Posts tagged plugins
How to Do Screen Capture Selections
Mar 11th
Recently a reader asked me how to to select a region of a webpage and capture it. What she means by this, she doesn’t want to capture everything on the browser she can see but just a region on the screen. She also wanted to add arrows and boxes to those images. You might ask why someone would want to do this. For bloggers and tutorial creators, this is a common use of screen capturing. For a blogger, knowing how to do selection screen capture quickly is a valuable tool.
In the past a person would have to do is hit More >
Insights WordPress Plugin Reveiw
Oct 14th
Even though I spend most of time designing, I am still a blogger. As a blogger, I am constantly looking for ways to streamline my content creation and find the multimedia needed for each article. For me this is the worst part, of the article creation process. There are a variety places to find what you need. It isn’t as simple as slapping down videos and images to keep people on your site. At first this helps your bounce rate, but eventually your return visitors get tired of it and start looking other places to find what they are looking More >
Random Rotation Ad Plugin
Sep 27th
Are you an affiliate marketer or just someone who has a lot of adds to display but doesn’t have the room to display all your adds? If you are, I have a fix for that. Check out Random Ad Generator Version 2. This is a WordPress Plugin that randomly displays your ad code for you. All you do get your affiliate code and enter into the configuration fields of the plugin and add the generated PHP code anywhere on your site. When viewing your site it will display one of the ads you added to the configuration files. If you refresh More >
2 Highly Useful Sitemap Plugins for WordPress
May 27th
An important part of Search Engine optimization is having a site. A sitemap is a page of pages on a website. The pages are designed to make is easy for the web crawlers to find all of your content. Usually sitemaps are setup to be hierarchical. Being setup in this fashion not only helps the search engine bots but, it helps visitors navigate those harder to reach pages on your site. Image source: Free DelliOS System Icons!
Sitemaps for WordPressAnyone who runs a WordPress Blog knows that there is not a built in sitemap. If a WordPress user wanted to add a More >
21 New Resources for Designers and Bloggers – Weekly Round Up May 2nd 2010
May 3rd
Last week was a great week for catching up on some of the blogs I haven’t visited in the last few weeks. I was surprised at all the good stuff to read. There were so many great articles that I could not list them all. I have listed some of my favorites from last week. They are broken up by subject and I gave a short summary about each one.
Every week I try and post the “best of” on the internet covering a broad selection of New Media topics including design, social media, blogging tips, SEO, and WordPress. If More >
Final Thoughts on WP-Spam Free
Apr 1st
Earlier today I made the decision to turn off the plugin WP-SpamFree. WP-SpamFree is a powerful anti-spam plugin for WordPress that stops comment spam and trackback spam. This plugin stops the spam before it gets to the database, so there is no cluttering up of the database. The plugin also comes with a SpamFee Contact Form.
I recently I reviewed WP-SpamFree and wanted to test it for a month and see how will this plugin works. After a month of use I had 876 spam comments blocked. This plugin worked so well that it only a small number of spam got through. Not only did More >
