Articles for 'Plugins'
A Quick Way To Post HD Video On Your Blog With VideoPress
by Jerome
October 14 th
For anyone who is looking for an easy option to publish high definition video on your WordPress blog without depending on others like self hosted video services (like YouTube) look at VideoPress. Owned by Automattic it offers an awesome video service. Unfortunately it is not a free but for only $60 a year they will [...]
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Great Plugin To Upgrade Your WordPress Blog
by Jerome
September 21 st
Since WordPress version 2.7 a new feature has been created-the easy one click upgrade has been added to the core, making blog updates extremely easy. It is a great new feature but unfortunately making the update process even too easy! I wish the WordPress developer would give the user an option to backup their database [...]
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Automattic Acquire A Spell Check Plugin
by Jerome
September 13 th
The creators of WordPress Automattic (who already own Akismet, Intense Debate, Poll Daddy, Gravatar, VIP, VideoPress, P2 Theme) have just added another name to their group. “After the Deadline” is a spell checker plugin that provides spell checking, style checking and grammar checking. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The plugin is [...]
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Analytics360 Brings Google Analytics Stats Into Your Dashboard
by Jerome
September 2 nd
I have discoverd a new WordPress Plugin called Analytics360 created by the people of MailChimp.com. It lets you check your Google Analytics stats directly into your dashboard. The plugin is really easy to install and you don’t need to have a MailChimp account to use it. Simply synchronize the plugin with your Google [...]
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Let Google Host Your jQuery Files
by Jerome
July 27 th
I’m all the time looking ways to improve blogs performance. Today I came accross this great plugin called “Use Google Libraries“. It will improve your blog speed performance and save you some bandwidth on your server by instead of pulling your jQuery files from your WordPress install you will use the same file pull from [...]
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Import Comments From Social Websites And Blogs
by Jerome
July 19 th
With the explosion of social websites, conversations about your latest blog post is no longer taking place on your own blog. I have been looking for a long time for a way to import comments about your posts made throughout the web and display them alongside to your blog comments. Thanks go to BackType Connect [...]
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RSS Shortcode Plugin
by Jerome
July 1 st
A new Plugin from Joost de Valk just came out named “RSS Shortcode“. This plugin lets you embed your RSS feed in your post or pages with a short line of code like this: [rss feed="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/pimpmywordpress" num="2" excerpt="false"/] Just change the variable to fit your needs: feed: add your blog feed (required) num: the number [...]
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How To Add A Favicon To Your WordPress Blog
by Jerome
May 13 th
“Blog Icons” is one of my favorite plugins created by Joost de Valk. This is a very simple plugin to use. It lets you easily add a favicon to your blog URL. Once you have installed the plugin go under Setting => Blog Icons and upload your favicon throught the plugin options area. Blog Icons [...]
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