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.

For more information look at WordPress’s Table on this page (scroll down): http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

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 should know about.

Caveat:

I have seen this slow sites down quite a bit. My hope is that they will solve this problem in future builds.

Plugin Home Page: http://pn.strübe.de/

The “Size” element refers to the width of the email field, while the “Submit” field refers to the text in the submit button.

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 under “Settings”.

You will see the following page, where you can modify the meta information for every different type of page on your site. To edit one of the settings, just click the name of the page type you want to edit.

In order to edit the pages, you can use special tags. These are listed at the bottom of the page in the “Special Tags” section.

At the very least, input information for each of the different sections in the “Global” category. Headspace will pull data from “Global” for page types where you have not specifically set up the options. You can set up the Global options like the following image:

You may also choose to set up the Global or other specific page types using your own keywords, sentences, or use other “Special Tags”. Feel free to play around and test different settings.

Plugin Home Page: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/

WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

What is it?

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:

1. Click the upload button
2. Select the files you want to have in your post
3. Watch them upload
4. Click the “Show” link for one of the images
5. Click “Insert into Post”
6. Lather rinse repeat all but steps 2/3 for each other image you want in your post

With the File Gallery plugin, your steps are:

1. Click the upload button
2. Select the files you want to have in your post
3. Watch them upload
4. Close the uploader window
5. See the images in your File Gallery box
6. Check the checkboxes for the images you want in your post
7. Click the “single files” button and all your images are in your post

This literally saves hundreds of steps very easily if you want to post tons of images

How to Install

You can install this plugin in the normal way for plugins. Once you have it installed, we found it useful to move the File Gallery box to be just under the main editing window in the following manner:

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, users will be able to find other articles you have written that are on or near the same subject of the article they are reading. This gives your visitors a much better experience with your website.

Setup Instructions

You can install this with the normal plugin installation routine. Then just view a single post (click the title from your homepage) and scroll to the bottom to see the list of related posts.

You will have to make sure your posts have tags of course, otherwise nothing will be listed! When you have related articles, it will look similar to this:

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 such awful and horrible ways that you will literally quit. I have been there, it is a terrible experience.

Many top websites are either blocking people from using IE6 on their sites, or they are making stern suggestions that people should get a more modern browser.

The Shockingly Big IE6 Warning plugin helps you to show people using IE6 that it is time to upgrade their browser.

Setup Instructions

Normal plugin installation.

The only note we will add is that you should proof-read the original plugin author’s warning text to make sure all the words are spelled correctly.  We found “acess” instead of “access” in our download.

This is what the warning will look like to your IE6 visitors:

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 way WordPress is setup, you cannot disable this feature without a plugin.  The reason is that WordPress does not have a built in setting to disable this functionality.  All they provide is the normal “hook” interface that they provide for plugins.

Now, the consolation prize is that you can do this with a very simple plugin.

But, if you want the email to go out to the new users too, then you need to use a plugin that already exists called the Disable WP New User Notification Plugin. This plugin comes well recommended and does everything the default wp_new_user_notification function in the WordPress core does, without sending an email to the site administrator.