Wordpress Jedi » plugins http://www.wpjedi.com Feed your WordPress Demons! Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:01:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Top 7 Foursquare Plugins for WordPresshttp://www.wpjedi.com/best-foursquare-wordpress-plugins/ http://www.wpjedi.com/best-foursquare-wordpress-plugins/#comments Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:39:47 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=4314 Foursquare is one of the most exciting local social networks around. It makes it so easy for small businesses to reach out to their community and for people to explore their cities more effectively. Regardless of what you think of Foursquare, there is no question geo-location services are here to stay. So why not take advantage? This community has its advantages for business, but you don’t have to be more than just a user to start sharing your experiences with ...]]> Foursquare is one of the most exciting local social networks around. It makes it so easy for small businesses to reach out to their community and for people to explore their cities more effectively. Regardless of what you think of Foursquare, there is no question geo-location services are here to stay. So why not take advantage? This community has its advantages for business, but you don’t have to be more than just a user to start sharing your experiences with your friends and the world through your website.

If you are looking to integrate Foursquare into your website one way or another, these Foursquare plugins can make your life a whole lot easier:

FourSquare Integration: enables you to integrate Foursquare into your WordPress blog (inside your posts or in your side-bar). It’s customizable too.

My Foursquare: display your Foursquare badges and mayorships on your WordPress with this awesome plugin. You probably need to be a bit active in Foursquare to take full advantage of this.

gPress: a powerful WordPress plugin that lets you add geo-layers to your website. Can be integrated with Foursquare and BuddyPress.

Foursquare Map: makes it easy to share your last check-in location without needing to give away any personal info nor do you need to be an expert in mapping APIs.

PlaceWidget for WordPress: makes it easy to add a widget from PlaceWidget.com to your WordPress website. A decent choice for businesses.

Lifestream: it does not need any introduction. It’s one of the best plugins to share your activities in Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and other sites with the world.

BP Foursquare API: a library for your BuddyPress powered website that enables you to connect it to Foursquare.

Foursquare and other geo-location services are here to stay. The above plugins make it a tad bit easier to integrate Foursquare into your WordPress website and share your experiences with the world.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/best-foursquare-wordpress-plugins/feed/ 0 How To Submit Your WordPress Posts To EzineArticleshttp://www.wpjedi.com/submit-your-posts-with-ezinearticles-wordpress-plugin/ http://www.wpjedi.com/submit-your-posts-with-ezinearticles-wordpress-plugin/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:40:14 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=3680 Webmasters are constantly on the lookout for ways to increase traffic to their websites. One of the oldest and proven ways to do that is by submitting articles to top directories. These directories can not only bring you a good amount of traffic (if you play your cards right), some can give you Yes-Follow back-links, helping your search engine rankings too. EzineArticles is one of the most popular article directories around. It can get your articles a lot of action ...]]> Webmasters are constantly on the lookout for ways to increase traffic to their websites. One of the oldest and proven ways to do that is by submitting articles to top directories. These directories can not only bring you a good amount of traffic (if you play your cards right), some can give you Yes-Follow back-links, helping your search engine rankings too. EzineArticles is one of the most popular article directories around. It can get your articles a lot of action for a long period of time. EzineArticles WordPress plugin is a cool solution for those of you who want to submit your top blog posts to EzineArticles and keep track of their status too.

Once you install the plugin, EzineArticles’ box will be added to each of your posts. If you are a premium member, you can schedule your articles too. For free members, you can change the category, define tags, and tell EzineArticles where to grab your tags and article title from.

You don’t want to submit all your posts to EzineArticles, but it does not hurt to submit a couple and test this directory out for your content. Since you will have to enter your user-name/password to get this plugin to work, you can also count on this plugin to keep track of your submitted articles.

