The Wrong Advices

Matt Mullenweg has whipped up a new plugin for Wordpress called Random Redirect. Like StumbleUpon, it will send a reader to a random post on your blog. Click here to test it out.

Gary King has created a new plugin called Comment Rankings which displays stars in a post’s comments next to a comment authors name. The stars correspond to the total number of comments the person has made. The default setting is 10 comments per star. If you hover over the star count it will also […]

Matt Mullenweg let everyone know the news on his blog. Two weeks isn’t a very long delay and I’d rather see them take the time now and get everything nailed down, rather than scrambling to fix bugs after release. No one likes installing those updates.
The WP dev team has decided to hold back version […]

I found this plugin while browsing Andy Beard’s blog. He is a big supporter of the dofollow movement. I’m not quite sold on it yet but Andy’s passion is slowly winning me over.
Link Love is a nice middle ground for people who are cautious of completely removing nofollow, but who want to encourage commenting […]

You may not have realised this but in the 2.1+ versions of Wordpress there is a bug/feature that cuts off your posts in RSS feeds when you use the <!––more––> tag.
I generally only use it on really long posts but when I do I’d still like the full post to be displayed in my […]

Similar PostsWith the Similar Posts plugin you will be able to display a list of posts which are related or similar to a given post.
If you’ve been using the Related Posts plugin you may have noticed the suggestions it makes are often in no way related to the post your viewing. Similar Posts works significantly better and is also much more […]

It’s one thing getting people to visit your blog. It is a completely separate issue convincing them to keep coming back on a regular basis.
A new visitor can come and go in seconds. You have a very small window to make an impression so you have to make it count. Here are six […]

The Thinking Blog has a list of the five most addictive flash games. Be careful, you will get hooked on these.

Sugar + Flour + Game = Delicious! Thanks Ariel for finding this.

Pro Blogger talks about a new design for Google Adsense units. The change is subtle but I like it.

Menguzar has created a nice plugin […]

I installed the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin yesterday and went back through all my posts and tagged every single one of them.
Soon after I started noticing missing tags on posts that I was certain I’d already tagged. I reentered the tags and when I checked back a little later they had mysteriously disappeared again.
It turns […]

The Top Commentators plugin has now been installed.
I actually thought quite a bit about whether or not to install this plugin. It has helped a lot of people increase the amount of comments made on their blog but the quality hasn’t always followed suite.
The comments that people have left on this blog so far have all been of a high quality […]