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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; WordPress Plugin</title>
	<link>http://blog.taragana.com</link>
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		<title>Top 10 WordPress SEO Plugins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the ever-increasing crowd of blogs it takes some SEO techniques to set out your blog from the rest of the pack. Fortunately, bloggers on WordPress blogs have easy access to SEO plugins that can streamline the search engine optimization process. Well, SEO is the key to generate traffic in your blog from search engines. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-wordpress-seo-plugins/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Facebook WordPress Plugin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bloggers are increasingly using self-hosted WordPress as their platform for voicing their thoughts. Well, it's not just because WordPress is free, but there are some cool WordPress plugins that help bloggers to plug themselves to any popular site. We had already done with Wordpress Plugins for Social Networking from your Blog. Now we decided to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-facebook-wordpress-plugin/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 WordPress Plugin for Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we had a stint with the top 10 Wordpress Plugins for Social Networking from your Blog. Twitter is fast growing into one of the most popular social networks. Blog publishers look for a social media for publicizing their site to attract traffic. Twitter as a social platform perfectly fits into the shoes. Most of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-wordpress-plugin-for-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Wordpress Plugins for Social Networking from your Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is for all you social butterflies having a WordPress blog and looking to connect to your social network right from the spot. Whatever be your purpose product promotion, or promoting a service or blog, or even leisure time fun. It is almost impossible to resist the social networks once you get into them. Again [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-wordpress-plugins-for-social-networking-from-your-blog/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Social Bookmarking Plugins for Wordpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After having done with the top newest plugins and productivity plugins for WordPress, we decided to focus on better ways to play up articles on your blog or websites. Well, there are various ways to allure visitors to your site, social bookmarking being one. It's wise to spread your articles or blogs across the web. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-social-bookmarking-plugins-for-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Productivity Plugins for WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to blogging, WordPress is the most powerful CMS available on Internet.  Wordpress becomes all the more smart with its comprehensive list of extensions or plugins. The Wordpress plugins are designed to serve a wide range of purposes from email to adsense earnings. But, if you are looking to make your WordPress blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-productivity-plugins-for-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Site Analytics Plugins for WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you one of those worried about the progress of your WordPress blog? Do you wanna know how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site? Well, it requires you to drill down the site analytics to get to the bottom. With the stats right before your eyes you can guess what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-site-analytics-plugins-for-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>Product Announcement: Comment Guard Lite - Lightweight, Super-Fast Comment Spam Protection for WordPress Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are about to release a new blog (WordPress) comment spam protection software. It has been extensively tested for over two months. We will deploy it first across our network of highly popular blogs. The new software named Comment Guard Lite was developed after gaining extensive experience with the leading Comment spam protection software - [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/product-announcement-comment-guard-lite-lightweight-super-fast-comment-spam-protection-for-wordpress-blog/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Newest WordPress Plugin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Plugins have taken the functionality of WordPress to new heights. There are loads of word press plugins available and still more coming up. These add ons have been designed to maximize the flexibility and ease of use for the users. There's a wealth of WordPress plugins that serve the most of your needs. To keep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-newest-wordpress-plugin/</link>
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		<title>Is Translated Pages Duplicate Content?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have heard this questions many times from our customers who purchased either Translator Plugin Pro or Translator Plugin Gold software to autmatically translate their blogs in 41 languages. All of them are concerned if Google will penalize their translated pages as duplicate content. So let's find out what Google has to say about this:

