Ever been on Amazon.com and seen the “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought”. So, why not apply the same concept to your WordPress blog? Back in 2007, Mark released a plugin that would help you display the same on your WordPress blog. We’ve been running it on this blog for the past year and a half. With WordPress 2.7, it was time to upgrade this plugin as well. The plugin has been rebuilt with the basic features but enhanced with an admin interface that allows you to set various options, including the ability to optionally include the list of posts in your content or the feed. You can also choose to manually add <?php if(function_exists(‘ald_wherego’)) echo_ald_wherego(); ?> where you want to display the posts. How it works? As and when readers click on links, this plugin checks to see if it was referred from your blog, checks to see […]
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Archive for 2009
Scott Wallick, the author of the popular and well known Sandbox theme has announced on his personal blog that he is selling the Sandbox domain along with Plaintxt.org. The sale does not include the actual themes since they have been developed and released under the GPL license. Scott does provide a reason for why he is selling the domains: I have withdrawn from the WordPress community. Active development of my themes and plugins has stopped simply because I am unable to continue the necessary development. In a way, they have a life of their own. If you would like the opportunity to chat with Scott Wallick about his involvement with the WordPress community, be sure to tune in to this weeks episode of WordPress Weekly as he will be my special guest.
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins Simply Show IDs Simply shows the ID of Posts, Pages, Media and Links in the admin tables for easy access. Google Website Optimizer for WordPress This simple plugin lets you optimize your landing pages (as posts or pages) using the Google Website Optimizer without needing to edit the HTML code of the theme. Page not in English. Mass Format Conversion Applies all content filters to posts and comments and saves them back to the database. This is useful if you have been using Textile or Markdown (for example) and you want to switch to plain HTML. WP Background Tile The WP Background Tile Plugin for WordPress applies a tiled background image to your blog. It is as simple as this: TNG WordPress Integration Integrates TNG (The Next Generation) genealogy software into WordPress. Contextual revenue plugin by Advtise Insert Advtise.com Partner revenue code in to your posts on the […]
[Continue Reading...]New way to get on Techmeme: send tips to Techmeme via Twitter: Techmeme is now accepting tips via Twitter. They are using Twitter’s search API to look for incoming tips. Techmeme is my first read every morning and now that the site is partially human edited, there is the desire and the ability for readers to suggest news. Of particular interest is the Techmeme suggest button to add to your site or blog. Anyone know of a WordPress plugin that does this automagically yet? Read more of the discussion at Techmeme and story thanks to Blog Herald.
[Continue Reading...]Entropy Two column, Grunge based red and grey theme with a different front page and posts pages. Quantum Two column, fixed width, widget ready, gravatar ready theme with threaded comments support and with 125×125 ads inbuilt. Brown Two column, widget ready, SEO titled theme clearcut The clearcut WP theme includes a typography based grid layout, four recent posts (with pagination enabled ) and an options panel for footer area, page menu as well as cat menu shows subpages (two rows), the image script checks your posts auto for images attached and displays them auto. Fresh Fruits 3 Columns, Health niche related, Adsense ready, Widget ready theme And finally, Smashing Magazine has released two new themes. Read about Vintage and Blue Themes for WordPress. Are you a theme author looking to have your theme in our release posts? Check out how you can submit them to us.
[Continue Reading...]Episode 40 of WordPress Weekly discussed a wide range of topics from the release of WordPress MU 2.7 to the All In One SEO Plugin reaching one million downloads. Also sad to say that this was Keith Murray’s last episode as co-host. I wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors. Special Announcement: Kym Huynh co-host of the WordPress centric podcast, WordCast was in a terrible car accident. Kym was in the middle of a three week vacation celebrating his recent graduation from law school when he ended up in a bad car accident. Unfortunately, Kym suffered quite a few broken bones and now has a metal arm. Dave Moyer of DaveMoyer.org, producer of show published an email he received from Kym earlier today that can be read on the DaveMoyer.org website. I personally wish Kym a fast and speedy recovery. Please visit DaveMoyer.org to find out how […]
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins Feed Reading Blogroll The plugin displays for all your bookmarks with a separately saved feed-url, when the most recent update has occured at the bookmarked site. Store Locator This is a store locator / location finder plugin that provides mapping tools for web designers & developers who create sites in WordPress & web site owners who need to show store locations or any set of locations on their website(s). Uses Google Maps. My Comments Elsewhere This plugin collects the comments you posted on other people’s websites and lets you display them on your own blog. The process is entirely automated and works across all websites. Instapaper ‘Read Later’ Links This plugin allows you to embed Instapaper ‘Read Later’ links adjacent to each post on your blog. Either use the template tag to display the links wherever you wish or let the plugin automatically display the links for you. […]
[Continue Reading...]I trust Google. I use GMail as my primary email address and store stuff in my mailbox that is of crucial importance to my existence as a citizen of this modern world. Over the past couple of months, Google’s Orkut has dealt a deadly blow to that trust that is making me rethink my allegiance towards anything Google. I am the owner of a midly popular community on Orkut with about 25k users. Since I was given the privilege of being a beta tester on Orkut, I had created a community called Calcutta many years ago and that community has since, taken on a life of its own. It is run by moderators who report to me and I log in every so often to perform maintenance and help the moderators out. My existence is not only a mystery to the members of the community, it is also the source […]
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Plugin Review: Autoclose
The man, the myth, the legend, Ajay D’Souza not only brings you news of the latest WordPress plugins and themes to hit the community but he also has a few plugins under his belt. Today, I’ll be reviewing one of those plugins called Autoclose Autoclose enables a granular approach to managing pingbacks/comments/trackbacks on both posts and pages. Some of the highlights that the plugin features: Close Comments on posts/pages older than (number of days). Close Pingbacks/Trackbacks on posts? Close Pingbacks/Trackbacks on pages? Close Pingbacks/Trackbacks on posts/pages older than (number of days). The ability to configure when the plugin runs its configuration to detect if a comment/trackback/pingback need to be closed off. Last but not least, Autoclose also provides a checkbox to delete post revisions. So why would you want to use a plugin like this? For starters, based on my experience with blogging, the conversation on any particular blog post […]
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