Some of you may remember that back on January 15th, I asked if you had ever published a blog post via email. Many of you in the comments let me know that you enjoyed using Postie but wished it contained some of the same features that are found with the Posterous service. According to Robert Felty who has taken over development of the plugin, the new version of Postie enables the following: Postie offers many advanced features for posting to your blog via e-mail, including the ability to assign categories by name, included pictures and videos, and automatically strip off signatures. It also has support for both imap and pop3, with the option for ssl with both. The latest version which is 1.1.5 contains the following feature set: Added option to have postie posts be pending review, published, or draft Settings panel only shows up for administrators Need not be […]
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Archive for 2009
We hate spam. We hate it so much that we always find solutions to spam. So, this week we continue our Weekly Plugin Review series with a review of an Akismet alternative called Mollom. Description: This plugin makes it possible to use the anti-spam services provided by Mollom on your own WordPress blog. What is Mollom? It’s a free anti-spam service that was founded by Dries Buytaert (Drupal) and Benjamin Schrauwen. The plugin can be used as a substitute for Akismet, Defensio, Spam Karma and others. What does it do? Mollom works much like Akismet: comments are sent to a central server which uses intelligent, self-learning algorithms to determine wether or not a comment is spam or not. Spam-classification isn’t a binary process and as a result, common anti-spam services perform bad when handling false positives. Mollom takes care of this. If it can’t clearly classify a comment, it will […]
[Continue Reading...]Having launched our new User Reviews process for plugins, I didn’t give most our readers any time to get their plugin reviews across to me. In spite of this, we received a total eight plugin reviews for five different plugins. Here’s the list. Do check out the links and read what the reviewer has to say. Did you like their review? Comment and tell them. Share your experiences of the plugins with them. WP Greet Box We reviewed WP Greet Box on January 18. WP Greet Box is a simple plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer URL. WP Greet Box topped our list with three reviews of the eight reviews we received. JayPee had this to say: WP Greet Box not only helps you promote your RSS feed and increase your RSS feed readers but having these targeted suggestions on […]
[Continue Reading...]New Releases GD Press Tools GD Press Tools is a collection of various additional administration tools. Plugin is still under heavy development and over time number of tools will grow. JuLiA JuLiA (Just a Linguistic Algorithm) is an automated comment moderation plugin for WordPress that uses machine learning and natural language processing techniques to recognize abusiveness in comment content. gooseGrade Plugin Allow your readers to become citizen editors. gooseGrade is a free service that allows your readers to post spelling, grammar, factual, and other errors straight to you. After you or any other WordPress admin approves the edit, the gooseGrade plugin will automatically fix the error. It’s like magic. Simple Image Grabber Retrieve and display images from a WordPress post. Folding Menu Plugin Create a folding menu for WordPress built in Pages widget using jQuery. PeoplePond PeoplePond provides the tools needed to take ownership of your online identity and reputation […]
[Continue Reading...]You must be aware that we’ve launched a new series where every reader of Weblog Tools Collection can contribute and get featured in return. We’ve asked you to pick a plugin from our Weekly Plugin Review posts and review the same and then email us the link. Since, the launch, we’ve already received a few entries. The plugins you can choose from: Simple:Press Forum – (Our Review) Referrer Detector – (Our Review) WP Greet Box – (Our Review) WP125 – (Our Review) MailPress – (Our Review) Yawasp (Yet Another WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin) – (Our Review) Post Avatar – (Our Review) Improved Plugin Installation – (Our Review) Feed Reading Blogroll – (Our Review) View complete details of the how to submit your reviews » Remember your entries must reach us by Saturday, March 14 – 11.59pm EST
[Continue Reading...]Spring Time Ad Ready, Precoded for several plugins (including tweetbacks, pagenavi, where did they go, wp-related posts, odiogo, yoast breadcrumbs), Featured Video Ready, and Feedburner ready. Precoded for limit post, canonical urls, keyword insertion. Green Park 2 It’s a simple & elegant light-weight theme for WordPress, with the support for WordPress widgets and CSS sprites. WP-Jobboard Turn your WordPress install in a simple job board. Three column, widget ready. Spyker wpMU The Spyker WP theme, one of of a kind WordPress theme. The theme is drenched in gray with light wooden effects. Business Design Business Design is a plain, two column with right sidebar, widget ready WordPress Business Theme. Crimson Three column, fixed width, widget and gravatar ready theme LunchBag Three column, widget ready theme with two static fixed sidebars Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get featured in our release posts!
[Continue Reading...]It’s been more than two months since we began our Weekly Plugin Review. During this time, we’ve reviewed nine plugins. All of these posts received a good number of comments, with many requesting more features and with others being mini reviews of the commenter’s experience. So, why not take this a step further? Starting this week, we’re going to throw up the Plugin Review process to everyone. How will it work? As you know, every Sunday we pick one plugin to review. e.g. last Sunday, i.e. March 8, we reviewed the Feed Reading Blogroll plugin. After we publish our review, we’ll throw open the review process to all of you. You’ll need to publish a review of the plugin on your blog. Your review should contain a link to the corresponding review post on WLTC. After this, send an email to submissions AT wltc DOT net with the following information: […]
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins Add to Footer A simple plugin that allows you to automatically add text or HTML to you theme’s footer. The plugin provides you with a simple text box into which you can copy your the HTML into. As an additional feature, Add to Footer also comes inbuilt with support for Google Analytics, StatCounter, Reinvigorate and Apture. QF-GetThumb This plug-in analyzes a certain image tag in an content and has a function to make only one point a reference former image thumbnail and cache file of those. Snipt code embedding plugin The Snipt code embedding plugin provides a simple interface for embedding Snipt.net code samples within your blog posts. It allows you to quickly embed code samples by providing the plugin with the Snipt.net embed script (or URL) from the Visual or HTML content editor. When in visual editor mode, your codes location is marked with a small tag […]
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How to Track RSS Subscribers in a Blog Contest
Let me start off by saying that this post will not talk about how to get sponsors, how to determine prizes, or how to determine rules for a blog contest. This post will talk about how to tweak your WordPress blog to solve the biggest problem in running a blog contest to gain RSS subscribers. Problem The issue here is that there is no easy way to track if each contestant has actually subscribed to your RSS feed. Without the ability to confirm RSS subscription, anybody can just claim that they have subscribed to your feed and get a free entry into the contest. Solution A known solution to this problem is to include a special contest code into your RSS feed and not have this code visible on your website. That way each contestant will be forced to grab the code from your feed and submit the code via […]
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