Top 20 WordPress Plugin List

I create and experiment a lot with different blogs in different niches and languages. On all of those sites there is a basic list of plugins I always install, the ones that I really feel are necessary for any blog that I work with. WordPress is amazing, but there are a lot of really clever people out there that develop amazing plugins that help a lot by automating a lot of aspects of your daily...

How To Optimize myVideoPoster Processing

myVideoPoster is a very flexible WordPress Plugin, which you can use to automatically post embedded videos to your WordPress blog. Some users have reported the plugin takes a long time to run, especially with the “check for embedding” option has been turned on. To check if embedding is disabled, it is necessary to download the individual video page, and check the code to see if the...

TwitterFeed Feeds Twitter From WordPress RSS

There are several Twitter integration plugins for WordPress available at the moment, one of which I created a tutorial for a while back, Publish To Twitter Automatically From Your WordPress Blog. But if you use any sort of automation program to funnel content to your blog, those plugins do not work. These plugins are only triggered when you publish a news story manually to your blog, not if you...

New WordPress Plugin – myUsersPingForMe

Today marks the launch of the WordPress Plugin, myUsersPingForMe. The plugin uses your visitors to automatically ping random RSS aggregators. This can help spread the visibility of your homepage. Read more about it at the plugin page. The plugin is free for everyone to use. Remember, use it at your own risk! myWordPress.com gives you the opportunities, but takes no...

Are you using Feedburner yet? Why not?

Feedburner, which was acquired a while back by Google, is basically one big toolbox for your feed management. Your RSS feed is a simple file which is automatically generated by WordPress and most other “Web 2.0″ systems that publish content. The RSS feeds are a way for your users to follow the blogs/news sources they want, without having to visit the individual blogs or homepages...