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7 Pagination Plugins for WordPress

John — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:59:30 +0000

Pagination is important for any blog that does not need a large list of comments on a single page. It also offers the ability to index multiple “pages” of comments on popular search engines.

Paginated Comments – This plugin is designed to allow you to break up your comments into pages that are designed with search engine optimization in mind. It is a very powerful tool for blogs with large amounts of comments on their posts.

Paginator – This is a very neat plugin that is designed to allow you to scroll through pages with the paginator3000 navigation system. It optimizes the ability to scroll through the WordPress blog.

Category Pagination Fix – This fixes an important issue with pagination in the WordPress 2.7 installation that makes the pagination of pages return 404 not found messages by fixing the links once they are created.

Styled Pagination – This plugin allows you to add images and more to the pagination process of your WordPress blog. This is very useful in creating more aesthetically pleasing blog pagination.

Proper Pagination – This is a very flexible tool for WordPress blog developers that allows for the ability to add several functions such as archive, category, search tags and much more.

Custom Pagination – This is a very nice plugin that allows you to set images for the next and last page pages of your WordPress blog. Was developed for use with dating sites but is very useful for many other uses!

WP Paginate – Increases the navigation possibilities of your WordPress blog and is very useful to help readers get where they want to be on your site. It is very flexible and can also paginate comment sections.

5 Digg Plugins for WordPress

John — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:58:38 +0000

Digg is a powerful social bookmarking website that allows people to share interesting blog posts and more. This can be used to your advantage on your WordPress blog with multiple different plugins that provide Digg users with the ability to easily post it to their Digg accounts.

Digg Widget – This is a very nice plugin that is designed to display the last 10 posts that have been sent to Digg by readers. This is very useful for blogs with plenty of information in many different posts.

Digg Protector – This is a special plugin to produce the opposite effect of what Digg is for. It protects your blog from server overload when your post has been Dugg.

WP Conditional Digg This Badge – This is a special plugin that allows a Digg badge to be displayed on your posts that have already been Dugg. This is very useful to prevent showing low number Digg counts on your posts if they have not met a certain amount yet.

Digg Digg – This is a very useful plugin that integrates a large amount of social bookmarking website icons including the Digg site on your page for easy sharing by others.

Digg Integrate – This is a very simple plugin that allows you to add a “Digg this” button on your post with a simple interface. Very easy to use and is useful to get many extra readers if your posts are Dugg.

5 Member Registration WordPress Plugins

John — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:56:25 +0000

Having new members register with your WordPress blog to allow them to submit posts is a great way to get more content for free. This can also be a risk in itself so having a way to screen out risky people is best with plugins.

WP Members – This is a special plugin that only allows those who are registered with WordPress to be able to view your blog posts. This is only recommended if it is a website that is only used for blogging.

BuddyPress Registration – This is a great tool that allows people to register with your WordPress blog site but prevents them from doing more than changing their profile until an admin approves their account.

Register Plus – Allows you to have a custom login logo, send out invitations to the site and much more. It is a great tool for advanced user registration to prevent spammers and bots from getting into your site.

New User Approve – This is a handy plugin that allows registration requests to be handled for approval or denial by an admin before they have any access to WordPress elements.

Force Registration Field – This is an excellent tool to force new registering users to offer other fields such as usernames from other services and more. Registration is not possible without these fields present.

5 Audio Player WordPress Plugins

John — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:55:09 +0000

It is a very good idea to have an audio player on a WordPress blog to offer a nice track of music or allow people to choose music to listen to on your blog while they read. This can be customized with a simple plugin that offers audio player functionality.

Audio Player – This plugin offers a stylish audio player functionality to your WordPress blog which can be easily customized to play an audio file of your choosing.

WS Audio Player – This is a nice plugin that adds an audio player with a download function to your blog. Very useful for bands or any other group that offers music or sound effects as a promotional tool.

1 Bit Audio Player – This is an adobe flash based audio player that offers automatic JavaScript insertion into your blog. Allows you to make easy preview sounds for music or anything else you may be offering on your blog.

Mu (Micro) Audio Player – This is a very nice plugin that is so tiny at 450 bytes, that is used to create a small flash based player for MP3 file links that are clicked. It also fades in and out when the player is clicked to remove or show on the page.

SSG WordPress Google Audio Player – This is an advanced tool that allows you to seek out audio from Google searches and play them on your WordPress blog. Has an auto configuration feature that is very easy to use.

5 Sticky Posts WordPress Plugins

John — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:54:26 +0000

Sticky posts are a great way to keep a more important post up on top of your post listings to ensure that readers are able to see the post first when visiting your WordPress blog. You can easily make posts into stickies with special plugins.

WP Sticky – This is a plugin designed to make it simple to make a post a sticky on your WordPress blog. It is very useful for creating stickies very quickly when needed.

Jadedcoder Sticky Permalinks – This is a very useful plugin to make a sticky permalink, no matter how many times you change it. This is useful because people may bookmark (or social bookmark) your page and go to it later when the permalink has changed.

Simple Sticky Posts – This is a very easy to use sticky post feature for WordPress blogs. This is a simple and lightweight to use for any blog.

Admin Show Sticky – This is a very useful tool for those who need to know which posts are stickies. This allows administrators to see that a post is a sticky by a checkmark by the post title.

