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Yet another related post plugin

August 31st, 2009 user Comments off

By chance I stumbled across another great plugin I would like to share with you – “Yet Another Related Post Plugin”. This one displays related posts below your actual post – so your visitors have an easier time finding what they are looking for. You can find this wordpress plugin here @ wordpress.org. It integrates [...]

Search Engine Crawler Tracking

August 31st, 2009 user Comments off

For the last few days I was busy looking around for a decent program (plugin) that I can use with my wordpress blog to track search engines when they crawl my website. Until now I found 3 promising programs:

CrawlTrack – which tracks also other data then search engines. It’s also a web analytic script that [...]

Icon In Address Bar – Favicon

August 29th, 2009 user Comments off

You probably have seen that most webpages display little icons before their address as this helps people remember the sites visually. That icon is called a Favicon and  it’s quite easy to do that for your own website. You just upload an icon to the root directory of your web page and call it favicon.ico. [...]

Add to Any wordpress plugin

August 28th, 2009 user Comments off

Another nice little gadget that helps you promote your blog. Have a look to the creators website: http://www.addtoany.com/ or go to the wordpress plugin webpage: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-to-any/ . I really recommend this one as well. I found out I had some more issues with the sociable plugin. For example if you wanted to add your post [...]

Sociable wordpress plugin

August 28th, 2009 user Comments off

Another good looking – and very useful wordpress plugin is: Sociable. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/ It has more than 99 social networks included, you just have to select from a nice interface which ones you want. You also have the option to use your own icons.
My plugin didn’t work at the beginning, so I looked up the creators [...]

Counter for your wordpress blog …

August 27th, 2009 user Comments off

I have already for some time a very functional counter installed on my wordpress blog. It’s another wordpress plugin: Counterize II. I tried a few other ones as well but I stuck with this one. Some of the other ones you have to subscribe and fill out registration. Then the data gets send back and [...]

TweetMeme

August 26th, 2009 user Comments off

Do you want a cool button that helps you keep track and send your tweets to Twitter easyly? Have a look at this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/ . Installation and integration into your blog are without problems.

WP-Cumulus

August 26th, 2009 user Comments off

And jet another cool blog gadget…. WP-Cumulus. Yesterday I stumbled at this nice looking widget. It’s a three dimensional shere that displays your tags and/or your categories. If you want to have a closer look at it or get it yourself go: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/ This plugin integrates without problems into wordpress and you can also configure [...]

Digg Digg

August 24th, 2009 user Comments off

If you are looking for a nice and easy to install gadget for your wordpress blog, have a look at: http://www.mkyong.com/blog/digg-digg-wordpress-plugin/ . Since yesterday I am looking for this kind of button, but only found outdated ones that were not working and/or didn’t have an easy installation. This one I really recommend it has not [...]