Plugins: WordPress Plugins Podcast

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 … Continue reading Plugins 016 – Interview Paul Kehrer Part 1 CDN Tools & Fidgetr

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 … Continue reading Plugins 015 – Subscribe to Comments Plugin

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 … Continue reading Plugins 014 – NextGEN Gallery Plugin

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 … Continue reading Plugins 013 – Google Analytics for WordPress Plugin

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 … Continue reading Plugins 012a – MailPress Plugin

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 … Continue reading Plugins 011 – Search And Replace Plugin

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 … Continue reading Plugins 010 – Contact Form 7 Plugin

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 … Continue reading Plugins 009 – Share This Plugin

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 … Continue reading Plugins 008 – WP-DB-Backup plugin

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 … Continue reading Plugins 007 – Special Guest Peter Keung author of Peter’s Custom Anti-SPAM plugin

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 … Continue reading Plugins 006 – All In One SEO Pack Plugin

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 … Continue reading Plugins 005 – Google XML Sitemaps

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 … Continue reading Plugins 004 – CFormsII Custom Forms

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 … Continue reading Plugins 003 – Peters Custom Anti Spam

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.