Posts tagged ‘WordPress Plugins’
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October 15th
15A4UExpo Presentation
Excerpt: This is the presentation on WordPress Optimisation Strategies I gave here yesterday at A4UExpo London: …
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October 2nd
5511 Top WordPress Plugins Every Blog Should Have
Excerpt: WordPress in itself is a decent system but it can be made into a rock solid blogging beast. Adding plugins can make WordPress into the Swiss Army Knife of blogging: just pull out whatever functionality you need for your specific blog! Many people have asked me for my list of top WordPress plugins…
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September 24th
6Don't customize WP, write a plugin!
Excerpt: Scripts and Style wrote a short post about adding a custom XML tag to your Atom feed. Unfortunately, they took the wrong route, and decided to change feed-atom.php, the file that serves up the Atom feed for a blog. This is not at ALL necessary. The right way of doing stuff like this is writing a …
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September 22nd
5More nice plugin news: Customize your community
Excerpt: This will come as no surprise to those subscribed to my WordPress newsletter, but Sugarrae has just released the great Customize Your Community plugin we've developed together! This plugin allows you to force the login, register and profile pages of your blog to use your blog's current theme instea…
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September 21st
17SEO Plugin for WordPress
Excerpt: Just a short note, to let you know that next wednesday, I'll be releasing an SEO plugin for WordPress. It's not the life changing best plugin ever, no, it's a reasonably small thing, that will make your post slugs much cleaner, and do so automatically. Now here's the funny thing. There's only one …
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August 22nd
7Improved WordPress Breadcrumbs
Excerpt: I love how open source works. I released an early version of my breadcrumbs plugin, and I got some great feedback from all of you here on the blog and in the blogosphere! For instance, Damon Gudaitis of Life With Beer asked if I could build in support for category parents. I didn't think about tha…
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August 20th
42Breadcrumbs in WordPress
Excerpt: Historically, blogs, and thus WordPress, have never had breadcrumbs. There's hardly any theme that has them built in, and though there were some breadcrumb plugins for WordPress, in my opinion, they sucked. Breadcrumbs are a great utility, both for usability and SEO. They allow people and search …
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August 18th
19WordPress plugin search
Excerpt: Just a quick post: as noted on the wp-hackers mailing list 2 weeks ago: the search function for plugins on wordpress.org is a pain, it doesn't work at all. Using Google is not the easiest solution too, so I've create a Google custom search engine especially for plugins. You can find it here. It s…
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August 14th
17Blog Icons is now officially cool
Excerpt: I announced the plugin this morning, but I've been coding like crazy on it tonight, and it's now way cooler than it was this morning. So I present you: blog icons 1.0. You can now upload a favicon or apple touch icon in the backend, and, as a new feature, you can also upload & add an image to your …
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August 14th
15Two new plugins
Excerpt: I love you all, my dear readers! Some of you are sending in some great ideas for plugins, and I've coded two of them. First, Michael Gray requested in this blogpost that someone built a plugin to automatically add your Amazon affiliate ID to Amazon links. I've done that. It's called Amazon Auto Affi…
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August 4th
69Make WordPress' search function suck Less.
