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7 Must Have WordPress Plugins For Every Blog

cq — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:31:02 +0000

I’m sure you have seen lots of articles named something like “best 30 plugins for WordPress” or “The coolest 60 plugins for WordPress” etc. In my post today I’m not going to make another collection of links but rather list just a few plugins that I’m using in my own blog. Of course, I haven’t added all of them from the very beginning. Depending on the task set before me I had to make some studies followed by experiments and make tests, tests and tests. I will explain why I find these plugins extremely useful as well as speak about some widgets that are worth using.

1. Akismet

Akismet is a perfect spam catcher. Not sure how they do this, but 99% of spam comments will get under I’ve had the problem with Akismet only once actually shortly after installation. For some reason it was recognizing uberVU – social comments (the post mentions on twitter) as spam but once I approved it, the Akismet learned the algorithm and now it’s saving me from hundreds of funky comments. There’s also a cool option to “Automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month” which means that spam comments for the early posts won’t even be added to the Spam” section of blog comments, they will be deleted automatically.

2. Google Analytics for WordPress

A simple plugin allowing to add Google Analytics to your blog pages and enjoy a variety of tracking options available at Google Analytics account. Once you upload and activate the plugin go to the Settings section in the main menu and look for Google Analytics. Here’s the place where you can make a Google Analytics WordPress Configuration. All you have to do is enter your Analytics Account ID and click on save. Now you can go to your Google Analytics account and track visitors, traffic sources, search keywords and most popular articles.

3. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

As a blogger and project manager I know that it’s highly important to keep blog visitors on the website as long as possible, especially if you are selling ads and are going to earn something from them. This is where Yet Another Related Posts Plugin comes on arena. It allows to show links to related posts at the end of the article, and you can set this relatedness by a number of options, such as keywords in the text, titles, tags, categories etc. You can define the number of links to show and the period of time to check on related articles from your previous posts. You will find related posts section under the main Sections menu of the blog admin area.

4. SocioFluid

Seeking blog promotion and popularity I had to look for a nice plugin that would allow submission of the article to social networks on the fly. I might have tested around 10 plugins before I found and fall in love with Sociofluid. This plugin adds keen social network icons below the post that get bigger on roll-over. SocioFluid settings can be found under the main Sections menu of the blog admin area. There are 20 bookmarking site you can choose from (including my favorite Twitter, Digg, Facebook and Stumble) and you can also choose from the several icons sizes. You can define whether to display SocioFluid Bar for posts in home page or browse pages, to show it on the top of the page or after the article, whether the icons should open in the new window or not.

5. Dean’s Permalinks Migration

Dean’s Permalinks Migration plugin helped me to stay on board once I decided to update the URLs structure of the links on my blog to more friendly ones. I’m sure all of us do this from time to time having read some cool articles about SEO friendliness or deciding to test this or that option and to test the results. When your articles have been indexed by search engines and there are other websites linking to you, it’s vital not to lose this audience. What Permalinks Migration plugin does is it changes your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website. The settings are quite simple and understandable. Once you have updated the permalinks structure in the General settings section just enter the old permalink structure and the plugin will be automatically sending visitors from the old urls to the new ones.

6. Banner Plugin

The reason why I needed the banner plugin is that I wanted to convert traffic from the blog into product purchases from the main website. I wanted to add the product pics, have them in rotation and link all of them to according product pages. If compared to the other multiple banner plugins I have tested, Banner Plugin doesn’t have many options like conversion and visitors tracking, multiple campaigns with multiple banners, deducting the cost per click from the deposit etc. But it’s extremely easy to work with, you don’t have to go to the blog code to update a single thing and it’s widgets supported. That means that having uploaded and activated the plugins you just add the pics and the links, save the settings and then simply drag and drop the banner widget into the sidebar. A perfect solution if the simple banner is enough for your needs.

7. All in One SEO Pack

All in one SEO Pack plugin is meant for advanced blog owners and allows to enhance your blog in terms of search engines friendliness. You may skip this one if you’re not into SEO yet as this one requires some basic SEO knowledge. One of the things that I like is that there’s a direct link to options configuration panel right from the plugins section and you don’t have to dive into the settings and check where they could have been added. All in One SEO Pack allows to set the titles structure of blog pages, use noindex attributes for the sections you’d like to close from the search engines and set meta title and meta description for the blog main page without going into the blog code.

