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WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/29
New plugins
FourSquare Integration for WordPress allows you to view your last checkins either as a list or on Google Maps on Pages and Posts.
DynamicWP Featured Post is a free WordPress jQuery plugin that will list your featured post based on the post tag and displayed as a widget. The post will cycled automatically.
DukaPress can be used to build online shops quickly and easily. It is built to be both simple and elegant yet powerful and scalable.
Add image_src Meta Tag ensures your content has a relevant thumbnail when shared on social sites, by adding an image_src meta tag to your header which contains your post thumbnail image.
Updated plugins
The AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites.
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A New Way to Install Plugins
There are two ways to install plugins in WordPress 3.0. You can either search for and install plugins via Plugins/Add New in your admin panel, or search for and download plugins from the plugin directory, then upload them to /wp-content/plugins/. Now, thanks to Mark Jaquith, there’s a new way to install plugins.
The new plugin installer tool allows users to easily install plugins via a web-based interface outside of WordPress, with no FTP knowledge or tedious admin panel searching required. The new tool will be officially rolled into the plugin directory during WordPress’ impending site-wide redesign. For now, plugin developers can create a link directing users to the plugin installer tool and their plugin, and the rest of us can use the bookmarklet to install plugins from the directory. -
WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/25
New plugins
Foursquare map
Foursquare is rising in popularity, and will continue to grow. This plugin makes it easy to share your last check-in location without needing to worry about giving away personal info, and you don’t need to be an expert in mapping APIs!
Vanityvid
Vanityvid is a service that turns avatars into videos. This plugin integrates the service into WordPress.
Delicious Bookmark Button
A cool delicious bookmarking button/badge with total bookmark count. It adds a delicious badge or button to your post or page which allows you to bookmark the post. It also reflect a real-time count of how many times your page has been bookmarked in delicious, just like tweetmeme button does for twitter. Both standard and compact version of the badge to choose from.
Simple Sitemap
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Theme Stats Updated
I updated the theme stats plugin to work with new WordPress 3.0 networks as well as with MU installs upgraded to WordPress 3.0. You can download it here: WordPress Network Theme Stats.
August 2, 2009 — WordPress MU Theme Stats (3)
June 29, 2010 — BuddyPress Author Link (0)
June 28, 2010 — Another Featured Posts update (12)
June 27, 2010 — Network Privacy (9)
June 21, 2010 — Everything you wanted to know about creating a network of multiple sites in 3.0 (45)
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Plugin: Adds New Geo-relevant Layers to WordPress
gPress adds new geo-relevant layers to WordPress, allowing you to create your own location-based services or to keep track of your own personal geo-tagged journies. Even in its beta state, you can presently geo-tag posts using native WordPress Mobile Applications, or create new geo-located places using custom post types, featured images and descriptions, add geoRSS functionality and integrated with BuddyPress and Foursquare.
The future of gPress is one where you can develop your own completely customizable, fully-interactive and entirely immersible geo-relevant social-layers using combinations of movements, actions and consequences whilst geo-tagging, trailing and interacting with locations, people and objects. Create new geo-relevant states of social-roleplay by defining language and lingo, customizing context and integrating with other social-networks.Pricing: FREE
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Search-Plugins.com, A New Way to Power Your WordPress Search
For a long time the search function of WordPress has been the achilles heel of the publication platform and numerous plugins extending the WordPress search have been created and uploaded to WordPress Extend.
The team of IOIX Ukraine have developed a new WordPress plugin, SearchPlugins in collaboration with Splashpress Media, owner of this blog, to power the search function of your site, WordPress blog. After months of hard work we now are taking applications to our (closed) Beta program and will slowly roll out the new plugin, while we add more features to the functionality.
We are now taking applications to join the closed beta program and will on a regular basis add new Beta testers to the platform
To view results of the plugin just use the search functionality here at BloggingPro or check out the results for a search for blogging success here at BP.
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A WordPress forum plugin using custom post types
I’ve been promising a real-world example of what’s possible with custom post types for a while. But, I didn’t want to put together yet-another-long-technically-detailed post. I wanted to give you something that would open your mind to the possibilities.
And, there’s loads of possibilities.
I’ve been tinkering around with the idea of building a forum plugin, so I decided to get behind the project completely and make it happen. What started out as a simple project quickly turned into something that a lot of people have been wanting — a forum plugin that fully integrates itself within WordPress.
