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Jeff Chandler wrote a great post for WordPress forum users, if you are new to WordPress forum, you may want to read it, Check it out here.

New Plugins
Strip
Strip! is a WordPress plugin that allows you hide links from a given comment. Unlike other plugins that do the same purpose, you can restore the links anytime you want.
JournalPress
A cross-poster supporting multiple LiveJournal Server journals.
Speed Test
This widget makes it possible that any visitor of your blog can test his bandwidth speed. The widget [...]

Just finished reading Darren’s post about WordPress plugins, I found four plugins are useful for my blog.

Simple Tags: the most attractive function to me is the Tag Suggestion. Suggestions come from Yahoo, Tag The Net and your old tags. Another useful function is the Auto Tags.
WordPress.com Stats: I have Google Analytics on my blog, but [...]

Since WordPress 2.6, every time you change your theme, you will see the theme preview screen. But sometime you know exactly which theme you want to use, and you don’t need to preview. In this case, you don’t need this preview function, it becomes kinda annoying. Disable Theme Preview plugin is created to disable this [...]

More and more bloggers out there are writing more and more blog posts, therefore more and more services for blogs are coming up. This is one great blog service I found useful recently, it’s quite simple and powerful which I thought may be necessary for all bloggers. BlogBackupr is a free service to help bloggers [...]

Ping service is for you to tell the world automatically that your blog was updated. Here is the definition of Ping from Wikipedia:
In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. An XML-RPC signal is sent to one or more “ping servers,” which [...]

What is a robots.txt? Here is the answer from Google:
A robots.txt file provides restrictions to search engine robots (known as “bots”) that crawl the web. These bots are automated, and before they access pages of a site, they check to see if a robots.txt file exists that prevents them from accessing certain pages.
Do we need [...]