August 29, 2008 • 10:24 am
Script Enabler is a critical plugin for people wanting to insert javascript into posts.
Maybe you want to add a custom JavaScript for Google AdSense or another type of ad or maybe a movie. This script is for you.
No screen shot because it’s very straight forward, it will let you insert JavaScript in posts.
Direct Download: click here
Update from Lloyd Budd: This plugin is no longer neccessary as the most recent version of the WP Post Editor does not filter out JavaScript. It did over a year ago which is the reason I still used it, I hadn’t tested it without the plugin. So alas, you do not need this plugin if you are running the most recent version of WordPress. (Lloyd Budd via Twitter)
Filed under: WordPress Plugin of the Day , javascript, Posting
August 28, 2008 • 10:19 am
The Status Notifier is a great plugin for a multi-author blog. I have used this plugin for a magazine-styled blog and it’s great to keep tabs on contributing authors.
The function is fairly basic, but it’s very effective. In short, it will e-mail you when a contributor user sends in a post for review. Then, you can go review it. If you don’t accept it, it will e-mail the user back and let them know that their post has been sent back to drafts.
Here is the screen shot of the options for the plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-status-notifier/
http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/status-notifier/
Filed under: WordPress Plugin of the Day , Administration, Authors, Posting
August 26, 2008 • 9:32 am
Looking for added options for the core functionality of WordPress? Super Switch is a must-have plugin for you then.
This plugin will give you options for what core settings you want to use. Here is a screenshot of what options you will have available.
It can’t get much easier than this for you.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/super-switch/
Filed under: WordPress Plugin of the Day , Administration
August 20, 2008 • 8:08 am
WordPress is a great blogging platform, but it’s not always the only place you may want to publish content.
Disclaimer: I do not recommend publishing your content more than one place unless it is blocked by search engines because duplicate content is bad.
But, if you need to, here are some great tools to do so.
Crossposting to LiveJournal? Click here
Crossposting to Blogger? Click here
Filed under: WordPress Plugin of the Day , Crossposting
August 18, 2008 • 9:15 am
Flickr Mini Gallery will let you leverage your Flickr photo albums and easily embed them into WordPress.
Here are the examples pulled from the plugin homepage.
Examples
Gets photos from all the users with these tags
[miniflickr tags="travel, sunset, landscape"]
10 last images from my portfolio or shows the link if javascript is not enabled
[miniflickr user_id="56755410@N00" tags="portfolio" per_page="10" ] Portfolio[/miniflickr]
Gets photos from all the users with these tags
[miniflickr tags="poster" group_id="92076845@N00" per_page="5" ]
Here are some screenshots to see it in action.
Here is an example of what the HTML will produce for the short tags.
Cheers to the plugin author, Felipe Skroski, for creating this plugin.
I have been searching for a long time for something like this.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-mini-gallery/
http://www.felipesk.com/flickr-mini-gallery/
Filed under: WordPress Plugin of the Day , Flickr, Gallery, Images
August 17, 2008 • 10:10 am
August 6, 2008 • 11:14 am
SEO Slugs is a plugin specifically for SEO. It helps because it shortens your permalink slugs by removing common articles like a, the, be, and, if, etc etc.
Why does this help with SEO? Search engines will commonly disregard articles such as these in search queries already, so it then renders them pointless to have them in your permalink slug.
Additionally, it looks better and by nature, shorter permalinks are always better.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-slugs/
Filed under: WordPress Plugin of the Day , Permalinks, SEO
This plugin, DoFollow, does essentially one thing: it follows. By default, WordPress blogs are setup with the rel=”nofollow” tag on all comment links because WordPress doesn’t want blog authors to give credit to these comment links (too much spam out there).
So to combat that, it was set to default to nofollow these comment links.
But there are plenty of competent people out there that know how to moderate their blogs well enough to know what is spam and what isn’t spam. So, to give link love and credit to those commenters that spend their valuable time to actually comment, this plugin was created.