To sum things up, this is a simple plug-in that semi-automates the process of adding your blog posts to EzineArticles’ article bank. I don’t recommend doing it for all your blog posts. But it can work if you do not go overboard with it. If you intend to heavily invest in article marketing, you may want to sign up for a premium account with EzineArticles. That’s not cheap though.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/submit-your-posts-with-ezinearticles-wordpress-plugin/feed/ 0 Increase WordPress Security with Secure WordPresshttp://www.wpjedi.com/wordpress-blog-security/ http://www.wpjedi.com/wordpress-blog-security/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:08:20 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=3662 WordPress is a great platform for blogs and portals. A ton of people use this platform to bring their content online and share it all with the world. Unfortunately, that means you are going to have to deal with hacks attacks more often than those who are using an obscure platform. While the WordPress community is vigilant and on the top of major attacks, it can’t stop them all. That’s why all WordPress webmasters should take time to secure their ...]]> WordPress is a great platform for blogs and portals. A ton of people use this platform to bring their content online and share it all with the world. Unfortunately, that means you are going to have to deal with hacks attacks more often than those who are using an obscure platform. While the WordPress community is vigilant and on the top of major attacks, it can’t stop them all. That’s why all WordPress webmasters should take time to secure their blog to reduce the chances of their blog being hacked. You can’t stop all attacks, but you can surely make life difficult for hackers.

Secure WordPress is one impressive plugin that takes care of those small little details on your blog and lets you focus on more complex measures. For starters, it gets rid of tool-tips and those little error messages that hackers look out for. It gets rid of WordPress version information as well.

Every WordPress expert would tell you that you need to make sure you protect your plugins directory from wandering eyes of the public. You never know what information people can find out about your blog and its security flaws by going through your plugins. This plugin automatically adds an index.php file to your directory to increase your website’s security.

Secure WordPress gets rid of update information for your plugins and themes too. So if you have multiple members on your blog, only those with proper rights will get to see all those messages.  To top if all off, you can get a free security scan for WordPress malware with this plugin.

Please keep in mind that you can do a lot of these steps by yourself. If you do not want to use a plugin to do the job for you, it will take you a bit of time to implement them. Secure WordPress does save you time though.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/wordpress-blog-security/feed/ 0 SexyBookmarks: Add Sexy Social Bookmarking Buttons To WordPresshttp://www.wpjedi.com/sexybookmarks-add-sexy-social-bookmarking-buttons-to-wordpress/ http://www.wpjedi.com/sexybookmarks-add-sexy-social-bookmarking-buttons-to-wordpress/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:23:31 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=3514 Let’s face it. Not everyone who comes to your website will take time to submit your posts to social media websites. It would be great if everyone did that. In reality, only a small fraction of people do it. That’s why all webmasters should add social media buttons to their websites. That way you get to remind people about sharing your content on top social networking websites. If your content is good enough, there is a good chance you can ...]]> Let’s face it. Not everyone who comes to your website will take time to submit your posts to social media websites. It would be great if everyone did that. In reality, only a small fraction of people do it. That’s why all webmasters should add social media buttons to their websites. That way you get to remind people about sharing your content on top social networking websites. If your content is good enough, there is a good chance you can improve your submission rate significantly by using these scripts.

SexyBookmarks is one of the most good looking and comprehensive social bookmarking plugins around. It covers plenty of services and adds a set of attractive buttons to your website in a flash.

There are plenty of similar plugins that do not come with high quality button images. There is a reason this plugin is called “sexy.” It does help that it’s quite dynamic and makes adding tens of these buttons to your website convenient, as it auto-collapses.

SexyBookmarks has a ton of options for you to customize to make it better fit your website’s design. For starters, it allows you to no-follow all those social links. So you don’t leak link juice by accident on your website. The animation is quite smooth too (you have the option to take care of jQuery compatibility issues too). You don’t have to show 100 buttons on your website if you do not want to. Just pick and choose the ones you want on this plugin’s options page.

You can customize how the plugin behaves as far as Twitter, Yahoo! Buzz, and Twittley are concerned. It even lets you choose the right URL shortener for your stories. Best of all, it has a few cool images that you can us to call your visitors to action.

Sexybookmarks is a wonderful plugin for those of you interested in encouraging your visitors to share your content with their friends and tweeps. Very attractive and powerful.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/sexybookmarks-add-sexy-social-bookmarking-buttons-to-wordpress/feed/ 0 Gravity Forms: Ultimate Form Plugin for WordPresshttp://www.wpjedi.com/gravity-forms-ultimate-form-plugin-for-wordpress/ http://www.wpjedi.com/gravity-forms-ultimate-form-plugin-for-wordpress/#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:32:43 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=3158 There are plenty of free form plugins that let you do all kinds of things on WordPress. Whether you are interested in creating a contact or squeeze page, there is a WordPress plugin out there for you. Gravity Forms is not your average plugin. First, it’s a premium plugin, so it’s designed for those who want to display complex forms on WordPress. It supports all kinds of elements (almost anything you can think of) on your forms and gives you ...]]> There are plenty of free form plugins that let you do all kinds of things on WordPress. Whether you are interested in creating a contact or squeeze page, there is a WordPress plugin out there for you. Gravity Forms is not your average plugin. First, it’s a premium plugin, so it’s designed for those who want to display complex forms on WordPress. It supports all kinds of elements (almost anything you can think of) on your forms and gives you an easy way to enhance your posts.

