Category Archives: Web Development

Automatic Linking of Keyword to URL with WordPress

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Hello Reader,

How are you doing? I hope you are doing great!

The last few days, I have been experimenting with a few WordPress plugins to automatically link a keyword in the posts/comments to a URL (a Web address).  I need such a tool so that I don’t have to manually link the keywords when I am typing the post, and also to automatically change the links on all post if I need to.

I tested a few plugins, but apparently they have not been updated since a while and I was having problems making them work on the latest versions of WordPress. It’s really sad that some developers give up on upgrading their plugins. Well, we can’t blame them either, they are providing us with great tools and if no one supports them, sooner or later they will give up. So, if you like a WordPress plugin, and you want the developers to continue working on it, consider giving them a donation or at least spread the word around so that they get some visibility out there.

Anyways, here are the plugins that I came across that can (could) automatically link keywords to URLs:

But, the one that worked for me (so far) is:

  • SEO Automatic Links (It’s easy to setup, easy to use and above all, it will make you some easy money if you use it well)

I hope you found some value in this post! WordPress is a great CMS (Content Management System) and if ever you are stuck with something, remember there is a WordPress community to help you out. You just need to ask!

Dealing With Spam Comments

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The last few days I noticed some spam comments on the blog. They are the type of comments that are not related to the post and are used to promote some other websites. I have no problem with someone wanting to have a link back to their blog or website, but the comment should be relevant to the post, and the website they link to should be decent. By decent, I mean the kind of websites you will let your 10 year old daughter view.

Anyways, since I can’t be deleting these spam comments every time, I have just activated Akismet. Akismet is a WordPress plugin which checks comments using their web service to determine if the comment in question is spam or not. I have it activated on my other blogs too, and it really does eliminate a lot of the spam comments.

You would need a WordPress.com API Key to activate it. You can get one by registering an account at WordPress.com and you are all set to deal with spam comments.

A New Blog Theme

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I have just changed the theme of my new blog. It’s nothing hard actually. There are tons of free WordPress themes available on the WordPress website, and I just looked for one that I liked and downloaded it. All I had to do then was to upload the new theme under the themes directory on my server, and activate it through the admin area.

Here is how the original blog theme looked like:

Original Blog Theme

Original Blog Theme

And here’s how the new blog theme looks like:

New Blog Theme

New Blog Theme

It was not too hard to change the theme, was it? And the new one looks pretty nice and it will look nicer when I get some new headers.