Using RSS, it can be fairly simple for people to steal your content and publish it as their own. Using a plugin like RSS Footer, doesn’t stop them from doing this, but it does put a link back to your website and that particular post. Most of the time, websites that are stealing the content [...]

This is a fun little plugin that was created by Matt Mullenweg that allows you to create a link that redirects the user to a random post. You can leave it completely random, or you can specify a category or post type. Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to [...]

I was contemplating using ads on the site to help cover the costs of the hosting, but adverts are something that I really try to avoid using. There aren’t many people that come here on a regular basis, and I definitely don’t want to be showing ads to them, or to anyone who gets referred here via Twitter or Tumblr.

With this in mind, I set about trying to find something to distinguish between the two sources. I was looking for about 2 seconds, and I found something even easier to use than I’d hoped.

Today I want to introduce you to another cool new plugin I came across: Online Backup for WordPress. There’s quite a few plugins out there doing backups already, WP-DBManager by Lester Chan, for instance, but there’s a lot more. But… They all backup to your own server or to email. What you really want is safe and secure off-site backups. Automatically.

This plugin solves that, and, even better, it does so for free. Backup Technology built this because they had to scratch their own itch: Patrick Altoft and his team at Branded3 built their new site, they wanted it to automatically back up, and a plugin idea was born. Once they’d built it, they decided it would be pretty easy for them to offer this to other WordPress users, for free. You get 50 MB of data, which is about 10 backups of my blog, and those backups rotate around.