PSPINC Official Company Blog

Managing Comments in WordPress

Aug

10

Comments are a great way for your visitors to interact with you. You can build a nice community on your website through your comments. However, you may want to moderate your comments and manage which pages you want visitors to post comments on. Managing comments in WordPress becomes important as Google will index your comments along with your website. So you may want to filter out unwanted comments, spam, and moderate comments not suitable for your topics on your website.

Managing comments in WordPress can be a tedious task. But the alternative of disabling comments may not be ideal either. Comments solicit engagement from your visitors. Even if you are not the one responding to comments, this type of engagement can draw repeat visitors and drive traffic to your website. Having regular posters that are helpful to others can really add value to your website.

You can manage your comments from within WordPress admin. Navigate to Comments on the left menu. You have the ability to approve/unapprove, reply, edit the comment, mark it as spam, or delete it as trash.

If you have comments already filtered out as spam, you can click on the Spam tab above comments. From here you have the ability to mark comments as “Not Spam”, or delete them permanently.

There are detailed settings you can change to help you manage comments further. You will find these settings under Settings > Discussion.

There are two settings that will help you reduce spam comments; Comment author must fill out name and email and Users must be registered and logged in to comment. You should check the boxes and enable these settings.

If you would like to manually approve each comment before they are displayed on your website, be sure to check the box for Comment must be manually approved. With this setting enabled, no comment will automatically appear on your website unless approved.
If you have regular visitors that post helpful comments, you may want them to be able to post and respond freely. Enable the setting Comment author must have a previously approved comment. This means if a visitor already has an approved comment, they will not be required to wait for moderation in sequential posts.

Comments containing lots of hyperlinks are a characteristic of spam comments. You may wish to limit the number of hyperlinks allowed in your comments. Set this setting under Comment Moderation.

WordPress comment moderation link limit setting

You may set your own blacklisted words, IP & email addresses, and browser’s user-agent strings. Perhaps there’s a competitor you don’t wish to have mentioned in your comments. Or you wish to block the numerous pharmaceutical spam that has started to show up on your website. The Comment Moderation setting will put matching comments in your moderation queue. While Disallowed Comment Keys will put matching comments directly into your Trash.

We hope you’ve found this article useful. Well-managed comments can help you unlock the powers of user interaction. It will drive traffic to your website and make your existing content even more valuable. Looking for WordPress hosting? Take advantage of our 60% off promo and start hosting your own WordPress website for as little as $2.90/month. A free domain is included! Need assistance with your website? Contact us, we are always here to help.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#comments #pspinc #webdesign #webdevelopment #websiteseo #wordpress

PSPINC What's New Newsletter Vol.75 "Advertisement Free Blogging"

Aug

5

Vol. 75

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. offers a no-cost and ad-free blogging service called Bloguru. Bloguru is a blogging site with many features, a few of those are listed below.

You can't create an anonymous account. Of course, you don't have to use your name for Bloguru, but you will be authorized with 2-Factor Authentication as a part of the registration process. Another way to create an account is to use an invitation from someone who already has a Bloguru account.
If you don't post for a year, your account will be deleted automatically. So unlike services that don't delete users for any reason, you can trust that all bloggers using Bloguru are still active.
We do not delete past posts. Since its inception in 2004, Bloguru has not deleted any of its past data. Therefore, some users use it as a storehouse for information.
There is no limit to the file size of the images that you can save in your blog. You can also use it as a means of distributing image data.
You can use HTML in your posts, allowing users to embed YouTube videos easily.
You can use the RSS function to embed information on other websites.
We use reciprocal links with other Bloguru users to increase the SEO effect.
Weekly Bloguru user rankings are announced.
You can use hashtags to search for posts using similar tags.

All of these features are free and standard, so why not give Bloguru a try? If you're in the U.S. or Japan, you can easily create an account using two-factor authentication on your cell phone. For the rest of the world, you can sign up at the Bloguru website.

See you on Bloguru!

https://bloguru.com

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#AdFreeBlog #Blog #Bloguru #RSS #SEO #Website

Announcement: Mail Server Update

Aug

4

Dear valued customer,

Thank you for choosing Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

We are always looking to improve the services we offer you.
As such, we will be conducting mail server update.

You may experience delay in incoming emails for a few seconds during the maintenance time below.

The schedule is as follows:

* USA Pacific Standard Time
- August 5th (Thu) 8:30am - 9:00am

* Japan Time
- August 5th (Thu) 12:30pm - next day 1:00am

PSPINC provides services with uptimes of 99.9%

If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-232-3989 or email us at support@pspinc.com .

We would like to answer your questions by phone call.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#Dreamersi #Email #PSPINC

XML Sitemaps For Your Website

Aug

3

You may ask - what are XML sitemaps? Simply put, it is a specific file that lives “behind the scenes” of your website. This file contains a list of important web pages that help make it easy for Google to find and crawl them. Ensuring your pages are visible by search engines is an important factor to take into consideration with your website’s SEO.

What does an XML sitemap look like?

XML stands for “Extensible Markup Language”, which is another coding language similar to HTML. Below you will see an example of a very simple XML sitemap courtesy of Google Search Central’s build sitemap page.

What pages should be included in your XML sitemap?

Simply put, any web page you want users to find in search results should be included in your XML sitemap. Start with your most relevant pages and work down the chain. It’s worth mentioning if you don’t search engines to crawl a specific page, leaving it out of the sitemap isn’t enough. You need to include a “no index” tag on any page you wish to keep from being indexed.

How to add an XML sitemap to your website

Does the above code look a bit intimidating? Fear not! There are many ways to generate a sitemap without writing a single line of code.

