Tag: plugin

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Here’s a list of plugins I recommend, to get down to basics. Though this is a blurry notion indeed… You’ll find stuff to publish properly and to be refenrenced accordingly. Any suggestion is welcome… Read more…

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This plugin was developed by google themselves in order to display your “google calendar” in your wordpress blog… Read more…

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With WordPress you can insert images into articles, and in particular reduced versions when they’re too large (see this article to learn how to parameter image size).

In order to see the image in actual size, you can add a link in the image editor to the image’s file, that will open in the same window or in a new one. As you want.

This is not very convenient compared to everything a lightbox can do… Read more…

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This plugin will add a new widget, with a random guitar rhythm inside. It can display up to 625 differents rhythms. Guitarists may find new rhythms and beginners new exercises. Since version 0.2, the content can be refreshed without reloading the page.

The plugin will give you only the rhythm, it’s up to you to choose the chords.

See what the plugin does:

4 beats rhythm

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This plugin will display a list of all your articles, organised after their view count. See how it works here. Read more…

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Among the many plugins dedicated to Twitter, twitter tools makes two-way exchanges possible between your WordPress blog and Twitter. This article implies you have a Twitter account. Read more…

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This functionality consists in adding a “pdf” button around the article, so your readers may download the page in pdf format. I looked into the article2pdf plugin, which I found interesting because it allows you to use your own pdf template, it uses a cache and it comes with a number of options. Read more…

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Due to the large number of spam appearing in comments, WordPress designers added the nofollow attribute by default (look at http://www.webrankinfo.com/actualites/200501-nofollow.htm for example) in comments’ links, in order to ask Google not to follow those links anymore, therefore discouraging spammers.

In fact spammers expect Google’s scan of our pages, and the consequent follow-up of their link, to improve their referencing.

But hey, antispams are more efficient nowadays and it seems that even Google is starting to follow these links again, in spite of nofollow.

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Survey tools are very popular among bloggers. Even when you create a blog at wordpress.com, you get a tool to create surveys. It’s a user-friendly way to interact with readers, and to get to know them better. Read more…

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At the beginning, I was trying to add a table to an article. As I couldn’t see an ad hoc button in the base editor, I tried the impressive TinyMCE Advanced plugin which ideally complements the two basic button lines. Its strong point is certainly the drag and drop interface, allowing to display in four lines each of the original, and new buttons! Read more…