Gravity Forms enables you to add drop-downs, check-boxes, multiple-choice, and text elements to your fields. It also supports address, time, and even file upload elements. It really depends on what you want to do with your form. This plugin supports conditional forms. Dynamic field population is supported as well.

I also like the form scheduling feature. The forms that you use this option on will be available during the time that you want them to be. Gravity Forms takes advantage of hooks as well. So you can use it in conjunction with other plugins to do some killer stuff.

The plugin is so powerful that you can use it to create a way for your visitors to submit tips or stories to your website. Having the option to export entries to CSV is a plus. Let’s not forget that the code is W3C validated too.

Gravity Forms is definitely not for everyone. It can be an overkill for those who just need a simple form plugin. But for developers and advanced WordPress users, Gravity Forms can be a life saver. Very sleek plugin.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/gravity-forms-ultimate-form-plugin-for-wordpress/feed/ 0 90 Best Social Media Plugins for WordPresshttp://www.wpjedi.com/best-social-media-wordpress-plugins/ http://www.wpjedi.com/best-social-media-wordpress-plugins/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:30:06 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=3453 One of the best ways to drive traffic to a WordPress website and build a more solid community around it is by taking advantage of social media. There are plenty of social bookmarking and social networking websites available for WordPress webmasters to take advantage of. In order to do that, you are going to have to make your website more social media friendly. That’s where WordPress social media plugins come into play. There are a ton of them around and ...]]> One of the best ways to drive traffic to a WordPress website and build a more solid community around it is by taking advantage of social media. There are plenty of social bookmarking and social networking websites available for WordPress webmasters to take advantage of. In order to do that, you are going to have to make your website more social media friendly. That’s where WordPress social media plugins come into play. There are a ton of them around and let you add all kinds of services to your WordPress website quickly.

Mastering the art of social media is not that easy but social plugins can help make the process much easier. The below list contains some of the steps you should take to take advantage of all these social sites and 90 social plugins you can use to get these steps done.

Share Your Social Media Profiles on WordPress

What a better way to get people to connect with you on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn other than displaying your profiles on your website. These plugins let you share your social media profiles with the world.

  • DandyID Services: DandyID is a wonderful service that lets you manage all your online identities from one place. This plugin integrates this service into your website.
  • Social Media Page: a cool plugin that adds your social media profiles on a page or post of your choice. Just enter your username, and you are all set.
  • Social Profilr: adds your social media profiles to your sidebar. Lets you choose the right size for your social media buttons too.
  • Social Media Widget: another cool plugin that adds links to your social media profiles to your website. Has some cool buttons.
  • PeoplePond: PeoplePond is a powerful identity management solution for social media junkies. With this plugin, you can retrieve your profile and display it on your blog.

Integrate Social Bookmarking Tools Into WordPress

If you have killer content on your website, there is no reason not to ask your visitors to help you promote it all. Of course, you need to make the process easier by adding social bookmarking buttons to your website. These plugins do just that:

  • Sexy Bookmarks: lets you add social bookmarking buttons to your blog. These buttons are quite attractive.
  • Fixed Social Buttons: adds colorful and attractive social buttons at a fixed position on your blog. You can optimize its behavior too.
  • Cute Profiles: another cool plugin that displays your favorite bookmarking services at a fixed position on your blog.
  • WP Greet Box: adds a greet box to your WordPress site that you can use to promote your social media presences. This plugin determines from where people are coming to your website and lets you customize your message for them based on that information.
  • Share This: a pretty standard plugin that adds 50+ social media buttons to your blog.
  • Sociable: you can provide your readers with 99 different social bookmarking buttons to help spread the word about your posts.
  • Add To Any: adds Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 other services to your website.
  • Sharebar: adds a dynamic vertical box to the left of every one of your blog posts containing links/buttons to popular social networking sites. Similar to what the guys at Mashable are doing.
  • Digg Digg: a very complete plugin that lets you add social bookmarking buttons to your posts, pages, and categories. It can be used to display a floating box on your site as well.
  • Cmin.us Social Bookmarks: a very flexible plugin that is not only dynamic but makes the submission jobs easier for your visitors. Automatically shortens your URLs and let them submit your pages to bookmarking sites in a flash.

