of the reasons why I don’t have a FeedBurner Chicklet on my blog even though I have over 200+ RSS readers is that I never like the way its been designed and it looks a bit awkward when I put it on my sidebar. I been trying to find a way to make a […]

The Wordpress Plugin Competition is in full swing. I found an interesting Plugin by OZ called Who Sees Ads.
The Plugin Aims to do the following things.

don’t serve ads to your fans (returning readers)
serve ads to people coming for the first time
serve ads to people coming from a search engine result page
serve ads on old […]

A while back I had Reviewed the Better Comments Manager Wordpress Plugin. I was impressed with it and had always felt that replying to comments on Wordpress was very cumbersome. I sincerely believe that this plugin should be in the Wordpress core by default. I had suggested to Keith the author of the Plugin to […]

Two Wordpress competitions are taking place simultaneously one is for Wordpress Plugins and another for Wordpress themes. There is more than $1000 in Prizes to be won, more than the prize money this gives an opportunity for Wordpress users to contribute and give back something to the Wordpress community. There is a time period of […]

MovableType has announced that version 4 is going to be released, and that they plan to go open source with Version 4. MovableType was once the most popular Blogging Platform during 2001-2004, after which they decided to change the licensing, this didn’t go well with most of the blogger’s, and most of them switched to […]

Looks like the Wordpress developers are sticking to their promise of more releases in shorter time periods. Boren has post on what’s inside the trunk for Wordpress 2.3 so far.
What’s New in Wordpress 2.3

A new Tagging system similar to the Ultimate Tag Warrior Wordpress Plugin.
Link and Post Categories have been separated.
Post and page management Administration […]

Welcome to the third part of the Top Best Wordpress Themes and Templates Series. You can read the 1st part of the series here and the 2nd part of the series here I have been collecting and looking at some of the best Wordpress theme made by community members for the past few months. As […]

Update: Note that this SQL Inject “Exploit” can only work if the attacker has obtained a valid username and password for your blog. Otherwise the login check which is run before the $max_results var is used will stop the attack.
Thanks to westi for the Info
Looks like a SQL injection exploit in the XML-RPC has been […]

David Kierznowski of Operation n has discovered some serious flaws in the WordPress Adsense Deluxe plugin as part of the WordPress Angel Project. The vulnerability(s) affect all versions.
The Plugin has not been updated yet so please head over to David’s blog to download the temporary fix.
You might also want to subscribe to the new blog […]

The Copy Feed Wordpress Plugin has been Translated to English. Copy Feed is a powerful Wordpress plugin to protect your content from sploggers. Previously it was available only in German.
How The Copy Feed Wordpress Plugin Works :
The Plugin adds content to a feed. It is possible to configure the copyright message. You can use html. […]

Lifehack has an excellent article on Branding Your Blog for Success The article explores the following questions.

Gaining a High Volume Readership
Bookmarking vs. RSS
How You Can Use Branding to Increase Your Blog Traffic and Make More Money

BLOG BRANDING QUESTIONS:

Why Brand Your Blog?
Who are You?
What is Your Blog About?
Why Does Your Blog Exist?
How Does Your Blog Work?
Who […]