Archive for the ‘Suggested 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 ...

Disable your Website to Visitors but not Users – Part II

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Previously, we talked about how to disable your website to visitors but not logged in users through your theme. We have been using a plugin in our projects for some time to do this a little bit easier. The plugin is called WP Require Auth plugin.  It very simply makes it ...

How to Manage WP-Carousel Plugin

Friday, November 5th, 2010

1. Open Wordpress Dashboard. Go to WP Options at the sidebar. 2. After Adding a new Carousel by (This will automatically add a new Carousel to Manage).. Go to the Carousel Option. i.e. - Now just Drag and Drop the things that you want to be in included in the carousel.. (It’s ...

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:

Plugin: Twitter Tools

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Twitter Tools Plugin Home Page: http://alexking.org/projects/WordPress WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/ What is it? Twitter Tools allows WordPress to post the title and link to all of your articles to Twitter as they are published. You can use this plugin to create posts from your Twitter messages, but we do not suggest this as it gets ...

WordPress Plugins

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

WordPress Plugins Plugins are one of the best features of WordPress. They allow you to extend the functionality of the default WordPress site to do thousands of different things.  All you have to do is put a couple files in the right place on your server using the built-in Plugin Installer ...

WordPress Plugins: Installing Plugins

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Installing Plugins There are two ways to install Plugins.  Through the Automatic Plugin Installer (the easy way) and through FTP (the less-easy way).  We'll cover both methods here. Using The Automatic Plugin Installer Go to the Plugins page in WordPress Click "Add New" at the top of the page next to "Manage Plugins" Search for ...

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 ...