Archive for the ‘Plugins’ Category

Make referral URLs like a Boss

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

So many great podcasts have referral or affiliate URLs that absolutely rock, something like myblog.com/affiliateName. I was curious how they were doing this, because most of my favorite podcasts are about streamlining and the hosts aren't that technical! I realized instantly that they were not doing this with .htaccess, which would ...

Get the total post count across all your WPMU blogs

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

Just drop this code into a script in your blog's root directory:

Suggested Plugin: Role Scoper

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Plugin Home Page: http://agapetry.net/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/role-scoper/ What is it? This plugin allows you to micromanage the roles that each user level has access to.  You can even create new user levels. Install Directions Normal plugin installation procedure.  You have plenty of configuration options once this is installed. Standard Roles: Subscriber: Can Read, ...

Suggested Plugin: WordPress File Monitor

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Plugin Home Page: http://mattwalters.net/projects/WordPress-file-monitor/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/WordPress-file-monitor/ What is it? This plugin allows you to monitor the changes made to scripts on your site, which can help you identify potentially hacked files on your site. It will send you an email if there are any changes that you ...

Plugin: Post Notification

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Plugin Home Page: http://pn.strübe.de/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/post-notification/ What is it? This plugin will send an email to anyone who subscribes to be notified whenever a new post is published on the site. Install Directions Follow the normal plugin installation procedure, then once the plugin is installed you will want to add the widget to ...

Suggested Plugin: WP Super Cache

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Plugin Home Page: http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/ What is it? This plugin will create cached versions of pages on your site when they are visited so that the next visit to that page will require less of your server's resources and load much faster than if the pages were generated by the ...

Suggested Plugin: HeadSpace2 SEO

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Plugin Home Page: http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/headspace2/ What is it? This plugin allows you to set all of the meta information about your site both globally and on a page by page, post by post basis. Setup Directions Go to the Headspace page in the WordPress backend, you will find it in your menu ...

Suggested Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Plugin Home Page: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/ What is it? Automatically creates and updates a sitemap for your blog whenever a post or page is added through the WordPress admin. Setup Instructions Go to the Google XML Sitemaps plugin page Setup your options like the image below. You can set up the other options (like Yahoo) ...

Suggest Plugin: File Gallery Plugin

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Plugin Homepage: http://skyphe.org/code/wordpress/file-gallery/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/file-gallery/ What is it? This plugin will completely change how you handle file uploads to your WordPress posts, especially if you prefer to show images individually in your posts.  Before File Gallery, the process for uploading multiple images and showing them in your posts individually was: Click the ...

Suggested Plugin: Related Posts By Tags

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Plugin Home Page: http://tadhg.com/wp/wordpress-plugins/related-posts-by-tag-widget/ WordPress Plugin page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/related-post-by-tag/ What Is it? The Related posts by tags widget will add a short list of articles that share tags with the article currently being read. This allows your visitors to click through another page on your blog and spend more time with your website. Also, ...

Suggested Plugin: Shockingly Big IE6 Warning

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Plugin Home Page: http://www.incerteza.org/blog/projetos/shockingly-big-ie6-warning/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shockingly-big-ie6-warning/ What is it? If you ever have to work with HTML and CSS you immediately realize (or you learn quickly) that IE6 is the blackhole of all internet browsers. It will literally suck the life out of you and then spit out HTML in ...

Can you disable WordPress new user notifications?

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

The question we received through our contact form was: Hey guys. I'm trying to figure out how to disable admin email notifications when a new user signs up without using a plugin. Any thoughts? So I did some research into the code and found out that the answer is No, with the ...