Today is the day of changelogs for plugins in the WordPress plugin repository. Back on June 15th, I vented about the fact that most Plugins didn’t provide an easily accessible changlog that notified me of why I should upgrade to the latest version of their plugin. Some plugins provided this information in the description tab while others placed it within the Other Notes link. Still others linked directly to a blog post explaining what had changed. The end user experience of trying to figure out why a plugin should be upgraded was a nightmare which is why I proposed that a new top level link be added along side Installation, Other Notes, etc called Changelog which provides a short and sweet history of version numbers and changes. This idea had been proposed before but no one managed to find time to address it. Thanks to some great work by Peter […]
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One of my friends recently asked me a question whether using too many plugins made any difference on how his blogged worked and performed, I thought it best to give that answer to a broader audience, so here goes.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress has had a huge role to play in how we blog and how we let our thoughts out to the world in a matter of few seconds (with Quick Press) or minutes, however WordPress has definitely changed the way I look at blogging.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress plugins are updated quite frequently and that is not a hassle anymore due to WordPress having a inbuilt mechanism to allow users to update their plugins from the plugins dashboard.
[Continue Reading...]Just a few days ago we asked users to send us WordPress tips to our twitter account @weblogtooltips, and there are several interesting things we came across. Here is the fist digest of interesting news that we came across on twitter.
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins Searchterms Tagging 2 The function of this plugins is to displays some of the last unique keywords (default is 30, adjustable from plugin admin page) that visitors used to find the blog post from search engine. Each keyword will be changed into a link to that page. The goal is to get more traffic to the blog post by adding related search terms below the blog post. Updated Plugins WP Greet Box This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. SEO Ultimate This SEO plugin can rewrite title tags, noindex archives, and edit meta data (with many more features coming soon). Version 0.3 fixes bugs and adds support for “link rel canonical” tags. Lightbox Plus Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images without having to leave the current page, and is also able to display […]
[Continue Reading...]Likewise we often look to find and highlight the best WordPress news through Weblog Tools Collection, to make it easier for everyone who want to share their tips and tricks with us, we now have a twitter account
[Continue Reading...]Just two themes for you in this post. Dellistore DelliStore template is a full px-based, cross-browser-compliant (X)HTML/CSS-template (IE 6, IE 7, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome) Based on the template released on Smashing Magazine. Blare Three column, widget and gravatar ready, orange and grey WordPress theme Are you theme author? Submit your theme to us.
[Continue Reading...]I did a post for a Antivirus plugin for WordPress, several users commenting about different plugins that improve the security of WordPress, so I decided to sum up some of the plugins that provide security and comment spam protection for WordPress blogs.
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