wordpress plugins

Top 20 WordPress Plugins

Jun 17th, 2010

Looking for a plugin for your blog? Check this list of top WordPress plugins. I made a list based on sheer number of downloads with a quirk - the plugin has to be last updated this year to ensure the support is ongoing.

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WP Digg This plugin released

Nov 13th, 2008

Yesterday, WordPress Optimization Guide hit the front page of Digg and I needed a plugin to selectively show Digg button so I mashed up a new plugin to handle the occasion. I called it WP Digg This, and it allows you to select articles you want to show Digg button on, simply by adding a custom field to the post with key 'digg' and value '1'. Very simple and it works. This is much better then showing Digg button on all pages of your site.

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Insights: YouTube, Google Maps, Flickr WordPress plugin

Sep 8th, 2008

Today, Insights for WordPress plugin is seeing the light of the day, in my opinion the most useful WordPress plugin I created until now. The plugin fills an empty space in the productivity sector of WordPress blogs (read my article on "dogfooding wordpress plugins").Insights will, I am sure, change the way you write your blog posts forever. More information on Insights page. Bonus plugin I am also releasing one fun plugin today, WP Figlet, the ASCII art plugin. Enjoy!

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Insights Plugin features Flickr, Youtube, Google.. All in one!

Sep 5th, 2008

Today I am announcing two new WordPress plugins I have been busy with lately. They both carry a pretty special personal note to a blog. First one is called WP Figlet and basically what it does is allow you to draw ASCII Art. Like this: [ascii font="straight.flf" ]WordPress Rocks![/ascii] Now this is and isn't cool (I guess it depends what year you were born) but I thought there is something that can be made out of it. View the source of this page...

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Dogfooding WordPress plugins

Aug 28th, 2008

Dogfooding or 'eating one's own dog food' is a term used for a company that is confident in it's own product (if it was a dog food they would feed their own dog with it). I thought it is a rather good term and describes why I started writing WordPress plugins. I needed a certain functionality and it was not going to be available until I personally made it - and that is how most of my plugins came to life.

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WordPress plugin competition update

Jul 27th, 2008

In case you missed this years WordPress plugin competition this is a quick reminder. Over 50 plugins entered, with few very fresh and useful ideas. I have participated with 10% of those plugins, June was a plugin month for me, lots of inspiration :) The best accepted seem to be Snazzy archives, WP Wall and Show Me Options. I also like Click (allows precise click tracking) and Manageable (inline editing of post data).

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