Share Your Social Activities on WordPress

  • Lifestream: lets you share your social media activities on your website. Great way to let others know what you are up to online.
  • SocialBoaster: aggregates your activities on top social sites and posts it all to your WordPress blog.
  • Complex Life: another powerful plugin that grabs your activities from all kinds of sources and displays them on your website (sorted by time).
  • Social Gator: a powerful widget that sits on your sidebar and shows your social media activities as they happen (with network buttons next to each).
  • Profilactic: pulls together everything you create online and adds it all to your blog.

Bring Twitter To Your Blog

Twitter does not need any introduction. It’s one of the best communities to be involved in and great for driving traffic to your website. The below Twitter plugins let you integrate Twitter into WordPress:

  • Tweetmeme: the easiest way to add a Twitter button to your website.
  • Topsy: a very nice alternative to Tweetmeme that comes handy for websites that get lots of traffic.
  • Twitter @Anywhere Plus: lets you add Twitter’s dynamic platform, @Anywhere, to your website without touching your code.
  • Tweetable Twitter: a very flexible Twitter plugin that integrates this service into your blog, submits your posts to Twitter, and even enables you to tweet right from your blog.
  • Twitter Tools: enables you to pull in or send out tweet right from your WordPress website.
  • WordTwit: uses TinyURL to shorten your URLs and post your latest stories to Twitter.
  • Tweet Push: another simple-to-use plugin that pushes your information to WordPress (posts, titles, …).
  • Twitter Digest: turns your tweets into a blog post quickly. A powerful tool to summarize your Twitter activities and share them with your visitors.

Integrate Facebook with WordPress

Facebook can be a great traffic driver for your website if you take advantage of it properly. The below plugins let you integrate Facebook with WordPress without doing any coding (don’t miss these WordPress Facebook plugins):

  • Facebook Activity Feed Widget: displays how your visitors have interacted with your website as far as Facebook is concerned (likes, …).
  • Wordbooker: a powerful plugin that lets you cross-post your articles to your Facebook wall.
  • FT-FacePress-II: updates your Facebook status with your information from your blog.
  • Facebook Fan box: adds a fan box for your Facebook page to your blog without you having to change too much of your code.
  • Sharecount for Facebook: Uses awe.sm for tracking the number of times your posts have been shared on Facebook and offers Google Analytics integration.
  • Facebook Share Statistics: another powerful Facebook statistics plugin for WordPress that provides you with all kinds of information on how your posts have fared on Facebook.
  • Facebook Photo Fetcher: generates WordPress photo galleries from your Facebook photos.
  • Fotobook: a handy Facebook plugin that imports all of your photo albums for use in your WordPress website.

Get the Most out of YouTube

Adding videos to your WordPress can not only bring more variety to your blog, it can provide more value to your visitors too. These YouTube plugins can help you handle videos on your blog more effectively:

  • Smart YouTube: a powerful YouTube plugin for WordPress that lets you add and customize the look and feel of YouTube content on your blog.
  • Viper’s Video Quicktags: add YouTube videos to your blog just by grabbing their URLs. It gives you the ability to change the color and dimensions for your videos as well.
  • Youtuber: enables you to add videos to your blog by using tags. Generates valid XHTML code too!
  • ZD YouTube FLV Player: adds videos to your blog and displays them in a custom player.
  • YouTube Thumbnailer: goes through your content and if it finds a YouTube video, it automatically sets its thumbnail.
  • Automatic Youtube Video Posts Plugin: a powerful WordPress YouTube plugin that automatically imports YouTube videos from your YouTube account, creates posts, and gets them ready for you to publish.

