With the recent release of WordPress 2.8 Baker I thought a good “Five” series entry would be to highlight five plugins that have been updated for WordPress 2.8 compatibility. These are not in any specific categories like previous “Five” posts but just a sampling of those already showing compatibility with WordPress 2.8. A complete list of compatible plugins is available here for your review as well. Socialize This – Socialize This is a WordPress plugin that allows the user to easily generate Social Icons and spread to word about their blog posts. It works essentially out-of-the-box with little to no configuration required. WP-Twitter – WP-Twitter is a plugin that creates a integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account that allows you to post a tweet from the WordPress Admin Screens, including option to reduce the URL before sending as well as a Widget for displays yours latest tweets […]
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I am certainly finding these “Five” series of posts very educational. There has been such great discussions around each one and I am learning a lot from all of the experience of the visitors here at the site. I appreciate your willingness to speak up about what your likes and dislikes. There is nothing like a spirited conversation and sharing of information to get the brain juices flowing. So our “Five” for this post is blogroll related plugins for your website. Feed Reading Blogroll – This plugin uses Googles index of feeds to grab the latest post date and title and display it on your blogroll. There are several configuration options and it can organize the presentation of the blogroll links in order of the freshness of the latest post. You will need a free Google API key to use this plugin. Nofollow Blogroll SEO – This simple plugin puts […]
[Continue Reading...]Next up in the “Five” series for plugins is a snapshot of five advertisement related plugins for your WordPress site. Once you have done the work to build your site, create the content and get the visitors streaming in it may then be time to monetize your site and maybe create a little income stream. Now I am not talking get rich schemes here – just simple and easy ways to place ads in and around your site. They may never make you a ton of money but they might create just enough of an income stream to make you a few bucks in the process. I have a day job for paying the bills so the trickle I get from my site is mad money for tech stuff. How do you spend yours? So on to the “five”. WP125 – This is a great plugin that can be used […]
[Continue Reading...]Our next “Five” entry is for plugins that you can use to highlight images on your website. As always we look forward to your comments (51 responses on the last “five” entry – thanks!). With the advent of high speed Internet for so many in the world now images are an even bigger part of the presentation of your webpage. WordPress is no exception with 285 image related plugins at the WordPress Plugin Directory. Lets take a look at five of these plugins and see what they can do for your WordPress based website: Dynamic Headers: This plugin was just made public in late April of this year and it is extremely popular having been downloaded 3,770 times in the last three weeks. The Dynamic Headers plugin allows you to manage what media is shown in your header on each page and/or post. This plugin allows the use of any […]
[Continue Reading...]Funny how things can get connected quite quickly on the web. Check this out. I wrote a blog entry for WLTC just two days ago about Five Nifty Sidebar Widgets for your WordPress Site. Babs then commented on that post and said: Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many plugins it takes to break a WordPress site? *laughs* This comment then prompted Mark from here at WLTC to write a blog entry asking visitors to Guess how many Plugins we have active on the website and comment on how many active and inactive plugins they have on their own websites. This is a small contest that will earn the correct guesser a one year Flickr Pro membership. It is a very active thread right now (78 replies as of this posting). So as I am watching the guesses stream in over the last 24 hours or so it reminded […]
[Continue Reading...]As many of you know – plugins can add significant functionality to your website. For instance there is a plugin that will add an entire forum to your site (Simple:Press) and there is another one that will allow your visitors to contact you via a customizable form (Contact Form 7). What if you were just looking for a few plugins to fancy up your site a little bit or maybe add a small piece of functionality or info? Well they exist as well and sometimes it is the simple touches that really finish a site off. Here are a few of my favorites: - Shockingly Simple Favicon changes your sites favicon – that is the small graphic that shows up in the address bar of your web browser when your on a site. This even sticks when you switch themes after installing it. - Simple Feed Copyright inserts a copyright […]
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- Richard Hay
I have served for 26 plus years in the Navy and am a Master Chief Petty Officer. My work background in the Navy is telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well in what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena. My first website - AnotherWin95.com - came online in 1996. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and have all the GeoCities “stuff” to show for it! I have progressed from a single page, link-filled, static html page to using PHP, databases and coding to make my pages.
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Five Comment Related Plugins for WordPress
Next up on the “Five” series is a sampling of 5 comment related plugins from the WordPress Plugin Directory. There are 395 plugins as of today that are tagged with the term comment to choose from. Comments are the lifeblood of any website. That is where the true interaction happens not only between the creator of the website and visitors but also between the visitors themselves of a website. So I dug through the WordPress plugin directory and came up with what I believe are five plugins to help increase the interaction on your website: SI CAPTCHA for WordPress: This plugin gives you an anti-spam measure on your comment form to help reduce the number of SPAM comments your website receives. Now don’t get me wrong – ASKIMET does a terrific job of stopping SPAM comments (according to their website 82% of all comments are SPAM). Well this plugin requires […]
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