Perhaps you’ve heard about RSS or you’ve seen the orange icon  on many websites, blogs or forums. If you haven’t taken advantage of RSS feeds possibilities yet, perhaps it’s time you learn a little more about it.

RSS means “Really Simple Syndication”. It is a web feed format used to publish frequently updated content like blogs, forums, news headlines and podcasts.

As A Reader

An RSS feed allows you to read all your favorite news or blog posts from within a single interface called an RSS reader (or an RSS aggregator). This can be web-based or it can come as a software. There are plenty of free RSS reader in both web and software format. I tend to like web-based reader more cause you can access it from anywhere.

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For those who are less familiar with Wordpress, plugins are addons that can enhance your blog’s functionnalities (read further for examples). The benefit of using (or developing) plugins is that you don’t have to modify Wordpress’ source code.

Installing a plugin for Wordpress is pretty easy:

1. Extract the files from the archive you’ve downloaded.
2. Upload the plugin file (when it’s made of a single PHP file) or the directory (when it’s made of multiple files) to your blog using a FTP client. The plugin file (or folder) must be uploaded into /wp-content/plugins.
3. Enable the plugin from Wordpress control panel (http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin). Select the “Plugins” tab and activate the plugin from the list.

Some plugins may require that you set some configuration values by editing them with your favorite text editor. Just look for a file named readme.txt, install.txt or any other text file that may contain the installation instructions for the plugin before you upload it.

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If you’ve ever got your content stolen, you know it kinda sucks. Not only content but also images. Now I am not making any references to a previous post about a website who stole some of my content cause I don’t care that much about this incident.

Anyway I know I’ve probably stolen a few stock images myself at some point but I now use free image banks.

What Can You Do If Your Content Is Stolen?

As a webmaster, blogger, designer or whatever, if your content is stolen, you can always file a DCMA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).

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