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Stephen Cronin is Manager of Online Service Delivery at a Queensland Government department & has been a freelance WordPress developer/consultant since 2007
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WordPress Plugins
- DualFeeds: Offer both full & summary feeds to your readers!
- IFrameWidgets: Stop slow javascript widgets breaking your page!
- FeedEntryHeader: Add copyright info to the TOP of your feed!
- LocalCurrency: Show values to readers in their own currency!
- KeywordLuv: Reward commentators with keyword rich links!
- Comment Warning: Detect potential spammers and warn them!
- Eclipse Crossword Integration: Publish crossword puzzles!
- Ajax_the_views: Make WP-PostViews work with caching plugins!
- Remove Widget Titles: Remove widget titles on the front end!
Want a Custom WordPress plugin? See my Services page.
Greasemonkey Scripts
- Google Numbered Search Results: Number Google SERPs
- Bing Numbered Search Results: Number Bing SERPs
- Disable Ctrl-W: Disable the CTRL-W key so you don't lose work
- markItUp! for Greasemonkey: Enable markItUp! for text areas
Visit my home page at Userscripts.org.
All in all pretty good results that speak to your coding ability. The only plugin I currently use is KeywordLuv although I am curious about FeedEntryHeader. I already use FeedFooter plugin – is there a reason using the header is better?
Hi John,
The theory behind it, is that if someone is reading your article on a scraper’s site, they may click through to your site if they realise it’s not the original BEFORE they start reading. By the time they get to the bottow, it’s very unlikely they’ll visit your site.
Nice post, i love finding cool plugins for my wordpress. I really like keywordluv, it has increased my traffic quite a bit.
This the first I’ve heard of the FeedEntryHeader – I’ll need to check it out!
Great to see that keywordluv still works, it’s the only one which I use, but I have found it to be so useful!
I have actually neglected to upgrade to 2.7 on several of my blogs for fear of losing plugins or disrupting the custom coded themes. From what I understand, some themes will not work with 2.7 as well because in the 2.7 release they changed some of the tags within the wordpress loop.
I am not sure if that is at all true, but I would not want to risk it on my money makers if you know what I mean.
thanks for the heads-up on the plug-in errors 2.7 has. i still have the older version and finally have time to upgrade. now i know what to look out for. thanks.
After getting used to it, the 2.7 interface is so much quicker to use than 2.6 — and the ability to install new plugins just by searching and clicking on them is amazing.
There’s a pretty comprehensive compatibility list in the codex on the WordPress.org site, and the built-in installer will even give you a warning if a plug-in you try to use hasn’t been certified yet.
I think they did a great job with this upgrade.
i just installed wordpress and i didn’t know they had a new version til it was installed, i like the interface and layout of 2.7
Hi there is a big issue when updating to wordpress 2.7 if you forget to turn the plugin’s off before upgrading, it just wipes the blog out. There are also a number of compatibility issues when two similar plugn’s are installed which can be found on the wordpress site http :// codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.7
I have to say the admin panel in 2.7 is much nicer than the previous design, but takes a bit of getting use to.
Hello Macey,
I agree, WordPress is a great program and the search engines love WP sites. Have you tried the premium WP templates? Another great source are the webmaster forums, where you can find someone to build a custom theme for you.
Your site is Cool and Awesome..Hope we can exchange links.I have already added you in my list.
Thank you.
I love the new interface of WordPress but also found it to be more complicated than the older version. I’m still struggling to locate certain aspects of the interface which can make it more time consuming.
Thank you for posting an update on the plugins that work with the new version though. Good to see some of them I use are still compatible too.
Walt
I like turbo function in WP 2.7 it make me work faster, my plugin did not use too much. Anyway wordpress is still number 1 in the world of blog platform.
I usually wait to update until the release at least another two bug fixes. I’ve been burned too many times in the past by upgrading to find out that now I have new problems.
This is why I prefer to not upgrade my blogs, you will always have some plugin causing problems after upgrading. I only upgrade if it’s extremely necesary. I’m lazy I think haha
Great blog!
I have upgraded all my blogs and all plugins are working very well except one. It is Google Analytics for the blog and I have to configure it again.
I find occasional conflicts with plugins when upgrading as well. One particular plugin simply needed to be deactivated and then reactivated. I found that my site was loading extremely slow and discovered that it was a plugin issue.
Although this may not be the case with all plugins, I recommend trying this before completely deleting a plugin.
Fortunately, I upgraded my blog easily. I don’t use plenty of widgets and I think that was the reason of clean upgrade.
Well the new version of WordPress is really impressive. You can even upgrade your system automatically whenever an update is available. I hope you could build more plug-ins that will help a lot of blogger / IM world wide.
I’m really glad you have Keywordluv. Best plugin ever!
The new WordPress is really awesome although the new dashboard need a little time to get used to.
Thanks for sharing that information. I think there are a lot of not so popular plug ins that do a lot of work. Would be great if someone can make a post about the “best wordpress plug ins” though best is relative because everybody downloads and uses wordpress plugins up to his needs.
I made a gaming site with WordPress, but I feel that it still just looks like a simple WordPress blog. I want it to look like most popular sites, like Engadget. I’d like to know if there are plugins I can use to change the basic WordPress look, so it won’t look like your basic blog.