Check it out if you want to give back to the community that supports you.
http://kimmo.suominen.com/sw/dofollow/
Filed under: WordPress Plugin of the Day , Linking, SEO
August 2, 2008 • 11:40 am
Batch Categories does exactly what the title says. It lets you edit posts in batches.
It’s hard to describe it, but here it goes.
Basically, you can search by keyword, using %keyword-goes-here%, by tag, or by category. Then once you get the results, you can check the box of each post you want to batch edit. You can add tags, replace tags, add categories, replace categories, or batch remove tags or categories.
It essentially lets you mass edit how your posts are filed on a large scale to save you time and energy.
Here is a quick screenshot of the plugin in action, after doing a search.
http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/batch-categories
Filed under: WordPress Plugin of the Day , Administration, Categories
August 1, 2008 • 10:34 am
Here is a slightly different sitemap plugin than before. With the Dagon Sitemap Generator, it was generating an HTML version.
This plugin creates an XML version for Google Sitemaps, Yahoo!, and Microsoft’s Live.com. This is a great utility to have for blog authors because it offers an easy way to search engines to easily see what is available on the blog.
Many themes for WordPress can cause search engine issues because the internal links are not properly mapped out. But, this tool will help give better visibility to your content to the search engines so they can crawl and index your content.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/
Filed under: WordPress Plugin of the Day , SEO, Sitemaps
The wp-phpMyAdmin plugin does essentially one thing: gives you access to phpMyAdmin when you otherwise wouldn’t be able to access it.
For instance, I was running a WordPress site on a server that did not have phpMyAdmin installed. For whatever reason it didn’t, the bottom line is that it didn’t have it installed and I’m used to getting all my database stuff done via phpMyAdmin.
So, I installed this plugin and magically, phpMyAdmin is now at my finger tips.
It’s a great plugin if you need phpMyAdmin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-phpmyadmin/
http://wordpress.designpraxis.at/plugins/wp-phpmyadmin/
Filed under: WordPress Plugin of the Day , Administration, Database, MySQL
I am a person that likes compete control over my internal linking. I do not like to depend on self pings just to show something of relevance.
This plugin, by Michael Adams, is a great plugin because it enforces no self pings. So when you link to another post on your site, it does not ping itself and show up in the comments.
You can achieve the same thing by linking to other posts using relative links, such as /2008/24/post-name/ instead of the full domain.com/2008/24/post-name/ link, but for SEO benefits, having the full link is better.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/no-self-ping/
http://blogwaffe.com/2006/10/04/421/
Filed under: WordPress Plugin of the Day , Linking, SEO
Lightbox 2 is a plugin that will let you easily add the javascripts required to enhance your images. I often like to include images in posts, but not always the full size. So what Lightbox 2 does is it offers the visitor a way to click the image and, using javascript, expands the image in-place on the page.
This is useful so users do not have to go off-site just to view the full image.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-2/
http://www.stimuli.ca/lightbox/
Filed under: WordPress Plugin of the Day , Images, javascript
Today’s plugin highlight is Top Level Categories.
I use this plugin frequently because I don’t want to be forced to use something like /topic/cat1/ or /section/cat2/ or whatever it may be.
What does this plugin do? It strips the requirement to have /topic/ or /category/ or /section/ before the actual category name. So you can do example.com/cat1 or example.com/cat2/subcat1/ directly, creating cleaner permalinks (and shorter permalinks).
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/top-level-cats/
http://fortes.com/projects/wordpress/top-level-cats/
Filed under: WordPress Plugin of the Day , Linking, Permalinks, SEO
The plugin Redirection offers fairly simple functionality, but functionality that is quite handy.
Instead of having to insert links into your .htaccess file for redirects, you can manage them all directly through your WordPress Dashboard. This plugin even offers an automatic-URL generator, meaning, you just insert the target destination and it will generate a link for you.
It offers different types of redirects, such as 301, 302, 307, pass-through, redirects based on if you’re logged in, and a number of other options.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/
http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/
Filed under: WordPress Plugin of the Day , Affiliate Marketing, Linking, SEO
