Thursday, August 16th, 2007

WordPress Plugin: Control Who Sees Your Ads

Who Sees Ads? is a brilliant plugin for controlling when and how your ads are displayed. Using the following predefined rules you are able to specify whether ads should be displayed or not.

If a visitor comes from a search engine.
If a visitor is a regular reader.
If the post is older than a certain number […]

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Sparky - The New Alexa Toolbar For Firefox

10 years after the first Alexa toolbar hit the Internet, a new Firefox compatible version has been released, named Sparky.
Some of the features include:

Sparkline - A very small condensed traffic history graph. Gives you a quick view to show whether the site is moving up or down.
Rank - Shows the traffic rank of the […]

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Google Global Firefox Extension

Dave Davis from RedFly Marketing has created a neat extension for Firefox called Google Global. It allows you to quickly switch to search results from a different country without changing URL’s or manually appending search strings.
If you’re like me and are constantly checking search results from different countries then this plugin will come in […]

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Wordpress Plugin: Blogroll Page

One of the methods I’ve previously suggested as a way to prevent your blog from leaking PageRank was to display blogroll links on a separate page. The purpose of this is to reduce the amount of site-wide outbound links on your blog.
Unfortunately doing this meant you had to abandon the built-in Wordpress blogroll functionality […]

Friday, June 1st, 2007

May 2007 Roundup

Some of you may be wondering why I do these roundup posts?
There are two main reasons.

To give new readers and regulars alike a chance to catch up on articles they may have missed.
It’s a good opportunity to do some internal linking.

Having said that here are the highlights from last month.

How Does Google Blog Search […]

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Wordpress Plugin: Kill Preview 2

One of the things that has really turned me off using the built-in editor in Wordpress is how slow the edit page loads. When you use standalone editors you get used to a certain responsiveness that is pretty much non-existent with web applications.
Kill Preview 2 reduces load time by removing the iframe preview at […]

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Wordpress Plugin: Twitter Tools

Alex King has created a plugin for Wordpress called Twitter Tools, which comprehensively integrates your blog with your Twitter account.
Here are some of the features:

Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 15 minutes)
Create a blog post from each of your tweets
Create a daily digest post of your tweets
Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post […]

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Automattic Stats: WordPress.com Stats For Self-Hosted Blogs

Up until recently Wordpress.com’s stats tracking service was only available to blogs hosted at Wordpress.com, but with the release of the Automattic Stats plugin, those of us with self-hosted blogs will finally be able to take advantage of this service.
WordPress.com’s stats package gives users a simple snapshot of the most popular metrics for bloggers.

Unique visits/Pageviews
Referrers
Top Posts
Search Engine Terms
Outbound Clicks
Incoming […]

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Wordpress Plugin: Add Related Posts To Your Feed

The name of this plugin speaks for itself really. It allows you to quickly and easily add a list of related posts to the bottom of your feed.
There are no options at the moment to change the way it displays the list, but the default look is clean and simple. You can see what it looks like in my […]

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Wordpress Plugin: Comment Relish

Created by Justin Shattuck, the Comment Relish plugin will send a ‘thank you’ email whenever someone comments on your blog for the first time. This is a nice way of establishing a personal connection with new visitors.
The message can be customized using a range of tags (timestamp, author name, comment) to give it a more personal […]

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