The Top Commentator WordPress plugin is very popular both for increasing comments and rewarding faithful visitors. But there are some negative things about it as well, which have caused many bloggers to remove it from their blogs. So we ask the question: “Is The Top Commentator Plugin Worth It?”.

There are so many great WordPress plugins out there. Unfortunately, most of them get very little exposure and usage because they are not well publicized… Here are three tips for getting the word out about your new plugin.

The popular Smarty Template Engine is full of great features, but is not the most intuitive system for developers to learn to use. And it doesn’t help that the documentation is a bit scanty. So here is the simplest and most complete tutorial you will find on writing a custom function for your Smarty templates.

Plugins have helped transform WordPress from a simple blog-publishing application to a versatile content management system. But the very plugins that have made WordPress so great, could also be ruining it.

FCKEditor for WordPress is a nice fully-featured WYSIWYG editor. However, it does lack an option to create captions for images. This simple plugin enables automatic creation of captions, which are styled based on your theme’s style definitions.

The best thing about blogs is that they are naturally optimized for search engines. But that doesn’t mean that your ’search engine optimization’ work is done. Read this article for 5 easy tips to further optimize your WordPress blog.

The Akismet anti-spam system is one of the most handy tools for automatically detecting spammy comments. However, we have found that it doesn’t work as well as it should. In fact, you might find yourself victim of an Akismet attack and have all of your comments regarded as SPAM. It happened to us!

If you thought Akismet couldn’t get any better, it just did! In its most recent release, it introduced detailed comment and spam statistics.