Add NYTimes.com’s Next Post Feature To WordPress

Credit: NY Times

If you have visited the NY Times’ site recently, chances are you have seen the “more articles” box that shows up at the bottom of its articles. This is not only an attractive feature, it makes it easier for the NYT fans to find more stories on topics that interest them the most. If you know your Javascript and CSS, you can add the same effect to your website. upPrev for WordPress is a cool plugin that simplifies the process. It animates your posts at the bottom of your pages and displays other posts your visitors may be interested in checking out. (more…)

Manage WordPress Comments with One Click Close Comments Plugin

I don’t know about you but my old posts still get a lot of attention. Unfortunately, some of that attention comes from spammers and junk throwers. Some of these people come to our sites to throw their link and garbage keywords. Closing your comments on older posts is not such a bad idea. You don’t want to close your comments too early. At the same time, if a post is a year old, depending on your niche, you may be better off disallowing comments on it. Some major sites disallow comments on controversial articles. One Click Close Comments is just the plugin to use for these purposes.

One Click Close Comments plugin works like a charm. You can just disable comments right where your posts are listed. Just click on the green sign to disable the comment section in your posts. The red signs mean that visitors won’t be allowed to leave a comment on posts next to them. (more…)

WP Realtime Sitemap Plugin for WordPress

Many webmasters do not take the time to add a sitemap page to their websites. If you have a complex website or a lot pages on your portal, you can save your visitors time finding what they are looking for by adding a sitemap to your portal. Let’s not forget that your HTML sitemap might potentially help the search engines get more of your pages indexed (not to be confused with XML sitemap though). WP Realtime Sitemap is a cool plugin that lets you create a dynamic sitemap for your website fast.

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Tweet Blender: Awesome Twitter Plugin for WordPress

Many of us spend hours everyday communicating with our customers, prospects, friends, and colleagues on Twitter. Twitter is also a great source of useful information and can be used as a news tracking service too. There are plenty of Twitter plugins that let you add your Twitter updates to your website fast. Many of these plugins are limited in many ways. Tweet Blender is one of the most powerful Twitter plugins that we have tested. It has a ton of options to allow you to get the most out of Twitter on your website. (more…)

Booking Calendar: Online Reservation System for WordPress

Many businesses have limited resources, which means sometimes they will have to limit the number of people they can service. The same applies to event managers. They are only going to have a certain number of spots for people. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could add an online reservation service to your website and let your visitors know if you can actually provide them with the service they are looking for? Booking Calendar is a cool plugin that offers that and more.

Booking Calendar can be used for all kinds of situations. You can take advantage of it to schedule resources, manage your clients, keep on top of your event and people attending it, and even use it for your private practice as a doctor, a lawyer, or a freelancer. Your visitors can take advantage of this plugin to make appointment with you or reserve their place at your event. The booking calendars can be added to your posts or your sidebar. (more…)

Secure Your WordPress Install with Secure WordPress Plugin

WordPress is a great platform to start your blog with and even manage a large portal. But it’s not perfect. There are many ways hackers can find ways to gain control of your WordPress blog. The last thing you want to have on your hands is a hacked WordPress blog. For instance, did you know that your WordPress blog can be exposed to hack attacks if you proudly display its version on your website? If you have registered users or multiple authors on your blog, there are going to be even more issues you will have to deal with. Secure WordPress Plugin is a free security add-on for WP that lets you address some of those small issues on your blog.

Secure WordPress Plugin enables you to reduce hack attacks on your blog by protecting your installation information and plugin lists. It automatically adds an index.php file to your directories to make sure hackers can’t gain access to your plugin list to use known security wholes in some of them. It also removes theme, plugin, and core update information from non-admins. It can even protect your blog against malicious URL requests.

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Improve Your Plugin Performance with Plugin Output Cache

A while ago, I wrote a post about plugins that you can use on your blog to promote all your posts more effectively. Plugins such as Similar Posts, Popular Posts, and other similar plugins allow you to promote your other posts to your readers and help them discover other top posts on your blog. But they can put load on your server if you have too many plugins on your blog or if your resources are limited. That’s where Plugin Output Cache comes in. It’s a cache plugin for your plugins that improves the performance of your website and speeds it up in the process.

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