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Category: Plugins

Create Flash header or slideshow on WordPress easily with Flashfader plugin

Miriam Schwab | August 5, 2007 | 61 Comments

My Flash skills are non-existent, so when a client requested some kind of Flash header where the images fade out and in, I was happy that I remembered that I had once come a across a ... View Post

Amazon-like plugin tells users what other people viewed

| August 3, 2007 | 0 Comments

Here is a perfect example of why I love plugin developers! Weblog Tools Collection has released a new plugin that should help you really increase the stickiness of your site: Where did they go from here? Here's the description:

This plugin tries to create a

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Would we use WordPress if there were no plugins?

| August 2, 2007 | 13 Comments

Garry Conn over at Blog Tips about Blogging asks an interesting question: Would you use Wordpress if Wordpress Plugins weren’t available? Basically, the question is: would WordPress be our preferred blogging platform if there were no plugins? Or, we can ask ... View Post

Relooking at the Page Links To Plugin

Miriam Schwab | June 21, 2007 | 9 Comments

Since I discovered the Page Links To plugin, it's become one of the plugins that I use most on my sites, particularly those where I'm using WordPress to create a CMS. I've reviewed it already (see the review here), but it seems that ... View Post

Viper’s Video Quicktags is the best for embedding movies

Miriam Schwab | June 10, 2007 | 6 Comments

After trying out many of the plugins available for helping WordPress users embed videos in their posts and Pages, the one that I find to be the best is Viper's Video Quicktags plugin. Once activated, you can select which types of videos you want to become available on the ... View Post

Inserting Flash swf file in WordPress posts or Pages

| June 10, 2007 | 20 Comments

I'm no Flash expert, so generally if I'm dealing with Flash it's Flash movies, which are .flv files. However, some people might need to insert Flash objects into their posts or Pages, and these files have the .swf suffix. Someone on a forum recently was on a search for the easiest and least destructive way ... View Post

Important mod to the Excerpt Reloaded Plugin

| June 6, 2007 | 1 Comment

A new mod to the Excerpt Reloaded Plugin means that now you can make sure that your excerpts are properly formatted with links, bullets, paragraphs and more. Read on... For some reason which I still don't understand, excerpts in WordPress are displayed without any HTML formatting. So ... View Post

Make your WordPress site mobile

| June 1, 2007 | 4 Comments

One of my current clients is the type of guy who is always on the run, and depends heavily on his Blackberry and cellphone for keeping up to date on emails and the web. He's the first client who has brought up the subject of creating a site that is accessible on a mobile ... View Post

Aizatto’s Related Posts Plugin

| April 22, 2007 | 3 Comments

Most WordPress users are familiar with the WASABI Related Entries plugin. I've never used it because it involves messing around with the database tables. Instead, I have been using the Simple Tagging feature of displaying related posts based on tags used in ... View Post