Wordpress Plugins

Having installed the Shortcodes into  Text Widget Plugin thought I would look at expanding the smilies usage on MyWordPress . Having tried out a couple of smilies plugins I have opted for the Custom Smilies plugin by Crazy Loong . This adds a popup  selector on the write post menu so you can pick a smiley to [...]

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Using the WordPress Shortcodes Ulimate plugin to embed RSS feeds into a post is straight forward. This feed is from the BBC technology site set with a limit to display the latest 5.

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A nice feature of the Shortcodes Ultimate WordPress Plugin is the styled list feature. Each list item in the unordered list can be given its own style as you can see here. This is easily acheived using the following shortcode [*list style="????"*] List item ???? [*/list*] Replacing ‘????’ with your desired style from this selection [...]

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Want to use shortcodes in the standard WordPress text widget? If so this plugin by CodeAndReload is just the plugin you need. The plugin will parse shortcodes and smilies  entered in a text widget . There is a demo text widget in the left hand sidebar that shows the Easy Timer shortcodes and the divider shortcode of [...]

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So you want to add a countdown timer to your WordPress site? How about a time since widget? The Easy Timer WordPress Plugin is just the plugin that you need. This plugin has a plethora of options and you can easily insert into your WordPress site using shortcodes. A couple of quick examples The output can be [...]

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The Shortcodes Ultimate WordPress Plugin adds the functionality to easily manage shortcodes. Current shortcodes available are Heading Frame Tabs (See Demo) Spoiler (See Demo) Divider (See Demo) Spacer Quote Pullquote This is the Highlight text demo Permalink Bloginfo Button Fancy link Service Box (See Demo) Note Menu Subpages Siblings List (See Demo) Column Table Media Nivo slider [...]

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I am not a great fan of scrolling announcements and the like but my daughter has been nagging me for one on her site.So after a quick scan of what WordPress plugins are available I have decided to test this one out. The Horizontal scrolling announcement is a simple to configure scroller with numerous options that [...]

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Managing scheduled posts have become a real pain recently.Since upgrading to WordPress 2.9.2 no matter what I try scheduled posts just do not publish. So having trawled Wordpress.org I came across this plugin that will loop through your posts and force publish them if any are found that missed their scheduled publish time. The plugin will check [...]

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Giving the Visitor Maps and Who’s Online  plugin by Mike Challis a test drive. This plugin will Displays Visitor Maps with location pins, city, and country. Includes a Who’s Online Sidebar to show how many users are online. You can see the map output here hovering over the map dots will display country and town information. Due to my [...]

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One of the best ways to drive traffic to your site is geting other sites to link to your site that have relevant related content. So I thought I would give this plugin a try that automates the linking process through their linking network. This plugin provides inbound links to your site’s post pages from [...]

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