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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By using a contact form you give your visitors a way to get in touch with you whilst not publicly exposing your email address, thus keeping it out of the hands of spammers. However, there is still the issue of automated spam.
This is where the Akismet Edition of WP-ContactForm comes in. It uses the Akismet spam filtering feature […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
