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Category: Plugins

Automatic thumbnail image resizing options

| June 1, 2008 | 10 Comments
I manage a few blogs that use thumbnail images to spruce up the appearance of the site, and make it more enjoyable for readers. As we've discussed here in the past, an efficient method for adding thumbnails to your ... View Post

Create drop-down menus with WordPress plugins and themes

| March 9, 2008 | 46 Comments
Drop-down menus are a great way to improve the usability of your site. They allow you to offer more information without taking up too much real estate, as well as organize your content in a useful ... View Post

Audio Player WordPress plugin automatically adds audio player to posts

| February 25, 2008 | 16 Comments
Amazingly, I have never had to deal with podcast or audio files before in a WordPress blog or site. But a recent client needed a way to easily and attractively add mp3 files to her posts. At first I tried the Podcasting plugin, but I didn't have much luck. ... View Post

Use WP-Sticky WordPress plugin to easily create feature or “sticky” posts

| February 19, 2008 | 10 Comments
The WP-Sticky WordPress plugin allows you to easily choose to "stick" certain posts at the top of your blog. This can also be done via code, as I explained in a post a few months ago where I ... View Post

Easily add unwidgetized WordPress plugins to widgetized sidebar with Custom Function Widgets plugin

| February 8, 2008 | 2 Comments
One of the reasons I hesitated to use widgets is because there are many useful plugins that aren't widgets and demand that you add a snippet of code to your sidebar, something you can't really do with widgets. Well, now you can widgetize your sidebar and add both widgets and non-widget plugins to it with ... View Post

Socialize Me! WordPress Plugin helps your blog interact with leading social networks

| January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment
With the proliferation of social media networks, blogs have become only one tool in creating our online identity. The question is: how do we integrate all of the facets of our online identity so that we can actually have a life too? blah blah ... View Post

Now you can add a favicon to your WordPress admin with a plugin

| January 18, 2008 | 2 Comments
About two weeks ago, I wrote about a tip I came across at Simply Basic about how to add a favicon to your WordPress admin by adding a snippet of code to wp-admin/admin-header.php. As you probably have noticed, the WordPress admin ... View Post

WordPress plugin for better admin from iPhone (and other mobile devices)

| January 15, 2008 | 0 Comments
Here is a WordPress admin plugin for better access to the admin in mobile phones, in particular the iPhone. Here is the plugin description:
Mobile Admin adapts the WordPress admin UI to be more friendly to mobile devices, specifically phones. The iPhone is the primary target (and only supported device)
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WordPress plugin easily creates drop-down navigation

| January 13, 2008 | 21 Comments
This is really handy: the Drop Down Menu WordPress plugin creates a drop-down navigation scheme where sub-pages appear under their parent pages in the menu. All you have to do is upload, activate, and add one snippet of code to your template files. The menu can be ... View Post

Apply different themes to different categories with WordPress Themed Categories Plugin

| January 11, 2008 | 15 Comments
I've never come across a situation where I would need this feature, but I'd like to have this on record in case it ever comes up. Mike has developed a WordPress plugin, Themed Categories that allows the user to select different uploaded themes for different categories. According to the ... View Post
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