In this episode we’re speaking with Max Sweet (TimeStampStudios.com), a WordPress plugin developer and web designer for WebmasterRadio.FM. Max discusses why his employer moved to WordPress and how the custom plugins he’s developed meet specific needs for the online radio station. Max explains why they’re using WordPress and a briefly explains the plugin he developed that [...]

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In this episode, Angelo goes into detail of the WordPress coverage at this year’s PodCamp Pittsburgh. Quick Announcement: I will be speaking on Friday, October 16th at the 2009 Blog World and New Media Expo within the WordCamp Las Vegas sessions track. I?ll be speaking on how to setup WordPress for Podcasting at 12:45pm. Friday and Saturday [...]

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Today we?re covering  TweetMeme Button WordPress plugin. The TweetMeme Button WordPress plugin adds a Tweet me icon to your blog posts and pages. The plugin displays the number of re-tweets referencing your blog post. It is useful both to encourage readers to re-tweet your blog post as well as display how popular the post they are [...]

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Today we?re covering the RSSCloud WordPress Plugin. The RSSCloud WordPress Plugin is written by Joseph Scott, a heavy WordPress developer who focuses his efforts with the blogging API in WordPress. I’ve been following his blog for years now, his knowledge in these areas of blogging are of the highest caliber. RSSCloud (rsscloud.org) is a specification and protocol [...]

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In this episode, we speak with Beth Lynn Eicher, one of the organizers of the Ohio Linux Fest coming this September 25-27, 2009 in Columbus, OH. Talking with Beth Lynn, we discuss Linux User Groups (LUGs) in the region as well as other Linux Fests that are taking place in other parts of the country. We [...]

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In this episode we continue our conversation with Mitcho, the author of the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) and HookPress plugin. Mitcho and I talk about jQuery, plugin development and plugin translation in WordPress. Mitcho goes into detail of the problems that come up that you cannot anticipate when creating plugins. Further into our conversation we [...]

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In this episode we speak with Mitcho, the author of the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) and HookPress plugin. Mitcho goes into detail why he created YARPP and HookPress, where the plugins originated and and why he made them. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the [...]

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Today we?re covering the WPtouch mobile smart phone WordPress plugin. The WPtouch Mobile Theme plugin adds a mobile friendly interface to your blog’s web site. The plugin allows you to quickly add support to your blog web site for mobile phones such as the iPhone, Blackberry, Google Android G1/myTouch and the new Palm Pre. Installation is [...]

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This episode we continue our interview with Lorelle, the host of Lorelle on WordPress. Lorelle on WordPress is a popular WordPress blog that covers WordPress, reporting on new and exciting happenings in the WordPress community including development, new features, plugins plus help, tips, advice, and blogging techniques. In this segment we go into detail with a [...]

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This episode we continue our interview with Lorelle, the host of Lorelle on WordPress. Lorelle on WordPress is a popular WordPress blog that covers WordPress, reporting on new and exciting happenings in the WordPress community including development, new features, plugins plus help, tips, advice, and blogging techniques. Lorelle continues our conversation listing some plugins she recommends. [...]

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This episode we interview Lorelle, host of Lorelle on WordPress blog. Lorelle on WordPress is a popular WordPress blog that covers WordPress, reporting on new and exciting happenings in the WordPress community including development, new features, plugins plus help, tips, advice, and blogging techniques. Lorelle has a lot of plugins to recommend. The Customizable Post Listings [...]

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Today we?re covering the WP Greet Box WordPress plugin. The WP Greet Box plugin adds a welcome box to the top of your blog post and/or pages based on where the visitor came from. The box can be extensively customized and special greetings can be added. The plugin is useful if you wish to help new [...]

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This episode we continue our interview with Paul Kehrer. Paul has written 4 plugins, 2 of which are publicly available called CDN Tools and Fidgetr plugins, both available at wordpress.org. Please click for part 1 of this 2 part interview. In part 2 of this 2 part interview we continue talking about tips for WordPress developers. Paul [...]

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This episode we interview Paul Kehrer, a WordPress user and plugin developer. Paul has written 4 plugins, 2 of which are publicly available called CDN Tools and Fidgetr plugins, both available at wordpress.org. In part 1 of this 2 part interview we talk about developing plugins, web development, HTML5, as well as discussing open source software. [...]

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Today we?re covering the  Subscribe to Comments WordPress plugin. The Subscribe to Comments WP plugin allows comment contributors to receive email notifications when additional comments are left for the specified blog post. This is a great way to encourage both comment contribution and increase your returning visits to your web site. Features include: Customize From email address and [...]

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Today we?re covering the  NextGEN Gallery WordPress plugin. The NextGEN Gallery plugin adds image gallery functionality to your WordPress blog. Click here for a demonstration. Features include: Flash Slideshow Flash Viewer (as an additional addon) Templates CSS styling Watermarks JavaScript Effect (Web 2.0 feel) Custom Media Gallery RSS feed Sidebar Widget Tag images Detailed descriptions Multi-language support Administration Copy/Move images Upload zip file of multiple pictures Integrates to Post/Page editor (TinyMCE) The NextGEN [...]

