It is reported that if your permalinks have been changed to something that looks like example.com/category/post-title/%&(%7B$%7Beval(base64_decode($_SERVER%5BHTTP_REFERER%5D))%7D%7D|.+)&%/. The keywords are “eval” and “base64_decode.” Then you probably have been hacked and should upgrade immediately.

Usually upgrading Wordpress is fairly simple. You will get a notice for upgrade, just click that link, upgrade your files and nothing major should be affected within your blog.

My choice for Anti Spam Plugins?
I prefer any plugin that requires a captcha key to be entered in order to comment.  Most spammers won’t be able to comment and if they do, it’s easier to delete 10 comments than to sift through 1000 comments. Often I’ll just say forget it and delete all my pending comments.

I’ve been using Peter’s Anti Spam image plugin for wordpress. This lets you define a set of words for your  captcha which Peter’s plugin will change to an image.

So far this Wordpress Plugin coded from Blog Traffic Exchange seems like a great way to bring new traffic to your blog, especially if your blog is fairly new.  I’m considered using this plugin myself, but my only worry is  that it will detract from the related posts I list at the bottom of each post on this blog.  It could also send more users away from this blog then to this blog.

I’ll try the Related Posts Plugion on some other lesser trafficked Wordpress blogs I have and let you know the results.

You can download this wordpress plugin over at http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/related-websites/

Blogging Magazine Example
Frai Magazine for example releases it’s content in a side scrolling magazine style.  It’s just like reading a magazine but on your desktop, saving paper and making it easier to disperse their magazine.

Magazine Publications Online
In fact, many major magazine titles have gone online including: Playboy, Cosmopolitan and even ESPN are now available to purchase in online digital formats.  Zinio currently is the leading provider of internet magazines.

Wordpress Magazine Themes
One of the easiest ways to start your own blogging magazine is by implementing one of the many wordpress magazine themes out there.

Soothbrush recently listed the top ten magazine themes out there for Wordpress. However blogger users not need to feel left out…

Blogger Magazine Themes
The Daily Inspired theme for blogger was created so blogger users too can make their own magazine style blog.  The theme is featured below.  Download this blogger theme via this link

Get it here at YoungGoGetter

Since recently adding the plugin, you’ll see ClickforNick in Spanish,  ClickforNick in Netherlands, and even ClickforNick in Chinese. How are these translations?  As you can expect with any machine translation, not perfect, but as far as I can tell from the German translations, it’s understandable, not perfect, but legible.

Expect effect of the Global Translator Plugin?  

Increased traffic from foreign readers.  That is the overall intent, to branch out globally and capture traffic from more than just english.

From reviews, the global translator has powerful effects on traffic, with the ability to nearly double traffic.  But, what effect will this have on adsense?

Before installing the Global Translator Plugin Make Sure:

That you can use the plugin with your current host.  This definately won’t fly with most shared hosts, Godaddy, definately not.  Global Translator will always be running as a script behind the scenes, translating a new page every few minutes.

Download Nothing2Hide Translator Online Via This Link

The best features of CyStats Statistic Plugin Include:

1. Bounce rate, ignore-by-cookie, ignore-by-ip/post-id/user_agent lists
2. hits, visits for day/week/month/year – human or robots
3. Top refering pages
4. Most read categories and tags
5. Most read, most commented posts
6. Most read feeds, number of feed visits today

You can download CyStats at the Wordpress Plugin Page http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cystats/

“Global Translator is a free and open source Wordpress Plugin which is able to automatically translate your blog in the following different languages:
English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Czech, Croat, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Rumanian and Swedish.
The number of available translations will depend on your blog language and the translation engine you will chose to use.”

Features Include:

1. Four Translation engines

2. SEO optimized – www.domain.com/mycategory/mypost will be automatically transformed in www.domain.com/en/mycategory/mypost

Before you go ahead and install this plugin, be warned.  I’ve read plenty of people talking about how this thing crashed their server. 

Get it at Nothing2Hide

Manage Multiple Blogs Wordpress Plugin

With this program it takes only logging in to one blog to write posts from all of them.  This in turn can save you tons of time, with no having to log into each blog seperately. It almost gives you the functionality you’d find in Wordpress MU.

Benefits of Managing Multiple Blogs from One Blog

Save time and be more efficient.  Manage all comments from one blog.

Features I’d Like to See Added

Some features that are really missing from this plugin are the ability to upload images and add a category while writing the post.

Where to Download Multiple Blogs Wordpress Plugin?

Get the wordpress plugin here from Techie Buzz

Features include:

• One or two column ad display, and support through template tags to implement your own unconventional design.
• Show as many ads as you want, and in either manual or random order
• Keep track of how many times an ad is clicked
• When creating a new ad, you don’t have to calculate the end date yourself. Just input how many days you wish the ad to run for, and the correct date will be applied. The ad will be automatically taken down when the time comes.
• When an ad run is over, the record is archived on the Inactive ads screen, so you can check on the final click count, or revive the ad for another run.

When the day comes that you can switch off of Google or any other ad network, this is a great place to turn.  Selling your own ads can reduce the uncertainty in the amount of cash you receive each week.  Rather it enables you to predict your earnings each month which doesn’t fluctuate like relying on clicks can.

Download the Wordpress Ad Plugin