Get the Plugin

We will be using a plugin to implement the feature on the blog. Fotobook is a WordPress plugin that will link to your Facebook account and import all of your photo albums into a page on your WordPress installation. It makes use of Facebook’s API so importing your photos is a breeze.
You can download the plugin here

Configure the plugin

Install the plugin from the admin section. and activate the plugin.
Once you activate the plugin, you can see something like in the following screenshot.

Link to fotobook settings

Click on the link and you’ll be taken to the Fotobook Settings page.

Fotobook Settings Page

Step 1: Authenticate

This step asks you to login to your Facebook account. This is the step by which you allow the plugin to access your account and fetch the images and publish to your blog. Clicking on the link opens a pop-up window as below. Enter your login credentials and click the login button.

This will take you to the next step, that is grant access.

After this step, you may close the pop-up window and proceed to the step 2.
Step 2 : Get Permissions
This step asks you to grant access for your photos and videos associated with your Facebook account.
Once you allow the Fotobook plugin to do so, you can close the window and proceed to the next step.
Step 3: Apply Permissions
By clicking this, you apply all the steps done before and save the settings. Once you click Apply Permissions your Facebook account will be added and you can see something like below.

Import Photos to blog

This will take you to the next step which is shown below.

Clicking on Get Albums will fetch from your Facebook account and list all the albums related to your account. By this time, the plugin have created the exact replica of albums on your Facebook account. You can even hide the albums if you don’t want to show that specific album by clicking the hide link.

That’s it, you are done. You can now access the albums at http://yourblogdomain/photos
The plugin also allows you to display photos in 3 styles.

1. Color box.
2. Embedded.
3. Lightbox.

Select the style and you are all set. Do drop in your comments.

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This might worry some WordPress Admins who might not want users with Editor rights to insert unfiltered HTML.

We can use Force Filtered HTML for Editors, a WordPress plugin to make sure that users with Editor rights are have access to only filtered html.

Force Filtered HTML for Editors – Plugin

• In WordPress Dashboard, Click on “Add New ” under Plugins.
• Now search for ‘Filtered HTML for Editors’ and select the plugin.
• Click on “Install” and activate the plugin.

This Plugin will not work for Multisite with WordPress. This is because by default in mulitsite, only Super Admins can have edit and publish unfiltered HTML.

In case you want no-one including the Admins to be able to publish unfiltered HTML then just add a single like to wp-config.php

define( 'DISALLOW_UNFILTERED_HTML', true );

This will disallowed unfiltered html for every user your WordPress blog. If you want to learn more about Filtered HTML for Editors read about it here.

Do drop in you comments.

Link: WordPress Plugin for Filtered HTML for Editors

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Sometimes you might want to add new customized column to this page, such as ‘Author Gravatar’, ‘Views’ or ‘Thumbnails’. This post will demonstrate how to go about it.

Here we are going to add post author gravatar column to post management page without the need of any third-party plugin.

We can add this column using theme or plugin. From the below image  you will get  overview what I am going to explain you.

First we need to register the column which we are going to add. Register column using "manage_posts_columns" filter.

add_filter( 'manage_posts_columns', 'rt_add_gravatar_col');

function rt_add_gravatar_col($cols) {

$cols['author_gravatar'] = __('Gravatar');

return $cols;

}

The function ‘rt_add_gravatar_col’ takes one argument ‘$cols’. Which is an array of the default registered columns.

Now we have to add action ‘manage_pages_custom_column’ to display new column. You can add action hook as follows:

add_action( 'manage_posts_custom_column', 'rt_get_author_gravatar');

function rt_get_author_gravatar($column_name ) {

if ( $column_name  == 'author_gravatar'  ) {

echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), '35' );

}

}

The function  ‘rt_get_author_gravatar’ takes one argument ‘$column_name’ which is the name of the column. WordPress get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), ’35′ ) gives you gravatar of an author. As I used the ‘get_avatar’ function code you can use any other function code.

You can use the filter 'manage_pages_columns‘ for  page management and action ‘manage_pages_custom_column‘ to display the column.

Similarly for custom post types you can use ‘manage_movie_columns’ filter and ‘manage_movie_custom_column’ action. Here I am  used movie as custom post type.  Replace ‘movie’ word  with your custom post type.

