11 things to do before you hit the Publish button: Shankar Ganesh lists 11 things that you should do as a blogger before you hit the publish button. I have a few more that I would like to add. Sleep on (some of) your posts. I have often done this to keep myself from making bad choices in publishing some items. This is more for after I post something. I strongly believe that edits are a necessity and should not be avoided. If I make changes to a post after it has been published, I mark my posts to display the changes clearly. It makes the message clearer and adds continuity to the “story”. Preview posts before publishing them. This is more true for blogs with active feeds and especially important for blogs that use Feedburner. Formatting and WYSIWYG are nice but it is also quite easy to go overboard. […]

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Content Related RSS Feeds takes the most relevant keywords from the post content and goes and finds feeds containing those keywords, and does that automatically, without the need of manually searching for appropriate feeds. del.icio.us Counter determines, how often the startpage of the blog is currently stored as bookmark at del.icio.us. FeedBurner Category Feeds allows users to redirect each category feed to his own FeedBurner feed. Unlike other plugins that redirect all the feeds to the main feed, this plugin allows you to have a feedburner feed for each category or subcategory. Mr. Wong Counter returns the number of pages stored for this blog on mister wong. Social Bookmark Buttons that will add bookmark buttons for Del.icio.us, Digg.com, Netscape.com, Reddit.com, Stumbleupon.com, Google.com, Socialogs.com, and Socialposter.com. Sticky Menu lets you define an unlimited number of menus, in which you list the exact number of menu items you want to appear. Menu […]

More stats from whos.amung.us: I really liked the service when it was first started and the recent improvements just add a little more icing to the cake. Now you can view the number of simultaneous users on your site or blog in graph format for the day, month or year. There is also a neat little search feature to modify your past stats for a certain date range. You can now tweak the widget for your blog by choosing the color of the background and the text in the widget to suit the layout of your site and there are options for the size of the widget. I chose the TechCrunch stats because they are much more interesting to monitor but as you can tell, I installed the widget on this blog on the first day I found it and unlike other tools, it is still displayed on this blog. […]

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More from Google lets you easily add search results from Google within your WordPress search results page. Permalink Redirect has issued an updated version that adds a feed redirection function and patches a bug. Piflasa makes it possible to insert a google picasa web album in your post as a flash slide show. rthanks is a plugin that thanks visitors from search engines and social bookmark sites for arriving and asks them to subscribe to your RSS feed. Skinner adds skin selection and editing to WordPress for Skinner compatible themes. The Skinner plugin is based on the Theme Selector and Theme Editor that are built into WordPress, giving them the the same level of functionality, look and feel. StatPress is another stats plugin for WordPress. Textile Live Preview AJAX Version adds a realtime preview to your comment field. It allows commentators to preview what their comment will look like, with […]

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