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 […]
As you may have noticed I’ve got the new design up and running.
I would have liked to do a bit more testing before I let it out into the wild but I’ve already wasted too much time when I could be doing more productive things.
If you notice anything broken please leave a comment or […]
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 […]
If you visit your own site alot like I do, you’ll quickly find you skew your stats with all the extra pageviews and hits. There is an easy way to stop that from happening.
If you’ve played around with Wordpress a bit you’ll know it has different user levels. The most powerful user level is […]
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 […]
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 […]