WordPress Plugins: There are many plugins that serve the purpose of generating an XML sitemap for you. One of the most popular is the Yoast SEO plugin. Sitemap generation is just one of many useful tools for optimizing your website for SEO.

Sitemap Generators: If you search online there are tools built to specifically crawl and automatically generate a sitemap for you. This is useful if you are wanting to go with a DIY approach and your site wasn’t build with a CMS tool. The only downside to this method is if you want to be precise on page priority and defining the last modified date, you will need to manually edit the file.

From Scratch: Depending on the size of your site, you may just want to code it by hand. Usually ideal for smaller sites that want to define a specific priority. The larger the site, and those with frequent updates, the more time-consuming this becomes. If you hired a Web Developer to build your website they should be able to take care of this for you.

Have It Done Automatically: You may say, "yah sign me up for this method" and we would be happy to! We have our own CMS system developed in-house and exclusively for our Dreamersi web hosting customers called WebdeXpress. With WebdeXpress, when you publish your site, the sitemap is automatically generated/updated for you, it’s not even something you have to think about.

If you have additional questions or want some help with your website’s SEO, please contact us online or by phone at 1-800-232-3989! We would love to talk with you about your website needs!

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#SEO #Sitemap #WebDevelopment #Website #WebsiteSEO #XMLSitemap

Announcement: Mail Server Update

Jul

30

Dear valued customer,

Thank you for choosing Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

We are always looking to improve the services we offer you.
As such, we will be conducting mail server update.

You may experience delay in outgoing emails for a few seconds during the maintenance time below.

The schedule is as follows:

* USA Pacific Standard Time
- August 2nd (Mon) 8:30am - 9:00am

* Japan Time
- August 3rd (Tue) 12:30am - 1:00am

PSPINC provides services with uptimes of 99.9%

If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-232-3989 or email us at support@pspinc.com .

We would like to answer your questions by phone call.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#dreamersi #email #pspinc

PSPINC What's New Newsletter Vol.74 "DENREI"

Jul

29

Vol. 74

We are currently developing a system called DENREI at Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. DENREI is an email-based social media platform. I’m sure you don't understand what I'm talking about. I'd like to start by telling you what social media is.

The job of the media is to communicate your ideas and information to others. Social media is an easy way to communicate information to people who are interested in what you have to say. Social media in general refers to systems like Twitter and Facebook. These systems use a browser-based website or an App on your phone as a means of communicating information.

The current problem is that the companies running these services are censoring information as if they are publishers, not media. There have been many instances of deleting users' posts and revoking users' access rights. The first of these major problems is that anyone can see what a user posts. You can specify that you don't want to see it, but that can be a pain in the ass.

DENREI is not a social media service like Twitter or Facebook, where anyone can see what you post at any time. Creating an account with DENREI means having an @DENREI.COM email address. Only people with an @DENREI.COM account will be able to read the information you send out via email. Of course, @DENREI.COM users can freely exchange emails with each other.

You can't send emails to @DENREI.COM from any email address other than @DENREI.COM. If you want DENREI to send email to your subscribers, just send an email from your @DENREI.COM address to your @DENREI.COM address.

This is an overview of DENREI. More information will be released soon, and we hope you will join us for the beta test.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
info@pspinc.com
https://pspinc.com
1404 140th Place NE, Bellevue, WA 98007 USA
800-232-3989
425-957-0808

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#Censorship #DENREI #Email #Facebook #Privacy #SocialMedia #Twitter

Announcement: Mail Server Update

Jul

28

Dear valued customer,

Thank you for choosing Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

We are always looking to improve the services we offer you.
As such, we will be conducting mail server update.

You may experience delay in outgoing emails for a few seconds during the maintenance time below.

The schedule is as follows:

* USA Pacific Standard Time
- July 29th (Thu) 7:45am - 8:15am

* Japan Time
- July 29th (Thu) 11:45pm - next day 12:15am

PSPINC provides services with uptimes of 99.9%

If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-232-3989 or email us at support@pspinc.com .

We would like to answer your questions by phone call.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#Dreamersi #Email #PSPINC

Update about Authorize.net incident

Jul

28

Authorize.net is back up and processing payments. If you tried to make a payment between 11:35am PDT and 1:05pm PDT please contact support@pspinc.com as it may not have gone through.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

Authorize.net is down

Jul

28

Our billing system processes through Authorize.net which is currently experiencing technical issues. Any payment made through the My.PSPinc.com portal will not succeed.
We ask that our customers please wait to make payments until the issue with authorize.net's system is resolved.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact support@pspinc.com

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

What is an Affinity Diagram?

Jul

27

Affinity diagramming is a technique created by Japanese anthropologist Jiro Kawakita in the 1960’s. It’s an idea creation method designed to help you organize ideas by their natural relationships with each other. It can be helpful for organizing and consolidating information about products, processes, or other complex issues or problems.

It’s a technique often used by Product Designers to help decide how to best organize information for an app or website in a way that will be most intuitive for users who might be unfamiliar with certain products or services.

How to use the Affinity Diagram technique:

Gather your product team for a brainstorming session.

Record notes and ideas about a specific product onto note cards or sticky notes.

Have the entire group organize notes/ideas into groups that are in some way related.

Have a discussion with your team to define categories from these relationships, and select header cards for the various categories that clearly identify the common thread.

Affinity Diagramming can be a very useful method to help you come up with your information architecture for a website or application. It allows you to move beyond habitual thinking and preconceived categories, utilizing a more intuitive approach to grouping information. This can result in a product structure that is easier to understand for end users.

The PSPINC design team would be happy to help you organize your website in a way that best serves your target audience.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#affinitydiagram #productdesign #webdesign