The Odiogo Listen Button adds an extra layer of visitor-friendly goodness to your WordPress powered site. This plugin from Odiogo adds a “Listen Now” button to your blog posts, so visitors can download or listen to your Odiogo podcasts.

I like this plugin because I am already using Odiogo to provide text-to-speech for my posts, and I want to give my visitors an easy way to download and listen to my posts when they are on the go - just another option in this multi-media world!

Installation is easy - but you must have a Feed ID from Odiogo. If you don’t have one, sign up on the website. Odiogo is a free service. Read more about it in Subscribe to the Geek Girl’s Audio Feed!, Announcement: How to Subscribe to thepinkc Podcast and Turn your blog posts into podcasts! 

Once you download the plugin, follow the instructions below:

1. Upload directory odiogo_listen_button to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory via FTP.
2. Login to your WordPress admin account.
3. Click menu Plugins and Activate the Odiogo Listen Button plugin.
4. Click menu Options > Odiogo Listen Button.
5. Enter your Odiogo Feed ID and click Save.
6. Click menu Presentation > Widgets (or Sidebar Widgets depending on your WP version).
7. Drag and drop Odiogo Subscribe Button from Available Widgets to Sidebar.
8. Click Save Changes.

Alternatively, you can use the WordPress plugin Plugin Central to automatically install the plugin from your WordPress Administration Panel, then follow the directions above starting at step #3.

I was a winner in a contest held recently by Hyder at Everybody Go To and won a free copy of WP Auctions Gold!

WP Auctions Gold is a plugin that gives you the ability to sell anything on your blog, as well as show third party ads when you do not have any auctions open. The plugin is based off of the ‘widgets’ idea, so it is very easy to set up and use.

The additional bonus of using WP Auctions Gold is that it works with my favorite online payment system, PayPal, and it is customizable to fit in with any blog’s theme!

Instead of me giving Amazon or Ebay all of my money for commissions, I can now use WP Auctions Gold on my websites to make some sales and keep the money for myself!

WP Auctions Gold has tons of built in features that are must-haves, and it is also reasonably priced, so you can get started selling items online today! WP Auctions Gold even has a catch-all auctions site, so you can list your auctions there, then have traffic routed to your site!

WordPress has introduced native tagging support with it’s latest version, but it does not give you, the WordPress Administrator, a lot of tagging support.

So when you write a post then realize that you can’t remember what tags you have used before, you end up opening your blog’s homepage to figure out what tags to use, then copy and paste into the tags area of your WordPress Write Screen. Or you will just guess and hope you didn’t use uppercase in your tag, when you should have used lowercase, or spelled the tag incorrectly!

Do you want an easier way to add tags to your WordPress posts?

Click Tags provides the basic support we are looking for in our WordPress installs. This plugin adds a simple list of clickable tags for you to select while writing your WordPress posts. All of your tags are listed in alphabetical order. Click Tags seems to work best if you don’t have more than 30 or so tags, and it is easy to add new tags right inside of the Click Tags area.

If you are struggling to find support for your WordPress tags, try Click Tags. It might be the perfect addition to add more function to the tagging functionality of WP 2.5!