Suggested Plugins

These are plugins that we typically have on every WordPress site and suggest that you install them as well.

Make referral URLs like a Boss

September 14, 2011 – 9:33 am by

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 totally work. The problem [...]

Disable your Website to Visitors but not Users – Part II

April 7, 2011 – 8:25 am by

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 so that all requests [...]

How to Manage WP-Carousel Plugin

November 5, 2010 – 3:28 pm by

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 Like adding a [...]

Get the total post count across all your WPMU blogs

August 28, 2010 – 4:50 pm by

Just drop this code into a script in your blog’s root directory: <?php require( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-load.php' ); global $wpdb; $res = $wpdb->get_results('select blog_id from wp_blogs', ARRAY_A); $total = 0; foreach ($res as $result) {    $wpdb->set_blog_id($result['blog_id']);    $val = (int)$wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_date_gmt < '" . gmdate("Y-m-d H:i:s",time()) [...]

Plugin: Twitter Tools

August 11, 2010 – 8:00 am by

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 [...]