Post types for the plugin
The plugin uses three post types for handling the structure:Forums: This is your top level, which holds everything else.
Topics: Children of forums and use the topic tags taxonomy.
Replies: These are the individual posts made within a topic.I had originally taken a different route…
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Last updated sites widget
This is a handy little widget that will pull a list of all the sites in your network and order them by last updated. The code for this was originally in the home theme of the WPMU download, so thanks to Donncha for that bit.
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I tested it in the mu-plugins folder, but you should also be able to use it as a regular plugin as it only needs to run on one blog. It’s also the older widget code, so you can only use it once, not multiple times, and it has no options. Short, sweet & simple.
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Get a list of the latest sites or blogs in the network
From the archives (which are full of good things, btw) I revamped a post with an updated version of the List All plugin, and confirmed the Most Recent Blogs widget still worked. It does!
So, if you’re looking to have a widget that will show the last ten blogs, go get it here.
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Plugin: The Events Calendar Premium Plugin
The Events Calendar Premium plugin for Wordpress enables you to rapidly create and manage events using the post editor. Features include Google Maps integration as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list for streamlined one click installation.
If you’ve been searching for a way to manage events, band gigs, concerts, charity events, conferences, tour calendar, or any other time based event inside Wordpress, this is the plugin you’ve been searching for! Install the plugin in minutes and start managing your events now!Pricing: $32
Requirements: WordPress 3.0+
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WP125 Ads Plugin
We had a client who is using the WP125 Ads plugin. When they upgraded to WordPress 3.0, it was having an error. I fixed the error and forwarded it to our client. Other folks reported the same issue in this thread in the WP support forums. The author of the plugin posted and indicated he was going to be tied up for a bit. I have forward the update to the plugin author. At some point he will be releasing an updated version.
In the mean time, you can download my updated version: WP125 Ads Plugin (74). If you have issues with it, please post those issues in the support thread linked above. I won’t be attempting to do other bug fixes or CSS changes.July 21, 2010 — Theme Stats Updated (0)
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Blogging Pitfalls: Plugin Purgatory
Everyone loves WordPress plugins. They’re great and they can do a ton of great things from improve your commenting system to improving your site’s security.
While WordPress plugins are great, too much of any good thing is simply that, too much. Going overboard with WordPress plugins can have an adverse affect on your blog in many different ways, possibly resulting in a blog that barely functions.
So before you click “Install” and add yet another one of the latest and greatest WordPress plugins, it’s important to take a moment and make sure it is actually in the best interest of your site.
If you don’t, you could wind up paying for it dearly down the road.The Pitfall
WordPress plugins are extremely easy and fast ways to add new features to your blog. You can make adjustments to the administration area, add widgets to your sidebar, improve your site’s speed… -
Plugin: Easy Replacement of Standard Fonts
All-In-One Cufon plugin allows you an easy replacement of standard fonts with beautiful catchy fonts. This plugin implements Simo Kinnunen’s Cufón script, which aspires to become a worthy alternative to sIFR.
Pricing: FREE
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Progress Report On A/B Testing Plugin
Mitcho who is the author of the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin is currently working on a new project called ShrimpTest, sponsored by Automattic. ShrimpTest is a simple, A/B testing plugin that enables users to create various experiments on their site. For example, with ShrimpTest, you can create an experiment to track conversions based on the text used. In the video demo, Mitcho runs an experiment between a large version of a PayPal donation button versus a smaller one to see which provides a better conversion rate. Out of about 3,000 people, the results were almost split with a slightly higher percentage converting through the larger image. I encourage you to watch the following video to get a better idea as to what ShrimpTest is all about.
You can read all of Mitcho’s status updates regarding the plugin via the development blog. Also, if you’re interested in testing out ShrimpTest,…
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Plugin: Ultimate Facebook Plugin for WordPress
WP Facebook is the ultimate Facebook plugin for your WordPress blog. It integrate Facebook’s Social Plugins into your WordPress blog using WP Facebook’s built-in, customizable widgets.
It allow users to register on your site by having them log in through Facebook! Make it easy for users to connect to your WordPress blog and allow them to use advanced Facebook-exclusive features like attaching comments when using the “Like” button, showing which of your user’s friends are connected to your website, and allowing them to comment on posts on Facebook!
If users are logged in via Facebook, you can choose to replace WordPress comments with Facebook’s Comment System, bringing the discussion to the place where people are actually talking – Facebook! Spark some conversation by taking the convo to your users’ friends and families.
