Recently we’ve been seeing a number of spam comments written in Cyrillic (Russian) characters. Because they are not in English, they slip past anti-spam plugins like Akismet and Anti-Spam Bee.
What to do?
Jeff Starr of Perishable Press suggests adding the most common Cyrillic characters to your comment moderation file.
If you expect to get comments from visitors writing in other languages, of course, this might not be a good idea. But for normal blogging activity, especially if you prefer to leave comments open indefinitely, take a look at Jeff’s article and consider implementing his suggestions.
Once you have your WordPress blog up and running, you’ll naturally want to know how many people come to visit you. Google Analytics is the gold standard of statistical information, of course, but that means opening another browser tab or window and signing in to a separate service.
When you type a paragraph into WordPress, the software automatically converts your straight quotes into angled or curly quotes, like so:
A number of high-profile bloggers (mostly the ones who blog about how to blog) recommend that you turn off date stamps on your posts and in the site URLs. Write “evergreen” material, they argue, and your posts will show up high in Google search pages even if the searcher asks for recent results.
It’s impossible to completely prevent someone from downloading and saving any image that you post on the Internet. As a matter of fact, every time someone opens your web page in a browser, a copy of each image is temporarily downloaded to the viewer’s hard drive. 
When you first install WordPress and open the Dashboard, you are greeted with a bewildering array of boxes on your screen, most of which you probably will never use. Wouldn’t it be great if you could trim everything down to show you just what you need?
