If you have lot of categories in your wordpress blog and looking to merge the categorize, there is unfortunately no straight forward plugin for it which is indeed very surprising. Still there is one wordpress plugin which works well to merge wordpress categories which is merge tags

It is intended to be used for tags merging but works really well with categories too, just download and install the plugin, activate it and go to this url (insert your blog url in front of it)

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WP Redirection is a very useful plugin for Wordpress which manages 301 redirection and tracks 404 errors with capturing log. It’s very useful especially when you are migrating from an existing website or changing the installation directory of your Wordpress blog.

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I have covered wordpress alot in the past month specially on security with posts like 3 best Wordpress Security Plugins and increase wordpress blog performance.

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We have added a new section into the site Free Wordpress Themes where anyone can submit there free worpdress themes. I have already mailed to many desingers and wordpresss theme submitters which were in my contact list and I expecting good number of submissions of wordpress themes in comings days.

To submit a theme, you just need to fill this form http://themes.mwolk.com/submit (if you can register then you don’t have to fill the captcha too) and thats it. I will approve the theme submission in 24 hours. If you think I am taking time, then send me a mail through the contact form of the site and I will immediately approve it.

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First of all, if you have not read this post about 11 best wordpress SEO plugins, go and read it right now. Secondly after installing the plugins, still you can fine tweak your blog settings to make it look more search engine friendly. Here are 5 advanced Tips to make your wordpress blog even better -

1. use Noindex for category pages – I hate content duplication on blogs and most of the category pages shows same content as on posts, so I uses noindex,follow meta tag for them which means search engines will follow the urls and content of the page but will not index it. If you are wondering how to do this, you can use All in One SEO Plugin which has an option

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Personally I am a great believer in awarding someone (and feels same about it) to someone who is doing something for you, now I was seeing that I was getting like 20 comments per day from people on the blog (and 30 comments daily on India Blog) and I felt I should dofollow the comments as well as use comment luv plugin which shows latest posts of the commentators’ blog. Since I read all the comments before approving them, so someone spamming the comment is not possible and I anyway won’t be approving Thank you and Great post kind of comments.

I feels every blogger should use Comment Luv and Nofollow Free plugin as the commentators should get something in return for taking their time and putting helpful comments. Not to mention this will improve the quality of comments as well increase in the number of comments.

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If you owns a wordpress blog and get lot of comments, reading, editing, deleting and approving comments can be a tedious process. For example, India Blog gets lot of comments and earlier I had to login into admin dashboard every 4 hours to approve the comments as I like readers to see their comments as soon as possible. Now all this process was taking lot of time so I started using wp ajax edit comments plugin.

You can download the plugin from here. What it does it, it shows edit, delete and publish option on the comments made in the post itself so you never have to go the admin dashboard to take these actions, just click on any of the link, it will open a pop up like above and you can edit the comment on the fly. This plugin is very handy for quick comment edits like removing some links in the comment etc.

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I have already covered lot of wordpress related content in the past and here is some more hidden, less used and mostly unknown features of Wordpress.

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If you are looking to stop spam comments on your blog, here are 5 tips which you can follow -

1. Use Akismet – this has to be to your first step in stopping spam comments. Akismet plugin can stop 95% of automated spam comments on your blog. You will be needing wordpress API key to use it which you can get by registering at wordpress.com

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By default every wordpress theme shows the list of pages in a horizontal top menu and you can call the list of wordpresss pages with function wp_list_pages. You can check the header.php file of your wordpress theme and you should be able to see this function with an arguement.

Now the problem with this this menu is that you can not control what pages are shown and where in the list ? for example I don’t want to show a page at the front just because it was created first or because it comes first in alphabetical order but I may want to show pages as per my own priorities.

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