wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips

Category: Plugins

Plugin creates web form that allows users to post to WordPress without registering

| December 2, 2007 | 10 Comments

If you want to create a multi-user or multi-author WordPress blog, it generally means having others register on the site, and then log in and write new posts. This has a few disadvantages:

You may not want to allow unlimited and unrestricted registration on your site, where unknown people gain access to your back end.

The

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Images, thumbnails and custom fields in WordPress

Miriam Schwab | November 26, 2007 | 21 Comments

I've learned a lot about custom fields since I posted about programming thumbnails into your WordPress theme with custom fields, thanks to everyone's comments here and on weblog tools collection, who referred to my post. I decided to collect all the links posted in the comments here so that we all have ... View Post

New Answers.com WordPress plugin creates quick links to definitions

| October 12, 2007 | 3 Comments

Answers.com is a free online service that provides definitions and encyclopedic-entries on millions of topics. (It is also an Israeli company - I had to add that :)). The company has now partnered with Automattic, the guys behind WordPress, with a new ... View Post

Akisment Auntie Spam picks up where Akismet leaves off

| September 18, 2007 | 3 Comments

Akismet brilliantly catches most comment spam and saves it in the Akismet section of our WordPress blogs. But if we don't check Akismet regularly, we can find ourselves hundreds, if not thousands, of comment spam waiting for review. Since Akismet sometimes mistakenly identifies legitimate comments as spam, we need to ... View Post

Adding comments, related posts and copyright notice to RSS feed

| September 3, 2007 | 1 Comment

I've seen people mention that a good way to prevent feed scrapers from doing so is by adding a copyright to the feed, but I never really understood why that would help. But then I met someone who was building up his community site, and he asked if he could publish the feed of one ... View Post

Make managing your WordPress dashboard easier with Admin Drop Down Menus plugin

| September 3, 2007 | 13 Comments

If you're a WordPress blogger who posts one new post every few days, you might not mind the default navigation menu in the admin/dashboard. But once your blogging volume increases, and you're writing posts, pages, and managing comments and plugins, it becomes annoying that the most common actions, like writing a new post, take ... View Post

Optimize your database with Optimize DB plugin

| August 29, 2007 | 0 Comments

After a while, WordPress blogs and sites can start to feel a bit slow, and this is often a result of a cluttered database. Being a dynamic platform, WordPress stores its information in database tables. As you activate and deactivate plugins, information may be added to existing tables, or new tables may be created ... View Post

New WordPress plugin for Kontera users

| August 28, 2007 | 2 Comments

Kontera has created a WordPress plugin to make integration of their service into WordPress sites and blogs more streamlined. For those of you who are not familiar with Kontera, it is a way to monetize your site by automatically adding hyperlinks to keywords within your text, which when clicked on, take readers to ... View Post

Using the Digg This plugin on your WordPress blog

| August 9, 2007 | 0 Comments

You've seen those Digg This buttons on many sites and blogs, but did you know how to add them? Here's an example (it's an image, so you can't click on it):