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Archive for October, 2008
WP Review Site Plugin and Theme
Sunday, October 12th, 2008Popularity Contest Plugin
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Popularity Contest is one of my favourite Wordpress plugins because it is so useful. It automatically calculates the number of hits you get on posts, categories etc. and allows you to display them on your front page. Just using this plugin as a tool to better understand how users are using your site is useful, but having the top 10 posts always displayed on your site is good for SEO and allows users to easily get a grasp of what is popular on your site.
All in one SEO Pack
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008The All in one SEO Pack is made to improve your SEO for Wordpress. You insert tags and a description of your post and this plugin helps to get the word out there.
Popularity Contest Plugin for Wordpress
Saturday, October 4th, 2008Popularity Contest
This is a great plugin which automatically ranks your most popular posts. It allows you to really see how people are using your site and which areas of your site are the most popular. It’s obviously pretty handy for users to see what parts of your site are popular and to easily access those pages. Unfortunately, for Wordpress 2.5 Alex King hasn’t released a working version yet, but you can download the latest version and the fix from here.
After you download the plugin, upload it to your plugins directory, and then activate it from the Wordpress admin panel. In my case, I want to put it in the sidebar. I had no idea how to do this so I had to experiment by placing the code in different parts of the sidebar.php file.
But, actually it wasn’t too hard in the end. First of all, go to your sidebar.php file and then scroll down to the place where you want to insert the code (this was the hard part for me!). Because I wanted to place it on the right-hand side of my page, I looked for a description of the right hand side – which I eventually found called <div class="sidebar_right">. I put the following code directly underneath this and ‘voila’ I had it working!! If you want to make the heading bigger you can replace ‘h2′ with ‘h1′ and you can change the name if you want as well and that will be reflected on your site.
<h2>Popular Posts</h2>
After this heading simply add the following code :
<ul><?php akpc_most_popular(); ?></ul>
FCK Editor Plugin for Wordpress
Saturday, October 4th, 2008FCK Editor Plugin for Wordpress
From my own experience and from looking at the various posts on the web, I can see a lot of people have problems with the WYSIWYG editor in Wordpress. I had serious problems trying to get a page to look the way I wanted with text and images always getting skewed. I was trying to format this page without any luck. I tried using the <br> line breaks to try and separate each image evenly but the editor kept automatically deleted the <br> tags for some reason.
After a few hours of searching I came across FCK Editor, which seems to a much more powerful and feature rich plugin that the built in rich text editor in Wordpress. The only issue I’ve had with it so far is that you can’t seem to add an image using the default ‘Add Media’ part of the original Wordpress editor. However, you can just use the one which comes with FCK Editor which seems to work fine. There are some cool features like a built in file manager which enables you to upload the files directly through the editor. It also supports the wordpress read more feature. The editor looks like this – see below.
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The table insert function looks like this:
You can download the editor from here
Premium Plugins | Are they worth it?
Saturday, October 4th, 2008As the number of Wordpress users increases and the needs of users change, Premium plugins are a good option if the plugin performs an essential role in enhancing your site. The outlay in money for the plugin (if the plugin is good) will usually pay itself back fairly quickly. Personally, I have only purchased Autoblogged, and that plugin has been great for me and is an absolute steal for what it does. With the advent of Premium themes, people have started using Wordpress for more than just blogging and sites which are more involved with a lot of specific content on a particular topic/theme or product. A list of premium plugins I’ve found are listed below.
I would be interested to get some feedback from anyone who has used these plugins.
Plugin name: OIO Publisher
Function: Manage all your advertising from the admin panel in Wordpress
Price: $47
2. WP-REVIEW SITE
Plugin name: WP Review Site
Function: Turn Wordpress into a powerful review site engine
Price: $97 (normally $199.95)
Plugin name: Wordpress on Crack
Function: Easily write WordPress plugins in PHP
Price: $97
4. VIVA THUMBS 
Plugin name: Viva Thumbs
Function: Easily add thumbnails on the fly
Price: $14.95 (single), $49.95 (multi-site license)
Plugin name: Autoblogged
Function: Easily automate your blog posts by configuring intelligent RSS and blog searches
Price: $59.95 (single license), $129.95 (unlimited sites)