There has been much discussion about the apparent rules changes that the FTC commission are making with regard to Bloggers and Affiliates.

Let’s cut through all the waffle.

First, this is a good thing!

The FTC want to clamp down on the scammers, those making dubious claims, etc and we 100% support that. Thad and I have NEVER made any claims about earnings, etc or claimed some tool or product or service was some kind of magic trick. The rewards are there in this business for those who work hard, right.

First up Happy Holidays, Compliments of the Season, Merry Christmas and all that.

I’m a bit early or late with that depending on where you are. Anyway, tis the season to be jolly.

But the IM world it can be a bit unjolly at this time of year…

The truth is a lot of niches go really quiet at this time of year. Slim Pickings indeed.

To complete our round-up of wordpress plug-ins here are a few ‘minor’ ones that you might want to take a look at.

Nofollow Links – Select which links in your blogroll you want to nofollow.

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Optimize DB – Let’s you optimize your WordPress database tables with one click.

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RSS Footer – Allows you to add a line of content to the end of your RSS feed articles.

Keep your blog secure with this plugin.

WP Security Scan – Perform security scan of WordPress installation.

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WP Super Cache – Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.

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It’s all about interaction, right? Here are some sociable wordpress plug-ins to help your users interact with your blog.

Sociable – Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. See below this post!

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Subscribe To Comments – Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.

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Here are a couple of essential Wordpress Plug-ins for back up and spam prevention.

WordPress Database Backup – WordPress database backup creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database.

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MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer – Saves your wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer by installing this plugin.

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Here’s a couple of pretty cool Wordpress Plug-ins for ya to check out:-

Let It Snow! – Snow on your Wordpress Blog based on the DHTML Snowstorm script by Scott Schiller. Look around you now to see the effect! (Edit: I’ve had to turn the snow effect off on this site as I’ve found that it crashes Firefox in Windows 7! No idea why. To see it in action go to our Wordpress demo site here.)

Listed below are some of the ‘basic’ wordpress plug-ins we use.

All of these are covered in more detail in Wordpress Wonder Module #1 and Wordpress Wonder Module #2.

Over the next couple of weeks I’ll add some more to the list.

Please feel free to chip in and add your own.

Please provide a brief description and a link.

Here are the Plug-ins from Module#1:-