A Sticky Post Order ER Show Sticky – This is a very simple plugin that works right on installation. It creates another table column that notifies the admin whether or not a post is a sticky.

5 Navigation Menu Plugins

John — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:53:38 +0000

Navigation menus are very useful in providing a way for readers of a WordPress blog to find their way around the site. It is important to allow for WordPress blog readers to make their way around with ease so that they can find the content they wish to see.

WordPress Navigation List Plugin NAVT – This is a specialized plugin tool that allows you to have complete control over your navigation system. It also includes a drag and drop interface that is very useful to make it quick and easy.

Bob’s Simplistic Navigation – This is a great plugin that allows WordPress bloggers that do not have the PHP knowledge to create their own forward and back links to separate blog posts, do so.

Bread Crumb Navigation XT – This is a great tool that allows readers of your blog to know where they came from to get to the current page that they are visiting. It is very useful for those who do not wish to click the back button on their browser so many times to return to a previous post.

Multiple Level Navigation Plugin – This is a very valuable tool that is able to give a drop down menu to different pages of your WordPress blog. It is very customizable and can be custom tailored to your blog needs.

Flexible Navigation – This is a great plugin that is designed to allow accordion style link management in the sidebar. This is very useful for those blogs that have tons of links in their sidebars.

5 Search Enhancement WordPress Plugins

John — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:51:55 +0000

Search enhancement plugins are very important for WordPress as they allow multiple enhancements on making searches within the page. This can be beneficial for search engines as well by making the page searchable.

Search Engine Query in WordPress – This little gem makes it possible to suggest items from your WordPress posts that offer suggestions for related posts when a reader comes in through a search engine.

Extended Search Box – Offers advanced javascript services to the search box. Increased functionality of the search can be possible with this easy to use plugin. This option is available for any and all WordPress blogs with the plugin.

TextWise Similarity Search – creates better posts by using a similarity search. It suggests related content as you write and makes it possible to better tailor your content for search engines.

Twitter Search Widget – Offers the ability to search Twitter with extended features. This is great for websites that have a twitter account attached to them.

Google Analyticator – Allows you to use Google analytics by adding the necessary javascript needed to have the pages logged by Google. This is useful to see what topics are most responsive and should be written more about.

5 Paypal Donation Plugins for WordPress

John — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:51:03 +0000

Whether you need the money to keep your WordPress site running or you offer something for free and would like to offer your viewers a chance to donate, PayPal plugins are an excellent tool to receive donations.

WordPress PayPal Donation Plugin – This plugin allows you to create a donations page or post where you give your readers the ability to make donations in any amount they wish. This is very useful for blogs that offer free software or other goodies.

WordPress PayPal Donation – This is a very customizable WordPress plugin that is designed to allow you to put the PayPal button wherever you want. It comes with easy to use [PayPal] smart tag as well for individual posts.

Simple PayPal Donate – This is more of a tutorial on how to integrate the PayPal button onto your WordPress site. It allows you to bypass the need to install a plugin and work it through the actual process that is meant for PayPal donation buttons.

PayPal Donations – This allows you to add a PayPal shortcode that is easy to use for posts and other pages within your WordPress blog. It is useful for any blog that needs donations for any reason.

PayPal Donation Shortcode – Uses the [paypal] shortcode smart tag that allows you to place your PayPal donation button. You can edit nearly everything with this plugin for your button and how it functions as well.

5 Comments Plugins for WordPress

John — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:50:25 +0000

Comment plugins are designed to help you do various things with the ability to comment. There are also some plugins that have other useful features for comments that may be needed on your blog.

Cap Comments – This plugin is designed to cut the ability for commenting once a certain number of comments is reached. This prevents spam and allows you to moderate out rubbish comments as well.

Comment Count – This is a useful plugin that allows the comment number to be included as well as the ability to count how many comments have been left for a post on your blog

Comment Plugger – This allows people to leave their comments with a link to their website if they have provided one. This helps to spread knowledge of other sites through your comments.

Comment Word Count – Allows you to display the total number of words for all comments. It can be used to help those who comment to consciously limit their comment size.

Edit Comments – This is a special plugin that allows comments to be edited by the same person who posted. This is only possible if the person has the same IP address when they decide to edit their post.

5 Post Template WordPress Plugins

John — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:49:29 +0000

Templates make it possible to quickly create styled posts that do not require much more than writing the content and adding in your images. This makes it much simpler for many writers, especially if they create their post templates by hand and want it ready for use right away.

Post Templates – This changes the post template for individual posts or even for entire categories if you specify. This is very useful for blogs that need to change the default template for their posts quickly.

Simple Post Template – This plugin allows bloggers to really take advantage of their posting format by adding a template to their posts. It is highly customizable and easy to use.

Custom Post Template – This is a versatile post template plugin that has increased functionality. Allows you to create different post templates and offers a drop down menu to select the one you wish to use easily.

Single Post Template – Easy to use template manager that offers a drop down list of preconfigured templates. Very useful for a blog that has many different styles of posts but requires help with templates.

Serial Posts – This is a tool that can be used to create special templates to use with your WordPress blog. It is complicated, but can easily do much more with your blog posts once configured properly.