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Today we?re covering the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. Google Analytics is a free web site statistics service provided by Google. This plugin allows you to easily add the Google Analytics tracking code to your WordPress blog. Features include: Easily set your Analytic Account ID Disable tracking of outbound clicks and downloads Set the extensions of files to track as [...]

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Today we?re covering the MailPress plugin to quickly add a newsletter mailing list to your blog. Features include: Newsletters for (users can subscribe to) Each post Daily (digest of posts each day) Weekly digest Monthly digest Comments Manually send newsletters Detailed logging of sent messages Themes for Email newsletters Add-ons (Sort of like plugins for this plugin) Bulk import tool (comma separated list of addresses) Import data (csv, [...]

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Today we?re covering the Search and Replace plugin to find and replace text in your blog. The plugin allows you to find and replace text found in many of the database fields including: Content Body Titles Excerpts Meta Data Comments Tags Categories Category Descriptions The plugin permanently changes text in the database. It is highly recommended that you first backup your database using the WP [...]

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Today we?re covering the Contact Form 7 plugin to add custom contact forms to WordPress. Key features include: Solid set of field types (radio, checkbox, dropdown, listbox, email,  etc?) Email admin(s) of form submission Ability to attach files Captcha image to prevent SPAM form submissions Easily customizable (as long as you know html/css) Translated to over 30 languages Works with WordPress 2.7 (latest [...]

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Today we?re covering the ShareThis WordPress plugin. The ShareThis plugin adds the famous ShareThis widget to your blog posts and pages. The ShareThis widget makes it easy for your viewers to link your posts and pages on their preferred social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Facebook, Delicious and MySpace and also provides an share via [...]

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Today we?re covering the WP-DB-Backup plugin and touching on a few other backup tips. With just a few simple steps, you can keep backups of your blog so you can feel confident you’ll never loose data. Key features in the WP-DB-Backup Pack include: Complete database backups Exclude post revisions Exclude comment spam Backup to folder on server (not recommended) Email backup [...]

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In this episode, we have a special guest Peter Keung, author of Peter’s Custom Anti-SPAM plugin. During the interview, Peter tells us a little about what he does, gives us the 411 on his plugin and explains why he was inspired to create the plugin. Peter also recommends another plugin for us to check out [...]

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Today we?re covering Search Engine Optimization and the All In One SEO Pack plugin. Remember, a well optimized web site for SEO will help your ranking in search engine results. Key features in the All In One SEO Pack include: Reorders page titles to optimize search engine coverage Detailed HTML Meta descriptions and keywords No follow options to prevent [...]

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Today we?re covering the Google XML Sitemaps plugin to generate valid site maps for popular search engines such as Google, MSN Search, Yahoo and Ask.com to process. Key features include: Automated regeneration (New and edited posts and pages automatically regenerate sitemaps) Auto Notify Google, MSN Search, Yahoo and Ask.com when sitemaps are updated Optional compressed version of sitemap file Detailed [...]

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Today we?re covering the CFormsII plugin to add contact forms, applications and other custom forms to WordPress. Key features include: Complete gamut of field types (radio, checkbox, dropdown, listbox, password, date, etc…) Auto confirmation Email message Email admin(s) of form submission Use forms for blog comments Integrates with the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) content editor Multi-page forms Ability to [...]

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Today we’re covering the Peter’s Custom Anti-SPAM plugin to combat comment SPAM in WordPress. The plugin adds a Captcha image to confirm that the actual user leaving the comment is a human and not a scripted SPAM bot or comment spamming crawler. Key features include: Easy to read customizable Captcha words Random font styles Audio option for visually impaired [...]

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This is a shortened version of episode 1 covering the Blubrry Powerpress podcasting plugin. We will try to keep all episodes under 15 minutes for now on, sorry all. Blubrry Powerpress is a lightweight WordPress plugin that adds only the essential features to your WordPress blog to turn it into a podcasting system. Below [...]

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Tonight’s episode I’m covering the Blubrry Powerpress podcasting plugin. Blubrry Powerpress is meant to be a very lightweight plugin to add only the essential features to your wordpress blog to turn it into a podcasting system. Below are some key features. Easily add podcast episodes to blog posts and pages Integrated audio/video media player iTunes RSS tags and album [...]

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Welcome to Plugins, The WordPress Plugins Podcast. The Plugins Podcast aims to cover one WordPress plugin each week with occasional interviews of plugin developers as well as with heavy plugin users. Normal episodes will aim to be between 10-15 minutes in mp3 format. This podcast is hosted by Angelo Mandato, a seasoned software programmer, web developer and [...]

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