Excerpt: WordPress default search kinda sucks. It sorts the results by date, newest first, and interface wise it doesn't have any of the cool things we're used to when we search in for instance Google. digg_url = 'http://yoast.com/wordpress-search/';This post will explain how you can make your search expe…
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July 28th
22Sociable 3.0
Excerpt: While previous updates to Sociable have contained some pretty big changes, (thanks to Martin Joosse we got rid of a private JS library and now use jQuery instead, for instance), most .something updates have contained additions of sites. This update is going to be different, next to fixing the IE7 i…
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July 28th
1Crunchbase Widget WordPress plugin
Excerpt: I was talking to my buddy Shoemoney on IM this weekend, and he mentioned that he thought there was a need for a good WordPress CrunchBase plugin, to easily integrate CrunchBase widgets into your posts without having to create the widget on the CrunchBase site, and then copy the widget code into your…
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July 21st
3LinkedIn feature in Sociable
Excerpt: I've been hacking around Sociable a bit, to allow for a full integration of the "share on LinkedIn" feature of LinkedIn. This feature allows you to share articles with your groups on LinkedIn, or all your contacts. It looks like this: I love this new feature, hope all of you will too. Thanks Ton…
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July 17th
25Sociable & SlideShare update
Excerpt: I've just committed Sociable version 2.8.1, which, next to fixing some bugs and xhtml compliancy issues, brings a pretty cool new feature: the ability to add the social bookmark icons to your RSS feed. This feature, requested by Rajiv Shivane, allows you to add the same buttons you were adding und…
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July 17th
56Issues with some of my plugins
Excerpt: Some of you have noticed that there are some issues with the settings of my plugins. Unfortunately WordPress 2.6 exposed a bug in some of my plugins, that could only be fixed by changing the way these plugin store their settings. So, if you're using the Google Analytics plugin, the robots meta plu…
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July 15th
13WordPress 2.6
Excerpt: WordPress 2.6, nicknamed Tyner, has just been released, and it's absolutely jam packed with new features and nice goodies. The WordPress guys have made a video showing off the new stuff: Highlights for me are the post revisions, you can now compare revisions like this: [caption id="attachme…
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July 6th
14Several plugin updates and a new plugin!
Excerpt: I've had a good day of coding, and updated several plugins today, all for different reasons explained below, and also written a new one, email commenters. Of course I used this chance to update all links in these plugins and in these plugins pages on WordPress.org. Check out what I did today: Soc…
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June 27th
19Annoyances and weird stuff
Excerpt: So somebody copied virtually all the code from my robots meta plugin, put it in a "Platinum SEO" plugin, and conveniently forgot to attribute the code to me... The GPL isn't that hard to deal with, but somehow, people manage to fuck even that up. I've emailed them and posted a formal complaint to th…
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June 20th
9Crawl Rate Tracker
Excerpt: My friend Patrick Altoft and I were talking about his crawl rate tracker plugin yesterday, discussing some possible new features. He mentioned that it didn't work on 2.5, more specifically, that the install failed on 2.5. Luckily, Mezza had e-mailed him a fix, I tested it for him and it proved to w…
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June 16th
4WordPress Goodies
Excerpt: A small update to say I've fixed one plugin and added another resource for WordPress fanatics. First of all, I used to think that with the release of WordPress 2.3 and 2.5, the need for my Permalink Redirect plugin had gone away. However, I noticed that some friends of mine had loads of indexed URL'…
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June 3rd
15Treat those first time commenters with respect!
Excerpt: I've been using comment relish for a while, and used to be quite pleased with that. It has some bugs though, and it was just a tad bit more spammy than I actually wanted to be. So when Alejandro Reyes asked on Twitter: I thought, I don't know of any plugin that does that, but it's a darn good…
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April 20th
23Plugin updates: Google Analytics and Sociable
Excerpt: Because of a few bugreports I had to fix some stuff in the Google Analytics plugin, as well as change the directory structure so it would work with the automatic update. Next to that I've also updated Sociable to include Wikio and Blogsvine, enjoy!…
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April 14th
16Sociable 2.6.4 some bugfixes and Blogosphere news!
