New Plugins scbFramework A set of useful classes for faster plugin development. Twitter Tools Twitter Tools is an excellent plugin for posting notifications of new blog posts to Twitter. However Twitter Tools just sends the URL to the new post normally which is then shortened by Twitter itself to a bit.ly short link. FriendFeed API Core This Plugin loads the core FriendFeed API PHP wrapper library so that all other plugins that utilize this library can share the same up-to-date version. It also helps minimize potential conflicts between FriendFeed powered Plugins. After the Deadline An advanced spell checker plugin for WordPress. In addition to the standard spell check and suggestions features, it also includes style and grammar checking. Updated Plugins Shorten2Ping Sends status updates to Ping.fm or Twitter everytime you publish a post. Using Bit.ly or Tr.im for the permalinks (accounts on these services required). So this way you can […]
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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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