What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-translated-pages-duplicate-content/</link>
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		<title>How to Set Google Chrome in Incognito Mode as default in Two Steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No cookies, no cache, no History. Google Chrome offers a cool way to browse Internet without any history stowed on your PC. It was great stuff especially for sluggards like me, who hates clearing cookies. Well I found launching the Incognito mode every time I open the browser was almost a hornets' nest. First switching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-set-google-chrome-in-incognito-mode-as-default-in-two-steps/</link>
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		<title>How to Share Your Article to 99 Social Boomarking Sites with a Single Click! - Sociable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I am going to introduce you to the most extensive bookmarking plug-in for Wordpress. This actually connects you to 99 social networking sites at a time. Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts. Your blog readers can use the Sociable button to automatically adds links to your favorite social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-share-your-article-to-99-social-boomarking-sites-with-a-single-click-sociable/</link>
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		<title>(Wordpress) Translator Plugin Pro 6 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Pro 6 now ships with 6 Translation engines for giving you more languages, better load balancing and better fail-over support for different languages. Not only that. Your blog now can be translated to (13) 20 major languages including new languages like Latvian, Slovak, Ukranian and Catalan and many more.
There have been several bug [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-translator-plugin-pro-6-released/</link>
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		<title>(Wordpress)Translator Plugin Gold 2 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Gold 2 now ships with 8 Translation engines for giving you more languages, better load balancing and better fail-over support for different languages. Not only that. Your blog now can be translated to (32) 41 major languages including new languages like Hindi, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Hebrew and many more.
There have been several bug fixes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpresstranslator-plugin-gold-2-released/</link>
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		<title>Wordpress Plugin That Notifies You of Unapproved Comments on Your Desktop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wordpress Notifier is a freeware application that alerts you when new unapproved comments are posted on your Wordpress blog. I have seen successful admins from internationally popular blogs and believe me its some time too hectic to refresh the page every minute so that you don't miss out on an imporntant comment. And if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-pluging-that-notifies-you-of-unapproved-comments-from-your-wordpress-blog-at-your-desktop/</link>
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		<title>Review: Top 9 Wordpress Anti-Spam Plugins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While writing an article about the best security plugins of Wordpress, I felt the need to touch another very important security issue for the bloggers, and i.e. Anti Spam Plugins. If you are a blogger, you must be knowing thousands of spams that actually flood your website everyday. Its irritating, time consuming and above all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-detailed-discussion-on-the-top-7-anti-spam-plugins-of-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>Wordpress Plugin - Angsuman&#8217;s Wordpress Guard Plugin - Add A Second Layer of Security to Your Wordpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are very happy to announce the much-awaited release of Angsuman's Wordpress Guard Plugin. It is a must-have Wordpress security plugin (compatible with all versions of Wordpress and tested upto version 2.6.3) that protects the vulnerable areas of your blog from outside access with an additional layer of security.
Many popular WordPress websites were hacked and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugin-angsumans-wordpress-guard-plugin-add-a-second-layer-of-security-to-your-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>20 Wordpress Security Plug-ins And Tips To keep Hackers Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wordpress is the leading blogging software for pro-bloggers as well as amateur bloggers around the world. So, be it latest news (Wordpress 2.7) or tweaks, we cover it. The Achilles heel of WordPress is its security, which they try to continuously address by frequent patches after every major release similar to Microsoft Windows. If you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/20-wordpress-security-plug-ins-and-tips-to-keep-hackers-away/</link>
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		<title>6 Must Know Tips for Translator Plugin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We, at Taragana, have always tried to provide you with the best software solution as well as latest news on technology balancing the need of the situation. Translator was one such initiative to help your blog reach a worldwide audience irrespective of the language and country. It has become one of the most popular WordPress [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/6-must-know-faqs-for-translator-plugin/</link>
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		<title>16 Must-Know Features in Wordpress 2.7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever be the latest news in technology and development, Taragana has it. We have already reviewed all the upcoming OS releases with detailed features. So when something as popular and happening as Wordpress was keen to release its newest version, we couldn't be far off. Wordpress 2.7 was due on 10th November, 2008. But due [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/16-must-know-features-in-wordpress-27/</link>
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		<title>Important: Angsuman&#8217;s Translator Plugin Pro &amp; Angsuman&#8217;s Translator Plugin Gold Moving&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The business of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro and Angsuman's Translator Plugin Gold has been transferred over to Wordpress Translator. All future news and updates on Translator Plugin Pro &#38; Translator Plugin Gold will be available from the new site.

Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro will be henceforth known as WordPress Translator Pro.
Angsuman's Translator Plugin Gold will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/important-angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-angsumans-translator-plugin-gold-moving/</link>
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		<title>WordPress Wins Pwnie Award for Mass 0wnage (For Many Many Security Vulnerabilities)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WordPress wins the dubious distinction of Mass 0wnage Pwnie Award for an unbelievable number of WordPress vulnerabilities, over 140 as of today.
It seems like hardly a week goes by without a new vulnerability         in WordPress or one of its many plugins. Many of them are actively  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-wins-pwnie-award-for-mass-0wnage-for-many-many-security-vulnerabilities/</link>
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		<title>Why Zemanta, The Blogger&#8217;s Helper, Sucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zemanta is a nice little WordPress plugin which allows you to discover tags and linkable items within your content as well as images to include. In short it could have a nice little blogger's elf, helping you to create richer content. However it fails in several ways, the most prominent of which is its aggresive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-zemanta-the-bloggers-helper-sucks/</link>
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		<title>Providing Free Upgrades for Translator Plugin Pro &amp; Translator Plugin Gold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have started providing free upgrades for (WordPress) Translator Plugin Pro (Version 5.2) &#038; (WordPress) Translator Plugin Gold (Version 1.2) to all our existing customers. 

Please let us know if you haven't received your upgrades within 24 hours.
Notes:
Translator Plugin Pro (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 13+1 languages (many more will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/providing-free-upgrades-for-translator-plugin-pro-translator-plugin-gold/</link>
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		<title>(WordPress) Translator Plugin Gold Version 1.2 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Gold (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 32 languages (more will be added soon) - German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latin American Spanish, Filipino, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-translator-plugin-gold-version-12-released/</link>
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		<title>(WordPress) Translator Plugin Pro Version 5.2 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Pro (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 13+1 languages (many more will be added soon) - German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and optionally Norwegian (note: we provide 32 languages with Translator Plugin Gold). We provide unlimited free updates and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-translator-plugin-pro-version-52-released/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Pro / Gold Fully Compatible With Wordpress 2.6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Pro &#38; Translator Plugin Gold (provides automatic machine translation for WordPress blogs) is fully compatible with WordPress 2.6. Existing customers of Translator Plugin Pro &#38; Gold can upgrade to the latest version of WordPress without any concerns wrt. Translator plugins.
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-gold-fully-compatible-with-wordpress-26/</link>
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		<title>Free WordPress Plugin To Remove Generator Meta Tag / Version Information From WordPress Blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WordPress, in recent versions, have forces the display of WordPress as the generator in meta tags along with the version information in the header of your WordPress blogs - . Unlike previous versions there is not easy way to remove it. Unless WordPress is using that to provide support (which it doesn't), I don't see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-wordpress-plugin-to-remove-generator-meta-tag-version-information-from-wordpress-blogs/</link>
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		<title>Free WordPress Plugin To Disable wlw_manifest &amp; EditURI Link From WordPress Blog Header</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Newer versions of WordPress (2.3.1 and above) adds two extra lines to your blog header. They are:



