‘WordPress Plugins’ Category

An Introduction and a Plugin Review: Admin Links Widget

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April 7th, 2009
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Hello everyone.  My name is Rich Hay and I want to start off by thanking Mark for inviting me to write for Weblog Tools Collection.  I have been a long time reader of this site so it is both exciting and humbling to be given the opportunity to write about WordPress on here. I look forward to our interactions in the future. I have been banging around the Internet since the early 90’s and put my first website online at GeoCities.com.  The technology has come along way since those days and I have now been maintaining and developing WindowsObserver.com in one form or another since 1995. So as I was looking around for a subject to write about for my first blog post here I decided I would select what I consider to be a very simple but useful plugin – at least for my aesthetics. By default when you […]

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All In One SEO Pack for Windows Live Writer

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April 6th, 2009
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Windows Live Writer and All in One SEO Pack are two really good pieces of softwares available for WordPress users. Windows Live Writer allows users to write and publish blog posts from their desktop, on the other hand All in One SEO pack gives users the ability to optimize the post title for Search engines, and allows users to specify custom keywords and descriptions for the post. However the two of them do not go hand in hand in the sense that when you post from Windows Live Writer you will still have to go to the WordPress admin dashboard and add the parameters for All in One SEO pack, adding a minor inconvenience to users. I wrote a plugin called All in One SEO Pack Windows Live Writer Bridge, which aims to bridge this gap, by allowing users to specify All in One SEO Pack details while publishing posts […]

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Plugin Review: Post Templates

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What is Post Templates? If you find yourself writing posts and pages on a regular basis which have the same structure, then this plugin would be a great addition to your WordPress plugin arsenal. Written by Vincent Prat, Post Templates plugin helps you save time blogging by letting you save and recall templates for writing posts and pages. Screenshots To create a template from scratch, you can use the new admin bar group “Templates.” After clicking “New Post Template”, you will be brought to the edit template page. After you’re finished creating your template, you can create a post from that template through the template edit page itself or the template management page. To create a template from an old post, you can use the “Templatize” button on the post listing page. What I Like About It What I love most about this plugin is simply what it does. I […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/04

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April 4th, 2009
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New Plugins Disable Search Disable the search capabilities of WordPress. Linkify Tags Turn a list of tag IDs and/or slugs into a list of links to those tags. WP Minify Integrate Minify into WordPress for you and help you improve your site load time. Delete Posts Revisions Delete Revision is a simple WordPress plugin that remove all revision post within few click. This WordPress plugin also automatically search for post revision on your WordPress database by pressing the Check Redundant Revision button. No Duplicate Content in Comments Check comments for duplicate content using Google AJAX Search API as they are published. Emails you whenever it finds a match so you can check it and decide if you will delete it. MapPress MapPress makes it **easy** to add Google Maps and driving directions to your blog.  Just type an address and click the ‘insert’ button.  The plugin will insert a great-looking […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/02

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April 2nd, 2009
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New Plugins Home Page Text Reverser Reverse all of the text in the posts on your home page on April 1st. It does not affect titles, meta information, or HTML tags. CR-Post2Pingfm Automatically send a short update to ping.fm for each time you hit the Publish button. To use it, you will need a ping.fm Application Key. This little plugin utilizes PHPingFM API by Dmitri Gaskin. Twitter User Twitter User is a simple plugin which adds an additional field to the authors profile in which they can add their twitter username. Easy AdSenser Easy AdSenser manages all aspects of Google AdSense for a blog: insert ads into posts and sidebar, and add a Google Search box. Easy and complete! It is available in Spanish, Portuguese and French. WordPress Theme Demo Plugin These two plugins are designed to help web designers easily demo there WordPress themes. For example, you want to […]

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WordPress News for 3/31/09

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Learn how to create a sleek and stylish WordPress theme in Photoshop with this tutorial from PSDVibe. A little tweak with a little creativity could land you a personalized theme. Once you put together your new theme, don’t forget to offer it to others to download and enjoy! Learn some new tricks and discover new tools and plugins to speed up your WordPress blog. I have run into some scalability issues with this blog recently and have learned quite a bit. Jean-Baptiste tells us about 10 awesome .htaccess hacks for your WordPress blog including the ability to redirect visitors to a maintenance page while you can continue to see and work on your blog.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/30

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March 30th, 2009
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New Plugins Simple Referal Stat This plugin is a simple blog stat. You can see where does your traffic come from and how many page view. Twitter LiveBlog Twitter LiveBlog integrates with Twitter and lets you liveblog on your WordPress blog. Image Optimizer Reduce uploaded images’s size with Optipng and Jhead. There is no option for this plugin. Silverlight for WordPress Silverlight for WordPress allows a WordPress user to specify a Silverlight application (XAP) to embed within their WordPress content Link Hopper Easily set up links like /hop/google/ to redirect users to www.google.com. This can be useful in masking your affiliate links. If your affiliate link needs to change, you can just change the HOP values in a single place, without having to search your site for outdated links. Updated Plugins GD Star Rating GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image […]

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Plugin Review: cSprites for WordPress

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What is cSprites for WordPress? cSprites for WordPress plugin helps speed up your blog by reducing the number of requests made for images. When activated all images within a post will automatically be stitched up and displayed properly as compressed CSS sprites. Screenshots Before activating, all images within a post are being retrieved using separate requests. After activating, all images are stitched together into one compressed image and retrieved using only one request. The plugin then uses CSS magic to display these image sprites properly within the post. Features Quality and style settings let you specify the compression level for the stitched up image sprite. Ability to include/exclude certain types. Cache expiration tuning. SEO Options for SEO nerds. What I Like About It cSprites for WordPress was written to do one thing (convert all post images into compressed image sprites to speed up your blog) and it does it very […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/26

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March 26th, 2009
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New Plugins 3DArmory 3DArmory for WordPress is a simple but effective plugin for players of the popular Massive Multiplayer Online game World of Warcraft. In few words, it renders players in-game World of Warcraft character as 3D Model on their blog. The model is zoomable and rotatable. Template Tag Shortcodes Template Tag Shortcodes is a plugin that turns WordPress template tags into easy-to-use [shortcodes] that can be inserted into your posts and pages. This release is packaged with 40 shortcodes to use. 12seconds Widget Adds a sidebar widget to display http://12seconds.tv video status updates. For those of you who are familiar with Twitter; 12seconds is like Twitter, but with video instead of text updates. Amazon QuickTags Plugin Adds a few buttons to the “Edit Post” page — both the TinyMCE / WYSIWYG version and the HTML version — to easily add links to Amazon items with your affiliate ID. WP […]

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