Take Advantage of Delicious WordPress Plugins

Delicious can be a huge source of traffic if you have some killer content on your blog. These Delicious plugins for WordPress let you get the most out of this awesome bookmarking service:

  • Postalicious: a powerful plugin that automatically posts your delicious, ma.gnolia, Google Reader, Reddit or Yahoo Pipes bookmarks to your blog.
  • delicious-plus: displays your latest bookmarked links on your blog. Very easy to customize too.
  • delicious tagroll shortcode: creates a tag cloud from your delicious account.
  • del.icio.us for WordPress: a pretty straight-forward delicious plugin for WordPress that displays your latest bookmarks to your posts or sidebar.

Integrate StumbleUpon with WordPress

StumbleUpon is another one of those sites that rewards people who have great content on their websites. Beside creating great content, you want to make sure you are involved on StumbleUpon and take advantage of appropriate tools to push your blog. These StumbleUpon plugin can help:

  • Stumble Reviews: shows the reviews your pages have been getting on StumbleUpon to your visitors.
  • StumbleUpon WordPress plugin: shows your visitors what links on your website have been reviewed on StumbleUpon and how many reviews each have gotten.
  • StumbleUpon favorites: lets you share your StumbleUpon favorites with the world.
  • Supr by StumbleUpon: Su.pr is a powerful URL shorterner that can get you more traffic with the help of StumbleUpon community. This plugin can shorten your URLs on your own domain.
  • Random Redirect: not a StumbleUpon plugin per se, but it does help you offer the same functionality on your blog, giving your visitors the chance to Stumble through your pages.

Take Advantage of Tumblr

Tumblr can be yet another outpost network for your blog. These plugins help you post to Tumblr and take advantage of your content on that website:

  • Tumblr Recent Photos: adds Tumblr photo thumbnails to your blog.
  • Tumblr Widget: allows you to add your Tumblr content in your sidebar (using widgets).
  • Wp2Tumblr: lets you post automatically to Tumblr every-time you post something to your blog.

Add Google Buzz to WordPress

Google Buzz may not be where Facebook and Twitter are today. But it’s getting there. It’s an exciting community to be involved in. These Google Buzz plugins let you integrate Google Buzz into your WP blog:

  • Buzrr: a very flexible Google Buzz solution for your blog that not only counts the number of buzzes you get but is pretty flexible too.
  • WP AutoBuzz: adds your posts to Google Buzz automatically.
  • Google Buzz ER: displays your Google Buzz posts on your WordPress website.
  • RebuzzThis – Google Buzz Button: another useful plugin that adds a RebuzzThis Google Buzz button to your blog.
  • Google Buzz for Sociable: if you happen to have Sociable installed on your blog, you can use this plugin to enhance its functionality.

Be Involved in Other Social Networks

The above social networks are not the only ones that you need to worry about. There are plenty of other communities that can provide some value to your business. Here are a few plugins that enable you to get the best out of those sites:

  • gPress: allows you to create your own location-based service on WordPress. It is in beta but is very promising.
  • Mingle Forum: adds a forum to your blog quickly. It’s pretty light-weight and fast.
  • Foursquare: lets you add your latest check-ins to WordPress.
  • LinkedIn Share Button: a simple to use plugin that integrates LinkedIn into your WordPress website.
  • Sphinn It: adds “Sphinn it” button to your WordPress blog. If your blog is about SEO, SEM, and related topics, Sphinn is a good community to be a part of.
  • Photo of the Day – flickr widget: a widget plugin that displays photo of the day images from Flickr photo stream in your sidebar.
  • Flickr Tag Cloud Widget: a Flickr plugin that adds your Flickr tags to your sidebar.
  • PPinger: it helps you ping RSS aggregators more effectively from your blog.
  • Posterize: posts your WordPress posts to your Posterous account. You can always link back to your blog from your Posterous website.
  • Social Media E-Mail Alerts: lets you create track of activities surrounding your blog on social network and notifies you via e-mail.
  • PubSubHubbub: a cool technology that lets you inform your visitors when you have updated your blog (in real-time).

