Verifying Pingbacks and TrackbacksComments on blogs are often criticized as lacking authority,since anyone can post anything using any name they like:there’s no verification process to ensure that the person is who they claim to be. Trackbacks and Pingbacks both aim to provide some verification to blog commenting.
Comment Moderation
Comment Moderation is a feature which allows the website owner and author to monitor and control the comments on the different article posts,and can help in tackling comment spam. It lets you moderate comments,&you can delete unwanted comments,approve cool comments and make other decisions about the comments.
Comment Spam
Comment Spam refers to useless comments (or trackbacks,or pingbacks) to posts on a blog. These are often irrelevant to the context value of the post. They can contain one or more links to other websites or domains. Spammers use Comment Spam as a medium to get higher page rank for their domains in Google,so that they can sell those domains at a higher price sometime in future or to obtain a high ranking in search results for an existing website.
Spammers are relentless;because there can be substantial money involved,they work hard at their “job.”They even build automated tools (robots) to rapidly submit their spam to the same or multiple weblogs. Many webloggers,especially beginners,sometimes feel overwhelmed by Comment Spam.
There are solutions,though,to avoiding Comment Spam. WordPress includes many tools for combating Comment Spam. With a little up front effort,Comment Spam can be manageable,and certainly no reason to give up weblogging.
Pretty Permalinks
Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts,as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to refer to your article (or section),or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. Because others may link to your individual postings,the URL to that article shouldn’t change. Permalinks are intended to be permanent (valid for a long time).
“Pretty”Permalinks is the idea that URLs are frequently visible to the people who click them,and should therefore be crafted in such a way that they make sense,and not be filled with incomprehensible parameters. The best Permalinks are “hackable,”meaning a user might modify the link text in their browser to navigate to another section or listing of the weblog. For example,this is how the default Permalink to a story might look in a default WordPress installation:
/index.php?p=423
How is a user to know what “p”represents? Where did the number 423 come from?
In contrast,here is a well-structured,“Pretty”Permalink which could link to the same article,once the installation is configured to modify permalinks:
/archives/2003/05/23/my-cheese-sandwich/
One can easily guess that the Permalink includes the date of the posting,and the title,just by looking at the URL. One might also guess that hacking the URL to be /archives/2003/05/ would get a list of all the postings from May of 2003. Pretty (cool). For more information on possible Permalink patterns in WordPress,see Using Permalinks.
Blog by email
Some blogging tools offer the ability to email your posts directly to your blog,all without direct interaction through the blogging tool interface. WordPress offers this cool feature. Using email,you can now send in your post content to a pre-determined email address &voila! Your post is published!
Post Slugs
If you’re using Pretty Permalinks,the Post Slug is the title of your article post within the link. The blogging tool software may simplify or truncate your title into a more appropriate form for using as a link. A title such as “I’ll Make A Wish”might be truncated to “ill-make-a-wish”. In WordPress,you can change the Post Slug to something else,like “make-a-wish”,which sounds better than a wish made when sick.
Excerpt
Excerpts are condensed summaries of your blog posts,with blogging tools being able to handle these in various ways. In WordPress,Excerpts can be specifically written to summarize the post,or generated automatically by using the first few paragraphs of a post or using the post up to a specific point,assigned by you.