Excerpt: I just updated Sociable to include Blogosphere News, and fixed some the issues causing the plugin to spew out invalid HTML. I really think Blogosphere News could become a cool resource, so I ask of you to have a look at it :). Now go download Sociable and enjoy! …
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April 13th
17Blog Metrics 1.0
Excerpt: I finally found the time (while I should be doing other things) to upgrade my Blog Metrics plugin and release it for all of you to enjoy. It now shows the standard deviation on most metrics and comes with a widget! And it comes with a widget, as you can see in the sidebar, and in this pic, th…
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March 13th
13Replacing plugins with template code: Gravatars
Excerpt: Lately I've been trying to reduce the number of plugins I've got loading to speed up my WordPress a bit, especially those plugins that do "stuff" in my theme. I've been replacing these plugins with template code, and this is the easiest fix I had so far: I replaced a 40k gravatar plugin with one (!!…
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March 11th
17Sociable update
Excerpt: I've updated Sociable last night, it now includes a few more social sites, mostly small ones, but also two big Spanish sites: Menéame and BarraPunto, the Spanish version of Digg and SlashDot. The best new addition is terribly simple but fun though, it's the forward by email button you now see below…
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February 23rd
38WordPress 2.5 Plugin Settings Pages Style Guide
Excerpt: Fellow plugin authors beware! Your plugin settings pages might look pretty awful in WordPress 2.5's new admin theme... Currently, I'm working on making all my plugins work and look good in it, and I had to do a bit of research. There's a page on migrating plugins and themes on the WordPress codex, w…
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February 20th
35Putting nofollow back on links in comments
Excerpt: This blog has been a dofollow blog for quite a while, and I actually believe in the "fight spam, not comments" theory. However, the amount of spam I'm receiving this month, disguised as actual comments, is killing too much of my precious time. And since I think you'd all be better served when I have…
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February 19th
14Looking for SEO aware WordPress developers
Excerpt: I'll make it quick and easy: I'm getting too much requests for WordPress related work (plugins, themes, etc.). I don't mind because I love to cherry pick, but I'd like to have a few people whom I could refer too. So please, if you're a WordPress developer and you're aware of SEO (hey, if you read th…
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February 14th
77Move your WordPress blog to a new domain in 10 steps!
Excerpt: A friend recently asked me how to move his blog, which is on /blog/ on his domain, to a new domain on it's own. The steps are easy, but have to be taken in the right order to make sure you're not annoying your users and the search engines: Put up a robots.txt on the new domain with the following…
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February 11th
29WordPress plugins and SEO mailing list
Excerpt: I've decided to start a weekly mailing list on WordPress plugins and SEO, which will contain: Info on new cool plugins I've come across or have coded myself SEO tips for WordPress Speed optimization tips for WordPress Tips and tricks for increasing the conversation on and the community aro…
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February 10th
20A better SlideShare WordPress plugin
Excerpt: After doing my post about RIMC, I was kind of annoyed with the SlideShare plugins out there, as they had me change the default embed code, instead of just using it, so I've built a new SlideShare WordPress plugin. It allows you to set a default width as well, so it will automatically size all pre…
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January 15th
15Update to users to CSV plugin
Excerpt: I've just updated my plugin to export all your blog's users, or even all your commenters, to a CSV file. The plugin now exports the first name, last name and nickname into the CSV as well, and leaves out some of the stuff it would previously export too, like password hashes. This plugin, aptly na…
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January 13th
21Update to Robots Meta plugin
Excerpt: I've fixed a few bugs in the Robots Meta plugin which might have caused the disabling of certain pages not to work, due to the fact that I was a sloppy in whether certain variables were in scope or not. Also certain stuff was deprecated or it's functionality has changed within WordPress since the in…
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January 10th
126Make the scrapers work for you!
Excerpt: Some of you had already noticed that I've added a link back to my blog in the footer of articles in my RSS feed, like this: I didn't do that because I thought you guys couldn't find my blog. It was actually a plugin requested by Shoemoney, who wanted to make the scrapers work for him too, by …
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January 1st
32WordPress Google Analytics 2.3: XHTML strict
Excerpt: After all the ASP and XHTML strict validation issues with Google Analytics, Google updated the default generated script code. I've now updated the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin to version 2.3, which uses this new code. You should really upgrade! Next to that: I'd like to hear from you on …
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December 29th
27I need your votes!
Excerpt: So, my dear, dear readers, my Robots Meta plugin has been nominated as "Best SEO plugin for WordPress" in the Search Engine Journal Search Blog Awards 2007. And to win that competition, I will need your votes!!! To do so, I will start a "mini" competition of my own: from everybody who tracks back…
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December 28th
11My 2007 business highlights
Excerpt: I was tagged by Eduard Blacquière, to write a post about my business highlights for the last year. I'll use a broad angle, talking about my work at Onetomarket, my blogs joostdevalk.nl and css3.info, and my web design company AlthA, as all are somehow interlinked. SEOdays My year started as a n…
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December 18th
20Google Analytics plugin updated!
