Plugin Page WordPress Plugin Download Statistics Description Display download stats of your plugin hosted on WordPress.org Features Add plugins to track via administration panel Cache download statistics for a amount of time set by the user Retrieve plugin statistics from WordPress.org and display in the administration panel Review This plugin is not meant for regular users, but is geared towards plugin authors who have hosted their plugins at WordPress.org. Installation of the plugin is normal and easy. Download the file, upload it to your plugins folder and activate the plugin. Within WP-Admin itself you can specify the names of the plugins you have hosted at WordPress.org as well as the complete path to them. The plugin will then get the download stats of your plugins and display them. The stats are cached and you can set the time of expiry of the cache. Small plugin that does a simple job. […]

Plugin Page Flickr Photo Album Description The WordPress Flickr Photo Album plugin will pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site. Features Display your Flickr photo sets as albums on your site Search engine friendly URLs Complete control over the look and feel, see below for customization details Show or hide your photos that have been marked ‘private’ Flickr notes (Firefox only) and Flickr comments are supported Adds a new Photos tab for you to easily add Flickr photos to any blog post The new Photos tab allows you to filter your photos by tags, or to search everyone’s photos by tags Supports WordPress Widgets: Pull in your recent photos into your sidebar. Review Ever since I signed up for a Flickr Pro account, I’ve been wanting to integrate my Flickr albums into my blog. I tried quite a few Flickr plugins. Some worked […]

Plugin Page: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/clutter-free/ Description: Clutter Free is a plugin that lets you hide portions of the WordPress posting interface that you rarely (or never) use. Features: – Hides various portions from view to save space on the screen – Can completely remove the Image Uploader and Preview windows saving bandwidth Review: Honestly, there isn’t much I can write about Clutter Free other than it works and works well. The installation is quick and easy. You can then visit your profile page and deselect which elements you want to hide. I have the inline image uploader and the Preview window hidden on my blogs because I don’t use either of them. You have no clue how much bandwidth I save while I am blogging! One good feature about Clutter Free is the ability for individual users to select what they want to see seperately. This ensures that on multi-admin blogs, the […]

Plugin: Adsense Manager Description: Adsense Manager is a WordPress plugin to help manage Adsense ads on your blog. Features: Adsense Manager instead provides all the options within the plugin to change Ad colours, size, layout, etc. which can all be updated on the fly – and checked in situ on the blog. Default settings can be applied across all Ads allowing for site-wide changes (e.g. colour scheme) with the click of a button. Implementation: Once activated all you need to do is enter your Google Adsense ID and create a single Ad block unit. Once done this is gone you can position Ads on your site using either WordPress Widgets (on enabled blogs), inline code in posts (standard edit box has an automated tool to insert ads) or by adding adsense calls to template code. Future Plans: – Extend the types of Google Adsense products supported to include referrals units, […]