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By Felix Widjaja

WordPress without plugin will not be fun. Even though there has been numerous posts covering this. Here’s my recomendation: Advanced Category Excluder. This plugin helps you to manage your content, RSS feeds, sidebar widgets, and fine tune where you want to display your posts, pages, links, link categories, or hide. Akismet. Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. All in One SEO Pack. Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. AntiVirus. Security solution as a smart, effectively plugin to protect your blog against exploits and spam injections. Bad Behavior. Deny automated spambots access to your PHP-based Web site. Contact Form 7. Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible. Disqus Comment System. As blogged before. The

By Felix Widjaja

San Francisco based startup, Disqus is getting more popular now, and growing fast. More and more popular news/blog site using it. Big sites like Engadget, TechCrunch has Disqus powering their comment system. I choose Disqus here at Stucel, replacing WordPress default comment system. There are many advantages for using it, the best part is Disqus really play nice with WordPress. Just add the plugin and just like that –no single code change. The comment import process was working flawlessly too, even for thousands of comments. I just imported 3000++ comment in Twentea to Disqus. Smooth. At first, I was researching to compare Disqus’s biggest contender: IntenseDebate (created by Automattic, the company behind WordPress). Basically both systems offer the same thing: Comment threading, and social media integration (I think it’s cool to have automated tweet when I comment on a blog).