Excerpt: I've just updated my Google Analytics WordPress plugin to version 2.2, it "forces" you to switch to the new tracking code. Image tracking and AdSense tracking should still work. It requires the code to be in the head, as outbound link tracking will still not work correctly otherwise. Before you i…
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December 16th
9Image search keyword tracking with the new Google Analytics
Excerpt: While rewriting my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin, I found out that in the new Google Analytics tracking with ga.js, tracking the keyword people used in image search is a lot easier than it was in the old version, as changing the referrer info doesn't involve rewriting an entire function anym…
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December 13th
2Blog Metrics 0.3: who's the best linkbaiter?
Excerpt: With version 0.3 of the Blog Metrics plugin, I'm introducing quite a bit of new stuff: it calculates how many trackbacks you received on average per post, and does a better job of calculating comments. But that's only a small part of what's cool in it, the coolest part, is that it now generates stat…
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December 4th
1Blog Metrics 0.2: compare all time stats to last month's stats
Excerpt: I thought it would be cool to compare your all time blog metrics to the metrics for last month, so I tweaked my blog metrics plugin a bit, and now it gives you this screen: …
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November 23rd
112WordPress SEO - The beginner's guide
Excerpt: Increase search engine traffic to your WordPress blog with one night's work! Imagine having the search engine traffic to your blog increased by tens of percentages, or perhaps even doubling it, by just a few hours work. With putting just a bit of SEO effort into your WordPress you can increase your…
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November 19th
11Blog Metrics in WordPress
Excerpt: Avinash Kaushik has done an excellent post about blog metrics today, most of the stats he showed off, like unique visitors, pageviews, subscribers, etc. are ones I've been using for quite a while. There were two new "metrics" that I hadn't used as much up till now, raw author contribution and conver…
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November 17th
14Updated my Google Analytics plugin to track AdSense clicks
Excerpt: Iwan Uswak from the Data Mining Blog requested that I added Aaron's AdSense Google Analytics tracking to my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. I emailed Aaron to ask if he had any objections to me doing that, and as expected his answer was "of course not.". So I've just updated my plugin to vers…
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November 14th
8Blogging from my phone!
Excerpt: I downloaded and installed Wphone yesterday, and am now trying it while I'm in the train home. I can say nothing but: wow! It's amazingly simple, you specify that you want to use the mobile interface on login and it just plain works! Although this plugin was the result of an iPhone interface comp…
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October 23rd
16Nofollow outbound links on your homepage and category pages
Excerpt: As you might have seen, I have now nofollowed all outbound links on my homepage and category pages. On the single pages for posts, these links are not nofollowed, unless I nofollowed them on purpose. I decided to do this after some discussion with a couple of guys (for who's interested: Roy, Martijn…
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October 17th
0From RSS? WordPress plugin updated!
Excerpt: I added in two features: The plugin now automatically tags links within posts to posts and pages within your blog as well, so clicks to these pages will still make you recognize them as RSS subscribers. The plugin is now way stricter in giving someone a cookie. A visitor only get's an RSS subs…
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October 15th
13Using segmentation in Google Analytics for WordPress RSS readers
Excerpt: One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while seems to be finally nearing completion. Google Analytics allows you to segment users into custom segments, and there's one segment I've been aching for. I want to be able to segment RSS readers, to be able to see the different browsing behavior o…
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October 13th
7Update your robots-meta plugin!
Excerpt: You can now use the robots meta plugin to verify with Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo! SiteExplorer as well, a great suggestion by Roy, I fixed some bugs next to that, so I'd advise you to upgrade! Note: make sure to deactivate and then activate the plugin. There's a function that's triggered on…
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October 11th
37WordPress: Noindex specific posts and pages!
Excerpt: The single most requested feature for my robots meta plugin was to have the ability to add noindex tags to specific posts and pages from within the write post and write page admin screens. I've now fixed that, with the release of version 2.0 of this plugin! For those that have not updated since 1…
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September 15th
1Exporting your users and / or commenters to a CSV file?
