Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
Major new features in Akismet 2.5 include:
A comment status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet, and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator
Links are highlighted in the comment body, to reveal hidden or misleading links
If your web host is unable to reach Akismet’s servers, the plugin will automatically retry when your connection is back up
Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user
Spam and Unspam reports now include more information, to help improve accuracy
Video Tutorial (How to install)
2-All in One SEO Pack
Some features:
Google Analytics support
Support for Custom Post Types
Advanced Canonical URLs
Fine tune Page Navigational Links
Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
ONLY plugin to provide SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites
Nonce Security
Support for CMS-style WordPress installations
Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
Generates META tags automatically
Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs
For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything
You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.
Video Tutorial (How to install)
3-cbnet Ping Optimizer
Even the latest version of WordPress has this problem.
Do you know your WordPress blog pings unnecessarily every time you edit a post? Think how many times you click on “Save and Continue Editing” or “Save” button. Your blog will ping unnecessarily that many times you click on those buttons.
Video Tutorial (How to install)
4- SEO Auto Links & Related Posts
SEO Auto Links & Related Posts, is a combination of related posts and auto smart links plugin.
The auto links feature will automatically convert post title, meta keywords, and post tags found inside the blog posts into an internal link.
The concept is simple, instead of comparing all the blog post, it will only match the post title, meta keywords and post tags of the posts related to the current blog post. This will make the auto link process faster and require a minimum amount of resources. Therefore, it is safe to be use in a blog having thousands of blog posts.
For the related posts, you have two options here, to find the related posts base on post title and meta keywords or base on post title, meta keywords and post content. The post title importance is higher compare to the post content. And during the process, the plugin removes stop words from the post content to get the best possible related posts Video Tutorial (How to install)
5-WebsiteDefender WordPress Security
The WebsiteDefender WordPress Security plugin is a free and comprehensive security tool that helps you secure your WordPress installation and suggests corrective measures for: strengthening passwords, securing file permissions, security of the database, version hiding, WordPress admin protection and lots more.
Key security features:
Easy backup of WordPress database for disaster recovery
Removal of error-information on login-page
Addition of index.php to the wp-content, wp-content/plugins, wp-content/themes and wp-content/uploads directories to prevent directory listings
Removal of wp-version, except in admin-area
Removal of Really Simple Discovery meta tag
Removal of Windows Live Writer meta tag
Removal of core update information for non-admins
Removal of plugin-update information for non-admins
Removal of theme-update information for non-admins (only WP 2.8 and higher)
Hiding of wp-version in backend-dashboard for non-admins
Removal of version in URLs from scripts and stylesheets only on frontend
Reporting of security overview after WordPress blog is scanned
Reporting of file permissions following security checks
Strong password generator tool to protect from brute force attacks
Integrated tool to change the database prefix
Disabling of database error reporting (if enabled)
$140 for a Standard License, $250 for Brand Removal.
XenForo progression began last year, commencing with two former and skilled designers of vBulletin: Kier Darby and Robert Sullivan. XenForo is centered really contemporary paradigms of overall performance, ergonomy and simpleness. Using the established PHP/MySQL pair, prolonged with the Zend Structure, the purpose of XenForo when the venture began was to make a message board app as it should be with these days constraints: extremely attached to web sites, depending on contemporary technological innovation, but maintaining it expert and simple.
You will indeed find out that XenForo is doing a really good using AJAX, because it only uses it to strengthen buyer, while others sometimes provide you with the sensation they want to change jQuery results records. It of course uses resources and solutions that are clearly essential if you want to have a contemporary and safe app ; to not cost them all: The search engines Statistics, Gravatar, Facebook or myspace, Tweets, ReCAPTCHA,…
How to Install XenForo
XenForo Pricing XenForo License: $140. It features 12 several weeks of solution assistance and upgrades
Extension of assistance and upgrade: $40. Legitimate for 12 added several weeks.
Branding Removal: $250. Even if it’s really simple to think the message board app behind a web page, you can conceal XenForo trademark for this cost.
Installation by XenForo Services: $50. No practical knowledge of Web server? That’s for you.
Review Updates:
April 6th, 2011: Bring up to date Evaluation with XenForo 1.0.1.
March Sixteenth, 2011: First Evaluation.
Server & Client Requirements
SERVER REQUIREMENTS
Programming Language
Required Architecture and Versions.
PHP 5
Web Servers
How the forum is delivered to users.
Apache 1.3
Apache 2.0/2.2
Microsoft IIS
Databases
How Forum Data are Stored.
MySQL
Operating Systems
Systems Supporting this Software.
GNU/Linux
BSD Unix
Microsoft Windows
Apple Mac OS
BROWSER & CLIENT REQUIREMENTS
Compatible Browsers
List of Compatible Browsers.
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer
Google Chrome
Opera
Apple Safari
Konqueror
Mozilla SeaMonkey
Required Plugins/Technologies
Additional or Basic Requirements from Client Side.
HTML, Javascript, AJAX, CSS.
Localization
Languages supported by XenForo.
Yes.
Supported Languages:
Albanian
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Chinese (Simplified)
German
Spanish
French
Hungarian
Indonesian
Icelandic
Italian
Dutch
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Serbian
Russian
Arabic
Swedish
Turkish
Ukrainian
English (British)
English (American)
Afrikaans
Chinese (Traditional)
The Official Language Forum of XenForo will provide you a good way to get updated and new translations in your language.
