PLUGINS

• Page Navigation
  Lester Chan has a plugin that will help you put a neat page navigation bar in your pages. It shows the next and previous pages in numbers and it also has the scroll next /prev keys. Very good if you have large number of pages.
• Capitalize your post titles
  Here’s a new wordpress plugin that capitalizes your post titles automatically. Good one for those who’d like to highlight their post titles for surfers.
• Related posts based on tags
  This WordPress plugin provides multiple options to show via tags the related posts of a…

Collis from FreelanceSwitch introduced me to this fantastic little plugin. I first noticed it when he let me know my new post had been made live and I saw these really cool pull quotes.

After I got a little over-excited I investigated to find the plugin he had used and installed it on my own blog.

How the plugin works, and the clever thing that makes this so special, is rather than just being a CSS trick it uses Javascript to style your text allowing you to have the quote pulled from the…

PLUGINS - Notifications and nudges !

• Increase Sociability plugin from Preblogging.
  This plugin helps you to add a notification message for all SU and Digg referrals to your site, much like the “Subscription reminder” plugin, and prompts them to thumbs up or Digg the article if they like. You can customize the message from the dashboard.
• Firefox lover.
  Helps you insert a message on the top, reminding visitors using IE to change to Firefox. It could be annoying to some users, so use it wisely.
• MyTwitter.
  This plugin enables you to display your twitter statistics on…

Sarah G from ‘Stuff by Sarah‘ has kept herself busy since the release of her first WordPress Plugin ‘What Others Are Saying‘ (check out the footer of BloggingTips to see Sarah’s first plugin in action!) and a few days ago she released her second plugin called ‘Custom Title Attributes‘.

What does the plugin do?

By default, WordPress gives the title attribute of any page link the same text as the anchor text. This plugin allows you to change the title attribute of any page you create. You might be thinking to yourself…

Whilst working on a post today my server went down for 20 minutes or so. This also happened a few days ago so I contacted my hosting company Wired Tree and asked if they could look into what was causing it.

I got this reply :

It is hard to say what would use more memory. I have seen one single wordpress site cripple an entire server when it got a huge spike in traffic. It really doesn’t scale very well.

Some users have installed this plugin and seen some good results : WP…