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Jul 6th
This has to be the most useful and time saving plugin ever. What are the steps you follow when you install a plugin? Here’s how I do it:
Here’s how you do it with Plugin Central:
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Jul 1st
This is not the must-have top of the list plugin. Nor is it one you can’t live without. It is just one of those fun, I want this option, kind of thing.
The plugin I am talking about is the Stray Random Quotes plugin. It let’s you add an unlimited number of quotes, be they famous ones or your own rants, to the database. These posts are then displayed in your sidebar randomly and one at a time.
You can also click next to view the next random quote.
Just a bit of harmless fun!
This can also be used to add a random tip. I can imagine a yellow post-it or a piece of torn paper with some random wisdom posted at the top of your website.
Edit: See how I have used this plugin in the header. It can also be added to your sidebar as a widget if your theme is widget enabled.
Amazing Breakthrough In 3-D ECover Actions
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Jun 29th
Trying to add code to your wordpress post can be one of the most frustrating experiences. That is if you want the code to appear as code in your post.
Say, something like this:
<ul><li>This would have been a bullet</li></ul>Had this been added to Wordpress normally, it would have appeared as a bullet. But since I’ve used a really cool plugin called ‘Code Auto Escape’, I can add code as code as long as I add pre and code tags around it.
Now you may never need to show html, xhtml, javacript, php, etc code in yuor posts but just in case you do, this is the plugin to get.
Get the Code Auto Escape Plugin
Amazing Breakthrough In 3-D ECover Actions
If You're An Information Marketer Who Yearns To Transform Your Ecover Graphics From Ho-Hum To HOLY SMOKES, Then You've Got To Read This Story...
Jun 28th
I have been installing and trying out new plugins at this blog. Some have worked out very well while others have not been anything to talk about.
So over the next few days I am going to go over the gems that I have found. Some you can’t live without and some are just a luxury.
However, the best out of the lot is the Accordion plugin. See the tabbed navigation in the sidebar for Categories/Archives/Tabs? Yes, that is accordion. It can display up to 6 tabs for plugins which use li tags. This is necessary as it encloses everything in ul list tags.
However, I have a tweak around that.
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Jun 26th
I finally took the plunge and upgraded this blog to WP 2.5.1
Since my previous version wasn’t very old, either, this was a pretty smooth transition. All the plugins were still working although some had newer version. This brings me to one of the best features of this version – you can update plugins automatically from inside the control panel by just clicking one link. Oh and you also need to add your ftp info so it can unzip and add the new files. Is that cool or what!?
However, if you upgrade from an older version and I mean a much older version then there might be some changes to be made. For example some plugins might be outdated especially tag related plugins as WP 2.5.1 has its own inbuilt tags option now and a pretty good one at that. For those of you who were using the wp links tag, will need to shift to wp bookmarks.
But mainly it is just little tweaks and so worth the effort. WP 2.5.1 offers a great new interface and some unique and intuitive new features. I’ll say it is a major improvement and one you will notice in an instant.
Nov 13th
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Most Useful Wordpress Plugins
Since I design custom blogs for my clients, I have to keep a lookout for plugins that can achieve any effect under the sun. Following is a list of some of the most used plugins:
Add This: Social Bookmarks allow your visitors to easily submit your posts to social bookmarking sites. Many plugins are available for this purpose including Social Bookmarks, Gregarious and Sociable. I just recently found Add This and although it adds a link to their site, it is less intrusive and less cluttered than the others. You can see the result at the end of this post.
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95% Of Your Minisite Design Done For You--INSTANTLY?
This is a complete solution! We're Talking Full Blown Graphics--From Top To Bottom--At A FRACTION Of What You Would Pay A Designer! Find out more.