How Images can be Attached and Displayed in Message Posts.
Upload via Classic Attachments. Images are all at the end of the post.
Use BBCode or HTML. Need to type the URL of an already hosted image.
Additional & Technical Features
ADDITIONAL FORUM FEATURES
Poll Creation
Yes
Private Messages
Users Can Communicate using an Internal Messaging System.
Yes
Instant Messaging
Discuss with Visitors and Members in a Chat Window.
Plugin
Calendar
Topic, Member Birthdays, Events are available from the perspective of a calendar.
Plugin
Online Users List
Connected User List (Often Found in the Forum Footer).
Yes
Members List
Search and Consult the List of Members.
Yes
MODERATION & THREADS MANAGEMENT
MODERATION & THREADS MANAGEMENT
Moderation
Post-Moderation The moderation is done afterwards, if an administrator notices a problem or if a member reports something wrong. Each message is therefore directly published.
Reactive Moderation By reporting any problems, members are reactive against moderation problems. Moderators’ main objective is to regularly check user reports, without having to follow each threads.
Distributed Moderation By organizing the forum around moderators, who are usually power and experienced users, moderation is self-powered and only depends on the community.
Moderator per section
Yes
Global Moderator
Yes
Move Threads
Move Threads from Topics
Yes
Shadow Topics
When a thread is moved, the previous position is kept in order to inform users of this modification.
Yes
Close/Lock Threads
Close/Lock Problematic Threads
Yes
USERS MANAGEMENT
User Groups
Organize and define groups of users, and apply different actions and settings on them.
Common Groups: Guests, Members, Moderators, Administrators,…
Yes
User Registration
Free Registration
Registration needs Approval
Invitation Only
User Account created by Administrator
Confirmation sent by email for validation
Limit Features For New Users
Features are limited if a user has created a small number of posts.
-
Guest Posting
Yes
Multiple Administrators
Yes
Send Warnings to Users
Inform users by email or PM that they infringe the board rules, and could be excluded for such behavior.
Yes
Forum/Section Restricted Access
ACL could be use to determine if a user or a group of users can access (in read only, post message) to some sections and topics.
Detect users or request strange behaviors, and try to process proactive actions.
No
Words Filtering
Offensing Words are automatically replaced.
Yes
User Blacklist
Prevent specific user accounts to register (based on email address, name,…) and disable potentially harmful members.
Yes
IP Blocking
Prevent access to spam robots and other scripts that could attempt DDOS or Brute Force attacks on your forum.
Yes
Customization & Social Networks
CUSTOMIZATION
Plugins
Add new features to your forum installation.
Yes.
~175 Available Plugins.
Installation:Very Easy
Themes
Modify the style of your forum easily.
Yes.
~80 Available Themes.
Custom BBCodes
Yes
Smiley Packs
Yes
Custom
Thread Icons
Plugin
Additional User Profile Fields
Ask more about your members with custom fields.
Yes
INTEGRATION WITH APPLICATIONS, SOCIAL NETWORKS, INTRANET…
Social Networks
Users can share information from their social network account…
Facebook
Twitter
CMS / Blog Bridges
Integration with existing Web publishing tools.
Drupal
WordPress
User Accounts Integration
Do users be able to log in with their corporate, Google, Facebook,… accounts?
Facebook Connect
Content Aggregation
Forum allows to integrate news and content from other website, using an aggregation protocol (RSS, RDF, Atom,…).
No.
1
Customizing BBCodes and Smileys is really easy, and XenForo supports natively Youtube, Facebook and Vimeo through the BBCode Media Site interface.
Styling and customizing the look of your forum is really easy, and XenForo provides several way to do it:
Style: Import and modify a complete style.
Color Palette: Customize default colors of your forum.
Style Properties: Edit a group of properties, applied to a certain portion of your forum.
Template Editor: Edit templates of your forum, to add new content if required.
About templates, note that the template engine is really well thought, and that the language is really simple to learn. Here is a small snippet of what you can do:
Web Accessibility ensures that the forum is usable by people of all abilities and disabilities.
Conformance to AA level.
UTF-8 Support
Default encoding used to support all locales and countries.
Yes
Conformance to W3C Norms
Does XenForo correctly follow (X)HTML and CSS norms?
Yes.
Using an HTML 5 Doctype, you do know that XenForo is the first forum software entering to the new generation of the Web.
Final Words
Outstanding!
If four words could sum up the feeling we have using XenForo, they would probably be: “XenForo is absolutely outstanding!”. I were positively surprised by all the small things making the user experience fun and efficient, while being able to mask the complexity by using new web standards and a very nice ergonomy.
XenForo is indeed the first forum fully compliant with HTML 5, providing for its first major release almost all must-have features that other forum software developed in, sometimes, 10 years. Of course, as a company, XenForo Ltd has to make money and had to provide the best forum software ever if they want to get a place on the extremely competing sector of forums and social networking, and this is clearly what they did. As former vBulletin employees, we clearly see that developers who work on XenForo have a strong background and have tons of ideas they were not able to apply on their previous job, probably because of the old-fashioned style vBulletin monolithic-code has.
Anyway, I would highly suggest you to have a look to XenForo demonstration, because it is really hard to describe here all the eye-candy and sugar features that are put in place into XenForo: your own experience will convince you more than this review.
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Microsoft Windows
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Apple Safari
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BlackBerry
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