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Yet another list of useful Wordpress plugins. I love Wordpress.

// December 29th, 2008 // No Comments » // Wordpress

There are hundreds of thousands of WordPress plugins in the WordPress community and new plugins are coming out everyday. Don’t be fooled however not all extentions are created equal. Some are by newbies and some will bug your install up. So be warned. One other helpful tip i have found is that when searching for a particular plugin at Wordpress plugins it is actually quicker and yields a far better search result by searching the google link at the bottom.

Here is a selected list of plugins that I have used or customized to meet my needs. Hopefully you will something useful here.

Customized footer feeds

// October 20th, 2008 // No Comments » // Wordpress

Did you want to put advertising, affilliate links, and promotions into your RSS feed? Or basically add anything to the footer of your feed in Wordpress. Here helpful Wordpress Plugins to accomplish this:

Feed Footer plugin
RSS Feed Signature
PostPost
Better Feed

Semantic markup for Blogs and SEO

// October 6th, 2008 // No Comments » // Wordpress

Proper XHTML structure for blogs and for Google!

One key principle governs the markup on every page of your site:

Your goal is to describe each page to the search engines through the use of hierarchical XHTML tags (<title>, <h1>, <h2>, <h3> etc.) and to present them in a logical, meaningful order.

Display recent images in Wordpress template

// January 25th, 2008 // No Comments » // Wordpress

nggDisplayRecentImages($number,$width,$height,$exclude,$list)
Function for templates without widget support

@return echo the widget content

function nggDisplayRecentImages ($number, $width = "75", $height = "50", $exclude = "all", $list = "") {

$options[1] = array('title'=>'',
'items'=>$number,
'show'=>'thumbnail' ,
'type'=>'recent',
'width'=>$width,
'height'=>$height,
'exclude'=>'all',
'list'=>$list );

EXAMPLE:

< ?php if (function_exists('nggDisplayRecentImages'))
{ nggDisplayRecentImages('6','160','80','all','');
}
?>