Need a premium quality WordPress theme? Check the UBD Moneymaker WordPress theme from Unique Blog Designs. This free theme comes with some special functionalities that you will find only in premium WordPress themes. For example, easy integration of Feedburner email subscription form, MyBlogLog recent readers widget and in-post 468×60 banner ads, without touching your source code. The UBD Moneymaker theme also comes with built-in UBD Block Ad Plugin that will enable you to install and manage rotating 125×125 banner ads on your blog’s sidebar.

Some features of the UBD Moneymaker WordPress theme:

• Free premium quality two column WordPress theme.
• Theme Options panel for easy integration of Feedburner and MyBlogLog recent readers codes.
• Built-in UBD Block Ad Plugin, perfect for managing rotating 125×125 banner ads.
• Additional ad management feature for in-post 468×60 banner ads.
• Built-in social bookmarking functionality.
• Fully Widgetized sidebar. Just drag an drop your preferred sidebar elements.
• Four column footer section, that you can use to display comments, archives, tags, links etc.
• Search Engine Optimized and cross-browser compatible.
• WordPress 2.5.1 compatible.

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Have some doubts about the security of your WordPress installation? Use WP Security Scan, a plugin that scans your WordPress installation for various security vulnerabilities and recommends corrective actions for the detected vulnerabilities. WP Security Scan checks passwords, file permissions, directory permissions and database security. Out of corrective measures, it offers version hiding, WordPress admin protection/security and removes WP Generator META tag from core code.

The present version of this plugin is 2.3 and it requires WordPress 2.3 or higher. In future releases some more features will be added, such as:

• One-click change file/folder permissions.
• Test for XSS vulnerabilities.
• Intrusion detection/prevention.
• Lock out/log incorrect login attempts.
• User enumeration protection.
• doc links.
• .htaccess verification.

Note: The WP Security Scan plugin needs to be left activated once you have installed. Version hiding, turning off DB errors, removing WP ID META tag from HTML output, and other functionality of WordPress will cease if you deactivate the plugin.

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Recently I came to know about AideRSS, a free online tool that monitors RSS feeds of blogs and news sources. AideRSS uses PostRank™, an unique scoring system for posts, in order to filter out the best posts from a RSS feed. You can use it to filter any blog or RSS feed and customize them before subscribing to match your interests. I found it useful for filtering, tracking and reading the good posts of my favorite blogs.

What actually AideRSS do? It checks a RSS feed, gathers information about the performance of it’s posts and provides you some options to filter, subscribe and share your favorite posts. You can also use AideRSS to evaluate a RSS feed that you are thinking about subscribing to. Just enter the URL of that feed or blog and hit the analyze button. Then, AideRSS will check the web to collect more information about the feed, its statistics and people’s reaction and will assign PostRank™ to all posts in that feed.

What’s next? The result page is very interesting and provides some useful information about a blog or feed. It shows a BlogTrends line, that depicts the performance of the feed over time. You will also have different filtering options like all posts, good posts, great posts, best posts and top 20 posts. What you can do with the filtered feed? You can subscribe it in your favorite feed reader, save it to your AideRSS account or share it on your site with the help of their widgets.

In my view, AideRSS is a nice tool to analyze both your favorite and new RSS feeds. You can use the widgets to show your own best contents or the contents of your favorite blogs or news sources. It is a free service. Try it today!

Want to add some interactive features to your website or blog? Give a look at AddOurSearch, a free service that will enable your visitors to search your website or blog directly from their web browsers. It does so by creating a custom search engine for your site and prompting your visitors to install your search engine to their browsers. AddOurSearch.com supports all the major blogging platforms and any website that has a search feature. So, adding it to your site is not a problem at all. From your visitors side, they must have Firefox 2+, Flock, or Internet Explorer 7+ to use this service.

How it works?

In order to use this free service, you need to add a simple widget to your site. So, first create your widget by following their instructions. There are a few widget badge styles that you can choose from. Get the widget code and paste it on your website code. For better visibility, you can paste the code right after the search box on your site. Now your widget is ready to serve your visitors. When your visitors clicks on the widget badge, they will be presented with an easy installation page. After installation, your visitors will be able to search your site directly from the built in search feature on their browsers. That’s it! In case, your visitor don’t have Firefox 2+, Flock, or Internet Explorer 7+ browser, this application will prompt them to install one.

In my view, AddOurSearch.com is a cool way to brand and promote your website or blog. And if you have valuable content on your site, then your visitors would definitely like to search your site anytime, right from their browser. Give it a try. It is free!

WP Pixels is a nicely designed WordPress theme. It is a hybrid type of theme and can be used to create a blog or a portfolio site. On the front page there is no sidebars and displays excerpts and links to latest articles and news. The inner pages has two columns with sidebar on right. So, you can also call it a magazine style theme. Due to use of proper color scheme WP Pixels has a beautiful look. Take a look at the screen shot below. And the good thing is that it is a free WordPress theme. So grab it today.

Some features of WP Pixels theme:

• Hybrid theme – blog/portfolio/magazine style.
• No sidebars on the front page. Comes with three different category loops.
• Customized excerpt loop for the front page.
• In-built custom page templates – Blog and Portfolio.
• Built in image transparency for linked images.
• Beautiful color scheme.
• Compatible with WordPress 2.5.1 or later.

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In blogging, there are many advantages of having your own domain name. And to run a blog on your own domain name, you will need a web host. Getting the right web host for your blog is very important for success in blogging. There are lots of horror stories about bad web hosts. I am sure that you have already heard many of them. So, how you are going to find the right web host with right hosting plan for your blog? You will need help from others.

So, if you really need some help in finding the right web host, then you can visit Web Hosting Geeks (WebHostingGeeks.com), a nice resource site for reviews and ratings of different web hosting providers. Their reviews and ratings are independent and supported by adequate information about the different top webhosting providers.

On the front page of WebHostingGeeks.com, you will see the list the top 10 providers along with their features and benefits. They have separate review pages for each of those web hosting providers, that contains various information such as hosting packages, customer reviews, hosting features, uptime monitoring, company profile etc. Those review pages will definitely help you to understand the different web hosts better. So, go through them properly and carefully decide on the suitable host for your blog.

Web Hosting Geeks also have a ‘Web hosting award’ section, where they lists the best web hosts in different categories like budget hosting, blog hosting, forum hosting, Unix hosting, multi-domain hosting, reseller hosting, dedicated hosting etc. This is a very helpful feature, specially when you need a specific hosting package. So, if you were looking for a suitable dedicated server hosting service, just visit the Best Dedicated Server Hosting page and you will get information about the best host that will serve your requirements.

Besides providing reviews and ratings of different web hosting services, Web Hosting Geeks also features some articles related to web hosting, domain names, ecommerce, search engines etc. If you are new to this field, then those articles will definitely help you. So, if you are looking for a new web host, just give them a visit and choose the right web host for your blog.

Serious about the copyright of your original content? Want to know who is using your content without your knowledge? Then you should try Copy Alerts plugin for WordPress. Once installed, this new plugin will notify you when copies of your content are found in other sites.

Originally, Copy Alerts is an online tool for checking internet plagiarism. It was created by BitScan. To help WordPress bloggers in fight against plagiarism, they have created this new plugin. The installation of this plugin is easy. Install it as you installed other WordPress plugins and enter a notification email ID. Then, when copies are found, this plugin will send alerts via that email ID. Copy Alerts also provides detailed report of copied content in a beautiful side by side comparison view. A simple but useful plugin. Isn’t it?

So, you have found some copies of your content. What’s next? Check the pages that are copied from your original content and take appropriate action, if you want.

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