Optimize WordPress for iPhone

There are millions of people who own an iPhone. That means there is a good chance you could get traffic from iPhone owners. The below iPhone plugins let you make WordPress more iPhone friendly:

Get the Most Out of BuddyPress

BuddyPress is a cool plugin that transforms your WordPress blog into a social network. These BuddyPress plugins help you take your social network to the next level:

Use WordPress RSS Plugins to Pimp Your RSS Feed

Your RSS feed can help you spread the word about your blog and get more people to become loyal subscribers. These WordPress RSS plugins allow you to play with RSS feeds on your WordPress blog:

  • Feed Statistics: tracks your RSS stats, including the number of subscribers, which feed readers they’re using, which posts they’re viewing and which links they’re clicking on. Very powerful.
  • From RSS: a cool RSS plugin that enables you to treat your RSS visitors differently.
  • RSS Footer: another handy plugin that adds a line to the beginning or end of each entry in your feed.
  • RSS Image Widget: creates thumbnails from images inside your RSS feed.
  • Simply RSS Fetcher: a WordPress RSS plugin that fetches a feed of your choosing and displays it on your blog.
  • RSS Includes Pages: can include pages in your RSS feed in addition to posts.
  • Private RSS: this RSS plugin gives you the opportunity to turn your RSS feed into a private one. It comes handy if you want to aggressively monetize your feed.

You are still going to need killer content to get the most out of your social media efforts. But the above WordPress social plugins should make your life a lot easier and help you promote your content more effectively.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/best-social-media-wordpress-plugins/feed/ 1 Export Your WordPress Posts with Bookmark Export Pluginhttp://www.wpjedi.com/exports-your-wordpress-posts-with-bookmark-export-plugin/ http://www.wpjedi.com/exports-your-wordpress-posts-with-bookmark-export-plugin/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:05:23 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=3103 So you want to upload your blog posts to some of those popular social bookmarking services? Many of those sites give you the ability to import your favorite pages without having to enter each entry by hand. That means you can do the same with your blog posts. Don’t get me wrong. I am not a big fan of submitting my very own posts to sites such as Delicious. I’d rather have others do it if they list my posts. ...]]> So you want to upload your blog posts to some of those popular social bookmarking services? Many of those sites give you the ability to import your favorite pages without having to enter each entry by hand. That means you can do the same with your blog posts. Don’t get me wrong. I am not a big fan of submitting my very own posts to sites such as Delicious. I’d rather have others do it if they list my posts. But it never hurts to submit some of your top posts at first to get your feet wet. Thanks to Bookmark Export Plugin, you can export all your posts (or a selection of them) with a click of a button.

Not all social bookmarking sites are created equal. They all don’t accept the same kinds of files. With this plugin, you can choose from various separators available. So you should be able to get the right type of file for your bookmarking service. You also have the option to choose a date range for your posts and even include pages in your exported file.

As you can see in the above screen-shot, your file is going to include your titles, descriptions, and links. The plugin is quite very easy to use. I would love to see more export functions. For instance, it would be nice to have the option to export by category, tags, and other factors. Nevertheless, the plugin is free and does not require you to have any PHP or programming knowledge. It can certainly save you time when submitting your pages to top social bookmarking  services.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/exports-your-wordpress-posts-with-bookmark-export-plugin/feed/ 0 How To: Add Broken Link Report Function To WordPresshttp://www.wpjedi.com/how-to-add-broken-link-report-function-to-wordpress/ http://www.wpjedi.com/how-to-add-broken-link-report-function-to-wordpress/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:40:01 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=3086 Those of you who surf on the Internet for hours each day have probably seen those top sites who rely on their visitors to identify broken links. No matter how careful you are with your links and content, things change quickly on the web. So you never know when your today’s working link could become a broken link. Worst of all, it’s not easy at all to find out about those links unless you rely on your visitors. That’s why ...]]> Those of you who surf on the Internet for hours each day have probably seen those top sites who rely on their visitors to identify broken links. No matter how careful you are with your links and content, things change quickly on the web. So you never know when your today’s working link could become a broken link. Worst of all, it’s not easy at all to find out about those links unless you rely on your visitors. That’s why all bloggers should implement “Broken Link Report” functionality on their blogs. That’s where GD Broken Report comes handy. It’s a very simple to use and powerful plugin for WordPress that gives your visitors an easy way to inform you about broken links on your website.

It’s always possible to implement this functionality by hand. But why do that when someone has gone through the trouble of implementing it for you in form of a WordPress plugin. GD Broken Report, adds a small link under each post, which your visitors can click on to report any broken link to you. There is no need for them to type anything else to get the job done. So it’s simple to use and fast.