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/04
New Plugins
123ContactForm for WordPress
Contact Form plugin from 123ContactForm.com. It requires a free account on 123ContactForm.
WP BTBuckets
Integrates the BTBuckets service into your WordPress blog, giving your blog the ability to dynamically morph depending on who your visitors are. Now you can target your visitors based on their visiting behavior
WordPress multiple user ad management plugin
The plugin is ideal for blogs with multiple authors and acts as an incentive for making quality posts. When the add-on is enabled, users will have full control over the advertisements displayed on their own posts. Using a space pre-allocated by the blog administrator, authors will be able to display various forms of advertisements in addition to accepting Paypal donations
GetSocial
GetSocial adds a lightweight and intelligent floating social media sharing box on your blog posts.
WordTour
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WordPress Disqus Plugin: Why You Should Get It Today
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Restricting Your Content To Adults Only
Ever wanted an easy way to make sure adults were the only ones that saw your content? It’s become a lot easier to do now thanks to the release of the Restricted To Adults plugin by Saguaro Digital. What this plugin does is add a unique string of “meta data” which can be inserted into the computer code of any website. Parental filtering software recognizes the tag and prevents children from viewing adult content. Diligence needs to be made on the parent to make sure the computer in use by the child has parent filtering software installed or else the RTA tag is useless.
The plugin was developed free of charge for ASACP which stands for the Association Of Sites Advocating Child Protection.No related posts.
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I Love that WordPress Plugin – WP Maintenance Mode
It doesn’t take much to make me happy. Sometimes a little WordPress plugin comes along that makes me smile, and WP Maintenance Mode is one of them.
Let me start by saying — I’m not a web developer. I’m not a blog designer. I know just enough CSS and HTML to be dangerous, and I have no problem keeping it that way. Would it be super handy to know CSS and HTML? Absolutely, but it’s one of those things that always gets pushed down in my list of priorities.
So now that I’ve revealed that little snippet from my life, back to the WP Maintenance Mode plugin.
Why do I like this plugin so much?
Because I’m not a code-guru and I don’t have test sites set up where I can test new things, slowly redesign my blogs, and be a cool designer. The design changes I make myself are… -
Plugin: Integrates Minify Engine into Your WP Blog
WP Minify integrates the Minify engine into your WordPress blog. Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.
WP Minify grabs JS/CSS files in your generated WordPress page and passes that list to the Minify engine. The Minify engine then returns a consolidated, minified, and compressed script or style for WP Minify to reference in the WordPress header.Pricing: FREE
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BuddyPress Author Link
I’ve updated my BuddyPress Blog Author Link plugin for WordPress 3.0. I also added support for a single WordPress install. You can download it here.
June 28, 2010 — Another Featured Posts update (12)
July 21, 2010 — Theme Stats Updated (0)
June 27, 2010 — Network Privacy (9)
June 21, 2010 — Everything you wanted to know about creating a network of multiple sites in 3.0 (45)
July 11, 2010 — WP125 Ads Plugin (6)
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VaultPress: First Golden Tickets
Very exciting news that invites to VaultPress — a subscription-based protection, security and backup service for WordPress blogs and sites — are now starting to be sent out.
Over the weekend we started to trickle out the first Golden Ticket invites to VaultPress. This means that if you’re on the list you now have a semi-random chance of being one of the first people who can sleep more soundly at night because of VaultPress.
If you didn’t receive your invite yet, there is a way to possibly get one more quickly:If you’d like to move ahead in the line, write a blog post about why you want to use VaultPress and link it here, or tweet why you need your site protected by VaultPress and use the hash tag #vaultpress.
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4 Awesome Plugins To Help You Effectively Earn More From Your WordPress Blog
Making money online is a white hot topic online nowadays and will be for a long time to come, since everybody wants to make money from their blog. Whether its a personal journal type blog or full scale rockstar blogging; a little extra bucks won’t hurt.
The process of building a blog and growing it to the point of profitability isn’t always an easy task. Attracting valuable advertisers, selling the right affiliate products aren’t always straight forward and simple and can be extremely time consuming. So here are a few plugins that will make the workload a little lighter for you so that you can focus more on building the foundation of your blog, which is, awesome content.
