Free links to your site: I admit that the title of this post is a little sensational but that is how Matt Cutts puts it. In the post linked above, he talks about the newly introduced feature of Google Webmaster Portal that allows users to find the pages that link to 404 pages on your site. In his words (emphasis his) “Some of the easiest links you’ll ever get are when people tried to link to you and just messed up.” What was most useful for me in that post was a link to another post on the Google Webmaster Portal that helps you create better 404 pages using an experimental widget. Now I am sure there are ways to incorporate a Custom Search within the 404 without using the widget but I stuck with it because the output looked useful. Quick Online Tips had a post on the Google […]
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New Releases Simple Link Simple Link is a plugin that enables you to add links to a posted post on certain text you selected with just a click. Remote Database Backup Remotely create and download wordpress database backup in form of SQL dumps. You can then use these dumps to sync the local version of your site with the online version. RefTagger This plugin provides an easy way to use the RefTagger Bible reference tagging script from Logos Bible Software. Stumble! Stumble! for WordPress extends WordPress to support a “random article” feature, similar to StumbleUpon’s StumbleThru and Wikipedia’s (Mediawiki’s) ran. WordPress Single File PHP Gallery WordPress Single File PHP Gallery is a gallery in one single PHP file. All you have to do is copy the file to any directory containing JPG, JPEG, PNG or GIF images to make a gallery. Most Comments Display posts with the most comments, as […]
[Continue Reading...]WPMU.org – WordPress MU plugins Competition Winners Announced. The team over at WMPU.org just announced the winners of their own Plugin Competition for WordPress MU. Go over there to congratulate the winners and check out the rest of the plugin entries. FYI: most of these are ONLY WordPress MU compatible.
[Continue Reading...]Nathan Rice who is a prominent theme author within the WordPress community has published an article that explains an easy way to retrieve the contents of a custom field. Instead of doing things the conventional way, Nathan explains how to simply use a function in order to call the contents of the custom field into a theme. This article should be especially useful to theme authors out there who are looking at providing custom field functionality into their work.
[Continue Reading...]Orange Orange consists of a fluid three column outfit, with widgetized sidebars and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled and Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel. Emphasis Emphasis is the newest WordPress theme release from Jasonetics. It is a very simple theme, with subtle colors. The posts are bordered with a very light grey, and the links are green and hover orange. This theme is called emphasis because almost all of the focus is on the content and posts. Helium Three column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme with ability to post images to index page automatically
[Continue Reading...]In this highly optimized episode of WordPress Weekly, I interviewed Michael Torbert who is more commonly known as hallsofmontezuma throughout the WordPress community. He is now the developer of the most popular plugin in the plugin repository, theAll In One SEO pack. We discuss what it’s like to maintain an insanely popular plugin, how difficult it has been to work with the WordPress code, thoughts on SEO in general, and the question of the night went to David Peralty for asking if SEO could be damaged by mis configuring the plugin. You’ll have to listen to the show to get the answer. On top of that, I give my plugin pick of the week, the WordPress job of the week and much more on episode 24 of WordPress weekly. Ad Copy: WordPress Weekly is brought to you by the fine advertisers on WeblogToolsCollection.com. Without their continued support, this show would […]
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins LibDig Adds a Lib Dig box to WordPress posts and pages scrnshotsRSS This plugin for WordPress allows you to show Scrnshots.com captures on your sites eFiles Backup This plugin for WordPress allows you to download backups of your Uploads, Themes and Plugin directories. It also allows you to download the entire wp-content directory. Not suitable for WPMU without alteration, or for large sites. WP-UDIF-Entrecard This plugin enables a simple method of displaying an Entrecard Widget on your Blog and will also display a “U Drop I follow” Image below it for members of the U Drop I Follow Moment Updated Plugins AVH Amazon The avh-amazon WordPress plugin gives you the ability to add a widget which will display a random item from your Amazon wish list, baby registry and/or wedding registry. Related Posts by Category Display related posts based on their category. (Page in German) DasboardZone Displays statistics […]
[Continue Reading...]Blue Grace Blue Grace is a simple three column WordPress theme with a rotating header image Fancy Two column WordPress theme which really lets your blog stand out from the crowd. Make your blog unique by changing the main blog color (pink, yellow, green), background pattern (available over 20 background variations), banner etc through an options page. In addition you have the ability to choose the color of sidebar blocks (violet, yellow, green). Acosmin v4 Two column, white and grey, gravatar theme with ad ready stops with psd files included Hello Red Hello Red is a 2 column red, white, and black, widget ready WordPress theme. Retrospective Three column, widget ready, fast loading, search engine optimized theme On the subject of themes, Matt has a tutorial Separating Pings from Comments in WordPress 2.7.
[Continue Reading...]ZdMultilang ZdMultilang is a Multilingual plugin for WordPress allowing you to blog in more than one language. You can define multiple languages and translate posts/tags/categories using the interface that will be added to your blog’s administration panel. Gravatar Recent Comment Gravatar recent comments is a plugin allowing you to display recent comments using Gravatar instead of just the name of the user. Ovulation Predictor This plugin displays functional ovulation and due date predictor. It can be used from women to check their future fertile time and due date. Better Howdy Remove ‘Howdy’ and restructure the ‘Howdy’ line. WP Super Cache WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly. Post Revision Display Display the list of revisions for a post, without […]
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