Summing this up, I’d like to say that this is definitely not a full list of nice plugins and that I might need more in the future depending on the goals I set. But the factor that plays the most important role for me and makes me test tens of plugins is the simplicity. Since I’m not a programmer I always look for simple solutions that won’t require much of my time and where I wouldn’t have to go into the blog source code and perform significant changes. I hope this article will be useful even for those bloggers who have been working with WordPress for some time by now and will save you some time.

Good luck!

各大站点美化引用插件

cq — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:51:23 +0000

豆瓣秀

http://www.douban.com/service/badgemaker

http://www.clicki.cn

http://data.xiami.com/widget

http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/

http://wibiya.com/Login.php

cnzz,51啦，零点统计，naq专业博客统计

twitter，fackbook的就不说了

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Change Font/-size

cq — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:10:57 +0000

Change the size and style of fonts via Link.
Please visit the official website for further details and the latest information on this plugin. 作者为 Frank Bueltge.

Installation

Unpack the download-package
Upload all files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, with folder
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Edit content or template of your theme

Code:

fontstyle
fontsize

Example:

fontstyle serif on ID content
fontsize 1.2em on ID content

See on the official website.

jGrowl

cq — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:46:33 +0000

jGrowl is a jQuery 插件,工作在浏览器的右上角, 渐出渐入等,就像 the way that OS X’s Growl Framework works.

jGrowl 资源:

Example Usage and Samples:

// Sample 1
$.jGrowl("Hello world!");
// Sample 2
$.jGrowl("Stick this!", { sticky: true });
// Sample 3
$.jGrowl("A message with a header", { header: 'Important' });
// Sample 4
$.jGrowl("A message that will live a little longer.", { life: 10000 });
// Sample 5
$.jGrowl("A message with a beforeOpen callback and a different opening animation.", {
    beforeClose: function(e,m) {
        alert('About to close this notification!');
    },
    animateOpen: {
        height: 'show'
    }
});

下面是我的：

WP FollowMe

cq — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:16:56 +0000

WP FollowMe is a wordpress plugin that allows you to add a twitter “Follow me” badge on your wordpress blog.

Get what version you like more :

Update v2.0.4 :

404 not found error for css file fixed
minor bugs fixed

Update v2.0.3 :

The badge is completly in flash.
The text is displayed sideways.
Added border color option.
“I love it ” icon and question mark removed

Update v2.0 :

Choose from 16 twitter icons or use your own.
Edit the icon background color.
Edit the “Follow Me” text.
Change text color.
Change font size.
Change font family.

If you found a bug or if you have a twitter icon that you want to share with all other users of this plugin let me know on comments section.

SimpleViewer

cq — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:07:38 +0000

SimpleViewer

SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image gallery. It allows you to display your images on any web page in a professional, intuitive and simple way.

Controls

Mouse: Click thumbnails or the main image to navigate.
Keyboard: Use Cursor keys, Home, End, Page Up/Down to navigate. Press ‘F’ to toggle Fullscreen mode.
Right-Click Menu: Open Image in New Window, Toggle Fullscreen Mode.

Examples:

Modern – Full browser, loading images from XML.
Compact – Loading from Flickr’s most interesting images.
Classic – SimpleViewer classic style. Loading a Flickr photostream.

Download:

Download SimpleViewer to use on your site.
FREE download for Windows, Mac and Linux.

The Best jQuery Plugins of 2009

cq — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:53:45 +0000

During the past few weeks we’ve been publishing our “Best of 2009″ series in which we’ve shown you the best WordPress themes, fonts, icons, and Photoshop Tutorials. In this article, our focus is on jQuery. Over the past couple of years jQuery has been growing in popularity, which means more and more plugins are being created to make web designers’ lives easier. Here are our favorites from 2009.

Content Sliders

This year we saw a growing popularity in using content sliders as a way to display several pieces of content within a limited area or to engage the user with the sliding animation. Normally this is done in a featured banner area near the top of the page. There were several jQuery plugins written in ‘09 to accomplish this type of effect, but here are our favorites.

AnythingSlider

AnythingSlider is created by Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks and is a fully featured slider that is widely useful.

Easy Slider

Easy Slider is a content slider that gives you the the option to choose between classic previous/next navigation or to use a numeric “pagination” style navigation.

Coda-Slider 2.0

Coda-Slider 2.0 is aimed to mimic the slider effect on the promo page for Panic’s Coda software. The original version was hacked together in 2007, but this 2.0 version is built from the ground up.

Image Galleries

The days of having to use Flash to create image galleries with cross fading or sliding transitions are long gone. Thanks to jQuery these types of effects can be easily achieved with javascript. Here are our favorite image gallery plugins from this year.

