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My Top Commentators WordPress Plugin
WordPress Plugins 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 ...
Continue readingBetter Tags Manager WordPress Plugin
WordPress Plugins 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 edit the tags of posts ...
Continue readingComment Info Tip WordPress Plugin rocks
WordPress Plugins 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 that given commenter. The tip will display 1 of 4 results: 1. ...
Continue readingWordPress Top Commentators Hijack Fix Released
WordPress Plugins 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 someone to forge someone else’s ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – April 29th 2008
WordPress Plugins 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 ...
Continue readingPlugin: Syntax Highlight.
WordPress Plugins If you’ve ever tried to include a snippet of code in your post you might have run into a common problem where WordPress decides to work it’s magic and format your code into something pretty unusable for demonstration purposes. You might have tried to code tag, but that doesn’t help much either. One solution is to run your post through a tool to convert the code into something WordPress won’t modify. This is what I used in ...
Continue readingBrians Threaded Comments plugin has been fixed
WordPress Plugins Brian’s threaded comments is one of the most used plugins amongst wordpress bloggers. I’m a big fan of it myself however as I have mentioned a few times in the past, it’s very buggy and clashes with a lot of designs. Thankfully, Alex Sysoef has been busting his ass fixing the plugin and has released a fix. I’ve not had a chance to test the upgrade personally as yet however from the comments left already it looks like ...
Continue reading6 Plugins No WordPress Blog Should Be Without
WordPress Plugins Most bloggers (who use WordPress) have their own unique assortment of plugins they find necessary for their blogs. Some use plugins to insert AdSense ads into their posts. Others install plugins to ease comment management. Still others use “Admin Themes” to customize their blogging experience. While we all have our preferences for plugins, there are some that have nearly universal appeal. Most blogs can benefit from these six ...
Continue readingWordPress themes and plugins for the week
WordPress Plugins PLUGINS Contact form – This is a very handy plugin that adds a small contact form to your sidebar. Perfect for those who wants some feedback from readers. Short Permalinks – This plugin creates a short permalink for every post using the service abbrr and displays the permalink whereever you want to. Hide Email – This plugin hides your email addresses frok bots. They look the same to the visitor but they are hidden from the spam ...
Continue readingImprove Your Blog Typography with Typogrify
WordPress Plugins Typogrify actually began life as a set of Django templates crafted by Christian Metts to improve web typography. It was the ported over to WordPress by Hamish Macpherson. As Jeff Croft puts it: Typogrify: almost certainly the best thing to happen to web typography since Georgia. The beauty of Typogrify is it’s simplicity. You will benefit from it just by plugging it in an turning it on, but there are a bunch of more advanced features if ...
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