Blogging Tips

Sociable WordPress Plugin Updated

Dutch WordPress Superstar Joost de Valk has released an updated version of his popular WordPress plugin Sociable.

Sociable is a useful plugin which adds social media buttons to your WordPress blog automatically. It works incredibly well and has many features. You can changes the tagline above the buttons, you can choose whether links are opened on a new page, you can use your own stylesheet if you wish and you …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on July 29th, 2008 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Max Banner Ads WordPress Plugin Released

Today sees the release of a WordPress Plugin which I’m sure will be popular. Pawan Agrawal from Max Blog Press contacted me a few weeks ago to give me a preview of this new plugin which aims to make adding advertisements to your blog quicker and easier.

By default, the plugin lets you add banners to 4 zones : Within the post, the sidebar (via a widget), top of first post and …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 24th, 2008 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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My Top Commentators WordPress Plugin

Daily Blog Tips released a new wordpress plugin today entitled ‘My Top Commentators‘. Unlike other top commentators plugins, this plugin does not add a top commentators list to your sidebar. Instead it generates statistics about your commenters in your WordPress dashboard.

I removed the top commentators list from BloggingTips last year because it was being spammed and the ones making the top ten list were mostly the ones who were leaving …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 11th, 2008 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Better Tags Manager WordPress Plugin

Keith Dsouza from Techie Buzz emailed me today to let me know about a new wordpress plugin he has released called Better Tag Manager. Keith decided to completely remove categories from his blog and and instead uses tags. Visitors can then search for posts using his Tag Cloud.

Better Tags Manager WordPress Plugin

Basically, this plugin lets you edit the tags of your posts more easily. More specifically, it allows you to …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on May 27th, 2008 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Comment Info Tip WordPress Plugin rocks

Search This have released a wordpress plugin called ‘Comment Info‘. The plugin provides statistics for your commentators. All you need to do is hover over the commentators name and the info box will appear.

Here’s how Search This’s explaination of how it works :

When you mouseover a commenter’s name you will see a tip appear displaying some information about …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on May 12th, 2008 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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WordPress Top Commentators Hijack Fix Released

New BloggingTips author Sarah recently noticed a major flaw in the popular Show Commentators Plugin for WordPress.

As Sarah explained last month :

To briefly explain, the plugin creates the top commentators list by counting the number of comments made per name which is easily forged, by accident or on purpose. It then links the name using the last URL given on that name’s comment. So all you need is …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on April 30th, 2008 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Links Roundup – April 29th 2008

Blogs vs Social Networks – An interesting comparison.

22 Essential Habits Towards Blogging Success – A great post from Tibi Puiu.

22 Blogs Every Writer Should Read – BloggingTips isn’t on this list but we won’t hold that againt them A good list of blogs.

Engaging Readers – A great post from Chris Garrett.

and last but not least….

30+ Things That Should Be Changed for WordPress 2.6 – A fantastic …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on April 29th, 2008 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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