I always thought that I was the only one who had a problem with the WordPress Upload manager. Seems like, I’m not alone. The author of Post Avatar plugin for WordPress also had similar feelings, which was one of the reasons he wrote this plugin. Description This plugin simplifies including a picture when writing posts by allowing the user to choose from a predefined list of images. The image can be automatically shown on the page or output customized with the use of a template tag in themes. Features Easy selection of images in the Write Post screen. Scans images in sub-directories of the image option folder. Allows the following file types: .jpg, .jpeg, .gif and .png. Settings display avatars automatically or through the use of template tags. Customize html output of avatars. Does not display missing images. Demo For an example of what this looks like you can check […]
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Plugin Review: Yawasp
Who doesn’t hate spam? Ever since blogs became common place, one thing that we have to worry about is spammers. It is like the constant battle of good vs. evil with the good folks finding means to defend themselves and others and the bad ones finding better means to attack the innocent ones! Yawasp (Yet Another WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin) is one such plugin that uses an innovative approach to battle comment spam. Description Most anti-comment-spambot-plugins focus on user interaction, e.g. captcha or math comment spam protection. Yawasp focuses on handling comment-spam-protection within WordPress. It replaces the names of the comment form fields with random names, protecting your blog from spambots that aim at the default comment field names. Furthermore it adds a blank field, hidden from the user, that needs to be left empty. In addition, the random field names are changed every 24 hours, giving a spambot no chance […]
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