You need them to use Windows Live Writer to write to your WordPress blog. However many, like me, do not use Windows Live Writer. For them such headers are simply junk and add to the size of their pages [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugin-to-disable-wlw_manifest-edituri-link-from-wordpress-blog-header/</link>
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		<title>5 Ways To Block A Spammer &amp; Splogger By IP Address From WordPress Blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For regular spammers and sploggers, banning their IP address is a simple and effective way to get rid of them. I will describe three methods here with the simplest at the very end. Let's take a simple case study. ntoolz.net has been copying my posts with an automated content creation tool and then blessing me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/5-ways-to-block-a-spammer-splogger-by-ip-address-from-wordpress-blogs/</link>
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		<title>Warning: XML SiteMap Generator Plugin for WordPress May Report Fewer URL&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arne Brachold's popular XML Sitemap generator plugin for WordPress may report fewer URL than that exists on your website. This in turn means less URL's which you are submitting to search engines for indexing. 

I found out that in my case 25% of the actual number of url's (posts) were being reported. I haven't investigated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/warning-xml-sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress-may-report-fewer-urls/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Gold Affiliate Program Introduced (30$ per Sale)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am happy to announce an affiliate marketing program for Translator Plugin Gold. Now you can sell your favorite WordPress plugin and earn 30% of the proceeds, a cool 30$ per sale. You can find more details and enroll here:
Translator Plugin Gold Affiliate Program.
Affiliate program for Translator plugins has been a much requested feature from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-gold-affiliate-program-introduced-30-per-sale/</link>
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		<title>How To Fix WordPress Image / Media Uploader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frankly I am tired of the Flash based image uploader. It doesn't work most of the time, when it works it is pretty unstable, frequently fails on Opera, doesn't work (for me) on Firefox in Linux even with latest Flash, doesn't work with .htaccess fix and more. In short it is simply not worth it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-fix-wordpress-image-media-uploader/</link>
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		<title>How To Display &amp; Share Google Analytics Statistics (Web &amp; RSS Feed)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gadging.com is a new (free) service which allows you to share your Google Analytics statistics with the world of just for your tools or application, get it as RSS feed for displaying on your blog, compare how your site ranks with others and more. And it takes less than a minute to configure.
Benefits of joining [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-display-share-google-analytics-statistics-web-rss-feed/</link>
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		<title>New WordPress Translator Plugin Display Combo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have developed a new combo bar for displaying the languages for Translator Plugin Pro &#038; Gold. Check it on the top right of this blog. You can select a language to translate to and you will be directed to the translated version of the page, no button to click. 
The coolest feature is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-wordpress-translator-plugin-display-combo/</link>
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		<title>Voting on Simple Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now you can vote for articles on Simple Thoughts blog. Let us know what articles you like most through your vote.

You do not need to register to vote. Just click on the word Vote and your vote will be recorded. The voting system is implemented in AJAX, so votes will immediately update like Digg. 
You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/voting-on-simple-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>How Do You Like Our New Theme?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are incrementally adding changes to our site, replacing portions of our old theme with a new one. 
Upgrading a theme is harder than it looks. Initially we almost completed designing a theme with blue motif. In our internal feedback (and from Google) our existing theme fared better than our new theme. So we went [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-do-you-like-our-new-theme/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Pro &amp; Gold Update Delivered&#8230;Before Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With automation in place (and fully updated database) this time we were able to deliver the latest updates for Translator Plugin Pro 5.1.1 and Translator Plugin Gold 1.1.1 before we even made the announcement! This is a big milestone. Previously it used to take weeks to deliver the orders. Read below for details and what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-gold-update-deliveredbefore-time/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Gold Version 1.1.1 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Gold version 1.1.1 has been released. This is a bug fix release. This upgrade fixes a small but important bug where the time-limit for stale refresh was not being strictly honored for heavily loaded sites.
This fix enforces the delay which will prevent overloading of popular sites due to background refresh.
Thanks goes to Raymond, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-gold-version-111-released/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Pro Version 5.1.1 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Pro versiion 5.1.1 has been released. This is a bug fix release. This upgrade fixes a small but important bug where the time-limit for stale refresh was not being strictly honored for heavily loaded sites.
This fix enforces the delay which will prevent overloading of popular sites due to background refresh.
Thanks goes to Raymond, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-version-511-released/</link>
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