Hopefully this will help you add a custom column to the post and page overview. Do drop in your views and suggestions through your comments.

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Recently when we decided to switch from Wp Super Cache to W3 Total Cache plugin, we were stuck while translating apache’s (.htaccess) rewrite rules to nginx configuration.

Now, after some efforts we managed to get nginx working with W3 Total Cache plugin with following rewrite rules.

# if the requested file exists, return it immediately
if (-f $request_filename) {
	break;
}

## W3 Total CACHE BEGIN
set $totalcache_file '';
set $totalcache_uri $request_uri;

if ($request_method = POST) {
  set $totalcache_uri '';
}

# Using pretty permalinks, so bypass the cache for any query string
if ($query_string) {
  set $totalcache_uri '';
}

if ($http_cookie ~* "comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_" ) {
  set $totalcache_uri '';
}

# if we haven't bypassed the cache, specify our totalcache file
if ($totalcache_uri ~ ^(.+)$) {
  set $totalcache_file /wp-content/w3tc-$http_host/pgcache/$1/_default_.html;
}

# only rewrite to the totalcache file if it actually exists
if (-f $document_root$totalcache_file) {
  rewrite ^(.*)$ $totalcache_file break;
}                 

##W3 Total CACHE END

# all other requests go to WordPress
if (!-e $request_filename) {
	rewrite . /index.php last;
}

Above codes will sit inside server{ location{ } } block.

Our original configuration file is too big and contains many unwanted things so I am not publishing it here.

Anyway, if you stuck somewhere, feel free to use comment form below.

Update: For those who are faceing issues with gzip (compression)…

I have a code block at the beginning of  location /{} block in our nginx configuration file as below:

          location / {
               gzip  on;
               gzip_http_version 1.0;
               gzip_vary on;
               gzip_comp_level 3;
               gzip_proxied any;
               gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
               gzip_buffers 16 8k;
               .....
        }

Above code-block basically “asks” nginx to turn on compression when files with listed mime types (see line gzip_types) being served

When above lines are present in your configuration, you can altogether disable compression settings from w3 Total Cache as nginx webserver will automatically handle compression for those requests. Not tested though.

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For those who have WordPress blog in Football or sports niche, will find this plugin to be very useful.

Here is a screenshot of FIFA world cup 2010 WordPress plugin:

Do remember this plugin is good for this world cup season and after world cup, I will suggest to remove this plugin.

You can download this plugin from here. Do let us know if you are a football fan and predict this year FIFA world cup champion?

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Dean peters released a WordPress plugin for Facebook like. Using it, you can quickly add Facebook like button anywhere in your blog.

This plugin comes with an option panel, which can be use to customize Facebook like button:

Download this plugin

Do let us know what do you think about this plugin? Are you using Facebook like button into your blog?

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This post is to announce a big update to BuddyPress Kaltura Media Plugin which makes it compatible with BuddyPress version 1.1.x.

This feature was in so much demand that we added support for it ahead of time. It was originally planned for release towards the end of this month.

This new release have widget support for:

• Recently Added Pictures
• Recently Added Videos

You can configure number of pictures/videos that will show.

You can see widget in action here – http://bp.rtcamp.in/bp1.1/

You can download new release from this page.  Look for highest version in 1.1.x series. As of now its 1.1.

Link: WordPress Repo Page | Download Page | Direct zip file link for v1.1

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This is a quick post to announce small but significant update to our BuddyPress Media Plugin which makes use of Kaltura open-source media platform.

By default, BuddyPress Media plugin uses Kaltura’s server to store all user upload media files. Some BuddyPress social network owners didn’t like this for various reasons and they wanted to use this media component with Kaltura CE – Kaltura’s self-hosted open-source media platform.

In a small release, which also happens to be first release on wordpress’s official plugin repo, we made necessary changes so that this BuddyPress component can work with Kaltura.com as well Kaltura CE out of the box.

What is Kaltura CE?

In simple words Kaltura CE is like wordpress.org – you can download and install it on your own server as compared to Kaltura.com which is more like wordpress.com – you can use it on someone else server with few limitations.

Kaltura CE over Kaltura.com has following main advantage:

• With Kaltura CE all data (codes & media) is uploaded to our server
• Kaltura.com offers limited storage and transfer in free account
• As running WordPress-MU and BuddyPress requires a good webhost, you may be already having a server to run Kaltura CE. So Kaltura CE will increase your cost, may not be true in early days of your social-network.

