Plugin MyCSS Description MyCSS is a WordPress plugin that allows you to attach your personal CSS stylesheet to your blog, regardless of the theme you might be using. Features imports user-defined stylesheet, independent of blog theme used provides convenient stylesheet editor in admin panel for fast editing does not write anything to your WordPress database Review Without doubt, MyCSS is an extremely useful plugin, because if you are using a ready-made theme, then you’ll always need to add new styles to it to support the many plugins you have. I design my own themes and create an extra stylesheet that is independent of the theme called userstyles.css which I then include in the main style.css. This plugin makes it easier for you to manage these styles and keep it independent of the theme you are using (very useful if you let visitors select themes). Installation is easy, however, you have […]

Plugin Simple Spam Filter Description Simple Spam Filter uses three methods to check the incoming comments for spam and rejects those that fit this criteria Review Simple Spam Filter is just as its name describes it, simple. It blocks spam based on three criteria. Contains 5 or more links to external sites Contains [url=http://www.example.com]example[/url] style links (my blog does not support bbcode style links) Contains a word that matches a short list of common spam words I installed it yesterday because though I am running Akismet for now on my blog, I still get hundreds of comment in the spam bin. And getting legitimate comments out of it can be quite a pain. I had come across the plugin when it was released itself, but decided to actually check the need for it and so observed Akismet queue for the type of comments and found that most of the comments […]

Plugin Page Search and Replace Description This is a plugin for WordPress to allow you to search and replace text across all your posts. Review Search and Replace is a simple easy to use plugin which is one reason I use it. The only job of the plugin is to find a phrase and replace it by another phrase. Installation of the plugin is easy, just upload the single file and activate it. You’ll be able to access the plugin from the Manage tag in WP-Admin. Once there, you can select through which tables you want to search through and then enter the search and replace phrases. The plugin uses SQL search. The search phrase is case sensitive, which means you have to be careful with what you are searching and replace. I’ve been using this plugin to search and replace phrases and is one plugin I use on all […]

Plugin Page Feed Copyrighter Description This plugin adds a copyright message to your feed items. Features – Ability to customize the message by editing the php file – Can be used to display anything in the feed, not just copyright Review I’ve been using this plugin ever since my post was first scraped by a bot. I was able to find that out and this plugin has been the primary method for me to track the splogs. The plugin is easy to install and use. Upload to your plugin folder and activate it. The default installation should be sufficient for most users, however you can edit the plugin to change what you want displayed in the feed. You can check my blog feed to see how I have customized the message the plugin displays in my feed. Additionally, since you are editing the php file, you can put your own […]