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Category: Plugins

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 | 21 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

Deena Levenstein | 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

Getting bored of how your dashboard looks? Try WordPress NiceAdmin

| April 12, 2007 | 2 Comments

We bloggers spend a lot of time in the admin section of our WordPress blogs. It can get kind of boring looking at the same blue chunky lettering and design after a while. I decided to install the WordPress NiceAdmin plugin to add some variety to the same 'ol same 'ol. It is so pretty! ... View Post

Another way to add RSS feeds to your WordPress blog

| April 12, 2007 | 0 Comments

Shaolin Tiger explains how to use the WordPress Feedlist Plugin to display RSS feeds from other sites on your blog. How to use RSS Feeds on your Wordpress Site>> View Post

Replace WordPress default dashboard with custom feeds

| April 12, 2007 | 4 Comments

I never really look at the main page of my WordPress admin section. It is full of all sorts of stuff that I didn't ask to see, so I just ignore it. But why not put information there that you are interested in, or that helps you with your blogging? Previously ... View Post

Make sure images aren’t too wide for your blog

| April 12, 2007 | 0 Comments

If you insert an image in your post that is too wide for your blog layout, it will break the design. The iMax width plugin sets a maximum width for photos. This is useful for the following reasons:

It won't allow you or other users to inadvertently break your

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