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WordPress Plugins that saved me time this week

I have much love for some of the WordPress plugins that save me precious time. This list is as much for my own reference, as it is to share these great resources with all of you! I’ve been updating this list on my Facebook “Notes” page as I find superior plugins. Make sure to click that little button up top that says “Become... [Read more of this article]

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WordPress plugin updates bring CommentLuv to IntenseDebate

The past week has been rather busy for WP plugin developers. I’ve seen updates to several of the plugins I use to manage sites using WP as a CMS, including NextGen Gallery, All in One SEO, IntenseDebate, and SexyBookmarks. Update Details NextGen Gallery:  V1.4.1 bug fixes [details] All in One SEO: 1.6.8 – Fix empty delimiter bug, improved... [Read more of this article]

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Ramp Up Your Blog Comments with IntenseDebate

IntenseDebate is a blog plugin created by Automattic, and is available for WordPress, Blogger, tumblr, and TypePad. Simply stated in the plugin description, IntenseDebate includes: Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers’ experience and... [Read more of this article]

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Update to WordPress 2.8.5 recommended

A security update for WordPress was released earlier today. Version 2.8.5 offers some code cleanup, as well as a fix for the  trackback DOS attacks that had been discovered recently.  If you think you’ve been effected by one of the exploits attacking WordPress sites, the WordPress Exploit Scanner is being recommended by WordPress. The Exploit... [Read more of this article]

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All in One SEO WordPress Plugin Broken?

Earlier this week, I read on Twitter that the All in One SEO WordPress plugin v.1.6.7 was having issues within WordPress 2.8.4. and NOT to update the plugin. Links included in the Tweet led to the official plugin forum, and the WordPress.org support forum, where more than one individual were experiencing the same issue about the options page disappearing,... [Read more of this article]

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Both WP sites downtime on eve of Oct. 9 – Oct. 10

I was making some great progress updating my sites last night. When I got around to updating my Casual Games site, I realized that the affiliate RSS plugin that generated automatic blog posts was no longer working. The BigFishGames plugin hadn’t worked since September 27th. A quick look around proved that the plugin wasn’t working for anyone... [Read more of this article]

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Auto insert retweets as WP blog comments

Last week I sent out a question on Twitter… Anyone know if there is a #wordpress plugin that posts Twitter RTs and mentions to blog comments (like Discus does)? Since I have so many WordPress focused Twitter followers (following me because I followed them), I thought it was worth a shot. I didn’t receive any replies, so figured there simply... [Read more of this article]

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CommentLuv plugin for WordPress

Over a year ago, a new comment plugin for WordPress called CommentLuv spread throughout the WordPress community like wildfire. Why? For the first time, we were able to encourage visitors to comment by offering them a link back to their latest blog post, neatly placed under their comment. All automatically embedded into the comment area through the plugin. Well,... [Read more of this article]

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Updating WordPress Tips and Tricks

For the past couple of weeks, webmasters all over the globe have been scrambling to update and protect their WordPress self hosted blogs. It all started when a couple of rather large, well known blogs were having issues with their permalinks displaying odd characters, rendering the links useless. Further investigation revealed “hidden” admin... [Read more of this article]

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Easily add music to your WordPress posts with the Grooveshark plugin

Grooveshark is a cool new site that I heard about on Twitter (thanks, @TimothyFitz). While I was playing with it’s massive resources of music to listen to while I work, I found a WordPress plugin for it that allows you to add music to your posts, and a playlist to your sidebar. [adsense] I’m a strong advocate of keeping music OFF of web... [Read more of this article]

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