Comments on: Gone Hunting… for WP Plugins http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/12/28/gone-hunting-for-wp-plugins/ The Magic of Learning Thu, 24 May 2012 03:28:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wes Goodhoofd http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/12/28/gone-hunting-for-wp-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-32861 Wes Goodhoofd Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:47:45 +0000 http://langwitches.org/blog/?p=5275#comment-32861 Thanks for the quick mention of Most Popular Posts! It is certainly the most popular Wordpress Plugin I've written, and I'm glad to hear about users getting value from it. I've written a number of others as well, that make administering pages easier. Check them out! Thanks for the quick mention of Most Popular Posts! It is certainly the most popular WordPress Plugin I’ve written, and I’m glad to hear about users getting value from it. I’ve written a number of others as well, that make administering pages easier. Check them out!

]]> By: Elena, SEM specialist http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/12/28/gone-hunting-for-wp-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-32846 Elena, SEM specialist Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:03:59 +0000 http://langwitches.org/blog/?p=5275#comment-32846 Great round up! I really like how your focus on your audience and selecting the plugins that could also encourage more traffic and boost community involvement. Another one to add to the list is Super Cache to help your readers load your blog pages faster. -Elena .-= Elena, SEM specialist´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seo-voyage/ckuG/~3/H_lnsASVGVY/" rel="nofollow">Bing Baby Bing</a> =-. Great round up! I really like how your focus on your audience and selecting the plugins that could also encourage more traffic and boost community involvement. Another one to add to the list is Super Cache to help your readers load your blog pages faster. -Elena
.-= Elena, SEM specialist´s last blog ..Bing Baby Bing =-.

]]> By: Web Publishing Guy http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/12/28/gone-hunting-for-wp-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-32560 Web Publishing Guy Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:16:52 +0000 http://langwitches.org/blog/?p=5275#comment-32560 In place of WordPress DB Backup I used DB Manager. I made the switch a while back when I noticed that it had decent scheduling features that also included optimizing and repairing tables (features that I had another plugin handle). .-= Web Publishing Guy´s last blog ..<a href="http://webpublishingguide.com/setting-up-your-web-publishing-site/" rel="nofollow">Setting Up Your Web Publishing Site</a> =-. In place of WordPress DB Backup I used DB Manager. I made the switch a while back when I noticed that it had decent scheduling features that also included optimizing and repairing tables (features that I had another plugin handle).
.-= Web Publishing Guy´s last blog ..Setting Up Your Web Publishing Site =-.

]]> By: Langwitches http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/12/28/gone-hunting-for-wp-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-32539 Langwitches Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:56:57 +0000 http://langwitches.org/blog/?p=5275#comment-32539 @Alan, Thanks for your list. I especially like the "Plugin List" one. It makes life a lot easier for others to check out what you are using on your site. Still looking for a plugin I saw at one website, where it adds your website link to their clipboard if someone copies & pastes from your post. @Alan,
Thanks for your list. I especially like the “Plugin List” one. It makes life a lot easier for others to check out what you are using on your site. Still looking for a plugin I saw at one website, where it adds your website link to their clipboard if someone copies & pastes from your post.

]]> By: Alan Levine http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/12/28/gone-hunting-for-wp-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-32533 Alan Levine Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:29:36 +0000 http://langwitches.org/blog/?p=5275#comment-32533 Plugins rock, of course. There is an unsaid overhead to keep in mind, is that some plugins, or a huge list of them, might slow down your blog, because they are having to chug through your site on every page load. I try not to go hog wild, and have also been slashing the sidebar cruft that hits external sites for display items (slows down your page loads) A few additions from my pack: * Plugins List http://davidebenini.it/wordpress-plugins/plugins-list/ I had previously maintained a static list of hand edited plugins on my "colophon" page (http://cogdogblog.com/bits); this plugin automatically inserts a list of current active plugins * Twitter Tools http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress multifunction- I use it to automatically post to twitter when a new post is added; can also be used to embed a twitter widget of your tweets on a sidebar * Twitter Friendly Links http://kovshenin.com/wordpress/plugins/twitter-friendly-links/ Don't want to rely on external URL shorteners? This creates a short URL based on your domain and the wordpress database ID * Wordpress Database Backup http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup We ALL regular back of our database, right? Don't we? Shouldn't we? This makes it easy to do * WP Super Cache http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/ A bit more complicated, but this was key in reducing the load my site was getting, causing it sometimes to not respond to requests. Converts dynamically generated WP pages to static cached ones, making the site run more responsively .-= Alan Levine´s last blog ..<a href="http://cogdogblog.com/2009/12/26/change-the-drapes/" rel="nofollow">Did Someone Change the Drapes?</a> =-. Plugins rock, of course. There is an unsaid overhead to keep in mind, is that some plugins, or a huge list of them, might slow down your blog, because they are having to chug through your site on every page load. I try not to go hog wild, and have also been slashing the sidebar cruft that hits external sites for display items (slows down your page loads)

A few additions from my pack:

* Plugins List http://davidebenini.it/wordpress-plugins/plugins-list/ I had previously maintained a static list of hand edited plugins on my “colophon” page (http://cogdogblog.com/bits); this plugin automatically inserts a list of current active plugins

* Twitter Tools http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress multifunction- I use it to automatically post to twitter when a new post is added; can also be used to embed a twitter widget of your tweets on a sidebar

* Twitter Friendly Links http://kovshenin.com/wordpress/plugins/twitter-friendly-links/ Don’t want to rely on external URL shorteners? This creates a short URL based on your domain and the wordpress database ID

* WordPress Database Backup http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup We ALL regular back of our database, right? Don’t we? Shouldn’t we? This makes it easy to do

* WP Super Cache http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/ A bit more complicated, but this was key in reducing the load my site was getting, causing it sometimes to not respond to requests. Converts dynamically generated WP pages to static cached ones, making the site run more responsively
.-= Alan Levine´s last blog ..Did Someone Change the Drapes? =-.

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