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WordPress Plugins It’s always interesting to see what plugins people decide to use, and decide to use on each project. I’ve used a variety of plugins, probably not as many as some but more then a few. Time and time again I find myself using these. Maintenance Mode: This plugin adds a splash page to your blog letting visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Administrators still get full access to the site while the notice is up allowing you to ...
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WordPress Plugins PLUGINS Banner AdminWP Banner Admin allows you to manage various banner ads from different affiliate programs.With the banner plugin you can manage different banners from one affiliate program,different banners from different affiliate programs, your own banner campaigns limited by date or page impressions.Good plugin for bloggers who deals with banner ads and affiliate ads. Smart YoutubeThis plugin allows you to add YouTube videos to your posts ...
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WordPress Plugins The plugins that automatically email a commenter or display a blurb at the top for first-time visitors suggesting they subscribe to your RSS feed might be hurting you. I’m not going to single them out by their names, but you know which ones I’m talking about. I have nothing against the people who created these plugins, but I can’t stand the way they’re used. I think they’re doing more harm than good. I make it a ...
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WordPress Plugins PLUGINS Digg ProtectorAs the name suggests this plugin claims to protect your site from the Digg Effect. Well, what it does actually is provide an alternate source(remotely hosted) for images for visitors from DIgg thereby saving on the bandwidth. We haven’t tried it, but if everything works well, it’s going to be a blessing for those guys who are planning to submit their stories to Digg. Well, that ...
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WordPress Plugins Vladimir Prelovac posted a link to his new plugin this week in the Blogging Tips Forums. I have been pretty busy this week but got a chance to try out his new plugin Theme Test Drive today. So what does the plugin do? Here is how Vladimir explains it : Ever wanted to live test another theme you are designing or you just wanted to see how a different theme looks with your site content? Theme Test Drive allows you to safely test drive any theme on ...
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WordPress Plugins PLUGINS Page NavigationLester 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 titlesHere’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 ...
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WordPress Plugins 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 ...
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WordPress Plugins 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 ...
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WordPress Plugins 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 ...
Continue readingReduce the server load your wordpress blog creates
WordPress Plugins 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 ...
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