Prior to starting drivelocity.com, I was a relative noob to blogging and only used WordPress plugins in moderation. I’m really enjoying using them and the freedom they provide. Here is a list of plugins that I’ve tried recently & enjoy using.

Automatic Links – Automatically adds HTML anchor tags to plain text links and email addresses [...]

Lately, I’ve been seeing some plugins updated almost daily. It really makes me wonder… Are they tested before release? It’s not a big deal if you have one blog, but if you have several, it can be a major chore to keep them all updated. And, if an update causes problems, you can be in [...]

I’ve decided to get my feet wet with Twitter after months and months questioning the appeal. I think; however, that it may be a good fit with a new project I’m working on and I’m looking into it a little more. So far I’ve only created the account, placed links, followed some people and got [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, the Akismet plugin for WordPress can be a life saver! But, as I’ve come to find recently, you still need to check your spam queue for false positives. I just finished going through 11 pages of comments marked as spam and found eight comments that actually contribute something to the discussion, [...]

I’m currently working on a web site for a friend of the family and thought I’d share some details on how I’m using WordPress, not as a blog, but as a Content Management System (CMS).
I had no idea some people would be so adverse in their opinions of blogs. When I mentioned, “it’s the best [...]

Starting on January 12, 2009, another blog I run came under severe spam attack and it has been increasing since. Until that point it had received maybe a couple dozen spam comments, at the most. On January 12, 2009, it jumped up to 217, then to 361 on the 13th, and 409 already today!
Thanks to [...]

I was using the Top Commentators plugin, created by WebGrrrl, downloaded from WordPress.org. Supposedly the latest version released by her fixed the link hijack vulnerability by allowing you to group by name or email address, but as I discovered today, it didn’t work. I don’t know if it was intentional link hijacking, but will assume [...]

I just finished installing the Subscribe To Comments plugin. Finally. This will enable visitors who comment to be notified of responses to the comments for that particular post. It’s a great plugin and will keep visitors coming back and being active. I don’t know how many times I’ve forgotten which blogs I’ve commented on and [...]

Now that drivelocity has been up for a couple months now, I’ve had a chance to learn more about WordPress plugins, beyond the standard ones I’d used in the past. I now have ten plugins that I feel are must-haves, so I’ve expanded my Five Favorite WordPress Plugins list to include the new ones, several [...]

After spending some time surfing some marketing and SEO related blogs, I decided to give the Top Commentators plugin a try. It allows you to add a widget to your sidebar that will display the visitors who post the most comments in a certain period of time. You can exclude specific people, like I did [...]