I did a post for a Antivirus plugin for WordPress, several users commenting about different plugins that improve the security of WordPress, so I decided to sum up some of the plugins that provide security and comment spam protection for WordPress blogs.
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Previous Post Five WordPress Plugins Already Updated for Version 2.8
After upgrading my website to WordPress 2.8 Baker I knew there would be a flurry of activity as plugin developers updated their stuff for the latest version of WordPress. However, when I logged in to my admin panel and saw that 6 plugins had upgrades after a very short time frame since I had last checked I suspected one author might have updated their stuff. My suspicion was right. The prolific WordPress plugin programmer Lester Chan had updated all of his WordPress plugins to be compatible with WordPress 2.8. If your unfamiliar with Lester’s work than you are missing out on some of the best plugins for WordPress and I highly recommend you check them out. So how popular is Lester’s work? Check out his Top 10 Downloaded Plugins (borrowed from his website as of this posting): WP-Polls – 241,750 downloads WP-PageNavi – 232,786 downloads WP-PostRatings – 155,396 downloads WP-PostViews […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post Antivirus Plugin For WordPress
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 […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/13
Antivirus for WordPress is a useful plugin that will scan your templates and also can monitor it on a daily basis for malicious injections in the themes.
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post Should you use a Mobile WordPress Plugin?
New Plugins Logout Password Protected Posts This plugin provides a template tag which creates a link for visitors to log out of password protected posts. Series Series allows you to string together posts by using the built-in taxonomy system in WordPress. I’ve packaged several extra goodies with this plugin such as widgets, shortcodes, and template tags to allow you to easily control how display data on your blog. This plugin will only work with WordPress 2.8+. WordPress download counter Now you too can show the WordPress download counter on your website! This plugin adds a widget to your blog that shows the current download count and even refreshes the count every 15 seconds automatically. Updated Plugins Better Search Improve your visitors search experience with Better Search. Better Search will provide contextually search your WordPress blogs and then list the results based on relevance. By using a template file you can […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post iThemes is now GPL
Twitterized answer? Abso-freakin-lutely! Take a look at the following graph. It shows the pageviews and unique visitors on this blog from mobile browsers since we started tracking last year. Notice the numbers and the trends? How many of your visitors, do you think, come back to your blog after your page takes five minutes to load on their iPhone, and needs the twenty flick, carpal thumb scroll to read browse through the huge header? If you care about your reader and want to keep up with this growing populations’ reading habits, a mobile plugin on your blog is a necessity. Now what you use is up to you. We use MoFuse on this blog and I must add it is somewhat successful. The mobile pages are decent, the pages load relatively fast and the statistics are nice. But the admin pages are painfully slow and MoFuse injects their own ads […]
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New Plugins iTunes Affiliate Link Maker The plugin adds an iTunes button to the visual editor which when clicked brings forward a dialog containing a search for the iTunes store link maker. ImHuman ImHuman provides more humane, fun, easy, secure and mostly user friendly captcha (are you really a human?) detection for posting comments. Photo Lightbox Photo Lightbox is a lightbox styled image gallery written in JavaScript. It does not use JavaScript libraries, and therefore it is compact in size and loads fast. System Information Show stats about your server harddrive and software on your blog. Subscription Options It adds 3 subscription options for readers with related feed icons: a RSS feed URL; a FeedBurner Email URL and a Twitter feed URL. It’s totally user-defined, looks cool and it’s very simple. Updated Plugins Post to FriendFeed Post to FriendFeed is a WordPress Plugin which will allow you to post excerpts […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post Five Blogroll Plugins for your WordPress Site
The biggest headache users face before upgrading to a newer version of WordPress, is whether or not all their plugins will work with the newer versions or not.
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress 2.8 May Be Released On June 10th
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 […]
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