Having tried out a few social networking plugins I have always found that they have slowed my sites down.
But not one to be put off I have installed the Sociable Plugin by Joost de Valk now so far I have not had issues and the number of options are quite impressive.

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I have just installed the RecentPost Plug-in designed by Rob Marsh on this site and www.ipod2go.co.uk.
This is so configurable I hardly no where to start.The basic idea is that it displays the most recent posts but added to this is the ability to show recent posts if the Tag matches or recent posts are in the same [...]

Up until now the only costs I have incurred for this site have been for the hosting and the Shifter Theme.This is due mainly to the amount of free plugins and support that the Wordpress community offer.
I was looking for a way to import csv files into Wordpress and could not find anything without spending some [...]

Having deactivated the GD Star Rating plugin because of the issues encountered I started to search for a similar plugin to use on www.ipod2go.co.uk .
Luckily I did not have to search for long before I found the WP-Postratings plugin by Lester ‘GamerZ’ Chan .
This is a Ajaxified (is that a word) plugin that seems to interact rather [...]

After delving deeper into why the cformsII plugin would not install using the auto update.What I first thought were a load of different errors actually related to write permissions (or so I thought).
I CHMOD the cformsII directory and subdirectories to 777 using FileZilla (allow writing etc) and tried the auto update again only to find [...]

The sitemap on My Wordpress as been generated by the Really Simple Sitemap Generator a plug-in which I have used since this site started a couple of years ago.
Quite recently I have been investigating other plug-ins that generate site-maps to see if there are any better or add any extra functionality,though to be fair I am not [...]

Have just tried the auto update of this plugin and it will not activate.
It displayed that many errors I thought for a minute that it had killed my site.
The good news is it does not seem to have harmed anything and I am sure the author will fix this shortley.

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