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How to Prevent WordPress Crashes by Repairing MySQL Tables

The heart of every WordPress blog is a database. Most often that will be MySQL (pronounced My S.Q.L. or My Sequel).

If your WordPress blog display errors instead of your content, your database could be corrupted! That would be like your heart having a murmur; you never know when it will stop working properly.

I normally cringe when someone who is unfamiliar with phpMyAdmin or dealing with databases in general says they want to look around in there. One wrong click can create a lot more problems. Following the instructions in this video, you will learn how to easily fix the database problems in just a few minutes and prevent it from happening in the future.

Just be careful to do exactly what the video shows you and nothing else, unless you are positive you know what you are doing. This is not just a scare tactic; it is a fact that I have seen happen way too many times.

If after watching the video you are still skeptical about going into the heart of your website, Website Managers will handle that for you. No, it will not cost you an arm and a leg either.

So what do you think? Are you up to the challenge? Post your comments and let us know.

Using these WordPress plugins can make your blog more interactive, sticky to keep visitors coming back for more and used by novices and power bloggers alike. Not all of these plugins need to be used on a single blog, depending on the focus of your site.

Where there are multiple options to perform a single task, I like to spread them out across several blogs to see which ones work best, or fit the look and feel of that site. I use every one of these plugins on various sites, except the eCommerce plugins. Those will come later as those sites are built. The ones listed are the best I found and tested in the WordPress Plugin category. Since this was originally posted on Feb 14, 2009, the list has continued to grow. Read the rest of this entry »

Replying to comments on WordPress creates a conversation that can not only keep people coming back, but cause your blog to go viral. Most sites I have seen with comment replies put all those replies in a straight line down the page. Others however, indent the replies to other commenters so you know the reply was meant for them instead of for the post author.

Here is the question that started this topic:

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Adding Technorati tags to your WordPress blog posts can boost awareness and get your free website traffic. Technorati is one of the foremost blog directories that links keywords to blogs, rates each blog and shows an excerpt from the latest post.

Simple Tags is the successor of Simple Tagging Plugin and is a great tool to manage your WordPress tags in Related Posts, Related Tags, Auto link tags, Tag suggestion, etc.

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