Galleria

Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS.

jQuery Panel Gallery

jQuery Panel Gallery is a compact image gallery that can easily be configured. Not one image needs to be sliced or edited to work with this plugin. The plugin handles everything itself. You can even configure fading transitions per image.

slideViewer

slideViewer checks for the number of images within your list, and dynamically creates a set of links to command (slide) you pictures. Also, clicking on each image will make the gallery slide to the next picture.

Supersized

Supersized cycles images with transitions and preloading. It automatically resizes images to fill browser while maintaining image dimension ratio.

Navigation

I believe navigation is an aspect of a web site that should kept simple and easy to use. However, if there is a need to create a more engaging nav, jQuery is your best bet. Here are a few of the best from ‘09.

jquery mb.menu

Horizontal Scroll Menu with jQuery

This isn’t a plugin, but I had to include it since it is such a cool effect. It’s a horizontal scroll menu that scrolls automatically according to your mouse axis-Y movement.

AutoSprites

Forms and Tables

Working with forms and tables is probably not the most glamorous part of web design and development, but it has to be done. There were several plugins released this year to help you spice things up a bit. Here are our favorites.

Password Strength

Password Strength tries to calculate how many possibilities the hacker needs to try to guess your password.

Ajax Fancy Capcha

Ajax Fancy Captcha is a jQuery plugin that helps you protect your web pages from bots and spammers. It introduces a new, intuitive way of completing “verify humanity” tasks.

Chromatable

Chromatable allows you to easily create scrolling tables with fixed headers.

jqTransform

jqTransform is a styling plugin which allows you to skin form elements.

Uploadify

Uploadify allows the easy integration of a multiple (or single) file uploads on your website.

jExpand

jExpand is ultra lightweight jQuery plugin that will make your tables expandable. Typical for line of business applications, this feature can help you organize tables better. This way, tables can hold more information such as images, lists, diagrams and other elements.

http://webdesignledger.com/resources/the-best-jquery-plugins-of-2009

防SPAM插件

cq — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:12:51 +0000

今天突然发现N多SPAM,于是手动删啊删啊，结果不小心把有用的也删了。悲剧了，于是找了找

留言相关：

1、Akismet：最流行的反垃圾留言插件。可能吧使用WP至今，它已经协助屏蔽了1700多条垃圾评论。

2、Spam Karma 2：又一个垃圾留言屏蔽插件，和Akismet相比，这个要更为复杂一些。

3、Threaded Comments：实现有针对性的留言。也就是可以针对某个留言进行留言，这个留言不出现在最底部，而是在所针对的留言的下方。

4、Subscribe to Comments：让评论者订阅文章后续评论的插件。

5、Webcam Comments：觉得文字留言太乏味？试试语音或视频留言如何？

6、Gravatars：只要留言者在Gravatars网站上传了头像，在留言时就能显示留言者的头像。

7、De-link Comment Author：有时候你想删除一个评论者的链接但不想删除整个留言，这个插件可以帮助你。

8、Ajax Comments-Reply：将留言系统设置成Ajax形式，不用刷新即可添加评论。

9、DMS Guestbook：为你的博客制作一个留言本。

10、Sexy Comments：替换原来的评论模板，让评论区域看起来有点像论坛的风格，确实相当Sexy。

11、Math Problem Spam Protection：和留言验证码差不多，这个是要回答一道简单的数学问题。

12、Link Love Plugin：去除留言者链接里的”nofollow”标签。

13、Do-Follow：和Link Love Plugin一样，去除留言里的nofollow标签。

Comment Luv plugin

cq — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:49:34 +0000

Comment Luv plugin? now…The list!

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http://www.domainmarvelous.com
http://im-underground.com/
http://shankerbakshi.com
http://codeyhugo.com/
http://inspiks.com
http://asnio.com/
http://www.webjourney.me
http://tucsonseosolutions.com/
http://opinionhead.com/
http://iblogmaster.com
http://www.serradinho.com
http://www.pallab.net/
http://teenius.com
http://letssermo.com
http://www.animhut.com/
http://jacobyap.com
http://techgenuine.com
http://www.blogussion.com/
http://sexysuperherocostumes.org
http://www.softpoint.in
http://website-in-a-weekend.net
http://www.weblogbetter.com
http://brandonacox.com
http://www.standoutblogger.com
http://www.eklipsi.com
http://www.threestyles.com
http://www.blogrpro.com
http://anime2.kokidokom.net
Do you know more? If yes, don’t hesitate to share them with us in a comment! I’ll keep the list updated.