Posted 10 Dec 2008 — by Ellie
Category WordPress
Over the next 24 hours, let us know what your favorite WordPress plugin is – and you’ll be entered to win a $10 Amazon gift certificate!
The winner will be selected randomly and announced on Friday, December 12, 2008 at 12:00 pm EST!
Congrats, John Lessnau and to all who entered. John, you will receive your gift certificate today, and I would like to THANK all of you for entering!
WordPress Wednesdays features posts about plugins, themes and general usage of WordPress, the world’s most popular content management system!
Posted 03 Dec 2008 — by Ellie
Category WordPress
WordPress sends out plain text emails for things like comment and pingback notifications. These emails are usually long and awkward, especially if you have WP installed in its own directory.
Do you want to minimize the wasted characters included in every email you get from WordPress?
“Clean Notifications” solves the problem of long, wordy emails, and formats WordPress emails into clean, HTML friendly messages.
Here’s a comment notification before “Clean Notifications”:
And after “Clean Notifications”:
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Remove the Junk from WP Emails with Clean Notifications
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 — by Ellie
Category WordPress
Adding photos to your posts adds interest and a little spark to your pages. Photo Dropper is a WordPress plugin that lets you add Flickr photos to your posts with an easy to use interface.
Photo Dropper searches for photos licensed for shared use and lets you pick the perfect pictures to add to your posts!
- Once you have the Photo Dropper plugin activated, you will see an “Add Photo via Photo Dropper” icon right above your Write Post (or Write Page) editor.Click on it, and enter keyword(s) for a photo you would like for your post (Example: “geek”, “biking”, or “cell phones”) and click the Search button.
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Photo Dropper Makes Adding Pictures to Your Posts Easier Than Ever
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Posted 17 Sep 2008 — by Ellie
Category WordPress
Using WordPress as your blogging software or even content management software is pretty easy, even for blogging software newbies. Personalization is what makes WordPress stand out, though. Not only can you use code to add functionality to your site, but you can also use any one of literally thousands of plugins to add features you want or need as well!
While I generally use around 30 plugins for this site, I do have a favorite… hands down —- RSS Footer.
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Posted 01 Sep 2008 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
Last week, I added the PingCrawl plugin to my WordPress installation. Ah, it was interesting, to say the least. I saw the load time for posts increase dramatically, and even getting my WordPress administration screen to load in a timely fashion was difficult.
I even asked you guys, the readers to read my article, Automatically Add Links to Related Sites, and vote in a poll about PingCrawl.
The participation wasn’t that high, BUT, even I could see that my servers cannot handle the power of the great PingCrawl!
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Update on PingCrawl – Adding Pingbacks Automatically to WP Posts
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Posted 27 Aug 2008 — by Ellie
Category WordPress
Searching for related posts can be tedious and time consuming. The PingCrawl plugin seeks to take away some of the frustration of adding related posts by other bloggers to the end of your new posts.
The author of the plugin says that he gets about an 80% success rate of approved pings – so that’s not bad for a day’s work of blogging!
PingCrawl does inject its own link every 10 or so links, so visit ANTY.INFO to learn how to remove the code if you want to.
Posted 13 Aug 2008 — by Ellie
Category WordPress
Yes, WordPress 2.6 was just released, but why can’t we look forward to a new version?
Keith Dsouza at Weblog Tools Collection compiled a list of the upcoming features in WordPress 2.7 that bloggers can look forward to, but here are the top 5 features that I think will make some plugins obsolete and/or blogging so much more easier for WordPress users:
- One Click Plugin Installs – Installing a plugin will be much easier with the ability to click a button or link and the plugin installs automatically! Plugins with similar features are One Click Plugin and Plugin Central.
Posted 16 Jul 2008 — by Ellie
Category WordPress
Everybody’s favorite CMS (content management system), WordPress, just released version 2.6 an entire month ahead of schedule. Not only did this version fix almost 200 bugs, but it adds some new features that are sure to have most WordPress users dancing in their computer chairs!
Now WordPress comes with a built in word count, so you can see in real time how many words long your post is! Look for the Word count directly below the Save and Publish buttons in your Publish Status box.
Posted 09 Jul 2008 — by Ellie
Category WordPress
MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad is a great, non obtrusive addition to most WordPress installations!
Use it to display a welcome message, reminder to visitors, an affiliate link, an “extra special” link to a favorite or popular post, and more – the sky is the limit, as long as the text and html will fit in the stripe!
As you can see from the screenshots, setting it up is a little cumbersome – a lot different than the average plugin – but it seems to be worth it if you want a low-key, customizable message to appear at the TOP of your screen when your visitors come to your WordPress powered site.