Excerpt: If you have a huge blog, you might want to create a mailinglist for your readers as well. Now to start that mailinglist, you could get all the people who once commented on your blog, or just those who registered for your blog, into that mailinglist. If you're running on WordPress and want to do such…
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September 14th
18Google Analytics for WordPress: my latest plugin
Excerpt: I just wanted to let you guys know that I've thrown the first version of my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin out there. You can download it from here, while you wait for me to write the page for it on this site! It automatically tracks outbound clicks from posts, comments, blogroll, it track…
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September 9th
9More WordPress SEO: robots-meta update
Excerpt: After reading Halfdeck's post about Third Level Push, which Roy pointed me at, I decided to add the necessary code to the Robots Meta plugin, since the code example Halfdeck gave was for an older version of WordPress (the wp_list_cats function he uses was deprecated in WordPress 2.1). It's quite…
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September 1st
4Update of Robots Meta plugin: more duplicate content issues solved
Excerpt: WordPress has a few nasty issues with duplicate content which the Robots Meta plugin I wrote can solve for you. In the latest update I just put up, you can now also disable the date based archives if you don't use them, and the author based archives. Especially the last one is one that few peopl…
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August 21st
6Merging plugins: the meta-robots WordPress plugin
Excerpt: I've merged a couple of plugins into one plugin, creating the meta-robots plugin. This plugin is able to add all meta robots tags you'd possibly wish to add to pages.…
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August 16th
9noindex,follow your WordPress search result pages
Excerpt: The webmaster guidelines advise you to prevent your search result pages from being indexed, WordPress doesn't do that by default (yet), so I've written a small noindex-search plugin which takes care of that by adding a meta robots noindex,follow tag to search result pages.…
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August 16th
2Cave your trolls!
Excerpt: Henk van Ess recently asked me to help him in developing an idea he had called "Cave Your Trolls". The idea is that troll commenters are "caved", meaning they can only see their comment themselves, and no-one else can. They think their comment is left there and rejoice, but no one else has to bother…
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April 30th
5Fixed category subpage titles and a fix in permalink redirect plugin
Excerpt: Subpages of category archives were improperly 301'd back to the main category page... Fixed that now, so update NOW: the permalink redirect plugin. I fixed the title for category subpages too btw, check how this works: [sourcecode language="php"] } else if ( is_category() ) { echo single_cat_t…
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April 25th
16Permalink Redirect Plugin for WordPress
Excerpt: And yet another WordPress plugin fell out of my hands. This one checks the current URL against the permalink WordPress has defined for the post, page or category you're in, and redirects to that permalink if they don't match. This prevents subcategories from being linked to directly without the main…
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April 18th
31WordPress subpages going supplemental: the fix
Excerpt: I noticed that the subpages for my blog (you can find links to them in the footer of this page), were all going supplemental. This wasn't really surprising as those subpages were displaying exactly the same as the frontpage: 5 full posts and a "next" and "previous" link to the next pages. This meant…
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March 6th
0Update to NoDirectory WP plugin
Excerpt: I've updated the NoDirectory plugin to use one robots meta tag instead of two when you want to display both NOODP and NOYDIR, that was a small error on my side.…
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March 3rd
2No Directory WordPress plugin
Excerpt: With Yahoo! introducing the NOYDIR tag to opt out of the title and description from the Yahoo! directory for your pages, I had to update my NOODP tag WordPress plugin to add the NOYDIR tag as well. In the process I added a small option screen to allow you to show either of the two, neither, or both.…
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March 3rd
3Version 1.1 of the WordPress contact form
Excerpt: I've just put up a new version of the enhanced WordPress contact form, which adds spam protection (using a simple math question) and the option to show a "cc" option to the person e-mailing you. He will get a carbon copy of the e-mail, without the referrer information the contact form automatically …
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February 11th
31Enhanced WordPress Contact Form
Excerpt: As a multiple WordPress administrator (I control 10+ WordPress sites), I use the WP contact form plugin written by Ryan Duff a lot. Most of the times these contact forms are used as some form of conversion on these sites. This means you want to know as much as possible about the person sending you t…
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February 9th
2NOODP WordPress plugin
Excerpt: I've created a small WordPress plugin to add the NOODP tag to your themes without a hassle, have a look: NOODP WordPress plugin. [tags]noodp, wordpress, plugin[/tags]…
