‘WordPress Plugins’ Category

Defensio Comment Spam Prevention

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November 7th, 2007
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Defensio Comment Spam Prevention: TechCrunch had a writeup on Defensio this morning and it is mostly an unbiased review of the features, benefits and weaknesses of Defensio as it stacks up beside Akismet. I had to check it out for myself. Here are some thoughts. Defensio is a spam prevention tool much like Akismet that seems to be aimed directly at the Akismet audience. Even the back end of the WordPress plugin seems to be Akismet-esque with the requirements of an API password for use. You sign up for the service, wait for an email, download the plugin, install, activate, add API key and then sit back. The major benefits touted over Akismet was a more streamlined ability to moderate comments by spamminess rather than date, and an open API that much like Akismet, can be used to check spamminess of any commenting system. The service also (apparently) adapts itself […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/6

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November 6th, 2007
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Absolute Comments Manager gives you the ability to reply to comments from within the same page as where you manage them. Persistent Styles allows you to have styles that are supra-theme so you won’t lose them on upgrade/replacement of your theme. PhotoQ makes it easy to manage a photoblog. Plugin Maker takes the minimum set of information to create a plugin and writes to your plugin directory an empty plugin template php file ready to be edited and activated online through the WordPress admin plugin editor. Post Information aims to consolidate your post information into a collapsible panel (using script.aculo.us) that can save space on your page. WP-Super-Cache is a fast cache module for your WordPress installation.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/4

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November 4th, 2007
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Cabaret is a creator of random poetry. ForumView enables you to display comments on your blog grouped by most recent discussion, like in forums. ‘Get Firefox’ Banner adds a Firefox banner with a customizable message to the top of your page if it is being viewed in IE6 or IE7. The Spacializer Widget uses Flash to let your readers visually mix music on your blog.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/2

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November 2nd, 2007
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bbPress Post automatically posts new blog entries as new threads in your bbPress forum. Custom Query String Reloaded replaces Andy Beard’s Custom Query String UTW Edition which worked with pre-2.3 WordPress version and the UTW plugin. WP Custom Title Colour gives you the ability to customise the title colour for any post via a panel in the sidebar of the write page. WP-Debug uses the Krumo framework for debugging allows WordPress developers to see everything that’s going on behind the scenes. WP DigiClock embed a flash digital clock into your wordpress blog, either in a post or page, or within your blog’s template (in the sidebar / header / footer etc.). Dynamic Tags Widget takes all the categories from your blog and automatically generates a dynamic 3-D tagfield. Explore is a Windows Explorer-like plugin that is useful for navigating through sites that have a complex page hierarchy. Get Recent Post […]

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WeblogToolsCollection Plugin Housekeeping

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I have added a few plugins and tweaked a bit of the code on WeblogToolsCollection to keep things fresh and new. Here is the list. WhoSeesAds: I have been meaning to wean out the Google AdSense ads for my regular visitors and Ozh’s plugin was the ticket. If you have not used it yet, you are missing out. It is one of the finest pieces of useful and well thought out code for WordPress bloggers. I have the ads set so they only show for posts older than 30 days or if you are not a regular visitor. I like the lack of distractive AdSense blocks. There is also a distinct benefit that I had not anticipated. The best paying AdSense block on this blog has also been the most obnoxious that regular readers have complained about. I can now display those ads to people that happen to stop by […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/29

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October 29th, 2007
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MyTwitter allows users to display their recent Twitters on their WordPress site. WP Tag Manager aims to provide tag management that seamlessly integrates into your WordPress admin. XmasB lets you add and show random quotes to your WordPress blog with ease.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/25

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October 25th, 2007
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Category Posts Widget displays the most recent posts from a specific category. Easy Gravatars makes it simple to add Gravatars to your blog. Hiddy is a captcha-like plugin to help fight spam comments. Highlight Author Comments automatically displays comments made by a post’s author in a distinctive style with no need to edit your template files. Random Categories with Random Posts picks random entries from random categories to display on your blog. (For WordPress 2.2.3 and lower.) Sensitive Tag Cloud provides a tagcloud that shows tags depending of the current context only.

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AdaptiveBlue SmartLinks for WordPress

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October 24th, 2007
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AdaptiveBlue SmartLinks for WordPress: AdaptiveBlue recently released their SmartLinks product for bloggers and also released a WordPress plugin that makes all of this easier to implement and manage. From the authors’ blog SmartLinks are automatically inserted, helping readers to discover, explore, and connect to relevant information from around the web. The links are to pages about books, music, movies, stocks, recipes, restaurants, gadgets, people, movie stars and various entertainment and media. Apparently SmartLinks is already in use on sites such as Amazon.com and Yahoo Finance. SmartLinks could be a cool way to display all the media that is related to a few words in your post but I believe this service would have a wider audience if one could include their Amazon Affiliate ID on the links that are generated. [EDIT] Seems it can be done with a hack. WordPress users have to insert the following script into their template […]

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WP Plugin: Custom Hooks for Developers

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October 24th, 2007
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Custom Hooks for developers is mostly aimed at other plugin developers and it provides the manage_pages_columns and manage_pages_custom_column hooks, which are not present in WordPress, but have been requested often. The plugin replicates the custom column feature of the manage posts page. The new filters can can be used in the same way as the manage_posts_custom_column action and manage_posts_columns filter provided by WordPress. The author has also written a tutorial on how to add custom columns to the manage posts screen which also applies to these hooks.

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