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Taking WordPress Widgets To The Next Level
WordPress Plugins On November 6th 2008, I published a review on Performancing.com about a cool WordPress plugin called Slayer’s Custom Widgets. This plugin was cool because it was one of the first I’ve seen that enabled users to assign Widgets to certain locations on a WordPress powered blog. Fast forward to today and there is another plugin with the same idea but improves upon usability, accessibility, and overall UI. It’s called Widget Context ...
Continue readingModerate WordPress Comments From Your Desktop
WordPress Plugins I came across a cool little script the other day that lets you moderate your WordPress blogs comments via your desktop. Using Adobe AIR, the script lets you : Viewing unmoderated comments. Dock and system tray notifications of the number of unmoderated comments. Accept, delete, and spam comments from within the desktop client. Close application window, or minimize it to the system tray while running. Shows the Gravatar icons for the user who ...
Continue readingAdmin Drop Down Menu Plugin For WordPress 2.7
WordPress Plugins The stable release of WordPress 2.7 has been out for 10 days now and the beta versions have been available for much longer. One of the major costmetic changes in 2.7 was the main admin links being moved from the top of the page to the left hand side. I’ve got used to this new layout however I’m sure many WordPress bloggers still miss the old style. There is no need to fret as PlanetOZH have released an Admin Drop Down Menu plugin ...
Continue readingBinny Releases 6 WordPress Plugins In A Week
WordPress Plugins Binny V A, a web developer based in India, has managed to release 6 WordPress Plugins in a week. I think this is a great achievement so I thought I’d give you all a quick summary of each plugin. You may find some of them useful Summaries provided by Binny : Eventr WordPress Plugin – Eventr plugin lets you use your blog as an event management tool. You can create an event – the plugin will let people sign up for the event ...
Continue readingAdd content to the end of your posts and pages easily with End Content
WordPress Plugins Lee Doel (known as Slee in the forums) contacted me today about a new WordPress plugin he developed called end content. The plugin lets you add content to the end of a post, page or both. My first thought when I heard about this plugin was ‘Can’t we do this already by just adding the code to the single.php and page.php files?. Of course, you can already place content at the end of your posts and pages by hard coding it but this ...
Continue readingEnhance your blog with WP Review
WordPress Plugins I spoke to Dan Grossman recently and he was kind enough to send me a copy of his his new WordPress plugin WPReview. WPReview is a commercial product which lets you add ratings to your posts and pages, effectively making your blog a review site. It currently retails for $97 ($199 for a multi site license). Short Story : What does WP Review do? WPReview is a plugin which adds a star ratings system to your posts. Ratings are very popular in review ...
Continue readingAdd Breadcrumbs to your WordPress Blog
WordPress Plugins The ever resourceful Joost de Valk has released a great little plugin for WordPress which automatically adds breadcrumbs to your blog. Breadcrumbs are those handy navigational links which you find at the top of many sites and forums. They make your blog more user friendly and help search engines map your blog more easily. Heres an example of the breadcrumb the plugin added to the BT Simplicity Theme page : Since the if statement for the plugin ...
Continue readingSociable WordPress Plugin Updated
WordPress Plugins 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 choose what areas of your blog will ...
Continue readingMax Banner Ads WordPress Plugin Released
WordPress Plugins 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 bottom of first post. You can also add new zones. The add zone ...
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Five wordpress plugins to attract more traffic
WordPress Plugins Of late, tons and tons of people have resorted to blogging to hit a fortune. It might be one of the most lucrative means to earn by expressing what’s in your mind, but you just can not possibly win an audience by mere writing posts. You need to accessorize your blog with plugins and widgets for attracting every single person who is interested in the written genre. Here goes a compilation of 5 most helpful plugins to gain traffic to your ...
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