What do people look for when deciding which plugins to download? Do you check the profile of the developer, go for the best rated, or by other people’s recommendations? What Should You Look for When Deciding Which Plugins to Download? Plugins… normally the factors to consider downloading and using a plugin in WordPress are: If
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WordPress Plugin Review: Digg Digg
Digg Digg is a social share plugin for WordPress. When installed, the user can add the ability for their website visitors to share their content on social networks and social bookmarking sites. The plugin offers a few ways to display the social share buttons: normal, floating, and manual. There is an option to allow displaying
[Continue Reading...]How Many Plugins Should You Install In WordPress?
Some people have a couple dozen plugins installed and some have nearly 100 plugins installed in WordPress. However, how many plugins should you install in WordPress? I know at WordCamps, I get quite a few people asking about how many plugins they should install. I have covered a little bit about plugins before. So have
[Continue Reading...]New YARPP Update In WordPress Is A No Go
Yet Another Related Post Plugin (YARPP) was just recently updated (March 3, 2012) and it calls a fatal error. This is in version 3.5 of the plugin and using WordPress 3.3.1. The error should be something similar to: – Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in /home/blondish/public_html/wp-includes/formatting.php on
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Plugin Review: StatPress
I really enjoy using StatPress. Let me re-phrase that – I really enjoyed using StatPress for a time. I would review StatPress Reloaded, but it is only compatible to 2.9.2 and seems to not have any updates since WordPress is on version 3.3 (December 2011.) StatPress is a real-time statistics plugin for users to install
[Continue Reading...]Watch Out! Some Premium WP Plugin Companies On the Prowl
I have been tagging quite a few commenters for spam and noting at other WordPress related sites, that there have been a lot of people leaving comments for their premium plugins. The message has nothing to do with the original post and in my case, it was on a post of a plugin that had
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