1. The Ad Squares Widget
This free plugin when installed allows you to place neat 125px x 125px advertisements on your blog without the hassle of diving into too much code to… -
Another Featured Posts update
Someone reported that my Featured Posts plugin wasn’t working. I tracked it down to the download zip containing the old admin page vs the updated one. I updated the repository. Original plugin post
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July 21, 2010 — Theme Stats Updated (0)
June 27, 2010 — Network Privacy (9)
June 21, 2010 — Everything you wanted to know about creating a network of multiple sites in 3.0 (45)
July 11, 2010 — WP125 Ads Plugin (6)
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Special WPTavern Only PluginBuddy Sale
BackupBuddy is a great plugin. In fact, recently, it’s become even better now that it has support for Amazon S3 for off site backups and the FTPS protocol. Another staple in the PluginBuddy store is the PluginBuddy Mobile plugin. This plugin enables you to use the built-in style manager you create mobile-ready themes for iPhones or other mobile devices. Considering PluginBuddy is on a roll, now may be as good a time as ever to purchase the PluginBuddy developer suite. And here is one more good reason to do so.
Thanks to the guys over at PluginBuddy.com, I’m able to offer a special coupon code for the first 24 people that take advantage that will take 25% off the purchase price of the Developer Suite. The original price is $197 bucks but after the coupon code, the price is only $147.75. When you figure that a personal membership to BackupBuddy… -
Network Privacy
In one of the chapters in the WordPress All In One Desk Reference, Andrea includes a list of recommended plugins for use in a WordPress Network. One of those is no longer available for download. Because it was such a handy plugin, I updated the plugin for WordPress 3.0 so that it works with both single and network installs. It can be installed in either the mu-plugins or plugins folder. Here are the features:
In a single site WordPress install adds the following privacy options:I would like my site to be visible only to Site subscribers.
I would like my site to be visible only to Site administrators.In a WordPress network activated on an individual site adds the following privacy options:
I would like my site to be visible only to Registered network users.
I would like my site to be visible only to Site subscribers.
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/27
New Plugins
Meteor Slides
This plugin makes it simple to manage a slideshow with WordPress by adding a custom post type for slides. The slideshow is powered by jQuery Cycle and has over twenty transition styles to choose from.
GetSocial
GetSocial is a WordPress plugin that adds an intelligent, lightweight, quick to setup floating social media sharing box on your blog posts.
Image-Based CAPTCHA from Confident Technologies
Confident CAPTCHA™ is a unique, image-based CAPTCHA solution that stops spam and bots in a way that is easy and intuitive for your website visitors. Rather than forcing people to decipher warped and distorted characters or words, Confident CAPTCHA presents the visitor with a grid of randomly-generated pictures and simply asks them to click on specific pictures to verify that they are human and not a bot.
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How to Reward Your Guest Authors and Build a Strong Community
This is a guest post is by Ann Smarty, founder of a community of guest bloggers: My Blog Guest and first contribution as part of a new My Blog Guest – Splashpress Media partnership.
The best (and I’d say the only) way to create a strong community of talented guest authors around your blog is to offer incentives. You want your guest bloggers to be sincere in their desire to provide quality – so you want to be sincere in your desire to pay back.
No, it is not about money. Guest blogging is about benefit exchange: the authors give your blog high-quality content (and thus traffic and leads) and you give your guests exposure.
So do you promote your guest authors enough?
Rewarding with Backlinks
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Plugin: Custom Post Relationships (CPR)
Most of the “related posts” plugins out there while they provide some kind of control on how to create related posts, they all rely on an algorithm and the results are automatic. With Custom Post Relationships (CPR), you get total control as you can manually select the posts that you want to relate.
Pricing: FREE
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Want More Retweets? Use the TweetMeme WordPress Plugin
I installed the TweetMeme WordPress plugin the other day, and I’m pleased with the results.
Not only was it really easy to install and configure, but I’ve noticed several people actually using the button to retweet my posts. You can see it in action in the top right corner of this post.
In this WordPress plugin review, I’ll go over installing the TweetMeme plugin and give an overview of the options. And there’s a screencast too! All after the jump.How to Install TweetMeme for WordPress
You can install TweetMeme for WordPress just like any other plugin. Also since it’s available in the WordPress.org plugin repository, you have the option of installing it automatically via your WordPress admin panel.
After installing and activating, you should see a new “TweetMeme” menu in the sidebar of your WordPress dashboard. The settings page should look something like this.TweetMeme Plugin Settings
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