Blogs can sometimes grow to be quite busy, especially those blogs that may be run by an organization.
When this occurs, it’s a good idea to add pull in some extra assistance.
The Users feature provides the ability to add different users to your blog. There also exist different permission levels for different types of Users who may work on your site.
Additionally, the Users menu group is where you can manage your own profile settings.
The Akismet Configuration feature allows you to automatically discard spam comments that come in on posts that are more than a month old.
Most “false positive” comments, those valid comments that Akisment erroneously marks as spam, occur on new posts.
Typically, older comments are targeted by spam agents as these posts “fall off your radar” after awhile – you’re just not as likely to return to posts that are six months old as the topic becomes exhausted. When spam agents attack these areas, you will receive notification of this repeatedly within your spam queue, which can become an issue for large blogsites.
When this Automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month option is enabled, these notifications will not appear in your queue – Akismet will just automatically delete the spam and not tell you about it.
To configure Akismet, do the following:
There are four different Plugins that, by default, come with the blogs@oregonstate.edu WordPress installation:
To activate a Plugin, do the following:
Plugins are add-on pieces of software which expand the functionality of WordPress.
Plugins differ from Widgets in the fact that the code used is typically more complicated. Some Plugins actually create Widgets. Other Plugins may simply perform tasks in the background of your blogsite and show no real visible effects on the screen.