My elderly grandmother recently got into an accident while driving on the highway. As she was traveling along the right lane, where she belonged, there was a truck coming off of the ramp she was passing. There was no way she could slow down or get over due to the traffic being so busy and the truck was going at such a high rate of speed. He came off the ramp very suddenly before anyone could do anything. The truck ended up running into the side of my grandmother’s new car and jerked her around a lot as the car sped around. The ambulance took her to the hospital. She had a fracture in the upper back and other injuries. She started receiving many medical bills about this accident. Finally, I took her to talk to a truck accident lawyer and he filed a case against the driver of the truck. All her medical bills were paid by his insurance company.

For some reason lately I’ve been wanting to go back out to Las Vegas. I was out there last year and Had the best time ever. I’ve been to Las Vegas probably 9 times in my life and it seems like every time turns into the new “best time”. I stay in a different Las Vegas hotel every time I go out there and end up finding something new and exciting to do. I really want to go back.

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. After a few requests for the options to have posts from multiple categories or all categories included in the Old Post Links plugin, I have added both options. You can now choose between 1 category, 5 categories, or ALL categories.

You can download the updated version of the plugin here: Old Post Links v1.1

A short time ago nearly every blogger I know suffered a substantial Google PageRank drop. Some of them were at PR5 and dropped to PR2, PR1 and even down to zero. This of course was speculated to be due to paid links or at least what appeared to be paid links within the posts on their blogs. Some bloggers went as far as going through every old post on their blogs to remove links from posts, even if they werent paid or “sponsored” links. That’s when I thought a little plugin to do this automatically might be kind of handy to have. I searched and could not find any plugin to do exactly what I needed. So, I put one together. Paid blogging has become very popular in the last year or so and I figured alot of people might benefit from using this plugin. This plugin was developed mainly for use by all of you paid bloggers, but others may find it useful as well.

What does the “Old Post Links” plugin do, exactly?

In a nutshell, the plugin allows you to specify a category and choose the ammount of days in which you would like the posts from that category to be considered “old posts”. The plugin can either add a rel=”nofollow” tag to all external links (links pointing to other websites) from the posts in that category, or it can completely disable those links so that your readers and search engines no longer see them while keeping the keyword or anchor text (no longer hyperlinked) still in place.

Still not quite sure what the benefits of using this plugin would be? Well, Google doesn’t seem to like websites to have a ton of external links. If youre into paid blogging (which seems to be popular these days), your external links can really pile up. Even if you’re not into paid blogging, after you’ve blogged for so long, you are bound to have quite a bit of external links from talking about various products or websites. This plugin just helps keep your external links to a minimum.

Information Added: This plugin also works with the TLA InLinks plugin. All you have to do is change one line to your TLA InLinks plugin and all of your TLA links will be immune to the Old Post Links plugin. If you are using the standard TLA plugin that just adds links to your sidebar and such, you do not have to change anything. Those links will not be effected by this plugin. This plugin only effects links within posts. Download the plugin and check out README.txt for more info.

Download it here: Old Post Links v1.0 Old Post Links v1.1

You can also visit my Wordpress Plugins page for this plugin and others.

*December 7, 2007 - This plugin has been updated to use 1 category, 5 categories or ALL categories.

*December 10,2007 - I’ve been asked multiple times if this plugin violates Google’s TOS. This doesn’t in any way violate Google’s rules. What the search engines see is the exact same thing as what your readers see. This is no different than going in and manually changing or removing the links. The plugin just saves you time by doing it automatically.

Last night I came across a nice little Wordpress plugin on SmackFoo.com. It’s called RSS Signature (previously known as sig2feed). Basically what it does is allow you to include a “signature” at the end of your posts when viewed from an RSS reader.

Here’s an example of the plugin in action: FeedBurner - FromWhatIHeard.com

Obviously the “Source: FromWhatIHeard.com…” line is not included in my posts when you view them from my blog. The plugin allows you to specify what you want to appear at the end of your posts when viewed in RSS readers.

I have taken the liberty to add some new options to the plugin, allowing you to easily include links pointing to your blog home page and even to each invidividual blog post.

Here’s an example of the code I created and added to my RSS signature:

<strong>Source:</strong> <a href=”%BLOGHOME%” target=”_blank”>%BLOGNAME%</a> | <a href=”%POSTLINK%” target=”blank”>%TITLE%</a>

As you can see from the FeedBurner example I posted above, every post contains a link back to the home page of my blog as well as a link to the individual post on my blog. This comes in very handy for when someone feels the need to scrape or “syndicate” your posts via RSS. Alot of spam blogs (a.k.a. Splogs) will load their blogs full of other blogs’ posts just to make it seem like they have a real blog with real content so they can use ads and other money making services on them.

You can download my modified version of this plugin here: Wordpress Plugins

I will post updates if I make any further changes.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them.

I am sure Im not the only one that gets alot of comment spam. Check out this wordpress comment spam blocker called “Spam Karma”.

Spam Karma 2 (SK2) is an anti-spam plugin for the WordPress blogging platform. It is meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters. Spam Karma 2 is the proud successor to Spam Karma, with whom it shares most of the development ideas, but absolutely none of the code.