Wordpress Plugins
Ultimate Gallery2 Slideshow
The Ultimate Gallery 2 Slideshow Plugin is a nice WordPress plugin to use if you want a random picture from your gallery 2 embedded in your WordPress sidebar. I have been using this plugin at The Real Taiwan (check it out if you’d like) for some time and it is a popular feature [...]
Do Follow
The Do Follow Wordpress plugin is a nice way to reward your visitors for commenting on your blog. Most people don’t know or care what “no follow” or “do follow” means, so this is for the small percentage of computer geek web heads out there that are trying to get their website/blog [...]
Landing Sites Problem and My Fix
The Landing Sites Wordpress plugin is very cool. It will show what people were searching for in their search engine on your site, and then bring up a set amount of related entries to the search. Here is an example of a search for Tainan Restaurant:
tainan restaurant
You came here from www.google.com searching [...]
If You Liked That
If You Liked That is a super easy and useful Wordpress plugin that adds a predefined amount of related posts from your site to the end of each post. Download the plugin from the If You Liked That website, re-upload it to your plugin folder, and then activate it in your plugin [...]
Random Flickr Favorites 2
The Random Flickr Favorites 2 plugin allows you to access photos you like without having to purchase them. How does this work? Well, you download the plugin, re-upload it to your plugins folder, and then activate it within your plugins tab in your Wordpress. Now, if you haven’t already, get an [...]
Google Analyticator
Google Analyticator is a sweet Wordpress plugin that will help you get your Wordpress website set up so it can have all of its pages monitored by Google Analytics. Google Analytics is one of the best (and free) stats programs you can use. Really, I believe this. I also believe if [...]
Hidden Affiliate Links
My first commenter and new friend from Patchlog has developed a plugin that I have been testing out. It all started after my post about changing the way the URL looks for your referral and affiliate links (while maintaining the link). I used it and it accomplished the same end as my [...]
Subscribe To Comments
Subscribe to comments is a Wordpress plugin that is very useful if you have a nice readership base that likes to comment. A community if you will. Of course, that is one of the goals I have of this site. I will make a list of the goals I set soon, [...]
Google Code Prettify for Wordpress
Google Code Prettify for Wordpress is my second choice to put code snippets in the website so the guests of this website can see the code without the code bombing my site.
Instructions: Go to the site linked to above, then download, install, and activate the plugin on your site. Should [...]
LastPosts2pic
LastPosts2pic is a cool plugin that does a little more than the Feedburner code I just made in the previous post. If you notice, it links to the feed. This plugin creates an animated GIF that links directly to your site, and you can change the amount of previous posts that are [...]
Target Adsense
Target Adsense is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to easily ad the and tags to your page. You don’t want Google targeting the wrong stuff, like parts of your blog that you’ve hacked together and have them display totally irrelevant adverts on your site. They don’t want that either, [...]
All in One SEO Pack
I am going to install the All in one SEO plugin to begin having descriptions and custom titles for the posts, as well as the custom Blog title and description post available. You can download it here. Once you are done, downloading, installing, and activating it, you will see a new field [...]
Share this Social Bookmarking
Share this social bookmarking is a cool plugin from Alex King. It won’t be as useful for a small blog but you never know, and why not use something that is easy to use and potentially extremely helpful. Just downlad, install, and activate the plugiin and it automatically adds the share this [...]
PHP Exec 3.3
PHP Exec is a must have plugin for any blogger that wants to add a lot of php functionality to their blogs. It allows php tags in your posts without bombing them. You can download it here.
Feedburner Plugin 1.2 for WordPress
I installed and activated the Feedburner Plugin 1.2 for WordPress after activating the permalink redirect plugin. It is an option to use it, so why not. First, download, install, and activate the plugin. Then go to www.feedburner.com and make an account, then “burn” the name of your feed. After that, [...]
Permalink Redirect
Permalink redirect is a necessary plugin for you to use with WordPress. Download the plugin from the site, upload it to your plugin reppository, and then activate it. Under the option tab of the WordPress menu, select the permalinks tab. I changed my structure to /%category%/%postname%/%post_id%. Change your new link structure [...]
Akismet Wordpress Plugin
Spam is the bane of every bloggers existence. You will get spammed early and often in your blogging career. Akismet is a Wordpress base install plugin (it comes with the initial installation) that will help you keep spam at bay. Click on the plugin tab and then find Akismet and activate [...]
Advanced Drop Down Menus for WordPress Admin
This is the first plugin I am going to install. You can download it here. It makes navigating around the inside of your WordPress sooooo much easier. It will save you a lot of clicking and waiting for pages to load too. This is a must have plugin as far [...]
Wordpress Blogging Pro Widget Enabled Theme
I have made my choice. Of course, I can always change it later, but I like the theme and dig the name. You can download it from the Blogging Pro website. This is the widgetized version. It’s even got widgets in the footer! How about that!
It also came with [...]