The plugin gives you a few options to help you customize the way it performs on your WordPress website. You may not want to include these links on all your pages and posts. You can choose the pages and posts that you want your broken report links to show up on in the Auto Insert section of your options page. You also have the option to exclude these links from specific pages, categories, and posts.

Don’t forget to insert a valid e-mail, so you get the reports without any interruptions. This plugin will not fix your broken links or images for you, but it does let you get your visitors involved and identify those broken posts faster.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/how-to-add-broken-link-report-function-to-wordpress/feed/ 0 5 Best Google Buzz WordPress Pluginshttp://www.wpjedi.com/best-google-buzz-plugins/ http://www.wpjedi.com/best-google-buzz-plugins/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:10:26 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=2554

So you want to take advantage of Google Buzz to expand your blog and reach out to more people? Google Buzz may be new, but if you wait till it becomes old news, you are not going to get any edge over your competitors. How can you get the most out of Google Buzz? There are various ways to do just that. You can use Google Buzz to get your content in front of more people. You can also bring ...]]>

So you want to take advantage of Google Buzz to expand your blog and reach out to more people? Google Buzz may be new, but if you wait till it becomes old news, you are not going to get any edge over your competitors. How can you get the most out of Google Buzz? There are various ways to do just that. You can use Google Buzz to get your content in front of more people. You can also bring your Google Buzz content to your blog. If you want to keep things simple, you can just install a Google Buzz button on your WordPress blog and let your visitors do the job. Whatever the case, there is a plugin out there for you.

If you are looking to get the most out of Google Buzz on your WordPress blog, here are 5 Buzz WordPress plugins you should try:

WP Google-buzz: one powerful WordPress plugin that enables you to add “buzz it” button to your blog. Has 11 buttons to choose from. You can no follow the links as well.

Google Buzz ER: a very simple to use plugin that lets you bring your Google Buzz posts to your blog. You can show them on your sidebar or anywhere you prefer. You can customize it easily as well.

Google Buzz: a simple to use plugin that makes it easy to add your blog to Google Buzz. You can verify your blog and add your posts to Google Buzz fast.

Google Buzz Button for WordPress: another easy to use plugin for WordPress that lets you add a GBuzz button to your WordPress posts. You can no follow them as well.

JR Google Buzz: another simple to implement Google Buzz WordPress plugin that lets you add your latest buzz posts to your WordPress blog. You can customize some aspects of your posts as well.

Feel free to add your favorite WP Google Buzz plugins in the comment section.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/best-google-buzz-plugins/feed/ 0 3 Cool SMS Plugins For WordPresshttp://www.wpjedi.com/cool-sms-plugins-for-wordpress/ http://www.wpjedi.com/cool-sms-plugins-for-wordpress/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:25:35 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=2461 So you want to take your WordPress blog to the next level and give people yet another way to connect with your blog and consume your content? You may want to try adding SMS capability to your blog. There are plenty of ways to add SMS to your WordPress blog. You can always let people to get content alerts via SMS. You can also create a section specifically for those who communicate with you via SMS. So not only you ...]]> So you want to take your WordPress blog to the next level and give people yet another way to connect with your blog and consume your content? You may want to try adding SMS capability to your blog. There are plenty of ways to add SMS to your WordPress blog. You can always let people to get content alerts via SMS. You can also create a section specifically for those who communicate with you via SMS. So not only you can give people more ways to connect with your blog, you can also create exclusive content based on SMS.

Thankfully, there are plugins available for WordPress that let you integrate SMS into your blog fast. So you won’t really have to do anything complicated to offer this capability on your blog. With that in mind, here are 3 SMS plugins that you may find handy:

1. Quick SMS: a cool simple plugin that lets your visitors to connect with you and send you SMS messages right from your blog. You’ll of course need a mobile phone #.

2. SMS Text Message: a very useful plugin if you want people to follow you through SMS to get major updates about your blog or your latest projects.

3. SMS Paid Content: a cool little plugin that lets you make your content exclusive to only those who send you a SMS message. Multiple languages are supported.

All in all, SMS is a great way to let your visitors to connect with you and consume your content. You may not want to focus solely on SMS to build a following online, but it’s nice for your visitors to have options.

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