Only downside is that installing Kaltura CE requires some extra technical knowledge and no webhost provides one-click type of installer as provided for WordPress, Joomla, etc. But setting up your own Kaltura CE server is one-time exercise and you can do it on your own by following official documentation or hire us to get it done for you.

Links: BuddyPress Media Component (on wordpress.org) | Kaltura CE

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Akismet

By Matt Mullenweg | Download

Akismet is the default plugin bundled with your WordPress software. When a new comment, trackback, or pingback is posted on your blog, Akismet performs hundreds of tests on it and gives a thumbs up or thumbs down.

WP Spam Free

By Scott Allen | Download

Most of the spambots cannot process javascript and cookies. This plugin takes the advantage of this and uses a dynamic combination of javascript and cookies to separate spambots from humans, preventing 99%+ of automated spam.

Bad Behavior

By error, MarkJaquith, Firas, skeltoac | Download

Bad Behavior analyzes the HTTP headers, IP address, and other meta data sent by the visitor and determines if it is a human or a bot. After all, spammers don’t code their bots very well and if they could code very well, they probably wouldn’t be spammers.

WP Captcha Free

By iDope | Download

WP CAPTCHA Free blocks spam on your blog by validating a hash based on time (and some other parameters) using AJAX when the comment is posted. Comments posted via bots will not have a correct hash and will be rejected.

WP Clickcha

By iDope | Download | Demo

Clickcha replaces your post comment button with an image based CAPTCHA that requires the user to click the image in a particular area to solve the puzzle. Clicking the image also submits the comment.

WP Hashcash

By ecb29, donncha | Download

This plugin verifies the users by a piece of javascript code that indicates that the visitor is a real human being, not a spambot. If the javascript check fails, there are three options – it can either put the comment into moderation (default), put the comment in the akismet queue, or delete it.

Conclusion

There are many plugins which can prevent spam from your blog, though neither of them can provide 100% protection from spam. In this post I have tried my best to highlight the main and best plugins that can prevent spam from your blog. If you feel that any other plugin should have been listed here, feel free to discuss it in the comment’s section below!

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So what you really need to do is protect your wordpress blog.

The WordPress community is very large with great innovators who are always working with awesome projects to provide the maximum security to the wordpress users. With this there are some people who have created an awesome plugins to protect your blog from such problems.

Login LockDown:

It is a wordpress protecting plugin which prevents the hacking of your wordpress admin panel. Basically it looks for the person who tries to enter into admin panel with consecutive series of wrong password entrys. The plugin counts such failed attemps and locks them automatically for a period which you set. With this plugins you can stop the person who tries to break into your admin panel.

Download

Askapache Password Protect:

This plugin is specifically designed and regularly updated specifically to stop automated and unskilled attacker’s attempts to exploit vulnerabilities on your blog resulting in a hacked site. The plugins do not update any file or database. It just protects your blog from hacking based on previous hacking done on other wordpress blogs.

Download

WP Security Scan:

WP security Scan just work with scan you your wordpress installation to correct the file permissions of data. It also helps you alter your wordpress database path. It is best and foremost plugins everyone must have installed in their wordpress blog. Check out the some interesting feature of it:

• Password Manager
• File Permissions (CHMOD) tool
• Database Security Methods
• WordPress Version Hiding
• WordPress admin protection/security
• Removes WP Generator META tag from core code

Download

Secure WordPress:

This plugin protects your wordpress installation with a little functions. It hides your wordpress version from non-administrators and plugin directory from visitors by dropping a blank index.php file.

Download

WP-DBManager:

Database is the vital part of any wordpress blog. It helps you to recover your wordpress from being hacked or deleted. This is the best database manager for wordpress because it is user friendly and it works.  You can backup your database right from your admin panel and download instantly. You can also sechdule your database to be backed up and emailed to you.

More interesting feature of this plugin is you can repair and optimize your database. You can also sechdule for optimization. You can also rub SQL queries and dropping database tables, a work similar to phpMyAdmin.

Download

These are most widely used wordpress plugins to protect your blog from being attacked. I realize these plugins are not enough to protect your blog from harm. If you think there is more plugins that should mentioned here for wordpress security, then feel free to drop a line about the plugins.

Link: WordPress

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