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When you are writ­ing an arti­cle on your WordPress blog, and link­ing from that article to another article already on your site (which you should be doiong for SEO reasons) you may start get­ting ping­backs from your own blog. This is very enoying and needs to be deleted. If you are like me and are sick and tired of manually deleting WordPress self pingbacks each time you link to your own articles, fear not, there is a simple solution. Just install a WordPress plugin called No Self Pings written by Michael D. Adams and forget about ever having this problem.

Installing The Plu­gin

All you need to do is visit this web­site: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/no-self-ping/

Down­load the plu­gin, unzip it, upload the php file to your plu­g­ins direc­tory, go to set­tings -> plu­g­ins -> and acti­vate the plu­gin and you’re done!

Alternatively, you can go to the plugin section of your WordPress administative section, click on “Add New”, type “No Self Pings” into the search box, hit “Search Plugins”, click “Install”, then activate the plugin and you’re done.

Enjoy!

The NextGEN Gallery Plugin and Widget for WordPress is the perfect solution for adding a picture gallery to your WordPress blog. It has a ton of options such as it’s slide show feature, and it looks very slick. NextGEN Gallery is definitely a much better way to manage and display photos on any WordPress blog.

Here are some features of NextGen.

Overview / Functions

• Sortable Albums : Create your own sets of images
• Upload a Zip-File with pictures : Upload pictures in a zip-file (Not in Safe-mode)
• Watermark function : You can add a watermark image or text
• JavaScript Effect: Use any available popular image effect : Thickbox, Greybox or Lightbox
• Multiple CSS Stylesheet : Use a nice shadow effect for your thumbnails with your own CSS file
• Slideshow: Full integrated flash slideshow
• Sidebar Widget : Show a random picture at your sidebar

Requirements

• WordPress 2.7 or above
• PHP 4.3.7 or higher
• GD 2 Library
• Freetype Support (for Watermark)
• Safe-Mode Off (for more function)
• Memory limit should be 16MB or more

Download NextGen Plugin

Bloggers often like to link a particular post’s content to a previous post which has relevant information. This is good both for your readers and the search engine like it as well. But it can be quite a time consuming task, as you have to search through your older posts to find relevant content to link to.

Finally a new WordPress plugin has emerged that will simplify this task quite a bit. It offers a better way to interlink your posts to key pages deeper into the you site. The SEO Smart Links plugin will automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags. All this is done seamlessly without your intervention.

The SEO Smart Links plugin looks at your keyword phrases which match the title of your posts and pages. There is also an option to enable categories and tag matching as well. These keyword phrases are then turned into links which refer to related posts. All of the matching is case insensitive and the original case is preserved.

For example, if the WordPress Theme Installation Guide is mentioned, which is the title of a previous post, it will be automatically converted into a link. All this happens in a totally transparent way, and you can always edit the options from the administration settings panel.

Let’s take a closer look at some of the key features of this very useful plugin:

• Lets you link the keywords in your posts, pages and comments to your other posts, pages, categories and tags.
• Gives you full control with customizable options.
• An incorporated ignore list for keywords you don’t ever want to link.
• Gives your WordPress blog a good interlinking with no effort on your part.

Installation:

1. You can download the plugin from here.
2. Upload the plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Query caching – set define(ENABLE_CACHE, true); in your wp-config.php file.
4. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
5. Use the Options page to change your options.

Try this great WordPress plugin for yourself, I am sure you’re going to love it!

The All In One SEO Pack has been the most popular WordPress SEO plugin for quite some time now. But now there’s a new player in town. The recent release of a plugin known as Platinum SEO Pack is now threatening the superiority of the All In One SEO Pack plugin. The new Platinum SEP Pack appears to be an improvement of the All In One SEO Pack having all of it’s features and am impressive array of new features

Here are a few new features this new plugin boasts:

• Ability to add index, noindex, follow or nofollow, noodp, noydir meta tags to any post or page
• Automatic 301 redirect if you change your permalink structure
• Choose to block indexing (using noindex tag) on RSS feed pages
• Nofollow external links on front page
• Nofollow links to archive/category/tag pages

Some of this stuff might be considered “SEO overkill” although all of these are options in the backend.

We have started using it on several of our blogs and have had no issues what so ever with it. So far it is livving up to its promise. If you would like to try this great new plugin you can get the plugin here.

Let us know what you think about this new plugin by sharing your thoughts in the comments.