WordPress Plugins
WordPress is my blogging platform of choice, and I use it as a CMS here and on several other sites too. I've taken a liking to writing WordPress plugins, small ones that help me out easily, or bigger WordPress plugins to fix larger issues. If you want to hear all my WordPress tips & tricks, be sure to sign up for my WordPress newsletter!
Over the last two years I've built quite a few WordPress plugins to enhance it:
Yoast Breadcrumbs
This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme. Why you should do this is outlined in my WordPress SEO article. They could for instance look like this: Installation Download the p...
Sociable
Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts, and does so easily, and beautifully. While originally developed and maintained by Peter Harkins, it had seen no updates for 8 months...
Google Analytics
This plugin easily adds your Google Analytics tracking code (the new ga.js one!) to all pages within your blog. That's it's main functionality, it adds a few "extra's" though: Tagging outgoing link...
Blog Icons
Based originally on a request of Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, I created this plugin to easily add an Apple iPod Touch / iPhone icon, a favicon and a feed image to your blog. Just choose to upload...
Blog Metrics
Based on ideas in an excellent post by Avinash Kaushik this plugin calculates the following: Raw Author Contribution: average number of posts per month average number of words per post...
Meta Robots
There's no easy way to add meta robots tags to WordPress pages, unless of course, when you install this plugin. This plugin makes it possible (and very easy) to: Prevent indexing of your search...
Upcoming
If you've seen my speaking page, you know what this plugin does, if not, you should check it out right now. Basically it gets all of your Upcoming events from Upcoming through the API, and allows you...
RSS Footer
This very simple plugin let's you add an extra line of content to articles in your feed, defaulting to "Post from: " and then a link back to your blog, with your blog's name as it's anchor text, which...
Search Suggest
Don't you hate it when you search for something on a WordPress blog, and only after being frustrated for a bit there there's no results, you realize that you've made a spelling error? Or that there's...
CrunchBase Widget
This is a plugin to easily include CrunchBase widgets in your posts. This way you can easily point your readers to more specific information on a certain person, company, product or financial institut...
Minimum Comment Length
Don't you find it annoying when someone comments with just a smiley? Or a "thanks"? On quite a few forums you have to leave a comment with a minimum of 15 characters to be able to comment, but WordPre...
SlideShare
This plugin allows you to easily add SlideShare presentations to your blog by just copy pasting the default WordPress embed code. It has one (!) setting, "default width". If you set that setting, i...
Comment Redirect
Your first time commenters are precious people, once you realize that they're first time commenters. This plugin allows you to redirect just those people to a page of your choosing! Download it her...
Amazon Auto Affiliate Linker
By request of Michael Gray, I coded this plugin to Auto Affiliate Linker, which automatically adds your Amazon Affiliate ID to the back of all the links to Amazon you use in your blog!...
Email commenters
Sometimes you want an easy way to e-mail all the people who commented on a certain post. Up till now that took a bit of work, now it's as easy as installing this plugin, and clicking the link you'll g...
Permalink Redirect
This plugin fixes all sorts of weird addons to your URL's by automatically 301 redirecting to the permalink for that post, page, category or tag page. That way, a URL like this: http://www.example....
Enhanced contact form
The original contact form plugin by Ryan Duff was cool (no link since the page is down), as it made a simple drop in contact form for your site. I've used it for a lot of my sites and was always quite...
Users to CSV
Kickstart your mailinglist! Sometimes you have a well running blog, and you decide you want to create a mailinglist. What's easier than to kickstart it by exporting the list of your blog's users, o...
From RSS?
From RSS WordPress pluginSometimes you want to do something extra for your RSS subscribers, you might want to give them a little bit of extra content, or simply leave out some annoying footer about su...
Hide Tag Input
By default in WordPress 2.3 and up, you have a tag input section below your posts, which looks like this: Since I don't use any tags on most of my blogs, I found that tag input annoying, and wa...
adCenter Analytics
Formerly known as Gatineau for WordPress This plugin does one simple thing: add the Microsoft adCenter Analytics javascript tag to all your pages....
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